312 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড Sinar Harapan, Djakarta, 24 April 1971: Jopie Lasut: The worst sufferers are the Biharis. Their number is estimated to be around 8 million and they are Muslims of belief. These people quit India on the day of partition. Now their lives are in danger because East Bengalis are regarding them as spies. East Bengalis are anxious to take revenge but they do not have much opportunity to kill many West Pakistan army men because the army men are more better armed. And the easiest way to be undertaken is to pursue civilian Punjabis and Biharis. Even Persians, too, became their target. I once met a Persian family on the border area. They were fleeing to Benapole, the Indian immigration checkpoint. They were pursued and would be murdered by East Bengalis. Far Eastern Economic Review, Hong Kong, 24 April 1971: T.I. S. George When the EPR (East Pakistan Rifles) mutinied, their first reaction was to wipe out the non-Bengalis in their own ranks. Some 40 per cent of the 10,000 to 15,000 strong EPR consisted of West Pakistanis including most of the officers. One cart-load of bodies was dumped by EPR men one night across the border by the Indian checkpoint town of Haridaspur. Numbering a few million; the Biharis, being non-Bengali, have been taken as supporters of the West Pakistan Government and therefore spies. Many of them have been murdered by the Bengalis. Many others have been put in detention camps perhaps as hostages for the Bengalis still left in West Pakistan. New York Times. New York, 28 April 1971: Eric Pace: Estimates widely reyeated in West Pakistan are that the Bengali troops, policemen, and militant civilians killed 35,300 Biharis and several thousand Pathans and other non Bengali ethnic groups. Most of these were killed before March 25. Daily Telegraph, London, 29 April 1971: Diplomatic StaffCorrespondent Supporters of the Bangla Desh independence movement have butchered many fellow East Pakistanis in Chittagong.
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