1971.06.05, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
Indians See Only One Answer To Refugee Problem Lee Lescaze Calcutta, June 4. Indian officials believe the only solution to the Pakistani refugee problem is for refugees to return home. But hopes that they would do so have been crushed by the continuing terrorism of...
1971.06.05, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
Flight Into Suffering ABU At the Circuit House in Agartala last week my bedroom windows rattled every night as Pakistani shells burst along the border. Agartala is the capital of Tripura state. which has a common border with five districts of East Pakistan. The...
1971.06.06, Newspaper (Sunday Times), Refugee
The Road From Bangladesh These are the world’s newest refugees, nearly two million of them, who fled a few miles into India after civil war broke out in East Pakistan last March. This group found a home in a railway station in West Bengal. They are lucky; they...
1971.06.08, Newspaper, Refugee
Talk Heard In India of War with Pakistan on Refugees Calcutta, June 7 (WP): Talk of a war with Pakistan has increased here as a result of the continuing flow of refugees into India, which confronts this country with an enormous, unwanted burden. There is no evidence...
1971.06.12, Newspaper (Economist), Refugee
What Made Them Flee? By our Special Correspondent in Calcutta “Our Public relations machine was not ready. The army PR people were not in Dacca on March 25th and 26th, and we definitely made a mistake with the foreign correspondents there.” This was as far as a senior...
1971.06.12, Newspaper (Economist), Refugee
It’s Much More Than Cholera A Way Has Got To Be Found of Getting The Refugees Back Into East Pakistan, And That Mean Squeezing President Yahya It has taken cholera to arouse the world to the plight of the East Pakistani refugees. By Thursday so much vaccine and...
1971.06.13, Newspaper (Observer)
Flight of The Millions Sunanda Datta Ray In the desolation created throughout East Pakistan by the troops of President Yahya Khan, one certainly stands out. Ten million Hindus, who had stayed hopefully on this Muslim State after Partition and then endured 23 years of...
1971.06.13, Newspaper (Times), Refugee
The March of Misery Murray Sayle Reports from a small Indian town caught in the path of the great migration An extraordinary human tide has overwhelming Barasat, a muddy Bengali provincial town between Calcutta and the East Pakistan border whose medical and health...
1971.11.05, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Times)
Wave of Sabotage In East Bengal As Border Tension Rises Malcolm W. Browne Dacca, Nov, 4. As guerrillas in East Bengal intensified their campaign against the Pakistan authorities, the Pakistan Government said today that half a million Indian troops were now massed...
1971.11.27, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Guardian)
World Blamed for Bengal Confrontation Harold Jackson New Delhi, November 26. As fighting continued in East Pakistan. much of it centered around the key western town of Jessore. The President of India. Mr. Giri, once more appealed for a peaceful solution to the...
