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...resisted the "occupation army" of 80,000 West Pakistani soldiers. Reports have indicated that as many as 200,000 civilians have been killed by the heavily armed West Pakistani troopers. But soldiers have also suffered severe casualties at the hands of irate peasants. The army controlled the capital of Dacca, the vital ports of Chittagong and Khulna, and several other towns. But a ragtag resistance movement called the Bangla Desh Mukti Fauj (Bengal State Liberation Forces) was reportedly already in control of at least one-third of East Pakistan, including many cities and towns. West Pakistani authorities have almost completely...
...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...
...Dacca University has been closed by the fighting in Dacca. Three hundredto five hundred students have been killed while opposing the West Pakistani army...
...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...