The operation, apparently planned and led by Gen. Tikka Khan, the West Pakistani military governor of the East, has succeeded in driving every last drop of resistance out of the people of Bengal. u Only the propaganda machine or the Indian Government is keeping the fight going apart from a Leftist underground group operating a clandestine “Bangladesh" radio Somewhere outside Dacca.
Even if time erases the scare that marks the end of the dream that the people of East Pakistan thought was democratically theres, it will take more than a generation before they live down the fear instilled in their minds by the tragic and horrifying massacres of last week.
If anything is to be salvaged from the ruins of Sheikh Mujib's movement, it is the realization that the Army is not to be under-estimated again and that for all the speech making of president Yahya about the returning of power to the people, the regime did not really ever intend to abide by the results of any election-fairly won or not.
