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380 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ বাংলাদেশ পরিস্থিতির ক্রমাবনতিঃ সিনেটর সিনেটের কার্যবিবরণী ২ আগষ্ট, ১৯৭১ স্যাক্সবীর আবারও ভাষণ S 12786 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE August 2, 1971 DETERIORATION OF EVENTS IN EAST PAKISTAN Mr. Saxbe. Mr. President, the rapidly deteriorating events in East Pakistan are continuing their downward spiral to epidemics, communal violence, and war. Refugees are pouring across the border at a rate of 40,000 to 50,000 a day with an imminent total of 7,35,000 refugees in India. Yahya Khan, President of Pakistan, says: We are very near to war with India. Let me warn them (India) and the world, it means total war. Indeed, this may be correct. C.L. Sulzeburger wrote in the New York Times on July 18: The Kissinger trip produced an impression that the greatest immediate danger to peace lies in steadily worsening India-Pakistan relations and a possibility that war might explode between these South Asian neighbors, respectively supported by Russia and China. This would destroy Washington's effort to create a new international equilibrium improving relations with Moscow while developing fresh contact with Peking. Yet, why should Yahya threaten war? Abul Maal A. Muhit, economic adviser to the Pakistan Embassy and former Deputy Secretary to the Yahya cabinet, defected here in New York maintaining that the Yahya regime has "lost all claim to legitimacy." He predicted that up to 15 million East Pakistanis might die of starvation in the next 3 months. India has accepted 7 million refugees from Yahya's reign of terror. Yet, Yahya says there is a limit to his patience." What patience? I am pleased that the United Nations may send to East Pakistan a team of 156 civilian relief and rehabilitation experts and that the United Nations Children's Fund is opening 1,000 centers in Eastern India on August 15 to distribute high protein foods. The New York Times editorial yesterday stated: It is time all American aid to the Yahya regime, excepting relief assistance, was unequivocally stopped. The reported American-backed plan to station United Nations observers in East Pakistan could help ease the plight of the Bengalis, but it falls far short of the political accommodation that is needed to head off an explosion on the Indian subcontinent that could precipitate an American-Chinese-Soviet confrontation in the Himalayas. Now is the time to turn our policy around. I urge the House to approve the language of its Committee on Foreign Affairs suspending aid to Pakistan and the Senate to adopt the Saxbe-Church amendment of a similar nature.