1971.12.18, Newspaper (Economist), Refugee
The Refugees Tide Ebbs There were misgivings in India that the war would touch off a new influx of refugees from East Bengal, but it did not come. There were few pitched battles, and these were mostly around military cantonments. In general the scene of fighting...
1971.08.08, Newspaper (Observer), Refugee
Relief Unit Presses On From our correspondent Calcutta, 7 August. Eleven members of a British relief team, Operation Omega, are now waiting in Calcutta to cross into East Pakistan next week with medicines, high protein food and powdered milk. Bernard Rivers, aged 24,...
1971.08.01, Newspaper (Sunday Times), Refugee
Cholera : What Price World Sympathy? “An appalling error has led to an appalling tragedy.” That was how The Sunday Times, six weeks ago, described the Pakistan Government’s decision to quell with bullets the democratically expressed wish of the East Pakistan...
1971.07.25, Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee
Still No End To Bengal Flight By PETER GILL who has spent the last two months reporting on the crisis in East Bengal. After two months with the Bengalis, you become pretty good at sorting out the refugees from the rest. Without so much as winding down the car window...
1971.07.05, Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee
Refugee ‘Workers Bitter Over U.N. Pittance’ in India The United Nations is coming under increasing attack from Western aid officials in Calcutta for its apparent failure to share a larger burden of the massive East Pakistan refugee problem. The refugees...
1971.07.14, Newspaper (Observer), Refugee
India’s Clear stand on Refugees … World public attention has understandably been focused so far on the plight of the refugees and the emergency relief they need. The Indian authorities have done their best to care for the refugees, but have made it plain...
1971.06.30, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
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-fune 30,...
1971.06.03, Newspaper (Times), Refugee
Atrocities or 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...
1971.06.29, Newspaper (Mirror), Refugee
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...
1971.06.22, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
Prince ‘Partisan’ on Refugees Inder Malhotra Bombay, June 21. There was a furor in the Indian Parliament today over “partisan” remarks on Bangladesh refugees recently by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Prince Sadruddin. Sixty MPs of all parties tabled a...
