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141 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৬৫। পশ্চিম পাকিস্তানীদের বাঙালী নিউ ইয়র্ক টাইমস ১৪ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ দমন অব্যাহত THE NEW YORK TIMES, JULY 14, 1971 WEST PAKISTAN PURSUES SUBJUGATION OF BENGALIS The following dispatch was written by the New Delhi correspondent of The New York Times, who was expelled from Fast Pakistan on June 30. . Army trucks roll through the half-deserted streets of the capital of East Pakistan these days, carrying "anti-state" prisoners to work-sites for hard labor. Their heads are shaved and they wear no shoes and no clothes except for shorts-all making escape difficult, Every day at the airport at Dacca, the capital, planes from West Pakistan, over a thousand miles across India, disgorge troops dressed in baggy pajama like tribal garb to appear less conspicuous. Street designations are being engaged to remove all Hindu names as well as those of Bengali Moslem nationalists as part of campaign to stamp out Bengali culture. Shankari Bazar Road in Dacca is now Tikka Khan Road, after the lieutenant general who is the martial-law governor of East Pakistan and whom most Bengalis call "the Butcher." Those are but a few of the countless evidences, seen by this correspondent during a recent visit to the eastern province, that Pakistan's military regime is determined to make its occupation stick and to subjugate the region of 75 million people. The West Pakistanis are doing so despite a crippled economy, the collapse of governmental administration, widening guerrilla activity by the Bengali separatists, mounting army casualties and an alienated, sullen population. To insure troop strength in East Pakistan, the Government has leased two Boeing 707's for a year from private Irish-owned charter airline. World Airways, to carry reinforcements for an army put at 70,000 to 80,000 men and replacements for casualties. In addition to the daily troop's arrivals, the Government is bringing in wave upon wave of Pakistanis to replace East Pakistanis in Government jobs. No Bengali is trusted with a responsible or sensitive post; even the man who cuts the grass at the Dacca airport is a non-Bengali. Few Bengali taxi drivers remain. Their jobs have been given to non-Bengali Moslem migrants from India such as the Biharis, who have identified and sided with the West Pakistani-dominated Government and who are serving as the army's civilian arm. Informing and enforcing. The West Pakistanis are discouraging the use of the Bengali language and trying to replace it with their own, Urdu. Soldiers tell the Bengalis disdainfully, that theirs is not really a civilized tongue and that they should start teaching their children Urdu if they want to get along. Merchants, out of fear, have replaced their signs with signs in English because they don't know Urdu.