বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৯৯। গণহত্যা বন্ধ না হওয়া পর্যন্ত লস এঞ্জেলেস টাইমস ২১ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ ভারত সৈন্য পিছু হটাবে না LOS ANGELES TIMES, OCTOBER 21, 1971 INDIA REFUSES PULLBACK Premier Cites 'Atrocities' in East Pakistan By William J. Drummond New Delhi. October 19-Prime Minister Indira Gandhi said today that India would not reduce its border military buildup until the Pakistani army stopped its "atrocities" in East Pakistan. In her first formal press conference since last March, when civil strife broke out in East Pakistan, Mrs. Gandhi told more than 100 newsmen that she opposed direct talks with Pakistan on the subject of a border troop withdrawal or the return of the 9 million refugees to their homes. Mrs. Gandhi's stand opened no avenue for a reduction in the buildup on the border and the bristling confrontation between Indian and Pakistani armed forces. Pakistani President Yahya Khan reportedly offered to reduce his forces if India would do the same and also "cease infiltration and other hostile acts. " Although Mrs. Gandhi described the border situation as "grave." she said her plans to go abroad on October 24 still stand. "The country is perfectly safe in the hands of the army and. I might say, the Indian people themselves." the said. She is scheduled to tour Western Europe and the United States, arriving in Washington November 4. The prime minister said she was opposed to any third-party mediation efforts between India and Pakistan. "On what subject will any country mediate?" she asked. There have been indications that Soviet President Podgorny was making efforts to cool the crisis between the two neighbors. Asked what conditions Pakistan would have to meet before India would agree to pull back some of its forces from the frontiers, Mrs. Gandhi replied. "First, the West Pakistani soldiers would have to stop their atrocities in Bangladesh." Second, she said, Pakistan would have to create conditions where freely elected representatives would take office. She added that the results of the elections held last December, in which Sheikh Mujibur Rahman's Awami League won a majority, "cannot be ignored in a solution."
