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Mass Graves. Opposed only by bands of Bengali peasants armed with stones and bamboo sticks, tanks rolled through Dacca, the East's capital, blowing houses to bits. At the university, soldiers slaughtered students inside the British Council building. "It was like Genghis Khan," said a shocked Western official who witnessed the scene. Near Dacca's marketplace, Urdu-speaking government soldiers ordered Bengali-speaking townspeople to surrender, then gunned them down when they failed to comply. Bodies lay in mass graves at the university, in the Old City, and near the municipal dump...
...troops -mostly tall, fierce Punjabis and Pa-thans-were surrounded in East Pakistan by a hostile population of 78 million Bengalis. The civil war-and it could be called no less-promised to be long and bloody. The Bengalis, armed with a few looted guns, spears and often just bamboo staves, were ill-trained for a guerrilla war. But a resistance movement, once organized, might eventually force the West Pakistanis to depart. In a way, the struggle evoked haunting memories of the Nigerian civil war of 1967-70, when the federal regime sought justification in the name of national unity...
Under a small tent held up by pieces of bamboo cut and tied together in much the same way Vietnamese huts are constructed in the countryside, eight members of an artillery support company discussed the Laotian operation during a rest period...
...Bangla Desh are entitled to it, and they will have it." In protest, Mujib called an all-day general strike for the following day, and half-day strikes for the rest of the week, shuttering offices, shops and factories and halting trains, planes and even rickshas. Angry mobs carrying bamboo staves, the weapon Mujib prescribes, roared "Joi Bangla!" (Victory to Bengal) through Dacca's seamy streets. At least 25 died in Dacca in clashes with soldiers: another 100 were killed at the port city of Chittagong. Mujib denounced the army shooting as an "unforgivable sin" and warned: "There will...
...there herbicide residues in the ground in the sprayed areas which will prevent or alter the regrowth of vegetation? The HAC is uncertain. They do know that bamboo growth may choke off hardwood regeneration and that crabs and weeds may prevent mangrove reforestation, but little is known of the fate of the chemicals themselves...