336 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ পাকিস্তান সংকটের পরিপ্রেক্ষিতে প্রতিনিধি | প্রতিনিধি পরিষদ-এর কার্যবিবরণী ১০ জুন, ১৯৭১ পরিষদে ই গালাঘের-এর বক্তৃতা JUNE 11, 1971 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-Extensions of Remarks E 5749 AN AMERICAN RESPONSE TO THE PAKISTAN CRISIS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES June 10, 1971 Hon'ble Cornelius E. Gallagher, Mr. Speaker, I rise today to discuss the situation in East Pakistan generally and to report specifically on my recent trip to view the refugee camps in India. Let me say that the situation is the worst I have seen abroad during my 12 years of service on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. My Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs held 2 days of hearings into the situation during May and I must confess that I had felt the reports of genocide, brutality, and unparalleled human misery were overstated. I can now report to my colleagues that, if anything, these reports were understated. I do not believe I could be called a "bleeding heart" or a "professional dogooder," and I share the reluctance of many of my fellow House Members to embrace eagerly every cause which promises "instant celebrity" for its leaders and "instant humanitarianism", for its adherents. I have learned to distrust sweeping generalizations and to discount inflated rhetoric. The crisis in East Pakistan, as disastrous and as horrifying as it is, is not a matter solely for the Government of the United States to solve. But neither is it solely an internal matter of Pakistan. It now threatens tin; peace of the Indian Subcontinent, provides a rich and fertile breeding ground for communist inspired movements, challenges whatever is good in human nature, and poses a dreadful moral choice for mankind. However, a simplistic search for heroes and villains in creating the torrent of tragedy sweeping over the 75 million inhabitants of Bast Pakistan is doomed to failure. Much of my speech today will be critical of the actions undertaken by the army of Pakistan after its initial actions on the evening of March 25, 1971. But it is true that supporters of the Awami League promoted work stoppages earlier it cannot be denied that Bengalis themselves butchered members of other populations within East Pakistan; and the world community has not enabled itself by its response. While I hesitate to repeat what I regard in other contexts as a mind-numbering cliche, in a very real sense we are all guilty of promoting the climate of unconcern and in.
