| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
| ঢাকায় বিদ্রোহ দমনে কামান ব্যবহার | নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস | ২৮ মার্চ, ১৯৭১ |
NEW YORK TIMES-MARCH 28, 1971
IN DACCA, TROOPS USE ARTILLERY TO HALT REVOLT
Civilians Fired on sections of Dacca are set ablaze
By Sydny H. Schanberg
Mr. Schanberg was one of 35 foreign newsmen expelled Saturday morning from East Pakistan. He cabled this dispatch from Bombay, India.
The Pakistan Army is using artillery and heavy machine guns against unarmed East Pakistani civilians to crush the movement for autonomy in this province of 75million people.
The attack began late Thursday night without warning. West Pakistani soldiers, who predominate in the army, moved into the streets of Dacca, the provincial capital, to besiege the strongholds of the independence movement, such as the university.
There was no way of knowing how many civilians had been killed or wounded. Neither was any information available on what was happening in the rest of the province, although there had been reports before the Dacca attack of clashes between civilians and West Pakistani soldiers in the interior.
From the hotel which is in North Dacca, huge fires could be seen in various pans of the city, including the university area and the barracks of the East Pakistan Rifles, a paramilitary force made up of Bengalis, the predominant people of East Pakistan.
Some fires were still burning and sporadic shooting was continuing early this morning when the 35 foreign newsmen were expelled from Dacca. "My God, my God,” said a Pakistani student watching from a hotel window, trying to keep back tears, “they're killing them. They're slaughtering them."
Homes set afire
On the ride to the airport in a guarded convoy of military trucks, the newsmen saw troops setting fire to the thatched-roof houses of poor Bengalis who live along the road and who are some of the staunchest supporters of the self-rule movement.
When the military action began on Thursday night, soldiers, shouting victory slogans, set ablaze large areas in many parts of Dacca after first shooting into the buildings with automatic rifles, machine guns and recoilless rifles.
When the foreign newsmen, all of whom were staying at the Inter continental Hotel tried to go outside to find out what was happening they were forced back in by a heavily reinforced army guard and told they would be shot if they tried to step out of the building.
