Word: sten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youth with shaggy hair, hollow cheeks and a euphoric look lay slumped and panting on a rickety old couch. A poster on the wall proclaimed END BRITISH TERROR and showed a Union Jack dripping blood on a skull and crossbones. A small table was piled with ammo clips, a Sten gun and World War II carbines. Young men, few of them above high school age, kept passing through the room during the next hour. They received their instructions, hid pistols under their belts at the small of their backs, and disappeared again through a backyard littered with hijacked cars...
...bloodiest was at Jamalpur north of Dacca, where the Pakistani battalion commander was sent a surrender offer by one of the three Indian battalions surrounding him. The Pakistani colonel replied with a note ("I suggest you come with a Sten gun instead of a pen over which you have such mastery") and enclosed a 7.62-mm. bullet. Apparently thinking the Indians were bluffing and that he was confronted by only a company or so, the Pakistani colonel attacked that night, with five waves of about 100 men each charging head-on at a dug-in Indian battalion. The Indians claimed...