Ok, lets for a moment consider that the people who attended the conference were indeed scholars, lets see what you going to reply about this...
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In the center of Dacca, the main city of East Pakistan, the army set fire to 25 square blocks and then mowed down those trying to escape.<72> Thousands were massacred in Dacca in the first few days<73> and the killings spread throughout the countryside. Bengali guerrilla resistance led to further bloody reprisals. U.S. consular officials in Dacca reported privately to Washington that "selective genocide" was going on.<74> A World Bank mission reported in July that in every city it visited there were areas razed and in every district there were "villages which have simply ceased to exist."<75> Sober estimates by the summer put the death toll between two and three hundred thousand.<76> ("When one fights, one does not throw flowers," Yahya told the press<77>). Literally millions of Bengalis fled across the border into India in what was probably history's largest one-way movement of refugees in so short a time.<78>
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72. _Time_, 3 May 1971, in U.S. Senate, Subcommittee to Investigate Problems with Refugees and Escapees of the Committee on the Judiciary, _Relief Problems in East Pakistan and India_, part 1, 92nd Cong., 1st sess., 28 June 1971; part 2, 92nd Cong., 1st sess., 30 Sept. 1971; part 3, 92nd Cong., 1st sess., 30 Sept. 1971, p. I:105.
73. See news reports reprinted in U.S. Senate, _Relief Problems in East Pakistan and India_, pp. I:104-05.
74. Morris, _Uncertain Greatness_, p. 216.
75. U.S. Senate, _Relief Problems in East Pakistan and India_, p. I:212.
76. _Le Monde_, 10 June 1971; _New York Times_, 14 July 1971 (Sydney H. Schanberg), _Washington Post_, 23 Aug. 1971 (Stephen Klaidman), reprinted in U.S. Senate, _Relief Problems in East Pakistan and India_, pp. I:180, 163, II:342.
77. Interview with _Le Figaro_ reported in _New York Times_, 29 Sept. 1971, quoted in U Thant, _View from the U.N._, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978, p. 426.
78. John P. Lewis testimony in U.S. Senate, _Relief Problems in East Pakistan and India_, p. II:242.
http://www.zmag.org/zmag/articles/ShalomHumnCri.html
Now, as you see these are testimonials given in US Congress. I will consider these as authentic than Sarmila Bose's research that was done a long time after the genocide itself took place.