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317 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র : সপ্তম খণ্ড Washington Post, Washington, 13 May 1971: Associated Press report: Bengalis bent on a separate East Pakistani nation slaughtered many of the region's 6 million non-Bengalis The Times, London, 15 May 1971: Peter Hazlehurst: It is equally evident that most of the killings came in the form of reprisols for communal riots last month, when Bengalis systematically marssacred the nonBengali Muslim immigrants (Biharis) in East Pakistan "There are no Bihari refugees," a Bengali social worker told me confidently. "Fourteen of them tried to come into West Bengal two days ago, and the Bengalis beat them to death with spears and stones". Ceylon, Daily News, Colombo, 15 May 1971: Maurice Quaintance: There is evidence that non Bengalis, largely immigrants from India who sought refuge after the 1947 partition, were attacked, hacked to death and burnt in their homes by mobs Eye witnesses told stories of 1,500 widows and orphans fleeing to a mosque at Mymensingh, in the north as armed men identified as secessionists slaughtered their husbands and fathers;. A mill manager showed journalists a mass grave where he said well over 100 women and children were buried Scene of the killing just before the Army moved in-was the mill recreation hall and it stank of death the day journalists saw it this week. Human hair and bloodstrins lay about the building The Assistant Postmaster at Mymensingh showed journalists a neck scar and bayonet wounds. Choking back tears, he said he was one of 25 survivors out of 5,000 nonBengalis attacked by Awami League supporters and army deserters There can be little doubt that some atrocities were committed by groups can of separatists. Generally, such killings were bone by Bengali workers nurturing grudges against shop foremen and administrators in the Jute mills, Many of the foremen are Biharis: Moslem immigrants from India, who have done well in East Pakistan and whose success is resented by the less successful Bengalis Major Osman Choudhury, the Commander of the South; West Division of the Liberation Front in East Pakistan, admitted this after-noon that East Pakisian Rifles and