EAST PAKISTAN: BANGLA DESH FORCES START RAILWAY SERVICES IN CHUADANGA - DARSANA AREA.

Record ID: 565998

  • Title: EAST PAKISTAN: BANGLA DESH FORCES START RAILWAY SERVICES IN CHUADANGA - DARSANA AREA.
  • Date: 12th April 1971
  • Summary: 1. GV Train arriving at Jede station with crowded platform 0.16 2. SV People leaving train & shouting slogans 0.24 3. GV Crowded platform with people shouting slogans 0.38 4. GV Red Cross supplies being handed out (4 shots) 1.07 5. GV PAN from Awami League flags to crowd in street at Chaudanga 1.20 6. SV Troops walking in street with rifles 1.28 7. LV Soldiers with man being arrested 1.32 8. CU Landrover flying flag through street 1.37 9. CU Bullet holes in jeep 1.40 10. LV Loudspeaker with voice of Sheikh Mujib speaking 1.53 11. SV Crowd cheering radio message 2.00 Initials VS/18.13 SGM/2121 Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 27th April 1971 13:00
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  • Location: JAINAGAR, DARSANA, CHUADANGA
  • Country: Pakistan
  • Reuters ID: LVAD8WZQ6TQS50D3A97P9AXFJ02
  • Story Text: Bangla Desh supporters are slowly putting their occupied areas into some form of order. They have resumed railway services in the Chuadanga - Darsana area - the first services to operate since the trouble started in East pakistan. So far, no railways are functioning in areas controlled by the Pakistan Government forces.

    In the town of Chuadanga, provisional capital of Bangla Desh, people gathered on Sunday (11 April) to hear the voice of sheikh Mujib broadcasting over clandestine Radio Bangla Desh. The broadcast urged the people not to give up the fight for freedom and to keep together for the cause.

    Chuadanga was otherwise quiet. Men of the East Pakistan Rifles, now part of the Liberation Forces, walked through the streets armed with rifles.
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