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(* ՀՏ বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : অষ্টম খন্ড গণহত্যা ও নির্যাতনের বিবরণ বিদেশী পত্র-পত্রিকা ΤΗΕ ΤΙΜΕS MARCH 30, 1971 “At Dacca University the Burning Bodies of Students Still Lay in Their Dormitory Beds... A Mass Grave Had Been Hastily Covered...” From Michel Laurent (An Associated Press photographer who evaded the Army in Dacca and toured the devastated areas.) Dacca, March 29. In two days and nights of shelling by the Pakistani Army perhaps 7,000 Pakistanis died in Dacca alone. The Army, which attacked without warning on Thursday night with American supplied M24 tanks, artillery and infantry, destroyed large parts of the city. Its attack was aimed at the university, the populous Old City where Sheikh Mujibur, the Awami League leader, has his strongest following and the industrial areas on the outskirts of this city of 1,500,000 people. Touring the still-burning areas of fighting on Saturday and Sunday it was obvious that the city had been taken without warning. At the university burning bodies of some, students still lay in their dormitory beds. The dormitories had been hit by direct tank fire. A mass grave had been hastily covered at the Jagannath Hall and 200 students were reported killed in Iqbal hall. About 20 bodies were still lying in the grounds and the dormitories. Troops are reported to have fired bazookas into the medical college hospital, but the casualty toll was not known. Despite claims by the central Government in West Pakistan that life is returning to normal in Dacca, thousands are fleeing the city with only the belongings they could carry. Some pushed carts loaded with food and clothes. Only a few persons have returned to Government jobs, despite the order of the military regime. Resistance to the Army has been negligible. Pakistanis are obeying military orders to turn in weapons. The Pakistan national flag is again flying from most Government buildings. It had been replaced in the past 10 days by the green red and yellow “Bangladesh.” (Bengal Nation) flag of independence. In the old City, large parts of which were destroyed, elderly men and women poked among the smouldering ruins of their homes. Army lorries and armoured cars patrolled the almost deserted streets. Cars were pasted with Pakistan flags to avoid drawing fire from Army patrols.