332 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ শরনার্থী শিবির পরিদর্শনান্তে ই প্রেস বিজ্ঞপ্তিঃ প্রতিনিধি পরিষদ ৯ জুন, ১৯৭১ গালাঘের-এর বিবৃত্তি পররাষ্ট্র কমিটি COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS June 9, 1971 FROM: CONGRESSMAN CORNELIUS E. GALLAGHER. (C.N.J.)Chairman. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs Committee on Foreign Affairs, U.S. House of Representatives "ECONOMIC AND MILITARY AID TO PAKISTAN MUST REMAIN SUSPENDED," Gallagher SAYS ON HIS RETURN FROM EAST PAKISTAN REFUGEE CAMPS IN INDIA "Any aid to the Government of Pakistan at this time would be subsidizing slaughter and spreading pestilence," Congressman Cornelius E. Gallagher Chairman of the Asian and Pacific Affairs Subcommittee said today. He had just returned from a tour of the East Pakistani refugee camps in India, which now contain 5 million people driven from their homes by the crisis in East Pakistan. Gallagher had held two days of hearings during May on the crisis and had spent two days touring the camps early in June. "Two simple facts speak for themselves: (1) The sheer number of refugees is irrefutable evidence of the brutal policies pursued by the Government of Pakistan to crush the people who won the election; and (2) the increase of Hindu refugees within the last weeks discloses the undertaking of a 'holy war," "Chairman Gallagher said "We must never forget that the leaders and supporters of the Awami League successfully worked within the system by gaining an absolute majority in the election for a Constitutional Assembly for both wings of Pakistan in the December election. Therefore, they should not now be regarded as secessionists or rebels, in the usual sense of those terms." In a speech prepared for delivery on the Floor of the House, Gallagher told his colleagues of examples of "indescribable horror-children with their amis ripped off and told of the findings based on hundreds of personal interviews he had held with a cross section of the refugees. "They all told a common story; the attempted destruction of the intellectual life of the Bengali community by the killing of professors and students by the Army. This, in my judgment, gives credence to the charge of genocide. In addition, the majority of the refugees now pouring by the thousands into India are Hindus, who have been the innocent victims of a calculated reign of terror by the Army to inspire and inflame Communal tensions. "Based on my personal experiences in India and the evidence presented to my subcommittee, I believe American policy must not in any way subsidize the actions of the Government of Pakistan in East Pakistan. Our policy must now be to insist on international relief efforts, closely supervised and rigidly inspected. Prior American aid-nearly $5 billion-has contributed to the unspeakable agonies in East Pakistan and
