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Word: ansar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bodies and carcasses." More than two weeks after the storm had shrieked across the low-lying Ganges River Delta, the enormity of the havoc wrought by its 120-m.p.h. winds and 20-ft. waves could still only be sensed, not measured. Toward week's end, some 6,000 Ansar militiamen and volunteers trudged into the flatlands to begin burying, for $2 a corpse, the rapidly decomposing bodies claimed by what Pakistanis have already begun to call "the second Hiroshima...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: East Pakistan: The Politics of Catastrophe | 12/7/1970 | See Source »

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