| শিরোনাম | সূত্র | তারিখ |
| ট্যাঙ্কের বিরুদ্ধে লাঠি | নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস | ২৮ মার্চ, ১৯৭১ |
THE NEW YORK TIMES, SUNDA Y, MARCH 28. 1971
SLICKS AND SPEARS AGAINST TANKS IN EAST PAKISTAN
SLICKS AGAINST TANKS
By Sydney H. Schanberg
Special to The New York Times
New Delhi, March 28- The people of East Pakistan, armed with sticks, spears and homemade rifles, are mounting a resistance movement against a military force from West Pakistan that is armed with planes, bombs, tanks and heavy artillery.
The resistance, which began after a surprise attack on the civilian population by the Government force three nights ago, sprang from a nonviolent drive for provincial autonomy.
The East Pakistanis tried to claim the majority political power they had won in the elections last December, and the army moved to prevent this. Earlier this month, Maj. Siddiq Salik, public relations officer for the martial-law administration in East Pakistan, was telling foreign newsmen about the role of the Pakistani Army in dealing with disobedient civilians.
"Then you call in the army,” said the tall West Pakistani officer, “it's a last resort. The army would shoot to kill."
The remark was prophetic. Two weeks later, starting last Thursday night, the Pakistani Army apparently began killing anybody who moved in the streets of Dacca or who shouted defiance from a window. The troops used artillery, machine guns, recoil less rifles and rockets against East Pakistani civilians to crush the Bengali movement for self-rule.
It seems certain that thousands of Bengalis will be killed, but their dedication to the self-rule movement and to their leader. Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, is deep-so deep that it is questionable whether what is virtually a foreign army from a region 1,000 miles away can control 'East Pakis tan indefinitely.
The army comes from the West, big business is concentrated there, the per capita income is higher, prices are lower. Everything is better for the 55 million West Pakistanis than for the 75 million East Pakistanis.
Many Bengalis, as the people of East Pakistan arc known, had fled the city in the last few weeks for home villages in the interior.
Foreign newsmen, including this correspondent, were expelled from East Pakistan on Saturday. Their film and notebooks were confiscated in thorough body and luggage searches.
