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("లిం বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : অষ্টম খন্ড The Razakars have now extended their operations from murder and extortion to prostitution. In Agrabad in Chittagong, they run a camp of young girls who are allocated nightly to senior officials. They also kidnapped girls for their parties. Some have not returned. Ferdausi, the leading Bengali singer, narrowly escaped a similar fate when army officers entered her home. Her mother telephones a general whom she knew and military police were sent to her rescue. A recent development is the return to duty, duress, of a number of Intelligence Department official who went absent in March in response to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman’s call for non-cooperation with the federal government. They are now obliged to submit the names of “undesirable persons” to the army, which is taking care not to pick up the wrong people as it did on the nights of 25th and 26th March. On those two nights, the army killed more than 20 University professors. Of these, Dr. Moniruzzaman of the Physics department was shot dead instead of his namesake in the Bengali Department, Mr. Monaim of the English Department was similarly killed instead of Mr. Munir, also of the Bengali Department. Some University teachers reported for duty on 1st June at the instigation of General Tikka Khan, the Martial Law Administrator, but some of them have since fallen into the hands of the RAZAKARS. The activities of RAZAKARS are known, if not overtly approved, by the military administration. Occasionally, they are a source of concern. Recently the administration managed to induce a few hundred jute workers to resume production in Dacca. On 29th May three of their trade union leaders were taken away in an army jeep. By the following day the workers had fled. The PROBLEMS of return for the 6 million refugees seem insuperable. In Dacca, Jessore, Rangpur, Ishurdi, Khulna and Chittagong their houses and shops have been taken over by non-Bengalis. Backed by the army on 28th April, they cleared Mirpur and Mohammadpur, two residential districts covering 15 square miles in Dacca,” of their entire Bengali population, killing everyone who had ignored an advance warning to leave. In Jessore soldiers surrounded the house of Mr. Masihur Rahman, an Awami League member of the National Assembly, and non-Bengali civilians went in killing everyone. A 10 year old boy jumped from the first floor and was shot in mid-air by a Sepoу. Organizations caring for the refugees who came into East Pakistan at the time of. Partition and the Razakar backed “Peace Committee; are publishing press notices inviting applications for “allotment” of shops and houses left by Bengalis. In Chittagong locked shops and houses in Laldighi and Reazuddin Bazaar were broken open by the army and handed over to non-Bengalis. Nearly all sequestered property now has signboards and name-plates in Urdu, the lanauage of West Pakistan.