against tanks and air raids would be its handicap, which could partly be overcome by swift concentration and dispersal and through hit and run tactics.
The guerrillas had already left several visible marks-slow works at ports. heavy guards provided to ships, the Army's reluctance to move out after dark, thin attendance in offices (barely 20 per cent), closure of ordnance factories and stoppage of the Tea and Jute trade.
This and the continued exodus of refugees showed that the switchover to a “civilian” regime clearly lacked credibility. Continuation of wholesale looting, murder, rape and killing by West Pakistani soldiers re-inforced this view.
On the average 30,000 refugees were pouring into India every day, the grand total until September 28 having been 8,989.000. Scarcity of food medicines and medical facilities were additional reasons for the exodus.
An analysis of the influx in Tripura showed that 3,000 to 4,000 refugees were crossing over every day. At one stage most of them were Hindus, but now Muslims constituted around 45 per cent of them. Mostly the refugees were from Comilla and Sylhet which had been the special targets of the West Pakistan Army.
