My amendment, introduced in bill form on Tuesday, June 15, as H. R. 9160 would suspend all aid to the Government of Pakistan until international inspection teams have ascertained that Pakistan is co-operating in allowing the situation to return to reasonable stability in East Pakistan and that, as far as feasible, refugees are being allowed to return from India to reclaim their lands and properties.
In the Congressional Record of June 11 page E5749 I discussed the many ramifications to world peace this situation poses. I spoke of the incredible flow of refugees and I would now like to report to my colleagues the most recent figures. The total number as of June 12 was 5, 765,000, comprising 3,067,000 males and 2,698,000 females. This includes 907,000-children under 8 years of age. During April, immediately after the brutal actions of the Army inside East Pakistan, 56,000 each day came into India. During May and until the 5th of June the figure rose to 100,000 each day. Finally, from the 6th to the 12th of June the figure was 124,000 each day.
Any policy which generates this number of refugees-a number which is increasing rather, than diminishing-must be the concern of all mankind. Aside from the obvious human misery which has been so compellingly documented in many photographs and descriptions in our press, it is also irrefutable evidence that the situation inside East Pakistan has not returned to normal. I think that H. R. 91.60 would strengthen the hand of this administration in its desire to see stability returned to the area, for it would insist that all aid be channeled through international agencies and that our tax dollars would no longer contribute to the agonies and the clear threat to peace.
The Government of Pakistan must be made to fully and honestly co-operate in a normalization process. H. R. 91.60 would suspend our bilateral aid and would make a powerful statement to the nations of the world that the idealism and the sincere desire of America to be truly humanitarian has not vanished. I urge my colleagues to join me in cosponsoring my bill when I reintroduce it early next week
H. R. 9160
A bill to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to suspend all assistance to
the
Government of Pakistan
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That section 620 of chapter 2 of part III of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, relating to prohibitions against furnishing assistance is amended by adding at the end there of the following new subsection:
“(V)(1) All military, economic, or other assistance to the Government of Pakistan, all sales of military equipment, and all sales of agricultural commodities (whether for cash, credit, or by other means), under this or any other Act, shall be suspended on the date of enactment of this subsection.
“(2) The President shall take measures as may be necessary to assure that no military equipment provided by the United States to any other country shall be transferred to the
