exceeded six million mark gave vivid description of the army's savagery. Many of the refugees bore bullet marks on their bodies.
X. Violation of human rights
By its repressive and oppressive measures on the people of East Pakistan. Yahya Khan's government has blatantly violated the most precious principles of international law. It has violated, inter alia, the Preamble and Articles 1.55 and 56 of the U.N. Charter, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Convention of Civil and Political Rights 1956, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, 1966. Article 23 (g) of the Hague Regulations, 1907, Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions, 1949, the Doctrine of Immunity of Non-Combatants from Beligerent Attacks and the Genocide Convention 1948.
XI.World-wide condemnation of army atrocities.
The brutality and atrocity of West Pakistani troops in East Pakistan has been condemned throughout the world. The world press has criticized in strong terms the savage action of Yahya Khan's government and Published many eye-witness accounts and authentic stories of unprecedented brutality of the Punjabi-Pathan troops. Most of the important papers and periodicals in most countries-particularly in Britain, U. S. A., Indonesia, India, Japan, Australia-have advocated that the carnage must be stopped and a peaceful political solution to the problem acceptable to the East Bengalis should be arrived at. Political thinkers, scholars, students and enlightened public of many countries have condemned army crackdown sympathized for the sufferings of the Bengalis and urged the world body and world powers to forces Yahya Khan to stop the bloodbath and take hands off East Pakistan. The social and charitable organizations of the world have expressed their sympathy and their willingness to send relief for the sufferers.
President Nikolai Podgorny of Soviet Union in a massage to President Yahya Khan called for an end to bloodshed in East Pakistan and recourse to methods of a peaceful political settlement. The Indian Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Ghandhi denounced the selective genocide and decimation of Bengali population by the West Pakistani troops and expressed her sympathy for the oppressed people of East Bengal. She also called the world body and the big powers to intervene in the greatest human tragedy and take measures for a peaceful political solution of the problem of late, the United Nations Secretary General U Thant said, what happened in East Pakistan in late March and April was “a very terrible blot in the page of human history". He also said these happenings in which thousands died at the hands of West Pakistan troops “constitute one of the most tragic episodes in recent history", while many countries expressed concern at the happenings in East Pakistan, unfortunately most governments adopted an indifferent attitude on the plea that it was an internal affair of the government of President Yahya Khan. This indifference and apathy particularly on the part of the Muslim countries has been shocking to East Pakistanis and has emboldened the military government to continue repression and persecution. However, most governments are aware of the terrible facts and the governments of the aid giving countries are giving indirect pressure to Yahya Khan's government to bring a peaceful political settlement to the problem.
