1971.06.14, Newspaper (Times)
Murder, shelling, and fear have driven four or five million refugees from East Pakistan to India. There they are an extreme burden on health, shelter and food, and they threaten India’s precarious economy and political democracy. The world is beginning to give...
1971.06.23, Newspaper (Times)
Shocking Record A solution at the other extreme would be equally disastrous. The record of the Pakistan army-may be in circumstances they had not foreseen-has been shocking enough in the past two months, even on the minimum of attested evidence. Has the shooting...
1971.06.30, Genocide, Newspaper (Times)
Atrocities on a Massive scale That this House believes that the widespread murder of civilians and the atrocities on a massive scale by the Pakistan Army in East Bengal, contrary to the United Nations Convention on Genocide signed by Pakistan itself, confirms that the...
1971.06.30, Newspaper (Guardian)
Most Terrible Thing This is the most terrible thing I’ve ever seen, both in terms of human suffering and the scale of this thing,” said Mr. Reg Prentice, one of four British M.Ps. who visited East Pakistan recently. Reference: Guardian, London – June 30,...
1971.07.05, Newspaper (Guardian)
Villages Burnt The trouble with these people;’ said one Army Major to Woolacott, “is that they have never seen ‘a war before. They run like rabbits: Maybe when they have had their villages burnt down three times they’ll get used to it.” Reference:...
1971.03.29, Country (India), Newspaper (Telegraph)
East Pakistan Bengali Maoists plead for arms from Indians From Peter Hazlehurst East Bengal (near the Indian outposts of Tongi), April 2. Bengali Maoists from BanglaDesh have asked their Indian communist sympathizers in West Bengal to send them sophisticated arms at...
1971.04.04, Newspaper (Observer)
The Explosion of a Nation Whatever its military outcome, there will be no winners in the brutal conflict now going on in East Pakistan. Nor will the war, which was so shortsighted started, damage only the interests of the two parties most immediately engaged in the...
1971.04.04, Country (Pakistan), Newspaper (Telegraph)
Pakistan’s Path to Bloodshed The macabre efficiency with which the West Pakistan army last week all but snuffed out the life of the independence movement of East Pakistan, seeking its self determination as the people’s republic of Bangladesh, was the...
1971.04.04, Newspaper (Telegraph), Wars
Starvation threat to E. Pakistan By David Loshak in Calcutta Starvation faces tens of thousands of East Pakistan villagers whose links with the outside world and their sources of supply have been cut off by the civiliwer that has raged for the past ten days. It is in...
1971.04.07, District (Chuadanga), Newspaper (Guardian)
Death and victory in BanglaDesh Martin Woollacott In Chuadanga, Tuesday- the town held by East Pakistan Rifles and considered provisional capital of the state. Above, bayoneted women and children in Jessore earlier this week. Lieutenant Attaula Shah, a Pathan from...
