পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫২২

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490 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড hit East Pakistan which became a privileged market for the West wings expensive manufactured goods. Smith thinks that the army will be successful in the short term and that neither China. Russia, nor India will give the independence movement much support. But Smith says Pakistan's problems cannot be solved by a military action, they need patience, time and mutual restraint. The Daily Telegraph has a leader which says that the present tragedy springs from the neglect of the East wing during the regime of Ayub Khan. The paper says that the army cannot destroy Bengal nationalism. Either President Yahya will have to start negotiations for the return to democracy again or the Fast will eventually split. To start constitutional talks again will require a miracle the paper thinks. But if they don't start the Telegraph says independence for the East wing will come after untold bloodshed and the West will not benefit in any way. ও } ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS BRITISH PRESS ON EAST PAKISTAN 2nd April, 1971 by William Crawley(S) As further eye witness accounts filler out of East Pakistan the British Press this morning tend to confirm earlier reports of the extent of the killing in Dacca and other cities of the province. Most of the papers give prominence to accounts by western journalists of the situation in the town of Jessore. A Times reporter, Nicholas Tomalin, who crossed from India to Jessore yesterday says that Bengali troops and civilians have been taking reprisals on West Pakistani civilians in revenge for the killing of Jessore civilians by Punjabi soldiers. Tomalin himself saw what he describes as "Punjabi prisoners" on their way to be executed Tomalin says that the situation in Jessore is according to some ovservers typical of what is happening elsewhere in East Pakistan. The West Pakistani troops have withdrawn to their cantonment leaving Bengalis in loose control of the town, but the regular troops are poised for further attacks. (The Scotsman quotes a Swedish reporter who also visited Jessore as saying that there were no Punjabi soldiers in sight. The Swedish reporter confirms the reports that some West Pakistanis died in reprisal killings by Bengalis in Jessore.) The Times also carries a report from peter Hazelhurst in Calcutta in which refugees from Comilia and Jessore claim that the Army had hunted out most of the well known politicians in East Pakistan. Hazelhurst also reports the fears of nonBengali Muslims in Bengal, who were originally refugees from Bihar in India. Hazelhurst says that some of these are beginning to return to Indian. (He reports that several Bihari Muslims surrendered to the Indian authorities at the border yesterday and asked to be transferred to West Pakistan.) Hazelhurst says That though attempts are being made to evacuate non Bengalis by sea by the West Pakistanis, this will still leave many non-Bengalis in East Pakistan, just as there is a large Bengali minority in West Pakistan.