পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/৯৩

61 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ২৭। বাঙালী সৈনিকের ভয়ঙ্কর নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস ১৭ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ অভিজ্ঞতা THE NEW YORK TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 17, 1971 HOURS OF TERROR FOR A TRAPPED BENGALL OFFICER By Sydney H. Schanberg Special to The New York Times Agartala, India, April 13-0n the night of March 25, Dabir recalls, he and the two other East Pakistani officers in the 53d Field Artillery Regiment were standing outside when they heard their commander tell the West Pakistani officers he had summoned to his office: "All of you go now to the city, and by morning I want to see the whole of Comilla filled with corpses. If any officer hesitates to do so, I'll have no mercy on him." Late, in the afternoon of March 30, Dabir says, after five days of house arrest for himself and the two other Bengali officers, the West Pakistanis sent an officer to their room to execute them- but Dabir, wounded, escaped by feigning death. He has now joined the forces fighting for the independence of Bangladesh, or Bengal Nation, as the Bengali population has named East Pakistan. Killing Their Comrades Dabir's experience was apparently no exception. All over East Pakistan-according to Western evacuees, and Bengali soldiers and refugees-West Pakistanis, who dominate the armed forces, were killing their East Pakistani comrades in uniform to deny the independence movement a cadre of military leaders. The sources report that the families of many Bengali officers were also rounded up and killed: The breakdown of the code of the soldier-officers and troops killing men with whom they had fought-perhaps depicts as well as any other facet of this conflict the depth of the racial hatred felt by the West Pakistanis, who are Punjabis and Pathans, for the 75 million Bengalis of East Pakistan. The killing of Bengali soldiers began on the night that the army launched its effort to try to crush the independence movement. Dabir, a slightly built second lieutenant who is 20 years old and unmarried, told his story of that night and the days that followed to this correspondent at a post in the eastern sector of East Pakistan. Dabir is not his real name; he asked that a pseudonym be used on the chance that some members of his family-his parents, a brother and three sisters- might still be alive.