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but also mobilizing material support from governments and private sources. Effective co-ordination at headquarters level was assured by a group the High Commissioner set up entitled "Standing Inter-Agency Consultation Unit" (SICU) which met 24 times in 1971 to discuss practical problems and to make decisions. At field level, UNHCR staff, led by the Director of Operations, worked closely with the representatives of UNDP, WFP, UNICEF and WHO as well as with government ministries drawn together in a Central Co-ordinating Committee (CCC) established by the Government.

12. Against a background of political tensions and threats. (some of which materialized) of malnutrition, epidemics, floods and cold weather, the massive relief programme succeeded in meeting the most rudimentary needs of people for food and water, medicaments, shelter and clothing. Contributions in cash and kind channelled through UNHCR amounted to $ 184 million, while bilateral aid from governmental and non-govern- mental sources further contributed some $ 106 million towards the total cost of dealing with the emergency estimated by the Government of India

India at $ 442 million. Some of the funds and goods donated were subsequently used to help resettle the returnees in Bangladesh through the United Nations Relief Operation Dacca (UNROD).

13. Immediately after the end of hostilities and the proclama- tion of the new State of Bangladesh, the first officially-assis- ted return movement of refugees began, UNHCR as the focal point agency providing means of transportation for large numbers while others returned home on foot. By 25 March, all the refugees in central and state camps had repatriated. Later on, following the signature in New Delhi, in August 1973, of an agreement between India and Pakistan normalizing relations on the sub-continent, Bengalis stranded in Pakistan and non- Bengalis stranded in Bangladesh were

Bangladesh were able to move back home. In the biggest airlift of its kind undertaken, UNHCR mounted an operation to transfer to their homes some 250 000 people for whom clearance had been given by the respective Governments.

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14. In April 1972, an insurrection mounted simultaneously in the capital, Bujumbura and in the south of the country triggered off nation-wide bloodshed between Hutu people and the Tutsi military government. The insurgents (mainly Hutu), armed with machettes, had killed numbers of people before the army took control. Months of severe repression followed in which a reported 100 000 educated Hutus down to lower secondary school level were sought out for arrest and frequently executed. Some moderate Tutsis are reported to have been executed at the same time.

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