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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ তৃতীয় পত্র

 DAILY MIRROR says on June 14 “it is now clear that what has happened in East Pakistan is not just the suppression of an insurrection but mass slaughter".

 "the military Government of West Pakistan is waging a war of selective genocide and of starvation against 2% of the human race-the 75 million people of Bangladesh."

 The SUNDAY TIMES, London on June 20 published a full page account titled" Pogrom in Pakistan" and confirmed the genocide that has been committed in Bangladesh by Yahya Khan's Government; “a new campaign of tenor has been unleashed in Bangladesh, killing teachers, journalists, writers, magistrates, doctors, Hindus and Awami Leaguers. Gestapo-like activities are rampant; this is chiefly the work of the Razakars- group of armed Biharis and armed forces personnel-who carryon, with the tacit approval of senior officers, extortion, kidnapping of girls, raping, prostitution, and other forms of related activities. In Agrabad Chittagong such a prostitution camp is run-the object being to provide girls for officers and during parties.

 Army intelligence has prepared a list of suspect. They are classified as white, gray and black. The whites are to be let loose, the greys fined and/or imprisoned and the blacks shot dead. Many suspects are arrested openly or called to the Cantonment for interrogation-then they are never heard of again. Many examples of such cases may be cited."

 Tony Clifton of NEWSWEEK Magazine writes on June 28 quoting John Hastings, a British Missionary in India for 20 years as saying “I am certain that the Pakistan troops have raped girls repeatedly, then killed them by pushing their bayonets up between their legs". Clifton concludes that this genocide was not haphazard but part of a calculated operation launched by the military rulers of Pakistan to exterminate Bengalis.

 Martin Woollacott of the GUARDIAN, London writes on June 28 in a despatch from Bangladesh “what can reasonably safely be asserted about the Comilla District is that there was killing, rape, looting and burning."

 Sydney Schanberg who was expelled by West Pakistan Army on June 30 wrote on June 29 from Faridpur, Bangladesh “the Pakistan Army has painted big yellow H's on the Hindu shops still standing in this town to identify the property of the minority thousands of the population that it has made its special targets".

 Schanberg writes again on July 4 “does not the world realise that they (the West Pakistani soldiers) are nothing but butchers?' asked a foreigner who has been living in East Pakistan many years. That they killed and are still killing Bengalis just to intimidate them, to make slaves out of them? That they wiped out whole villages, opening fire at first light and stopping only when they got tired?”

 THE HONG KONG STANDARD writes on July 5 “Yahya Khan's army has set a grisly new record in the bloody annals of the human race"

 Hassanein Heikal, Editor of AL-AHRAM, UAR wrote on July 9, “How Can we accept to remain silent about what happened in East Pakistan, when someone quarter of a million people were slain in the most tragic carnage of contemporary history?”