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119 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৫৫। টিক্কাখানের পৈশাচিক রক্তস্নান নিউজ উইক ২৮ জুন, ১৯৭১ NEWSWEEK, JUNE 28, 1971 THE TERRIBLE BLOOD BATH OF THKKA KHAN Ever since the Pakistani civil war broke out last March, President Mohammad Yahya Khan has done his utmost to prevent reports on the ruthless behavior of the Pakistani Army in putting down the Bengali fight for independence from reaching the outside world. Most foreign journalists have been barred from East Pakistan, and only those West Pakistani newsmen who might be expected to produce "friendly accounts" have been invited to tour East Pakistan and tell their countrymen about the rebellion. In at least one instance, however, that policy backfired. Anthony Mascarenhas, a Karachi newsmen who also writes for the London Sunday Times was so horrified by the events he witnessed that he and hi_ family fled to London' to publish the full story. Last week, in the Times, Mascarenhas wrote that he was told repeatedly by Pakistani military and civil authorities in Dacca that the Government intends "to cleanse East Pakistan once and for all of the threat of secession, even if it means killing off 2 million people". And the federal army concluded Mascarenhas "is doing exactly that with terrifying thoroughness." That the Pakistani army is visiting a dreadful blood bath upon the people of "East Pakistan is also affirmed by newsmen and others who have witnessed the fight of a 6 million terrified refugees into neighboring India. News weed's Tony Clifton recently visited India's refugee-clogged border regions and cabled the following report: Anyone who goes to the camps and hospitals along India's border with Pakistan comes away believing the Punjabi army capable of any atrocity, I have seen babies who have been shot, men who have had their backs whipped raw. I've seen people literally struck dumb by the horror of seeing their children murdered in front of them or their daughters dragged off into sexual slavery. I have no doubt at all that there have been a hundred "Mylais" and "Lidices" in East Pakistan-and I think, there will be IThᎺᏉᏋ. My personal reaction is one of wonder more then anything else. I've seen too many bodies to be horrified by anything much any more. But I find myself standing still again and again, wondering how any man can work himself into such a murderous frenzy. Slaughter The story of one shy little girl in a torn pink dress with red and green flowers has a peculiar horror. She could not have been a danger to anyone. Yet I, met her in a hospital at Krishnanagar, hanging nervously back among the other patients, her hand covering the livid scar on her neck where a Pakistani soldier had cut her throat with his bayonet. "I am Ismatara, the daughter of late Ishaque Ali," she told me formally. "My father was a businessman in Kushtia. About two months ago he left our house and went to his shop and I never saw him again. That same night, after I went to bed, I heard shouts and screaming, and when I went to see what was happening, the Punjabi soldiers were there.