বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৮৫। শরনার্থীরা বলেন সৈন্যরা নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস ২৩ সেপ্টেম্বর, ১৯৭১ হত্যাকান্ড চালিয়ে যাচ্ছে THE NEW YORK TIMES, SEPTEMBER 23, 1971, BENGALL REFUGEESSAY SOLDIERS CONTINUE TO KILL. LOOT AND BURN By Sydney H. Schanberg Kutibari, India, September 21- The latest refugees from East Pakistan, report that the Pakistani Army and its civilian collaborators are continuing to kill, loot and burn despite the central Government's public avowals that it is bent on restoring normalcy and winning the confidence of the Bengali people. The dozens of refugees interviewed by this correspondent today, all of whom fled into India from East Pakistan in the past week, describe the killing of civilians, rape and other acts of repression by the soldiers, most of them West Pakistanis. As the refugees talked in their overcrowded, half-flooded camps in and around this Indian village about four miles from the border and 60 miles' northeast of Calcutta, the sound of shelling could be heard from the frontier. It was impossible to tell whether the shells came from the Pakistani Army, the Indian border forces or the so-called liberation forces of Bangladesh (Bengal Nation), the name the Bengali separatist movement has given to East Pakistan since the attempt to repress 'the movement began in March. Most of the refugees interviewed came from the region of Faridpur, the family home of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, jailed leader of the Bengalis. Nearly All Are Hindus The refugees said that although general living conditions were very difficult in East Pakistan, they would have stayed had it not been for killings. Nearly all the latest arrivals are Hindus, who, said that, the military regime still making the Hindu minority its particular target. They said the guerrillas were active in their areas and that the army tarried out massive reprisals against civilians after every guerrilla raid. Nira Pada Saha, a jute trader in Faridpur District told of a reprisal against a village near his that had sheltered and fed the guerrillas. Just before he fled five days ago, he related, the army struck the village, first shelling it and then burning the huts, "Some of the villagers didn't fun away fast enough," he said. The soldiers caught them, tied their hands and feet and threw them into the flames." There were about 5,000 people in the village, most of them Hindus; Mr. Saha said, and not a hut is left.
