MAR 7 1FM AMCONSUL DAcC ATO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 300 4AMEMBASSY ISLAMABA D

INFO AMEMBASSY BANGKOK PRIORIT YAMCONSUL KARAC HIAMCONSUL LAH OREAMEMBASST NEW DELH IAMCONSUL CALCUTTA

SUBJ: PAK MIL I TARY OR CRACKDOWN: LISTING OF MILITARY VERSU SCIVILIAN INCIDE NTS

REF: A DACC A 959B. ISLAMABAD 2792 (NOTAL)

1. ITEM: AMERICAN PRIESTS (PROTECT) IN OLD DACCA REPORT ARM YACTED WITH NO PROVOCATION ON PART OF BENGALS EXCEPT BARRICAD EERECTION. ARMY EXCLUSIVELY RESPONSABLE FOR ALL FIRES . TEC H-NIGIUE WAS TO HOUSES AFIRE AND THEN GUN DOWN PEOPLE ASTHEY LEFT THEIR HOMES . UNWILLING ESTIMATE NUMBER OF CASUALTIE SBUT ADVISED THAT MUST BE VERY HIGH. BELIEVE HINDUS PARTIULA RFOCUS OF CAMPAIGN, ALTHOUGH AREAS INCLUDING NON-HINDUS ALSO

BORNED OUT STATED ARMY LOOKIN G AWAMI LEAGUERS BUT REALLYMORE I NDI SCR IMATE THAN SELECTIVE IN APPROACH. MO ST ARM YDESTRUCTION NIGHTS OF MARCH 25 AND 26:LESSER ON MARCH 27 AND 28. ALSO REPORTED WHAT TERMED RELABL EACCOUNT FAMILY 0F ELEVEN ALL KILLED NITEOF 25TH.

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ITEM: RECURRENT REPORTS MANY UNIVIERSITY PROFESSOR S

KI LLED. A LTHOUGH CI R CUMSTANCES VAGUE. MANY SAY ATTEMPT UNDERWA YWIPE OUT ALL SOURCE POTENTIAL INTELLECTUAL FERMENT . . BRITIS HSAY SIX CONFIRMED DEAD, INCLUDING TWO DEANS AND EX-GOVERNO R

DR. M.N. HUDA, ECON DEPT. HEAD. IN DIANS CLAIM AT LEASTSIX DEAD ( FIVE N A MES SAME AS BRITIS H LIST, WITH ADDITI ON OF

DR. D. C. DEV OF PHILOSPHY DEPARTMENT, WHO RECENTLY RETURNE DFROM US VISIT AND WHO ACCORDING NUMEROUS REPORTS IS DEA D.

WELL- CONNECTED BENGALI PREVIOUSLY NOTED FOR PREVIOUS RELIABILIT YPROVIDED NAMES OF FIVE PROFESSORS REPORTEDLY KILLED . WHE NTALLIED, TOTAL OF THOSE RELIABLY REPORTED DEAD IS TEN : (COMMEN T:UNSUBSTANTIATED WHETHER KILLED IN C ROSS-F IRE WHEN STUDEN THALLS A TTACKED O R WHETHER SELECTIVELY SHOT . ALSO STILL UNCLEA RWHETHER ALL S HOT AT TIME WHEN ARMY OCCUPIED CAMPUS OR WHETHE RSOME KILLED SUBSEQUENTLY).

3. ITEM: SAME BENGALI CITED ABOVE OPINED VIOLENCE RANDOM I NNATUR E. AS EVIDENCE, CLAIMED HE WAS EYE-WITNESS TO ONE FAMILY WITH

NO GOVERNMENT OR AWAMI LEAGUE CONNECTIONS BIENG WIPED OUT B YARMY. CLAlMED HOUSE OF THREE OR FOUR SE N I OR CI VIL SERVANT SENTERED BY ARMY AND INHABITANTS KILLE D.

4. ITEM :WE HAVE RECEIVED WIDESPREAD AND, WE BELIEVE RELIABL EREPORTS OF TROOPS ENGAGED IN LOOTING HOMES (BEATING THOSE WH OOBJE C T, INCLUDIN G MIDDLE LEVEL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL S)AND SHAKING DOWN REFUGE S.

5. ITEM: MILITARY REPORTEDLY IS STANDING BY WHILE NON-BENGALI SLOOT BENGALI DWELLINGS. THEREBY ABETTING CRIMINAL TENSIO NS.BENGALI- NON-BENGALI TENSIONS VERY HIGH (CONGEN OFFICERS THI SMORNING (MARCH 29) WITNESSED BUTCHERING OF ONE CIVILIA NBYANO TH ER IN AREA OF BENGALI-NON-BENGALI D ISCORD, ALTHOUG HINCIDENT POSSIBLY OF OTHER ORIGIN). BENGALIS REPOR TEDLY

BIDING TIME TO RETALIAT E.

6. ITEM: BENGALI INTELLECTUALS I N SCARED BUT SURPRISINGL Y

SOBE R MOOD TOLD CONGEN OFFICER OF WITNESSING UNPROVOKED ARM YFIRING ON NEIGHBORING SHANTY-TOWN. REASON THEY ASCERTAINE DWAS THAT THESE PEOPLE WERE TYPE WHO BUILD BARRICADES, E TC.SIX BODIES SEEN. ALTHOUGH MUSLIM, THE Y CONTENDED ARMY GOI N G

AFTER HINDUS WITH VENGEANCE, CITING DESTRUCTIO N OF PREDOMIN A -TLY HINDU AREAS IN OLD DACCA. STATED POLICE SIMPLY EXECUTE DIN MOHAMMEPUR (DACCA SUBUR BAND ELSEWHERE BECAUSE ARM YCONSIDERED THEM POTENTIAL THREAT. HEARSAY HAS IT 1800 POLIC EKILLED IN SURPRISE ATTACKS, THEY N0TED-POSSIBL YMORE RELIABLE, ALTHOUGH ESTIMATES STILL SUBJECT TO QUESTIO N,THEY COMMENTED, WAS REPORT FROM SURVIVOR OF ARMY ATTACK O NEAST PAK RIFLES (EPR) CAMP AT PEELKHANA. OF APPROXIMATEL YTHOUSAND EPRS PRESENT AT TIME, 7 00 KILLED, 200 "OVERPOWERED", AN D

100 ESCAPED. THEY ALSO REPORTED HOUSE-TO-HOUSE SEARCHE S

UNDERWAY, WITH "FOUJI MEN" (EX- BENGALI SERVICEMEN) BEIN GSPECIAL TARGETS AND BEING SHOT ON SITE WHENEVER FOUN D.

7 ITEM: USAID PUBLIC SAFETY CHIEF REPORTS POLICE APPARENTL Y

NO LONGER EFFECTIVE AS FORCE, WITH COMMUNICATION FACILITIE S

GONE AND RAZARBAGH POLIICE LINES RAZED . SPECIAL BRANCH BUILDIN GPRACTICALLY DEMOLISHED AND APPEARS ABANDONED . SENIOR POLIC E

OFFICALS ON DUTY AT OFFICE AT EDEN BUILDING AWAITING ORDER S

FROM MLA. NON-COMMMITAL ABOUT SITUATION, BUT ONE IMPLORE D" PRAY FOR U S." NO POLICE SEEN ANYWHERE IN DACC A.

8. ITEM USAID PROVINCIAL DIRECTOR EYEWITNESS TO WHA T

APPEARED TO BE UNPROVOKED FIRING BY MlLITARY ON CHILDRE N

AND FlSHERMAN AFTERNOON MARC H 28. N O CURFEW IN EFFECT AND N OEXPLANATION FOR FIRING. APPROXKMATELY 20 TO 30 SHOTS FIRE D,

BUT SEEMINGLY NO ONE HI T. AFFAIR WITNESSE D BY MANY PERSON S,

MOSTL Y AMERICAN S.

9 . COMMENT: AS DETAILS OF HORROR STORIES OF VARYING RELIABILIT Y

FILTER IN IT APPEARS ARMY SEEKING (A ) TERRORIZE POPULATIO N

IN GENERAL AND THEREBY CRUSH WILL TO RESIST (ALTHOUGH RES I STANC E

IN DACCA ENDED SEVERAL DAYS AGO), AND (B) ELIMINATE ALL ELEMENT S

OF SOCIETY THAT POSE POTENTIAL THREAT TO CONSOLIDATION AN DMAINTENANCE OF MARTIAL LAW AUTHORITY GP-3

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