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494 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম ংবাদপত্র তারিখ Prelude To A “New Vietnam’ Bangladesh 25 August, 1971 Vol. 1 : No. 9 U. S. ARMS TO PAKISTAN Prelude to a “New Vietnam’? Despite world wide astracism the Yahya regime for its inhuman suppression of the people of Bangladesh, the Nixon administration has failed to discontinue its policy of arming Pakistan’s blood-thirsty army. This is in spite of the fact, that it was mainly U. S. Arms which emboldened fascist Yahya to undertake such a gross military misadventure. It was clearly within Nixon's power to make Yahya see reason. However, far from even condemning the atrocities perpetrated, he chose to condemning them by pumping in more arms to an already top- heavy and berserk, war-Machine. The great champion of Democracy has not stopped at merely supplying arms, whose value according to a Washington State Deptt. Spokes man amounts to roughly 20 million dollars to be delivered by March of 1972. There are indications now that American commitment to the Yahiya regime is rapidly increasing in score. The U. S. Government has charted seventeen 1000 ton freighters ostensibly to enable food and other supplies to reach the interior. That these vessels will be used for military purposes is certain as it is common knowledge that Yahya is desperately in need of river-crafts to open up the water-logged countryside of Bangladesh for his marauding hordes. The pro-American Pakistani officers who have been trained by the U. S. army along the lines of the “Green Berets' in Vietnam, are now all in Bangladesh. These 'toughs' are specially trained for mass-murder, sabotage, assassination and torture. Reliable reports also have it that more than a dozen American ‘experts' are training Pakistanis in counter-insurgency measures at Quetta, Baluchistan and Dacca. It may be pointed out here that during the early days of Vietnam, American experts played an exactly similar role. The U. S. Government seems determined to be sucked into Bangladesh as it was in Vietnam. The American press has reported that American arms in Vietnam are being diverted do Dacca and Karachi. On these arms meant to establish the kind of “democracy” we are now seeing in South Vietnam? American Boeing which have been leased to Pakistan have been incorporated into the Pakistan International Airlines and are presently engaged in airlifting- troops to Bangladesh. The Nixon Administration has also promised one million dollars to Pakistan to hire eighteen coasters on a 6 month lease. These vessels are supposed to restore communications and facilitate delivery of relief supplies to the people.