En octobre 1997, R. J. Rummel a publié un livre, disponible sur le Web, intitulé Statistics of Democide : Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900. Dans le chapitre 8, Statistics Of Pakistan 's Democide - Estimates, Calculations, And Sources, il déclare :
En 1997, R. J. Rummel a écrit un livre intitulé Statistics of Democide : Genocide and Mass Murder Since 1900, In Chapter 8 called Statistics Of Pakistan 's Democide - Estimates, Calculations, And Sources he says : In East Pakistan -LRB- now Bangladesh -RRB- -LRB- General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan and his top generals -RRB- also planned to murder its Bengali intellectual, cultural, and political elite.