tL wehing, e Hh ession me However 2 proces eof tives wer foot and he property iy "ih ad violent in Dacea, 4° : Sapreadl outwards fro, Hit, turned violent ia Pa Ty days the HOt 9p toby Hon blag 0 fire. Over th id towards Dhaka Sood Wiel yeg le districts al ; uh, er into India, 1 rains ALON TOOL Ag ag, le topped by mobs, some OF Which were) ‘Ma pul t : the neighbouring towns ane began to pour over the bord on the border the SRD zindabad’ (perhaps at that very inayat Wy chant the oe vere shouting ‘Cental Intelligence Audahad) yl Be crowds in Kash Moen made an the trains, The towns and cities yt serious eee in the grip of looting, Killing, and burning, ‘ Pa eine was rife with the rumourespec dally that familiar old ney, the forerunner of every serious riot that the trains from Pakistan wore yyy packed with corpses. A few Calcutta dailies printed pictures of weeping, Stray i Phinda refugees, along, with some accounts of the Brulaities of the wy Dacca. On 8 and 9 January, the angry people began to callect at the pity, stations and on 10 January Calcutta came under the eycle of rioting Mobs went rampaging through the cily, killing, Mushins, sid burnin and looting their shops and houses, ' The police opened fire on mobs in several placed and curfew wars inpased on some parts of the city. On I January the army was called out of Fort Willian, and several battalions were deployed throughout the city Stray incidents of arson and looting continued fora few days, in Dhaka iy well as Calcutta, despite the presence of the two armies, I took about a yeep before normalcy could be restored, There are no reliable estimates of how many people were killed in the rints of 1964. The number could stretch from several hundreds to several thousands, at any rate not very many less than were killed in the war of 1962 It is evident from the newspapers that once the tension started respomnible people in both India and Hast Pakistan reacted with an identical sense of phiock and indignation. The university communities of both Dhaka and Caleutts tool the initiative in doing relief work and organizing, peace marches and newspapers on both sides of the border did some fine, Humane pieces of eporting. As always, there were innumerable canes of Muslitns in Hawt Pakintan giving shelter often at the cost of their ¢ hi Hindus sheltering Musi awn lives, and equally, in India, of ting, Muslims, but they were ord rope, potter not for them any Martyr’ ydinary people, soon forgotten y Martyr's Memorials of Liternal Hamen,