114 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৫২। পূর্ব বাংলায় নির্যাতন সম্পর্কে পাকিস্তানী | এ,বি,সি, টিভি, সাক্ষাৎকার, ওয়াশিংটন | ১৫ আগষ্ট, ১৯৭১ দূত আগা হিলালীর বক্তব্য উদ্ধৃতিঃ বাংলাদেশ ডকুমেন্টস PAKISTANIAMBASSADOR AGHA HILALY ON ATROCITIES IN EAST BENGAL Extracts from transcript of a Television interview to the ABC Television network in Washington August 15, 1971 Mr. Bob Clark: Would you admit that your troops have been guilty of some wanton killing of civilians? Mr. Agha Hilaly: Very little. Very little, if any. Mr. Bob Clark: Very little! Mr. Agha Hilaly: Very little, if any. Because armed action-you see the troops had to face when the federal government had been declared and the federal government had been put up there were about at least a hundred and sixty thousand armed personnel who defected on account of the Awami League propaganda. The army was asked on the 25" of March to go and deal with these hundred and sixty thousand armed people. Now how do they do it? They had to use force. And in using force they do dill people-the civil population in place of—get into the cross-fire. But the killing of the civil population-some of it did take place-was unwittingly done by the army. The army had not declared war on unarmed mobs. Mr. Bob Clark; Mr. Ambassador, these reports of massacres that come from a wide variety of sources, from foreign diplomats, from missionaries, from reporters who are on the scene early in the war-wouldn't this tend to lend some credence to many reports form refugees themselves, who have-poured out of Pakistan? Mr. Agha Hilaly: Foreign diplomats were in Dacca-they did not see people being killed on this scale anywhere. 米 米 Mr. Ted Koppel: Well, Mr. Ambassador, with all due respect. I was in Dacca during March and while I was not permitted at that pint once the fighting started to go into the interior we did see evidence during the night of March 25" of very severe repression, of tanks being used against civilians, the university being bombarded. I don't think you would suggest that in all of these instances it was merely the East Bengali Rifles against the West Pakistani Army. There were civilians who were killed and who were killed when they had no opportunity to flight back.
