বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড No Real Progress Discerned The end of police and military terror directed against thousands of political suspects and millions of non-Moslem members of ethnic and religious minorities. A reasonably representative government in Dacca, capable of restoring the faith of East Pakistan's predominantly in the future of democracy. A much more convincing effort by the central government to relieve the physical suffering wrought on East Pakistan's predominately Bengali population by flood, cyclone and war in the last year. The consensus among the foreigners working here is that there has been no real progress in any of these areas. Whispered conversations with Bengalis still have to do largely with alleged atrocities by the occupation army, which is largely made up of West Pakistanis and is hated by most of the population. One tale that is widely believed and seems to come from many different sources is that 563 women picked up by the army in March and April and held in military brothels are not being released because they are pregnant beyond the point at which abortions are possible. A Government spokesman denied the report and challenged any accuser to name the place where the women are supposed to be held. On the other hand, a number of Bengali gynecologists are known to have been performing many abortions girls held at army installations and released, Two or Three Released In a clandestine meeting elaborately arranged to elude military surveillance, a Bengali farmer told this correspondent about one such experience. Talking with great reticence and glancing around in fear that he had been led into a police trap, he said. "The army came to the village on the night of April 11. One patrol led me away from my house to identify something, and when I got back I found my sister was missing. Another girl, the daughter of a neighbor was gone, and there was a Hindu family whose girl was missing." "In the middle of May they released my sister and the neighbor’s daughter, but the Hindu girl the gone. The two girls who came back are both pregnant and will have their babies. At tile place where they were kept there were 2(X) or 300 girls doing the same thing. They had to wash clothing and to make love to soldiers two or three times a day". "My sister does not know where she was kept", the farmer added. Many Dacca residents, including foreigners tell of having seen young women taken away by military policemen without even identification check.
