পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৪০৪

376 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ মন্ডেল-ফ্রেজার যৌথ প্রস্তাব সিনেটের কার্যবিবরণী ৩০ জুলাই, ১৯৭১ S1261 () CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE July 30, 1971 By Mr. MONDALE. S. J. Res. 143. A joint resolution relating to peace for Pakistan. Referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. Mr. MONDALE. Mr. President, even in a world numbered by mass death and suffering, the horror in East Pakistan seems without parallel. Hundreds of thousands have died from disease, starvation, and brutal military repression. According to an authoritative report by the World Bank, even the most immediate efforts will not save hundreds of thousands more from dying of starvation. And now more than 7 million people are crowded in the hopelessness and squalor of refugee camps in India. It is as if the population of two States the size of Minnesota had been driven from their homes to an impoverished and disease-ridden exile in a foreign land-or as if the majority of the people in Minneapolis St. Paul or St. Louis or Denver or San Francisco, had been killed or were about to die. I think most of us find it very difficult to grasp the sheer magnitude of this tragedy, to understand to almost endless individual tragedies-the loved ones lost, the life work destroyed-which are the life and blood reality of the great statistical disaster. But I think the American people are coming to understand clearly one element of this tragedy-the unconscionable neglect our own Government has shown for any real effort to alleviate it. There is no need to recount here the long string of misrepresentations and empty assurances which the United States has made while it went on arming a repressive regime in East Pakistan and maintaining callous silence though millions were in tOrment. But it is not too late to summon statesmanship in this ghastly problem. It is not too late to make real the rhetoric we hear so often about this Nation's concern for human life and for a generation of peace. Congressman FRASER and I are introducing jointly in the House and Senate a resolution declaring that it is the sense of the Congress that the President should move immediately to seek the cooperation of the Soviet Union and the Peoples' Republic of China to work to stop the fighting and dying in East Pakistan. S.J. Res. 143 Whereas the civil strife in East Pakistan has brought the death of hundreds of thousands and great human suffering to millions; and