পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৪৭৮

450 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ ংগ্রেস সদস্য পল ম্যাকক্লস্কির ৩ দফা | প্রতিনিধি পরিষদের কার্যবিবরণী | ১৭ ডিসেম্বর, ১৯৭১ December 17, 1971 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-Extensions of Remarks E|37 || 4 Congress Enacted Aid to India and Pakistan Mr. McCloskey. Mr. Speaker, today, as our last act in 1971, the Congress has enacted an appropriation bill for the assistance of refugees in India and Pakistan. In view of the fact that the Nixon administration today is continuing to pursue power politics in the Bay of Bengal, and particularly in view of the administration's deliberate concealment over the past 9 months of the facts surrounding the systematic execution of East Pakistani political leaders, I think it incumbent upon us to recommend a change of direction in U. S. foreign policy to accompany this appropriation. I would, therefore, recommend a three point U. S. Christmas program for the people of East Pakistan. First. We should recognize the new nation of Bangladesh, with the hope that the survivors of the freely elected East Pakistani leaders of year ago can continue with their announced program of creating a democratic government for the new nation. Second. Instead of sending a task force to the Bay of Bengal, we should be sending in food and hospital ships to assist the people of Bangladesh. At the present time, the hospital ship, U. S. S, Sanctuary, is berthed at Mare Island in California awaiting overhaul. I suggest that we send the Sanctuary to Bangladesh to replace the nuclear carrier Enterprise and the other ships of its strike force. Third. We should exert all possible pressure on Pakistan to release Sheik Mujib and other East Pakistani leaders in return for the repatriation of the West Pakistani troops who have just surrendered. Instead of complaining about Indian aggression in a war in which our own silent acquiescence in savage repression and genocide by West Pakistan helped initiate, we should be trying to support a new democratic government and the exchange of all prisoners on both sides without further bloodshed. Instead of sending warships, we should be sending food and medical supplies and facilities, particularly in view of the Christmas season where we in America-..have such immense affluence for which to give thanks, Finally, we should advise the administration that the Congress wiłł no longer a acquiesce in the administration's concealment of factual information which is necessary to our own congressional responsibility under the Constitution. The continued refusal of the State Department to provide Congress with the responsibility under the Constitution. The genocide which started in East Pakistan last March caused a tragic delay in the change of a U. S. policy which was and is indefensible.