পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৮৮

456 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড Less than 48 hours before, it had served Brigadier Hayat Khan, C. O. of the retreating Pakistanis. As artillery shells whistled overheard Brigadier Singh, a bespectacled Sikh with a khaki sun visor strapped on to his turban, said: We cannot use our normal tactics of outflanking the enemy because there is a swamp on one side of the road and the wide River Bhairab on the other. We have to advance up the stetch of road, which is only 30 yards wide at best, and which is heavily defended by bunkers and built-up defenses. A surrender had been-arranged for the Pakistanis two nights ago. They were supposed to fire three flares, then bring their chaps across. Detected 'But nothing happened, and the fight goes on Ian Mather in New Delhi reports: Chinese troops are on the move, presumably to the border area with India. Last night an Indian Foreign Office spokesman refused to say how many Chinese troops were involved or where the movements had been detected. He said: We believe that this must be part of their effort designed to express political solidarity with Pakistan. "We still believe that China, has nothing to gain by enlarging this conflict'. THE SHAME OF YAHYA'S ARMY IT'S THE ATROCITIES, NOT THE DEFEAT, A Special Report by John Webb The disgrace of the Pakistan Army is not its defeat. The shame of the soldiers of Yahya Khan is their appalling misconduct towards the 75 million people they terrorized in the name of East Pakistan. Somehow these excitable, affectionate Bengalis have kept their spirit in spite of the murders, the rape and the pillaging. They talk of 'freedom' with tears in their eyes. On every road there is a trickie of homegoers, walking with pitifully small bundles on their heads, only an occasional woman in the party. I met Sabed Ali Mandol, 40-year-old clerk, trudging along the road near Sabarsa, heading for his home in Jafarnagar with seven friends to prepare for the return of their family. He told me how they fled to the interior because Pakistani troops stationed near the border went on a rampage. "We were beaten and kicked' he said, They called us little monkeys.