“Here, in the dead region surrounding Dacca, the military authorities constructed experiments in mass extermination in places unlikely to be seen by journalists. At Hariharpara, a once thriving village on the banks of Buriganga River near Dacca, they found the three elements necessary for killing people in large number: a prison in which to hold the victims, a place for executing the prisoners, and a method of disposing of the bodies. The Prison was a large riverside warehouse, or godown, belonging to the Pakistan National Oil Company, the place of execution was the river edge, or the shallows near the shore, and the bodies were disposed of by the simple means of permitting them to float downstream. The killing took place night after night. Usually, the prisoners were roped together and made to wade into the river… The executioners stood on the pier, shooting down at the compact bunches of prisoners wading in the water… In the morning the village boatmen hauled the bodies into midstream and the ropes binding the bodies were cut so that each body drifted separately downstream. Although the Hariharpara extermination camp was primitive and unsophisticated, it was efficient, orderly and clean.” (Robert Payne, The Tragedy at Bangladesh, and the phenomenon of mass slaughter, Macmillan, New York, quoted by Dr. Sachi G. Dastidar, Empire’s Last Casualty, Firma K. L. Private Ltd, Kolkata. 2008).