Terror & Brutality in East Pakistan

United States Congressional Record

In that letter, Dr. Rohde gives an eye witness account of the terror and killing by the West Pakistan Army upon the unarmed, civil population of the city of Dacca in East Bengal.

The chief targets were the university, the populous Old City where Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his Awami LEague were strongest, and the industrial areas on the outskirts of the city of 1.5 million.

They saw mass graves in which dead students were heaped together outside the halls where they had studied.

The above lines are just some excerts from the US Congressional Record's from May 11 1971. Read the whole article below.

United States Congressional Record May 11 1971.