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 a temple in the middle of the race course were all killed apparently because they were out in the open.

 Refugees who came back into the city, after finding that roads leading out of it were blocked by army, told how many had been killed as they tried to walk across country to avoid the troops.

 Beyond these roadblocks was more or less no-man's land, where the clearing operations were still going on. What is happening out there now is anybody's guess, except the army's.

 Many people took; to the river to escape the crowds on the roads, but they ran the risk of being stranded waiting for a boat when curfew fell. Where one such group was sitting on Saturday afternoon there were only bloodstains the next morning.

 Hardly anywhere was there evidence of organized resistance. Even the West Pakistani officer scoffed at the idea of anybody putting a fight.

 “These bugger men”, said one Punjabi lieutenant “could not kill us if they tried.”

 “Things are much better now”, said another officer. “Nobody can speak out or come out. If they do we will kill them-they have spoken enough-they are traitors, and we are not. We are fighting in the name of God and a united Pakistan.”

(Despatch by Simon Dring of Daily Telegraph.

London, in Washington Post,

March 30, 1971)