পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (সপ্তম খণ্ড).pdf/৩৫০

316 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড At the jute mills owned by the influential Ispahani family, newsmen saw the mass graves of 152 non-Bengali women and children reportedly executed last month by secessionist rebels in the mills' recreational club. Bloody clothing and toys were still on the floor of the bullet-pocked. Responsible sources said thousands of West Pakistanis and Indian migrants were put to death in Chittagong between March 25 when the East Pakistan rebellion began to seek independence from the Western Wing and April 11 when the Army recaptured the city. Residents point to one burned-out apartment building where they said Bengalis burned to death three hundred and fifty Pathans from West Pakistan. Washington, Evening Star, Washington, 12 May 1971: Mort Rosertblunt In the port city of Chittagong, a blood-spattered doll lies in a heap of clothing and excrement in a jute mill recreation club where Bengalis butchered one hundred and eighty women and children. Bengalis killed some West Pakistanis in flurries of chauvinism Bengali civilians and liberation troops began mass slaughter of Mohajirs (Indian migrants) from the Indian State of Bihar and raced through market places and settlements stabbing, shooting and burning, sometimes stopping to rape and loot. Indonesian, Observer, Djakarta, 12 May 1971: Associated Press Report: Reporters later visited a refugee camp in Dacca where 3,000 homeless from Mymensingh lodged Doctors were treating 25 men and 15 women, all non-Bengalis, for what they said were bullet knife and axe wounds inflicted by Bengalis during the past weeks. One seven year old boy sat dully on a single hospital bed with his four year old brother and doctors said that only their 13 year-old brother was left in the family. One women had severe knife cuts and another had her hand almost chopped off by an axe. Both said they had been carried off wounded by Bengali youths. One nineteen year-old Bihari student, shot through the stomach, sad Bengali toughs had ordered all the men from his part of shanti outside and opened fire with automatic weapons He was hit three times and fell unconscious, he said, but survived because the rebels thought him dead A number of other men bore bullet wounds