○○さ বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : অষ্টম খন্ড It is now considered unsafe to wear wristwatches on the streets in Dacca and transistor radios and television sets are kept hidden at home. Soldiers sell looted transistors, TV sets and wristwatches at between 3 and 6 pounds each on the streets. One officer Colonel Abdul Bari has deposited on crore of rupees the equivalent of 833,000 pounds–At the State Bank of Pakistan. Efforts are now being made to clean the cities up, just before the sponsored visit to Dacca of a small party of foreign journalists in May. The bodies of students were removed from Jagannath Hall and Iqbal Hall in the University Campus and debris was cleared away from the shelled areas of Shakharipatty, Tantibazar, Shantinagar and Rajarbagh. Schools and colleges have reopened but there are few students. On school with 800 students before the fighting reopened with only ten. Most young people between the ages of 16 and 26 have crossed the border to join the MUKTI FOUJ Training camps. Their widespread fear is that to be young in East Pakistan is to be killed. They nurture the hopes also that they may one day live in a free BANGLADESH. THE HONG KONG STANDARD June 25, 1971 ANOTHER CENGHIS For hundreds of years, the name of Cenghis Khan has echoed through history as a byword for cruelty and butchery. In the 20th century, it seems a Pakistani namesake of the great killer is determined to out-do his grisly predecessor. Pakistani General Tikka Khan-with modern nicety known as the “pacifier” of rebellious East Pakistan-is commanding fierce, Punjabi and Pathan troops who are running wild in a fearsome blood bath. There is overwhelming evidence of murder, of senseless slaughter of children, of rape, or prostitution organized by and for senior army officers of wholesale, maddened, crazed, blood-thirsty determined massacre. Cenghis Khan, for all his bloody faults, at least built up an empire in the course of his career. Tikka Khan and his gang of uniformed cut throats will be remembered for trying to destroy the people of half a nation.
