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49 | বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড In the Times Louis Heren, the well-known journalist, reports on a conversation he has had with an unidentified young man who had spent two years in East Pakistan and left Dacca earlier this week. This witness claimed that there had been a concerted plan to attack selected groups which included Awami League leaders, students, professors and their families, and Hindus. The witness said that West Pakistani troops had been led to believe that Hindus were the malign force behind the secessionist movement. This witness, reported in the Times, claimed that the objective of the Army was to eliminate the political and intellectual leadership of East Pakistan, and that Bengal would be without such leadership for at least a decade. Reports in the Daily Telegraph and the Guardian give prominence to the situation on the East Pakistan border with India and the Indian concern over what is happening in East Pakistan. 8 : ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS NEWSNOTE: CHITTAGONG 7th April. 1971 by Mark Tully (s) Yesterday about 120 people of various nationalities arrived in Calcutta from the East Pakistan Port of Chittagong. From their reports journalists were for the first time able to piece together some sort of impression of what had happened in Chittagong and what the present situation is there. According to a report from a BBC correspondent and reports in British press the refugees from Chittagong confirmed that the Army is now in control of the city but many people have fled. The refugees confirmed that there had been heavy loss of lives and that the army had on occasions fired indiscriminately. But they also said that East Bengalis had killed non Bengalis. One mill manager emphasized the fact that criminal elements among the Bengali population had been responsible for the looting of his mill and the killing of his four West Pakistani fellow directors. The Guardian report says that the refugees confirmed that the East Pakistan Rifles and the Bengal Regiment stationed in Chittagong mutinied. According to the Times report the refugees said that it was not tune that Chittagong's port had been destroyed by fire (According to the Daily Telegraph one small party of refugees described how they had drived through 45 miles of territory North West of Chittagong, which was controlled by Bengalis) The Times today also carries a report about a German Technician who had reached Calcutta from Dacca. The German technician told the Times correspondent that the army were in control in the central areas of the city. The people were very frightened. He also said that General Tikka Khan was contrary to earlier reports definitely alive. There is a report in the Guardian from Martin Woollacott in Chuadanga a small town 20 miles east of the Indian frontier in East Pakistan. Woollacott reports that the town is being run by local people and the liberation Front has a military command there which considers itself in charge of operation for the South West of the province. Woollacott interviewed a West Pakistani army officer wile had been captured at Kushtia a town 20 miles East of Chuadanga. The officer said that his company had been driven out of