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...Islamabad, Yahya issued a White Paper charging that 100,000 men, women and children had died since March 1 in a "reign of terror unleashed by the Awami League," East Pakistan's strongest political party, with "the active assistance of Indian armed infiltrators." He added that his regime's attack on the East March 25 was merely a preemptive attempt to avert a planned rebellion. Observers who were in East Pakistan during the period called the paper a mixture of half-truths, juxtaposed events and outright lies...
Only time and the test of fire will show whether or not the Mukti Bahini's leaders can forge them into a disciplined guerrilla force. The present commander in chief is a retired colonel named A.G. Osmani, a member of the East Pakistani Awami League. But many feel that before the conflict is over, the present moderate leadership will give way to more radical men. So far the conflict is nonideological. But that could change. "If the democracies do not put pressure on the Pakistanis to resolve this question in the near future," says a Bangla Desh official, "I fear...
...generals, that was unacceptable. On March 25, Yahya broke off the meetings he had been holding and flew back to Islamabad. Five hours later, soldiers using howitzers, tanks and rockets launched troop attacks in half a dozen sections of Dacca. The war was on. Swiftly, Yahya outlawed the Awami League and ordered the armed forces "to do their duty." Scores of Awami politicians were seized, including Mujib, who now awaits trial in remote Sahiwal, 125 miles southwest of Islamabad, on charges of treason; the trial, expected to begin in August, could lead to the death penalty...
Ideological Cousins. In the long run, the Indians fear that they could be faced on their eastern border with an even more threatening force than the Pakistan army. There is a real danger that leadership of the guerrilla movement in East Pakistan could pass from the shattered Awami League into the hands of the Naxalites, the ideological cousins of the Maoist extremists who have terrorized Calcutta and other pockets of eastern India. What the Indians fear is an attempt to reunite India's West Bengal with Pakistan's East Bengal, which have strong cultural and linguistic ties that...
...Power. A tough young East Pakistani who calls himself a Naxalite told TIME Correspondent James Shepherd: "For the moment, the common enemy [of both the Awami League and the East Bengali Naxalites] is the Pakistan army. The arms that India gives the Awami League will find their way to the Naxalites, and eventually we will fight not only the army but also the bourgeoisie and the feudal elements." Contemptuous of democratic processes, the Naxalite said scornfully: "Now the Awami League cadres are seeing the truth of the saying that political power grows out of the barrel...