Marilyn Silverstone - BANGLADESH. Refugees.

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - Refugees walking in the rain from the border to Bagda (24 Pargans district, Bangoan sub division). They had been walking for 4 days from Faridpur. - Marilyn Silverstone

Refugees walking in the rain from the border to Bagda (24 Pargans district, Bangoan sub division). They had been walking for 4 days from Faridpur.

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - The dead body of a 9 day old baby, injured by a bullet in the head. His mother had been shot the day before, while crossing the border from Comilla. His grandfather carried him the rest of the way. He survived only one day. - Marilyn Silverstone

The dead body of a 9 day old baby, injured by a bullet in the head. His mother had been shot the day before, while crossing the border from Comilla. His grandfa

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - Refugees walking through the fields from the border to Bagda (24 Pargans district, Bangoan sub division). They had been walking for 4 days from Faridpur. - Marilyn Silverstone

Refugees walking through the fields from the border to Bagda (24 Pargans district, Bangoan sub division). They had been walking for 4 days from Faridpur.

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - The 'Bagchara Camp, 24 Parganas District, Bengean Sub Division. On the roadside a group of 100 refugees had just arrived from Khulna District after having walked for 2 weeks.Some had come as far as 200 miles from the border,they arrive in continuous flows. - Marilyn Silverstone

The 'Bagchara Camp, 24 Parganas District, Bengean Sub Division. On the roadside a group of 100 refugees had just arrived from Khulna District after having walke

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - Chandranathpur camp, 15 miles from Silchar. The first milk powder was received on the 18th July 1971, chaos as it is distributed. The camp had been opened in mid June to clear refugees from schools etc, where the first arrivals had beed lodged. So far 13.000 are in this camp mostly from Sylhet district. Central Government had budgeted 1/10 fands a day for feeding each refugee, supposed to get 400 grams of rice, 50 grams of pulses etc. - Marilyn Silverstone

Chandranathpur camp, 15 miles from Silchar. The first milk powder was received on the 18th July 1971, chaos as it is distributed. The camp had been opened in mi...

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - Refugees walking through muddy fields from the border to Bagda (Parganas District, Banaen sub Division). They had been walking for 4 days from Paridpur. 70 persons a minute, 40.000 people a day passed by this point. - Marilyn Silverstone

Refugees walking through muddy fields from the border to Bagda (Parganas District, Banaen sub Division). They had been walking for 4 days from Paridpur. 70 pers

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - BANGLADESH. Refugees in mud and rain coming across fields from the border to Bagda (24 Pargans district, Bangoan subdivision)who had been walking 4 days from Faridpur. Others from Jessore, from Barisal (8 days) 200 miles away. A volume of 70 persons per minute - 40.000 a day from this point only. Local administration swamped by this inflix and the density of the population is now 5.000 per square miles. 1971. - Marilyn Silverstone

BANGLADESH. Refugees in mud and rain coming across fields from the border to Bagda (24 Pargans district, Bangoan subdivision)who had been walking 4 days from Fa...

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - Refugees walking through muddy fields from the border to Bagda (24 Pargans district, Bangoan sub division). They had been walking for 4 days from Faridpur. - Marilyn Silverstone

Refugees walking through muddy fields from the border to Bagda (24 Pargans district, Bangoan sub division). They had been walking for 4 days from Faridpur.

Helancha Refugee Camp. Halima Khatoon holding a shrivelled baby.

Child refugee Helancha Champ, Halina Khatoon, carrying a shrivelled baby.

Refugees going from the Begra border to Bengaon (from Barisal) are given food.

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - The transit camp at Agartala airport. Refugees lined up for cooked food (if kept in transit camp more than 6 hours, they are given cooked food). Food supplies is hard to reach Tripura, which has now 1.1 million refugees versus the normal population of 1.5 million. The US airlift brought in 200 tons a day towards the daily need of 600 tons a day was stopped on the 18th July 1971, subtituted by an Indian airforce lift with a capacity of only 10 tons a day. - Marilyn Silverstone

The transit camp at Agartala airport. Refugees lined up for cooked food (if kept in transit camp more than 6 hours, they are given cooked food). Food supplies i...

BANGLADESH. Refugees. - The dead body of a 9 day old baby. His mother was shot while crossing the border from Comilla. His grandfather carried him to the rest of the way. - Marilyn Silverstone

The dead body of a 9 day old baby. His mother was shot while crossing the border from Comilla. His grandfather carried him to the rest of the way.

INDIA. Bangla refugees in West Bengal, near Siliguri. 1971.

BANGLADESH. Bangla refugees. 1971.

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