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বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ৯১। পূর্ব পাকিস্তানের বিভৎস অবস্থা নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস ১১ অক্টোবর, ১৯৭১ সব আশা ধ্বংস করেছে NEW YORK TIMES, OCTOBER II, 1971 HORRORS OF EAST PAKISTAN TURNING HOPE INTO DESPAIR By Malcom M. Browne Dacca, October 10 -The horror of life in East Pakistan shows every sign of becoming permanently institutionalized, and most, if not all, the foreigners who came hoping to help are on the verge of despair. In particular, the chances of reversing the tide of millions of destitute refugees who have lied to India seem remote. Most governments consider the refugee problem the main catalyst in the atmosphere of war prevailing on the subcontinent. India charges that military terror in East Pakistan since the central government moved against the Bengali separatists on March 25, has driven nine million refugees across her borders. Those people, the Indians say, are an intolerable drain on already vastly overtaxed economic resources and a force that could result in a political catastrophe or internal warfare. The New Delhi Government has hinted that as a last resort it might try to change the situation in East Pakistan by force to induce the refugees, whom Pakistan numbers at less than a third of the Indian figure, to leave India. Pakistan has hastened her own preparations for war. Major troop movements have been reported here and in India in the past few weeks. The Soviet Union, China and the United States, among other nations, are deeply entangled in the tend. The United Nations and other international organisations have been working with great urgency to alleviate the misery and especially to prevent a Wäs, Dozens of government have teams of experts, technicians and diplomats working in East Pakistan. The United Nations in East Pakistan Relief Operation alone has 75 officials here. There is some disagreement among the hundreds of foreign officials about the techniques by which the refugees could be repatriated. But there is apparent unanimity on one subject that East Pakistan should overcome its reputation as a place of endless horror and suffering. To that end many governments, including that of the United State's, have pressed the Pakistani Government at Islamabad for fundamental changes in East Pakistan, among them these: