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891 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড the international community would be at all unhappy if India and Pakistan solved all their bilateral problems. We offered to do so time and again, but without response. It was not we who brought up Kashmir in the Assembly, but the Representative of Pakistan. I have already commented on these diversionary tactics Pakistan uses. May I simply say that we should like the well-established principle of the inadmissibility of the acquisition of foreign territory by force to be applied to Kashmir, as much as to any other place. Pakistan accuses India of creating tension on the border and of supporting the freedom-fighters inside East Bengal. I would, in this context, read out what the Ambassador of Pakistan in Washington had to say on 15" Au gust, 1971, on the A. B. C. Television Network Incidentally, the Ambassador of Pakistan in Washington is the brother of the Representative of Pakistan here. He said: "There were at least about 160,000 armed personnel who defected on account of Awami League propaganda. The army was asked on the 25" of March to go and deal with these 160,000 armed people.' Who are those people? In the same interview, the Pakistan Ambassador answered: "There were not only East Bengal Regiment; there were East Pakistan Rifles; there was a border military force; there were armed police". From where did they get their arms? The Ambassador said: "These weapons came from looting of armories and government stores and from the armories of reserve police and so on, weapons that had been collected by force, by militant student bands who were going and knocking at the doors of the houses and asking people to deliver their guns and whatever sporting rifles-guns and rifles-they had. These were not collected from the East Pakistan rifles. We wish we had taken the trouble to disarm then before". That is the reality of resistance within East Pakistan-a resistance inspired by years of discrimination and exploitation, and which was the direct result of ruthless and massive military action with unparalleled atrocities, total extinction of human rights, and a full-fledged campaign of genocide. I repeat what I said before; we, must not, shall not, and cannot interfere in the internal affairs of Pakistan. At the same time, Pakistan must not interfere in our internal affairs. What has happened is that by Pakistan's brutal and preposterous actions, India has been faced with a refugee population of 9 million people, with consequences on the social, political, and economic structure, which are well known to the Assembly. I would have been more comforted, if the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees had himself given a report on the plight of those refugees and on the alleged