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Anthony Lewise in NEW YORK TIMES on July 12 writes “the feeble Pakistan propaganda claim to be dealing only with 'miscreants' does not conceal the fact that the Army is killing and terrorizing on grounds of race and politics."
On the conclusion of an extensive study tour of Bangladesh in June 1971, 10 representatives of the World Bank submitted a joint report. Along with this report were submitted the observations of Mr. Hendrik Van der Heijen, Economist, Pakistan Division, IBRD, who said “the farmers are not coming to the cities, nobody goes out. Thousands of farmers have fled. Everything is abnormal there and it was a shattering experience"
Mr. George Broussine wrote in LA POLITIQUE DE MATIN of France, “Of all the crime which trouble the world today, the most serious and the most disastrous for mankind is the one in Bangladesh."
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE reports on July 21, 1971 “more than 150 thousand East Pakistan refugees—nearly an of them Muslim-have fled into India's Tripura State in the past few month after a reported wave of village-burning and rape by Pakistani troops."
TIME Magazine, in its issue of August 2, 1971, wrote:
"The evidence of the blood-bath is all over East Pakistan. Whole sections of cities lie in ruins from shelling and aerial attacks. In Khalishpur-the northern suburb of Khulna, naked children and haggard women scavenge the rubble where their homes and shops once stood. Stretches of Chittagong's Hazari Lane and Maulana Sawkat Ali Road have been wiped out. The central bazar in Jessore is reduce to twisted masses of corrugated tin and shattered walls. Kushtia, a city of 40,000, now looks, as a World Bank team reported, “like the morning after a nuclear attack." In Dacca, where soldiers set sections of the old city ablaze with flamethrowers and then machinegunned thousands as they tried to escape the cordon of fire, nearly, 25, blocks have been bulldozed clear, leaving open areas incongruously amid jam-packed slums.
Clare Hollingsworth writes in the DAILY TELEGRAPH on August 5, 1971 in a despatch from Dacca 'there has been little change in army methods during the past 4 months.....the young men are quickly taken off in trucks for questioning in the nearest prison while the older men and women run away then they see the troops preparing to destroy houses with bulldozers."
Senator Edward M. Kennedy in his statement made in the US Senate on April I said “it is a story of indiscriminate killing, the execution of dissident political leaders and students and thousands of civilians suffering and dying every hour of the day. It is a story of dislocation and loss of home."
Senator Saxbe in his speech in the U.S. Senate on May 11 quoted Doctor Rodhe, an eye-witness, as saying it is clear that the law of the jungle prevails in East Pakistan where the mass killing of unarmed civilians, the systematic elimination of the intelligentsia and the annihilation of Hindu population is in progress."
