Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Premier Ghandi's interview seemed to indicate the awkward position India is confronted with when she said that any release of Pakistani POWs would not come "without the total involvement and concurrence of Bangladesh." Thus, India is trying to bring both countries together while being diplomatically bound to the Bengalis...
...addition to India's violation of the Geneva Convention, she has also been accused of breaking an agreement made by the Indian Commander-in Chief, General Manekshaw, upon the surrender of the Pakistani forces in Bangladesh...
Manekshaw promised the Pakistanis his "solemn assurance" that those troops who surrendered would "be treated to dignity and respect that soldiers are entitled to." He added that he would "abide by the provisions of the Geneva Conventions." These promises were later reiterated in the documents signed by both the Pakistani and Indian commanders upon the surrender of the Pakistani forces...
...April 5, Pakistan again formally called upon the 115 signatory countries of the Geneva Convention "to do everything in their power to ensure respect of the Geneva Conventions in the matter of repatriation of Pakistani POWs...
...current issue of Newsweek magazine contains an article describing current efforts by wives of Pakistani POWs to make people aware of the plight of the prisoners. The article says that they have followed the pattern of their "American counterparts...placing full-page ads in the Western press, touring the U.S. and Europe and buttonholing every foreign newsman they can find to tell their story...