1971.06.05, Newspaper (Telegraph), Refugee
Cholera ‘out of Control By Ian Ward in Calcutta The cholera epidemic in West Bengal is “totally out of control,” the State’s Health Director, Dr. Mira Harilal Saba, said yesterday. Repeating urgent requests for international aid he said: “We need anti-cholera...
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 (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...
1971.05.07, Newspaper (Guardian), Refugee
The World’s Latest Refugees The effects of President Yahya Khan’s rough military action in East Pakistan are far from over. His army has caused the deaths of many of his countrymen, and its operation has made refugees of thousands more. The lives of...
1971.05.15, Newspaper (Times), Refugee
Unbelievable Misery Peter Hazelhurst Bongaon, May 14-An overworked medical officer pointed hopelessly towards the never ending stream of refugees from East Bengal who so far have almost doubled the population of the Indian town of Bongaon, 50 miles north-east of...
