Talk:1950 East Pakistan riots

Numbers in the lede
I was going to remove the "citation needed" span from the lede, based on the fact that there were higher numbers later on. Initially I figured that the user who added it didn't know about Wikipedia's policies on citations in the lead, but I realized that all of the cited numbers are 1. higher and 2. from Indian sources. I think that the appropriate thing would be to find a reliable non-Indian source if possible and use that and if not to change the wording to something like "Indian researchers estimate that 2-3.5 million Hindus were forcibly displaced by the end of the year."

Since this is a matter that gets into ethnic nationalism (it seems likely that the Indians will inflate numbers, Pakistanis understate them, and Bangladeshi estimates will depend on political view), and since I don't know much about South Asia (I mostly edit South Asian articles to address the grammar, style, and formatting errors that such articles are particularly prone to), I'll leave this to someone else, but I thought I'd point it out, in case another editor comes by and has the same initial impulse I did. —Quintucket (talk) 20:28, 28 October 2013 (UTC)