"After the soldiers left, the mobs set upon the non-Bengali Muslims from Bihar. I don't know how many died, but I could here the screams throughout the night."
Daily Telegraph, London, 7 April, 1971:
Staff Correspondent:
He (a native of Dundee) described how, after President Yahya's broadcast on March 25, a mob came to the factory.
"The goondas (thugs) went on the rampage. They looted the factory and offices, killed all the animals they could find and then started killing people."
“They went to the houses of my four directors, all West Pakistanis, set fire to the houses and burnt them alive, including families totaling 30. They killed the few who ran out".
Northern Echo, Darlington, Durham, 7 April, 1971:
Passengers on a British ship which docked in Calcutta yesterday told of mass executions, burning and looting in the East Pakistan port of Chittagong.
Leon Lumsden, an American engineer on a U.S. aid project, said that for two weeks before the Army moved last week, Chittagong's predominantly Bengali population had been butchering West Pakistanis in the port.
Daily Record Glasgow, 9 April 1971:
Staff Reporter:
A Scot, who was the sole survivor of an East Pakistan massacre, told last night how he saw all his workers battered to death by a mob.
"The workers in my mill were killed-not by troops, but what we call miscreants who have been running wild."
"They beat my men to death with iron bars. Suddenly I was the only person left in the mill.
News-Letter, Belfast, 9 April 1971;
R. Abernethy:
I would be pleased if you would be good enough to permit me, through your newspaper, to draw the attention of the public generally and the Scar-man Tribunal in particular to the BBC news at 9 p.m. on Friday, April 2, 1971.
Briefly, the news on TV showed riotous mobs roaming the town of Jessore in East Pakistan. The mobs had complete freedom of the town and a large number of West Pakistan citizens, apparently innocent victims, were rounded up by the mobs and subsequently hacked to pieces in front of the camera crews, who incidentally did nothing to prevent this atrocity other than turn their cameras.
