পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ত্রয়োদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৫৫০

522 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড শিরোনাম সূত্র তারিখ উপমহাদেশীয় পরিস্থিতি সম্পর্কে প্রেসিডেন্ট | ইন্টারন্যাশনাল ষ্টুডেন্টস কালচারাল | আগষ্ট, ১৯৭১ নিক্সনকে লিখিত খোলা চিঠি অরগানাইজেশান AN OPEN LETTER ΤΟ PRESIDENT NIXON International Students Cultural Organisation By your statement of August 4, defending continued aid to Pakistan, you not only challenged the recent decision of the House of Representatives and the strong protest against that aid by the group of Pakistan diplomats who had just resigned in disgust with the Islamabad junta s reign of terror, but also the rising tide moral revulsion in this country and around the world. This raises the question of the sincerity of the Administration's position in this matter, in that you had not arranged to have a single defender of your stand on aid to Pakistan, even from your own party, rise to oppose the stopping of that aid, when the House debated the Foreign Assistance Bill the previous day. Was this an admission that continuation of such aid is so indefensible that public debate by the people's representatives was avoided, with the intention of getting the unsavory job done by Executive action? Least appeal be made to Executive omniscience as justification for Executive omnipotence let us go into the merits of the case. This is by no means as simple a matter to decide as your summary public treatment of it assumes, nor should we be content to leave it to Mr. Kissinger's inscrutable wisdom. America's and the worlds conscience has been outraged in East Bengal, and we must have an open trial of the case. Too much is at stake for the human family to acquiesce in furtive maneuvers and bureaucratic blunders as excuses for further arms shipments to that brutal regime. The massive moral issue apart, your statement that the suspension of aid is likely to aggravate the problem of relief for Pakistan refugees, hampering Pakistan's ability to work with the United Nations, "as it presently has indicated it is willing to do in distributing the food supplies," and that the aid to Pakistan is "the way to influence the course of events in the Indian subcontinent" is fallacious. There is no solution to the refugee problem so long as we try to bypass the problem of the political settlement in East Bengal. And there can be no political settlement which is not based on the fact that it has become psychologically, morally and practically impossible for East Bengalis to go on tolerating the blatant fiction of the alleged unity between themselves and their genocidal tyrants and exploiters. East and West Pakistan, two distinct peoples with entirely different cultures-once a thousand miles apart and now unthinkably far!