1971.07.20, Newspaper, Refugee
THE EXODUS CONTINUES FROM EAST PAKISTAN by Myron L. Belkind Madhupur, India, July 18 (AP) FOUR Months after the exodus began, East Pakistani Refugees coming into India as if they members of a retreating army. Walking single through lush felds of palm trees, sugar cane...
1971.08.08, Country (India), Newspaper, Refugee
CHOLERA EPIDEMIC ALONG INDO-PAK BORDER India Cannot Face It Alone Many thousands of disease-wracked men, women and children are threatened by a cholera epidemic raging along the eastern border states of India and Pakistan which has already caused 3,000 deaths. One of...
1971.06.05, Newspaper, Refugee
CHOLERA THREATENING EAST PAKISTAN REFUGEES 250,000 People Cross into Nadia District CALCUTTA, INDIA- West Bengal’s Helth Minister Zainal Abedin has appealed to foreign counties for medical supplies following reports that 1000 East Pakistani refugees have died in...
1971.06.06, Newspaper, Refugee
Editorial BENGAL AGONY AND RESPONSE In West Bengal today we are witnessing a human catastrophe for which even the tormented history of the twentieth century can offer few parallels. In the awesome scale of the disaster, in the uniquely harrowing quality of its...
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 the 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 (Times), Refugee
Editorial EAST BENGAL REFUGEES Non-involvement in the “internal” affairs of sovereign states has rarely been carried as far as it has in the East Pakistani crisis. Four million refugees have crossed into india. There have been cholera outbreaks in many...
1971.06.10, Newspaper, Refugee
Bangla Desh Refugees By S. Atmadjaja The civil war in Bengal (East Pakistan), be it an internal or international affiair, is a subject to be debated upon conclusively in the world capitals by policy makers, diplomats and leaders. The civil war has produced at least...
1971.06.12, Newspaper, Refugee
INDIA’S PROBLEM MOUNTING RESENTMENT AGAINST E. PAK REFUGEES Calcutta, India June 11 (AP) TEN thousand East Pakistan refugees at a camp in Calcutta are being moved out of the city following angry protests by local residents. It was the latest of several signs...
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), Refugee
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 MuslimState after Partition and then endured 23 years of...
