The nature of the genocide that has been committed in Bangladesh has no similar example in modem history. The soldiers mostly coming from tribal background of Punjab and Frontier were only human beings in form but in reality behaved like hungry wolves. Their action was of destruction and annihilation. They killed, looted. arsoned and raped. On the first night they attacked the university dormitorics and killed 300 students. They entered into residential quarters of the university teachers and killed all the available eminent scholars of the country. They picked up the philanthropic industrialists and after killing them, looted their properties and cash money.
On 27th morning when the curfew was apparently lifted after 33 hours, almost the entire population of Dacca started evacuating and within the next 24 hours approximately 75 % to 85% of the population left the city. They have created such a terror that at the moment all the cities and towns of Bangladesh have deserted. Politicians, doctors, engineers, lawyers, teachers, students, businessmen, and intellectuals have all left their respective place of work and gone into the villages to join the liberation forces.
Before 25th March whatever number of Bengali officers and ranks in the armed forces stationed in Bangladesh and were within their reach, they were disarmed and were subsequently killed along with their families. In Jessore and Comilla cantonments almost all the Bengali officers, about 30 each, were killed including their families who were present at that time. Similar genocide took place in all the other cantonments and military bases. The cantonments in Bangladesh are based at Dacca, Comma, Rangpur, Jessore and Chittagong.
The account of the brutalities committed by the West Pakistani troops cannot be completed in such a short space. There are thousands of incidents of rape, loot and arson I can describe to you, ladies and gentlemen, that you would feel yourselves ashamed to be sitting here purportedly holding a conference for peace. Jinjira Bazar, on the other side of the river, was attacked in the dark of the night and a population of approximately 25,000 was put in peril. By setting fire, they damaged the entire area of approximately 10 to 15 sq. miles and killed approximately 10,000 to 12,000 people. Similar war of annihilation was exercised on Shantinagar Bazar, Rayerbazar, Bhadhi, Shakharibazar, Tatibazar, Kaptanbazar, Chakbazar, Tongi and many other places. The total number of people killed in and around Dacca City alone till to-day would be approximately 150,000.
Bangalis had, however, accepted this challenges of war. Though in Dacca they were caught unprepared, the people organized themselves into liberation forces all over Bangladesh within 24 hours. Led and guided by the East Bengal Regiment (3000 strong regular army) and East Pakistan Rifles (a para-military force of about 17000), Police (40000). Ansars. Mujahids, youth in every district and sub-division immediately prepared themselves for resistance. Finding the collapse of administration all over Bangladesh and failing the control both the population and the land and that their whole calculation of winning to have gone wrong. West Pakistani Generals become more desperate and jittery. In every place where they found resistance, they have used straling and bombing from the air by sabre jets. Besides thousands of villages, the towns which have been heavily mortared and bombed from air are, among others, Chittagong, Sylhet, Moulvibazar, Sunamganj, Habiganj, Sreemangal, Narshingdi, Brahmanbaria. Akhaura, Kasba, Comilla,
