Category: The Black Star Collection
Photographer: SINGH, Harmit
Event Date: 1971
Medium: gelatin silver print
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: BS.2005.063574

Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscriptions]; Verso, handwritten in blue ink: Aftermath of India – Pakestain War; adhered typed label:5. Piled into the hold of a cargo vessel, West Pakistani soldiers embark / form Chittagong for the 36-hour passage across the Bay of Bengal and up / the Hooghly River to Calcutta. Four thousand of the 93,000 prisoners taken / by the Indian army in what is now Bangladesh – and blamed for innumerable / atrocities – they may be safer in India. But until there is a political / settlemant [sic] between the two governments, they will remain locked up in mil- / itary prison camps.; stamped in black ink: HARMIT SINGH / BLACK STAR; handwritten in pencil: 4 [line] 28

Credit Line: The Image Centre, Black Star Collection.
Black Star Subject: BANGLADESH / INDIAN-PAKISTAN WAR 1971
Retouching: N