38 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ১৬। বাংলায় রক্তবন্যা নিউইয়র্ক টাইমস ৭ এপ্রিল, ১৯৭১ NEW YORK TIMES. APRIL 7, 1971 BLOODBATH IN BENGAL Washington's persistent silence on recent events in Pakistan becomes increasingly incomprehensible in the light of mounting eyewitness evidence that the Pakistani Army has engaged in indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and the selective elimination of leadership groups in the separatist state of East Bengal. A State Department spokesman conceded yesterday that "we would be concerned if American weapons were used in circumstances such as these." But he insisted the United States has no first-hand knowledge that such is the case. This is sophistry. Only last month the Secretary of State, ill his annual foreign policy report, noted that this country had agreed to sell additional equipment to the Pakistan is "for their largely U.S. equipped army." On any basis, the United Stales would have a humanitarian duty to speak out against the bloodbath in Bengal, as the Soviet Union already has done. Washington, as Pakistan's chief arms supplier, has a double obligation to declare its disapproval of the tactics employed and to make clear that no additional American arms-including spare parts-will be sent to Pakistan until this savage repression in the East is stopped. America's own interests call for it to do everything possible to help bring a speedy end to a civil conflict that could touch off a chain reaction of communal strife throughout the Indian subcontinent, with grave international implications.
