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A LETTER WRITTEN BY AN AMERICAN FAMILY EVACUATED
FROM EAST PAKISTAN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
May 11, 1971
Mr. MCKEVITT. Mr. Speaker, among the Americans who were evacuated from East Pakistan were Mr. and Mrs. Edward Sammel, of Denver. The Sammels and their five children arrived in Dacca, East Pakistan, last November where Mr. Sammel was with the U.S. AID Mission.
I would like to share with the House a letter written by Mrs. Sammel which was published in the Denver Post on April 18:
To The Denver Post:
You've no doubt heard the news that Americans were evacuated from East Pakistan....................... and we were among them.
Most of us have a deep concern and sympathy for the people of East Pakistan-the Bengalis-and for Bangladesh-their country.
We are also concerned that the United States hasn't issued a statement condemning the slaughter of unarmed civilians and the suppression of a democratically elected majority.
We have been witness to what amounts to genocide. The West Pakistan army used tanks, heavy artillery and machine guns on unarmed civilians killed 1,600 police while sleeping in their barracks (thus eliminating the only source of armed resistance), demolished the student dormitories at Dacca University and excavated a mass grave for the thousands of students; they've systematically eliminated the intelligentsia of the country, wiped out entire villages-I could go on and on. It's hard to believe it happened.
The only way I can draw an analogy is to ask you to imagine that after the last election-after Nixon was elected-Johnson postponed the inauguration, went out for “talks" with Nixon in California, then during the next three weeks moved almost the entire army out there. Then' in a lightning move arrested Nixon, outlawed the Republican party and eliminated the Republican party leaders. Then went on a killing and burning spree.
