Rawalpindi. Aug 5. — The Pakistan Government today published its version of the events earlier this year that led to virtual civil war. It laid the blame entirely on the Bengali secessionists.

A White Paper issued in Rawalpindi asserted that:
The nationalist Awami League in East Pakistan killed 100,000 men, women and children from March 1 until the Pakistan Army restored control.

The Awami League put together a detailed plan for an armed uprising, fixed for March 26.

The League acted in collusion with India, which promised arms and troops to help the rebels.

The White Paper, running to 55 pages with 70 pages of appendices, dealt with political events in the country since the general election last December resulted in an overwhelming victory in East Pakistan for the Awami League.

It said that the Awami league in collusion with India, had prepared “an operational plan in meticulous detail”, which provided that East Bengal Regiment troops would occupy Dacca and Chittagong to prevent a landing by the Pakistan Army by air or sea.

Troops, helped by the East Pakistan Rifles, police and armed volunteers, would eliminate the armed forces at various bases and occupy all important border posts to keep open the border for aid from India.

Indian troops would come to the assistance of the Awami League rebel force after the first phase. Zero hour for the action was fixed for the early morning of March 26, but a few hours earlier the Pakistan Army “foiled a secessionist bid to break up the country”.

The White Paper alleged massacres and brutalities “which assumed the character of political genocide” by Awami League cadres and the East Bengal Regiment and East Pakistan Rifles. “Unmentionable brutalities were committed with the active assistance of Indian armed infiltrators”, it said.

Appendices to the White Paper showed Chittagong as one of the areas most severely hit, with a five-day occupation by rebels allegedly resulting in some 10,000 to 12,000 killed, including women and children. Some 4,000 more were killed in the area outside Chittagong, the White Paper said.

In some districts, it said, entire colonies of refugees from the Indian state of Bihar were massacred. with about 20,000 victims in the district of Bogra and 8,000 in Khulna.

These figures included a number of non-Bengali armed forces, officers and men and their families killed, the White Paper said. Often people were buried to the waist and killed with bamboo sticks.

The White Paper said that the Awami League fought the election on the basis of its six-point programme. with provincial autonomy the principal issue. But after the election it advocated a bid for secession through organized terror and Indian collusion.

India, in fact, had been in collusion with the Awami League since 1964. when a plan was allegedly made and a revolution army organization set up. In 1967 Shaikh Mujibur Rahman and others involved were arrested, but later released.

India assured the Awami League rebels that it would block air and sea routes for the Pakistan Army, and a ban on Pakistan aircraft overflying India since last January was part of this conspiracy, the White Paper said.—AP.

Peter Hazelhurst writes from Delhi: The Indian economy felt the first real impact of the seven million Bengali refugees today, when the Government asked Parliament for a supplementary budget grant of £110m to feed and accommodate the millions of displaced persons. Some £83m would come direct from the Indian Exchequer, the rest from foreign aid.

This is the second time that the Government has had to ask parliament for additional funds to meet the cost of the refugees and economists fear that the economy will be seriously impeded by further requests for relief funds.

In all, £140m has been allocated for refugee relief funds. This includes the £40m of external aid which has been received by the Indian Government so far. It means that the deficit of the central budget will rise to £214m this year.