But that initial victory. rather than sealing the triumph. was but a prolog to tragedy. President Yahya Khan reacted in rage and canceled the scheduled meeting of the new Assembly. Far more grievously. he launched a deliberate policy of suppression and brutality seldomif eversurpassed in the annals of history. For month after sickening month. the world watched in shock as pillage. rape and murder swept over the territory of East Pakistan. No horror was too brutal to commit. no inhumanity too vile. Nine million refugees sought survival in India. But hundreds of thousands of others were denied even that. They fell dead before the policy of genocide approved by the authorities of the West.
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