পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (সপ্তম খণ্ড).pdf/৩৪৯

315 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড without turning a hair. Inevitably, the central figure in this bloody drama is the Poor Bihari. But the real tragedy which has engulfed the Bihari community does not lie in the number of people killed but in the gruesome variety of methods of killing. Ten thousand people wiped out in two nights of horror in one town is a story which will last a week Eye witnesses are prepared to testify to the correctness of the story that Biharis were dragged or enticed from their homes and taken to the slaughter house where they were butchered slowly with a knife In Mymensingh, an East Pakistani army officer had a delightful breakfast with the family of a brother officer from West Pakistan before shooting dead its members Men were hacked to pieces beginning from the feet. A pregnant woman, a West Pakistani, was grabbed by hooligans and dragged into the street. Her belly was cut and the child was bayoneted. She is alive but is now bereft of the will to live A woman was killed but her three-month-old child was allowed to live-but not before they had cut off one of its hands A doctor drained the blood out of people with a syringe and let them die. In a refugee camp for Biharis from Mymensingh a man burst into tears while narrating his experience. An army officer who is now in charge of the camp was so moved that he turned his face away to hide his tears Later, this officer, one of the first to reach Mymensing, took me aside and said in a whisper: "What he has told you is not a hundredth of what I have seen in Mymensingh". New York Times, New York, 11 May 1971: Malcolm Brown: Before the army came, when Chittagong was still governed by the secisseonist Awami League and its allies the Bengali workers, apparently resentful of the relative prosperity of the Bihari immigrants' from India are said to have killed the Biharis in large number At the Chittagong Jute Manufacturing Company Chittagong's largest mill, officials told of a massacre of Bihari overseers and their families by the Bengali workers.' Newsmen were shown graves where 152 victims were said to have been buried. The European manager of a local bank said: "It was fortunate for every European living here that the Army arrived when it did, otherwise, I would not have lived to tell the tale." Washington Post, Washington, 12 May 1971: Associated Press report: Newsmen visiting this key port yesterday said there were massive shell and fire damage and evidence of sweeping massacre of civilians by rebels