Word: dacca
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Dacca, East Pakistan, up to 6000 people have been killed in the West Pakistani drive to crush rebel forces, observers reported. At least 24 city blocks have been destroyed since March 26, the Associated Press said...
...teeming working-class districts, soldiers roam through a black wilderness of ashes and charred bamboo stumps. It is all that remains of the flimsy homes where thousands of families lived," an AP reporter in Dacca said...
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...
...found five bodies and a human head near the frontier post-the remains, apparently, of a group of West Pakistanis who had tried to escape. At week's end there were reports that East Bengali rebels were maintaining a precarious hold on Jessore and perhaps Chittagong. But in Dacca and most other cities, the rebels had been routed...
Though children are reluctant to swallow the solution, it has proved astoundingly effective with adults. Tested on more than 4,000 cholera victims in both Dacca and rural areas, it has proved as effective as intravenous treatment in curbing cholera mortality. Equally important in a country where the average per capita income is only $50 a year, it has sharply reduced the price of treatment. The cost of intravenous treatmen for cholera is about 200 rupees, or $42 Enough oral solution to cure the average victim costs only three rupees...