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Bangladesh situation biggest challenge for India since 1947: Indira Gandhi
Senator Edward Kennedy, chairman of refugee affairs subcommittee, meets Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and Foreign Minister Swaran Singh in New Delhi over Bangladesh refugee affairs.
Pakistan former foreign minister Hamidul Haque says in London, “Those who dream for independent Bangladesh are mistaken like Mir Jafar.”
Protesting the statement of UN secretary general U'Thant, Pakistan government said, “Sheikh Mujib is the enemy of the country and nation. His trial is totally internal matter of Pakistan. UN has crossed the limit interfering the trial of Sheikh Mujib.”
Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi says, “The critical situation in Bangladesh is the greatest challenge to India after its Independence. The economy of India at stake under the pressure of huge number of refugees”
August 15-16, 1971 Amrita Bazar Patrika (Summary)
Edward Kennedy denounces trial of Sheikh Mujib
Senator Edward Kennedy denounced the secret trial of the Sheikh by the Pakistan military regime. “I think the only crime Mujib has committed was winning an election. The trial was a travesty of the fundamentals of international law.”
August 17, 1971 The Hindustan Times (summary)
Pakistan: Mujib's secret trial
“'Our people will react violently to this,' a member of the Bengali liberation underground whispered to TIME correspondent David Greenway in Dacca last week. The warning proved all too true. Sheik Mujibur ('Mujib') Rahman, 51, fiery leader of East Pakistan and the man who may hold the key to ending the bloody five-month-old civil war, had just gone on trial for his life before a military court in West Pakistan, more than 1,500 miles away. Late that same afternoon, a bomb exploded in the lobby of Dacca's Intercontinental Hotel.”
August 23, 1971 Time (Summary)