A Bengali-language write-up of Jerome D'Costa, excerpted from the book 'Muktijuddhe Amra: Christander Obodan' (We in the Liberation War: Contributions of Christians). This write-up portrays how Christians provided shelter and refuge in their church and school compounds and even own houses to thousands of Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist and Christians displaced by atrocities and whole-sale arson by West Pakistani soldiers and their local collaborators. The wounded were medically treated in Christian mission dispensaries and clinics. Several hundred Christian youths, both Roman Catholic and Protestant, also participated in the war as freedom fighters. Several dozen foreign missionaries, both Catholic and Protestant, disgusted by the atrocities and injustices of the soldiers, sided with the legitimate struggle of the East Pakistanis (later called Bangladeshis). Some Catholic missionaries were brutally killed, too, for helping out the fleeing and hounded population.
