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S 5810 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE April 29,1971
RECENT EVENTS IN EAST PAKISTAN
Mr. SAXBB. Mr. President, 1 recently received a letter from a physician who worked in East Pakistan under USAID. He gives a good account of the recent events in East Pakistan. As you know, I objected last year to the sale of SI5,000,000 worth of military equipment to Pakistan because I feared the tragic consequences of this action. I have just co-sponsored Senate Concurrent Resolution 21 which urges the suspension of our military assistance to Pakistan until the conflict is resolved.
I ask unanimous consent to have printed in the RECORD the letter from Dr. John E.Rohde because I feel that Senators should have the benefit of his insight.
HUDSON. OHIO April 17, 1971.
New Senate Office Building,
Washington, D. C.
DEAR SENATOR SAXBE: Two days ago my wife and I were evacuated from Dacca, East Pakistan where I have been posted for the past three years as a physician under USAID. I am certain that you are aware of the political events preceding the army crackdown on March 25th. As a result of complete censorship and the expulsion of journalists, banning of the major political party in Pakistan, and repressed information about the military campaign against the civilians of East Pakistan, it must have been difficult to obtain a clear picture of events since that date. From the outset of the army action, the American Consul General and his staff in Dacca, have continued to send detailed factual accounts enumerating first hand reports of the situation. These reports have been carefully collected and verified before transmission to the State Department. 'Publicly the State Department claims they do not have enough facts; but I have seen the factual reports sent daily from Dacca. The American Consul in Karachi stated to me that they only recently began to receive the accounts about the situation in Hast Pakistan, when the Consulate in Dacca has been transmitting information from the very start of the action.
Although Connul Blood's reports contain a more detailed account of the current situation. I wish to bring to your attention the observations. I have made in the past weeks in Dacca. My wife and I watched from our roof the night of March 25" as tanks rolled out of the Cantonment illuminated by the flares and the red glow of fires as the city-was shelled by artillery, and mortars were fired into crowded slums and bazaars. After two days of loud explosions and the continual chatter of machine guns we look advantage of a Break in the
