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...reprisals for guerrilla hit-and-run forays, sabotage and assassination of collaborators. But the Mukti Bahini, the Bengali liberation forces, have blasted hundreds of bridges and culverts, paralyzing road and rail traffic. The main thrust of the guerrilla movement is coming from across the Indian border, where the Bangla Desh (Bengal Nation) provisional government has undertaken a massive recruitment and training program. Pakistani President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan last week charged that there were 24 such camps within India, and Indians no longer even bother to deny the fact that locals and some border units are giving assistance...
...first onrush of refugees followed the outburst of civil war in March, when West Pakistan decided to crush East Pakistan's drive for Bangla Desh (an independent Bengali State). Immediately after fighting broke out between the fierce Pathans and Punjabis of the Pakistani army and the Bengali liberation forces, 1,500,000 terrified East Pakistanis-Moslems and Hindus alike -crossed into the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura, Assam, Meghalaya and Bihar. Now the escapees are mostly Hindu, and they bring tales of torture, rape and massacre. According to the new arrivals, the Pakistani government is blaming...
Peace Committee. The West Pakistani government has good reason to fret about its image. Since the crackdown on the breakaway state of Bangla Desh began late in March, at least 200,000 have died-almost all of them Bengalis. In addition, more than 1,500,000 Bengalis have fled to India, and those who have stayed behind are threatened with an approaching famine that the government does not seem anxious to combat. Most outside observers have laid the responsibility for the East Pakistani tragedy to the hobnail-tough martial law imposed by Lieut. General Tikka (meaning "red hot") Khan...
Your Harvard is a university that radiates thoughtful influence. The considered opinion of the Ripon Society, appreciating the moral excellence of the fighters of the freedom of Bangla Desh which is based on a grand democratic franchise, is expected to create an intellectual fervor in the freedom-loving America...
...obligations. Yet tradition counts. The America of Lincoln and Franklin, of Emerson and Whitman may assert itself, and your great country's innate radiant faith in democracy and Human Rights may well flash against the slate-colored wisdom of low-flying polities. The declaration of independence of Bangla Desh is most likely to arouse the people whose inspiring history is founded on the Declaration of American Independence. You will certainly enthuse your government to weigh between a technical sovereignty of a nation and a moral sovereignty of Man. Moreover, the President of Pakistan is not a President that you understand...