পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৩০

398 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড These developments have made Government officials in Tripura openly sceptical of the chances of a return to normality in East Pakistan. Now the Pakistan Army is involved in a full-scale war against its guerrilla enemies. And massive reprisals against villages suspected of harbouring guerrillas are driving out both Hindus and Moslems. Refugee accounts of the scale of the fighting in East Pakistan are amply corroborated by senior officers in the Indian Border Security Force, Long range artillery, using "air burst" shells as anti-personnel weapons, mortar bombs and machine guns have all been deployed by the Pakistan Army against villages. Once on Indian soil, the refugees admit their involvement with the guerrillas, "We're all Mukti Fouj now," said one villager in a refugee camp at Bazalghat, near Agartala. The supply situation here will soon become critical, with everything having to come over 1,000 miles from Calcutta round the entire East Pakistan border. Privately, Tripura officials are critical of what they regard as the uncaring attitude of the Indian Central Government towards the State. Direct mercy fights from the Australian. Air Force with food and shelter, they complain, have been inexplicably rerouted to Calcutta. 8m Homeless: E. Pakistan problem Our Staff Correspondent in Dacca cables: There are even more "refugees" inside East Pakistan than in India. Indeed large groups of people, Moslem as well as Hindu, are wandering round the country, always frightened, sometimes completely lost, but ready to bed down in an unoccupied village, Major-General Farman Ali, in charge of civil affairs in East Pakistan, admitted that these seven or eight million displaced people were extremely difficult to handle. Many smaller groups are attempting to take over shops, petrol pumps, market stalls, and other shacks on the main roads and this is creating even bigger problems.