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27 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ১৩। পাকিস্তানীরা বাঙালীদের নিশ্চিহ্ন বাল্টিমোর সান ৪ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ করছে THESUN, BALTIMORE.. SUN DA Y, APRIL 4. 1971 PAKISTAN IS EXTERMINATING THE BENGALIS By John E. Woodruff Less than four months ago, the West Pakistan Army said it could not send soldiers and helicopters to East Bengal to save survivors of the cyclone that took hundreds of thousands of lives in the mouth of the Ganges. If troops and helicopters were moved from West Pakistan, India might attack, the Army said. By the time the Army Statement was issued, India was increasing its offers of relief aid for the cyclone victims. Today, that same West Pakistan Army shows every sign of being prepared to send its last soldier to more populous East Bengal, if necessary, in an all-out effort to shoot to death the results of last December's elections. No room remains for doubt as to the Punjabi-dominated Army's determination to go the whole distance, For the only justification that could ever emerge for the grisly scenes of a week ago Thursday and Friday would be a total victory of bullets over the nonviolent attempts of the Bengalis to put in power the men they had elected in polling sanctioned by the Army. Newsmen toured Carnage Correspondents interned last week at the plush Dacca Intercontinental Hotel could see only fragments of what was talking place outside-a few soldiers shooting into civilian buildings, a machine-gun opening up on a dozen empty handed youths, the Army setting fire to civilian business places. But two European newsmen evaded the Army and stayed behind a few extra days and they managed to tour some of the carnage before they were found out and expelled. Their reports have confirmed the worst fears of those who were only able to surmise the meaning of cannon reports and prolonged bursts of machinegun and automatic-rifle fire coming from the new campus of Dacca University, where two burning buildings lighted the sky for hours with their flames. Slum Residents Killed Hundreds of students were burned up in their beds and hundreds more were buried in a mass grave, according to reports filed by the two newsmen who said they toured the scene.