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FM AMCONSUL DAcC A
TO SECSTATE WASHDC PRIORITY 300 4
AMEMBASSY ISLAMABA D
INFO AMEMBASSY BANGKOK PRIORIT Y
AMCONSUL KARAC HI
AMCONSUL LAH ORE
AMEMBASST NEW DELH I
AMCONSUL CALCUTTA

SUBJ : PAK MIL I TARY OR CRACKDOWN: LISTING OF MILITARY VERSU S

CIVILIAN INCIDE NTS
REF : A DACC A95
2(NOTAL) B. ISLAMABAD 279

1. I TEM : AMERICAN PRIESTS (PROTECT) IN OLD DACCA REPORT ARM Y

ACTED WITH NO PROVOCATION ON PART OF BENGALS EXCEPT BARRICAD E
ERECTION . ARMY EXCLUSIVELY RESPONSABLE FOR ALL FIRES . TEC H-
NIGIUE WAS TO HOUSES AFIRE AND THEN GUN DOWN PEOPLE AS
THEY LEFT THEIR HOMES . UNWILLING ESTIMATE NUMBER OF CASUALTIE S
BUT ADVISED THAT MUST BE VERY HIGH . BELIEVE HINDUS PARTIULA R
FOCUS OF CAMPAIGN, ALTHOUGH AREAS INCLUDING NON-HINDUS ALSO

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June 9, 2005


BORNED OUT STATED ARMY LOOKIN GAWMILEURSBTALY

MORE I NDI SCR IMATE THAN SELECTIVE IN APPROACH. MO ST ARM Y
DESTRUCTION
: NIGHTS OF MARCH 25 AND 26
LESSER ON MARCH 27 AND 28. ALSO REP ORTED WHAT TERMED RELABL E
ACCOUNT
. FAMILY 0F ELEVEN ALL KILLED NITE OF25TH

2 . ITEM: RECURRENT REPORTS MANY UNIVIERSITY PROFESSOR S

KI LLED. A LTHOUGH CI R CUMSTANCES VAGUE . M ANY SAY ATTEMPT UNDERWA Y
WIPE OUT ALL SOURCE POTENTIAL INTELLECTUAL FERMENT . . BRITIS H
SAY SIX CONFIRMED DEAD, INCLUDING TWO DEANS AND EX-GOVERNO R
DR . M.N. HUDA, ECON DEPT . HEAD . IN DIANSCLMTE
SIX DEAD ( FIVE N A MES SAME AS BRITIS H LIST, WITH ADDITI ONF
DR . D . C . DEV OF PHILOSPHY DEPARTMENT, WHO RECENTLY RETURNE D
.FROM US VISIT AND WHO ACCORDING NUMEROUS REPORTS IS DEA D
WELL- C ONNECTED BENGALI PREVIOUSLY NOTED FOR PREVIOUS RELIABILIT Y
PROVIDED NAMES OF FIVE PROFESSORS REPORTEDLY KILLED . WHE N
TALLIED,
: TOTAL OF THOSE RELIABLY REPORTED DEAD IS TEN : (COMMEN T
UNSUBSTANTIATED WHETHER KILLED IN C ROSS-F IRE WHEN STUDEN T
HALLS A TTACKED O R WHETHER SELECTIVELY SHOT . ALSO STILL UNCLEA R
WHETHER ALL S HOT AT TIME WHEN ARMY OCCUPIED CAMPUS OR WHETHE R
SOME KILLED SUBSEQUENTLY) .

3. ITEM : SAME BENGALI CITED ABOVE OPINED VIOLENCE RANDOM I N

. AS EVIDENCE,
NATUR E CLAIMED HE WAS EYE-WITNESS TO ONE FAMILY WITH
NO GOVERNMENT OR AWAMI LEAGUE CONNECTIONS BIENG WIPED OUT B Y
ARMY. CLAlMED HOUSE OF THREE OR FOUR SE N I OR CI VIL SERVANT S
ENTERED
. BY ARMY AND INHABITANTS KILLE D

4. ITEM:WEHAVERCEIVDWIESPREAD N,WEBLIEV RELIAB E

REPORTS OF TROOPS ENGAGED IN LOOTING HOMES (BEATING THOSE WH O
OBJE C T, INCLUDIN G MIDDLE LEVEL GOVERNMENT OFFICIAL S)
AND SHAKING
. DOWN REFUGE S

5. ITEM: MILITARY REPORTEDLY IS STANDING BY WHILE NON-BENGALI S

. BENGALI DWELLINGS . THEREBY ABETTING CRIMINAL TENSIO NS
LOOT
BENGALI- NON-BENGALI TENSIONS VERY HIGH (CONGEN OFFICERS THI S
MORNING
BY (MARCH 29) WITNESSED BUTCHERING OF ONE CIVILIA N
ANO TH ER IN AREA OF BENGALI-NON-BENGALI D ISCORD, ALTHOUG H
INCIDENT POSSIBLY OF OTHER ORIGIN). BENGALIS REPOR TEDLY
. BIDING TIME TO RETALIAT E

6. ITEM: BENGALI INTELLECTUALS IN SCARED BUT SURPRISINGL Y

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E.O. 12958, as amended
June 9, 2005
SOBE R MOOD TOLD CONGEN OFFICER OF WITNESSING UNPROVOKED ARM Y
FIRING ON NEIGHBORING SHANTY-TOWN . REASON THEY ASCERTAINE D
WAS
. 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 D
IN MOHAMMEPUR (DACCA SUBUR B
AND ELSEWHERE BECAUSE ARM Y
CONSIDERED THEM POTENTIAL THREAT. HEARSAY HAS IT 1800 POLIC E
KILLED IN SURPRISE ATTACKS, THEY N0TED-POSSIBL Y
MORE RELIABLE, ALTHOUGH ESTIMATES STILL SUBJECT TO QUESTIO N,
THEY COMMENTED, WAS REPORT FROM SURVIVOR OF ARMY ATTACK O N
EAST PAK RIFLES (EPR) CAMP AT PEELKHANA. OF APPROXIMATEL Y
THOUSAND 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 G
SPECIAL
. TARGETS AND BEING SHOT ON SITE WHENEVER FOUN D

7 ITEM : USAID PUBLIC SAFETY CHIEF REPORTS POLICE APPARENTL Y

N O LONGER EFFECTIVE AS FORCE, WITH COMMUNICATION FACILITIE S
GONE AND RAZARBAGH POLIICE LINES RAZED . SPECIAL BRANCH BUILDIN G
PRACTICALLY 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 O
EXPLANATION 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 ( ALTHOUG H 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 D
MAINTENANCE OF MARTIAL LAW AUTHORITY GP- 3
BLOOD

DECLASSIFIED
PA/HO, Department of State
E.O. 12958, as amended
June 9, 2005