Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Intolerable Strain. The current dispute has grown out of the Pakistani army's harsh repression of a Bengali movement demanding greater autonomy for the much-exploited eastern sector of the divided nation. The resulting flood of impoverished East Pakistani refugees has placed an intolerable strain on India's already overburdened economy. New Delhi has insisted from the first that the refugees, who now number well over 9,000,000 by official estimates, must be allowed to return safely to their homes in East Pakistan...
Before that is possible, however, a political solution must be found that would end the Pakistani army's reign of terror, wanton destruction and pogroms aimed particularly at the 10 million members of the Hindu minority in predominantly Moslem East Pakistan (pop. 78 million at the start of the civil...
...five months pregnant. The army is reported to have enlisted Bengali gynecologists to abort girls held at military installations. But for those at the Dacca cantonment it is too late for abortion. The military has begun freeing the girls a few at a time, still carrying the babies of Pakistani soldiers...
...Pakistan consolidated its control, East Pakistan increasingly approximated a colony of the West, supplying raw materials to Western industry and serving as a market for the finished products. Political domination of the East by the Western elite continued in step with economic colonization, as the vast majority of the Pakistani civil service, army and other political positions were filled by West Pakistanis. East Pakistani demands for automony inevitably became more shrill, until General Yahya unleashed his army last March 25 to crush the nascent independence movement...
...elitist route to development functioned along with other dynamics (notably, US military aid) to create a monster--a powerful, centralized West Pakistani military dictatorship backed by a concentrated economic elite--a dictatorship that today commits genocide with impunity. Examining the GNP as an index of national welfare instead of examining the distribution of welfare, the employment of economic policies while ignoring their political consequences, and the insistence on developing through a capitalist elite instead of through socialist mass participation;--all were tragic mistakes made by development planners in Pakistan...