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...both sides, Indian and Pakistani exiles are pawns in a vast, vengeful diaspora unequaled since the migrations that followed the 1947 partitioning of the subcontinent between Hindu India and Moslem Pakistan. The two-way exodus was restarted this year by a savage, three-month wave of Hindu-Moslem rioting, mostly in eastern India and East Pakistan; the conflict has already taken untold hundreds of lives in two countries. India claims that some 200,000 Hindus have been forced to flee Pakistan. Pakistan claims that some 200,000 Moslems have been forced to flee India. For all their indignation, neither side...
Like Flies. Arriving last week in West Bengal's Cede station, Mrs. Nipubala Nag, a Hindu from Pakistan, dabbed tears from her eyes as she told of a Moslem mob that burst in on terrified Hindu mill workers in Dacca, East Pakistan's capital, with daggers, axes and steel bars. Among the dead were her husband and 19-year-old son. At Jessore, grey-bearded, shirtless Osman Ghani talked wistfully of his home and stationery shop in Calcutta, both burned to the ground by Hindu mobs. After weeks in an Indian relief camp, Ghani, his wife and three...
Pious Gloss. Moslem and Hindu fugitives all tell strikingly similar tales of persecution. Alike, they say that border police systematically relieve them of whatever money and jewels they have left. On both sides, fugitives protest that the only safe way across the frontier is by greasing the palms of unscrupulous fixers. Yet their governments piously gloss over the fact that the exodus is in both directions. India talks only of Hindus fleeing Pakistani atrocities, Pakistan of Moslems fleeing Indian hordes...
...India's leaders, the man who might best have induced Hindu and Moslem to live peacefully together is one of Nehru's old comrades-in-arms, Sheik Mohammed Abdullah, the Lion of Kashmir. Despite Kashmir's overwhelmingly Moslem population, Sheik Abdullah believed that it was in his border state's best interest to accede to India rather than to Pakistan after the 1947 partition, and he won Nehru's solemn promise that the people of Kashmir would be permitted free elections to determine their own future-accession to Pakistan or India, or independence...
...northeastern corner of India last week, 300 people died in Hindu-Moslem riots. Had only a fraction of such religious or racial violence happened in the U.S., there would have been international headlines. But the Indian killings were a minor affair compared with the 1947 partition riots that took more than 100,000 Indian and Pakistani lives...