1971.07.04, Newspaper (Observer)
Editorial Bengal Chaos Could Lead to War The Enormous and Increasing scale of the refugee exodus from East Pakistan to India confronts the world not only with the greatest humanitarian relief task since World War Two but also with a political crisis of growing...
1971.07.09, Newspaper (Telegraph), Wars
War Spirit Grows On Trigger-Happy Pakistan Border By Clare Hollingworth in Benapole, East Pakistan Pakistani and Indian soldiers now confront one another dangerously across from five to 50 yards of no-man’s-land at every main road crossing along the 1,500-milc...
1971.07.10, Heroes & Wars, Newspaper (Economist)
The Mukti Fauj Is Still Fighting Things show no signs of getting better in East Pakistan even though on President Yahya’s timetable they should start picking up from now on. No more Awami League members of the National Assembly have come forward to cooperate...
1971.07.12, Newspaper (Times), Other Parties & Organs
World Bank Accuses of Militant Brutality The Pakistan Government stands accused of administrative incompetence and militant brutality in one of the most scathing reports on a member country ever prepared by the World Bank. Reference: Times, London, July 12....
1971.07.11, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Sunday Times), Other Parties & Organs
World Bank Report On Horror In Pakistan Henry Brandon Washington, World Bank board members today received copies of an outspoken report on the dire situation in East Pakistan. The report was prepared by the World Bank and earlier last week Robert McNamara, the World...
1971.06.05, District (Kushtia), Newspaper (Times)
Villages Razed to the Ground At Hasnabad I discovered Hindu migrants who had fled from the Kushtia district alleging that the army swept through their villages burning the houses of Hindus. Others said that they had escaped to India after local Muslim zealots,...
1971.06.04, Bangabandhu, Newspaper (Times)
Hawks in Pakistan Army and Disaster over East Pakistan Background to the failure of the negotiations between Sheikh Mujib and the leader of West Pakistan. Secret Catalog Of Guilt And Disaster Over East Pakistan Within the space of a few short weeks both East and West...
1971.05.27, Newspaper (Guardian)
East Bengal Tragedy Rev. John Hastings and Rev. John Clapham of Sudder Street, Methodist Church, Calcutta, in a letter to THE GUARDIAN, London, write: “We are not reporters with link time to spare looking for the best stories. We have each lived in West Bengal for...
1971.05.02, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Sunday Times)
Pakistan: The communal Carnage In the stream of reports on the agony of East Pakistan as it struggled in vain to become the independent state of BanglaDesh one viewpoint has gone largely unreported-the situation as seen through the eyes of the West Pakistan Army. Its...
1971.04.21, Newspaper (Guardian)
Cautious aid to BanglaDesh Martin Woollacott in Calcutta analyses India’s attitude to East Pakistan Calcutta, April 20 Indian involvement with the BanglaDesh Government and the somewhat tattered Bangla Liberation Army is becoming more public every day. Indeed...
