Our Government goes to great pains to warn us of a fearsome bloodbath that will befall the people of South Vietnam if the regime there is left to fight on alone. yet one of the worst manmade bloodbaths of our time is taking place in East Bengal. administered by the Pakistan Army. The martial law ruler. General Tikka Khan. has been quoted recently as saying: We will reduce you (the Bengalis) to a minority. This supports the widespread conviction among the foreign community in Dacca that the huge exodus of refugees to India stems not from panic and false propaganda. as military spokesmen claim. Rather it stems from the fact that Pakistan army soldiers have shot and continue to shoot Muslim intellectuals and professionals plus much of the Hindu community as an expression of their fury
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