"In the New York Times, Schanberg reported, "The Pakistani Army has painted big yellow 'H's' on the Hindu shops still standing in this town." Emphasizing the targeting of Hindus, he described "the hate and terror and fear" throughout the "conquered province." Back in Dacca at last, Schanberg found the city "half-deserted," with fresh loads of troops arriving daily from West Pakistan at the airport. Terrified merchants had taken down signs in the Bengali language and put up new ones in English, because they did not know Urdu. He wrote that foreign diplomats estimated that the army had killed at least two hundred thousand Bengalis."
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Sydney H. Schanberg "Hindus Are Targets of Army Terror in an East Pakistan Town", The New York Times (4 July 1971). Sydney H. Schanberg "West Pakistan Pursues Subjugation of Bengalis", The New York Times (14 July 1971), quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014) The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.
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