পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৩৭

505 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড ᎼᏠ ! ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS BRITISH PRESS ON PAKISTAN 1st July, 1971 Edited by William Crawley (S) This morning's press carries two reports from correspondents in East Pakistan. In the Times, Michael Hornsby reports what he believes to be continuing persecution of the Hindu community in East Pakistan by the armed forces. Hornsby visited the village of Sinduri, some 40 miles to the north west of Dacca, which is one of eight predominantly Hindu villages in the area, which he says have in the past five days been looted or burned down. Hornsby says that on conceivable strategic or security reasons can be found to justify these actions. In the Daily Telegraph. Clare Hollingworth reports from Dacca. She has been with a Pakistani army border patrol to within four hundred yards of the border of Assam, and she reports that the destruction by guerrilla forces from the Indian side of the border has devastated a border town in East Pakistan and made 5000 Pakistanis refugees' in their own country. She says that the Pakistan army is convinced that the Indians are trying to destroy the economy of the area, as there can be no military reason for the shelling. Guerrillas have been attacking tea estates, and have put twelve or thirteen estates near the Indian border cut of action with mortar fire. She says that every day more tea planters are arriving in Dacca, as conditions become more difficult and dangerous, From Calcutta the Daily Telegraph correspondent, Peter Gill reports that Mr. Toby Jessel, one of the four British Members of Parliament who are currently visiting both Pakistan and India in a tour sponsored by the British Government, said last night that he was convinced that the Pakistan Army had conducted a blitz on Hindu villages. ১৯ | ASIAN TOPICAL TALKS DESPATCH FROM MARK TULLY EN DACCA 5th July, 1971 Edited by Evan Charlton (S) In a cable from Dacca, Mark Tully of the BBC's Eastern Service says that the campaign to prevent life returning to normal in East Pakistan appears to be continuing. On Friday night, another electricity pylon was sabotaged-this time in Dacca. Parts of Dacca were without electricity for twenty hours. Over the weekend several bomb- throwing incidents were reported in Dacca. Last week severe damage was done to the bazaar at Sarisabari, North of Mymensingh. As a result of the damage and the police action taken by the army, work at the big jute baling station at Sarisabari came to a halt. Conditions there are more normal now. In Pabna there was firing and at least one bomb exploded on Friday night. In Rajshahi a bridge was blown up last week. There was also firing and bombs exploded on Saturday night. The authorities in Rajshahi explained that the army had opened fire on infiltrators who were attempting to cross the Ganges from India. Some of the firing came from that direction but not all of it. It is very difficult to