Original: Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report, chapter 2, paragraph 33 The international media and reference books in English have also published figures which vary greatly from 200,000 to 3,000,000 for Bangladesh as a whole.
Simplified: "3 MILLION Slaughtered Sheik MUJIB Charges Greatest Massacre" The Portsmouth Herald, Monday, January 17, 1972, Portsmouth, New Hampshire Many media people outside the region also state numbers that do not always agree, varying from 5,000 to 35,000 people in Dhaka, and 200,000 to 3,000,000 for Bangladesh as a whole.