পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (চতুর্দশ খণ্ড).pdf/১৩৩

101 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ চতুর্দশ খন্ড The two senators will propose their amendment when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee takes up the foreign aid bill next week. The committee earlier approved a resolution-not yet acted upon by the Senate—which would bar further military aid to Pakistan. The South Asian country is basically armed with U.S. equipment, but only spare parts and ammunition have been sent to it since the 1965 Indo-Pakistani war. Senator Church estimated that the current pending economic aid would total about $80 million. He said he did not know how much military aid was in prospect. Sales of planes and armored personnel carriers authorized last October have not yet been completed. Both senators complained that American aid to the government of Pakistan put it in opposition to the Bengalis of East Pakistan. Senator Saxbe complained that the Army had "crushed" Sheikh Mujibur Rahman and his moderate, generally proWestern Awami League, who had recently won national elections." Senator Saxbe also put forward Dr. Jon E. Rohde, a physician who was in East Pakistan 'with the Agency for International Development. Dr. Rohde contended that relief had to be international because the Pakistan Army had shown during December's cyclone and flood that it was incapable of handling relief operations. He said American aid-which the State Department has said has been held up since the civil war began-meant "the U.S. is currently supporting one side." He added that "it is documented that mass slaughter has gone on."