Hamoodur Rahman Commission - Supplementary Report

Supplementary Report

The inquiry was reopened in 1974 offering an opportunity to the prisoners of war who had been freed by India by then and others repatriated from East Pakistan to furnish such information as might be within their knowledge and relevant to the purposes of the Commission. Commission held an informal meeting at Lahore on the 3rd of June, 1974 to consider various preliminary matters and then decided to resume proceedings at Abbottabad from the 16th July, 1974. After the investigation resumed in 1974 the commission talked with 73 more bureaucrats and high-ranked military personnel. The commission examined nearly 300 witnesses in total, hundreds of classified documents and army signals between East and West Pakistan. The final report, also called supplementary report, was submitted on October 23, 1974, showed how political, administrative, military and moral failings were responsible for the surrender of Pakistani forces in East Pakistan. It remained classified and it contents were guessed from the revealing of different military officers. The report was organized into Five Chapters and an annexure.

1. Chapter One - The Moral Aspect
2. Chapter Two - Alleged atrocities by the Pakistan Army
3. Chapter Three - Professional Responsibilities of Certain Senior Army Commanders
4. Chapter Four - Conclusions
5. Chapter Five - Recommendations