- Title: INDIA: CASUALTIES MOUNT AS FIERCE FIGHTING CONTINUES IN SOUTHERN KASHMIR
- Date: 13th December 1971
- Summary: 1. GV along road to Himalayas 0.10 2. GV Village below mountains 0.14 3. LV Indian troops digging fox-holes 0.18 4. GV Villages and surrounding countryside 92 shots 0.24 5. SV Indian soldiers outside hospital 0.27 6. LV Pakistani Colonel wheeled out of ward 0.37 7. CU Pakistani Colonel 1.07 8. SV Journalists and crowd around Colonel's bed 1.17 9. CU Indian Major with wound on face. 1.42 TRANSCRIPT: (SEQ. 1): BARRON: "This is the third time India and Pakistan have fought over these disputed valleys. This could be a long drawn-out conflict. The terrain is a friend of no-one and at night it's bitterly cold. If the war does stretch into months, the Indians should gain the most -- they've got their own arms industry. They're are self-sufficient for many weapons. The Pakistanis aren't. Each side makes extravagant claims about enemy losses. Certainly, there are hundreds of dead and wounded. One of the Indians' big catches was a Pakistani colonel." (SEQ. 7): BARRON: "What's the object of the Pakistani attack which you took part in?" COLONEL:" Well, I'm a soldier... shouldn't be asked this question. But, in case you're asked it, I would say, only reason can be that if you want to ward off one evil you have to enter into another one. So-called Bangla Desh issue had to be settled. So if you go for my throat, I'll go for your arm or leg or something like that." BARRON: "But in this case war enmity doesn't die on the battle field. In the same field hospital, an Indian major." (SEQ. 9): BARRON: "Major, do you hate Pakistani soldiers?" MAJOR: "No, I don't hate. As a soldier I love all soldiers. I like a good fight. I don't hate Pakistanis." BARRON: "The same thing now has happened as occurred in the. 1965 war." MAJOR: "The same thing has accursed what happened in 1965. Al least, you know how well we're treating their prisoners. The only thing is they got our prisoners, our unarmed chaps, lined them up and shot them, which is unlike a soldier... I did not expect that from the Pakistanis." Initials ES. 1412 ES. 1431 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: CHAMB, KASHMIR, INDIA
- Country: India
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