Eyewitness accounts

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Pakistan: Vultures and Wild Dogs (Newsweek; April 26, 1971)

Personal account of victims of torture:

Protiti Devi
Ferdousi Priyobhashinee
Syed Abul Barq Alvi
Masud Sadique Chullu
Linu Billah
Naser Bukhtear Ahmed
Lt. Col. Masoudul Hossain Khan (Retd.)

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Books:

  • The Guerilla: A Personal Memorandum of 1971 by Shahzaman Mozumder, Bir Protik 
  • Prottakhho Drashir Chokhe Muktijouddho (Eye Witness Reports of the War of Liberation) -Edited by Haroon Habib and published by Abdul Kadir Khan, Nawroaze Kitabistan
  • The Betrayal of East Pakistan -Lt. Gen. A. A. K. Niazi (Excerpts)
  • Witness To Surrender – Siddiq Salik (Excerpts)
  • Massacre – Robert Payne (Excerpts)
  • Eyewitness and Participant Accounts of Bangladesh War of Liberation in Kasba -Muyeedul Hasan, Sukumar Biswas and Nurul Islam (Dhaka, University Press, 1999)
  • Eyewitness and Participant Accounts of Bangladesh War of Liberation in Barisal -Muyeedul Hasan, Sukumar Biswas and Nurul Islam (Dhaka, Mowla Brothers, 2003)
  • Eyewitness and Participant Accounts of Bangladesh War of Liberation in Khulna and Chuadanga -Sukumar Biswas (Dhaka, Mowla Brothers, 2005)
  • Eyewitness and Participant Accounts of Bangladesh War of Liberation in Rajshahi -Sukumar Biswas (Dhaka, Mowla Brothers, 2006)
  • Narir 71 O Juddha Porobarti Kathya Kahini- Ain o Salish Kendra (Ask) 2001 : Oral history of 19 women’s experiences of violence during Bangladesh’s war of liberation in 1971. They narrate their memories of the violence of rape, widowhood, and dislocation.
  • smrity-o-khata.gifSmriti o Kotha-1971 – Ain o Salish Kendra (Ask) 1999: This memoir by Anjali Lahiri narrates her experiences of working in the refugee camps along the Meghalaya-Sylhet border.

Articles:

When one of the photographs was published in the Washington Post, the Pak intelligence went mad. The photograph damaged the occupying force’s claim of “normalcy” as it exposed the general atmosphere of terror that prevailed everywhere. The international community was already outraged by the news of genocide.

Pakistani Views:

Indian Views:

2 thoughts on “Eyewitness accounts

  1. Anonymous

    Most of your reference links are broken. Also, “Eyewitness account: Inhuman torture of Bengali women in Pakistani camp” — what’s up with this link? Does this seem like a joke to you people?

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