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১৩২। ট্যাঙ্কের দ্বারা বিদ্রোহ দমন ডেইলী টেলিগ্রাফ ৩০ মার্চ, ১৯৭১

THE DAILY TELEGRAPH, LONDON, MARCH 30, 1971
TANKS CRUSH REVOLT IN PAKHSTAN
7,000 slaughtered: Homes burned
By Simon Dring in Bangkok,
Who was in Dacca during the fighting
"In the name of "God and a united Pakistan."


 Dacca is today a crushed and frightened city. After 24 hours of ruthless, coldblooded shelling by the Pakistan Army, as many as 7,000 people are dead, large areas have been leveled and East Pakistan's fight for independence has been brutally put to an end.

 Despite claims by President Yahya Khan, head of the country's military government, that the situation is now calm tens of thousands of people are fleeing to the countryside, the city streets are almost deserted and the killings are still going on in other pans of the province.

 But there is no doubt that troops supported by tanks control the towns and major population centers and that resistance is minimal and so far ineffective.

 Even so people are still being shot at the slightest provocation, and buildings arc still being indiscriminately destroyed.

 And the military appears to be more determined each day to assert its control over the 73 million Bengalees in the East wing.

 It is impossible accurately to assess what all this has so far cost in terms of innocent human lives. But reports beginning to filter in from the outlying areas, Chittagong, Comilla and Jessore put the figure, including Dacca, in the region of 15.0(H) dead.

 Only the horror of the military action can be properly gauged-the students dead in their beds, the butchs is in the markets killed behind their stalls, the women and children roasted alive in their houses, the Pakistanis of Hindu religion taken out and shot en masse, the bazaars and shopping areas razed by fire and the Pakistan flag that now flies over every building in the capital. Military casualties are not known but at least two soldiers have been wounded and one officer killed.

 The Bengali uprising seems to be well and truly over for the moment. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was seen being taken away by the Army and nearly all the top members of his Awami League party have also been arrested.