পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৬২৫

(ఫిఫి বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড I would like to assure the House that our views on the supply of arms to Pakistan have been conveyed in unequivocal terms to the United States Government. We have explained to them the adverse impact it could have on the peace and stability of the sub-continent. It could have an impact on Indo-US bilateral relations as well. It is surprising that the US Government which has been counseling restraint to us should have itself taken a measure which will aggravate the situation. The supply of arms by any country to Pakistan in the present context amounts to condonation of genocide in Bangladesh and encouragement to the continuation of atrocities by the military rulers of Pakistan. It also amounts to intervention on the side of the military rulers of West Pakistan against the people of Bangladesh. SHRI BHUPESH GUPTA: We have been very carefully following the statement made by the hon. Minister apart from what has appeared in the newspaper from the side of the United States of America. I must say that we remain disappointed by the manner in which the hon. Minister has reacted to these things. Sir, first of all, even now he has said that the supply of arms to Pakistan in the present situation is a condonation. He would never use the world abetment. Yet, Sir arms are being supplied for the act of committing the crime of genocide there and the USA is acting as the principal in the second degree in aiding that genocide and still, he says, it is ‘condonation’. I am surprised that the Government does not have the courage to say that it is a direct help and abetment to the criminal act of genocide. It is a violation of the International Convention on Genocide, the UN Charter and the Human Rights Charter, thereby making the US guilty of violation of these International laws. Sir, now what is the assessment of the Government, political, military and otherwise, of the present step by the United States of America of the supply of arms in the present situation to Pakistan? That assessment has not been made. Sir, is it not a fact that since the US-Pak military pact was signed in 1954, just with a view to facilitating the ouster of the Fazlul Haq Government after the East Bengal Elections-a Government of which Sheikh Mujibur Rahman was also a Minister-US military hardware worth about 2500 million dollars nearly Rs. 2000 crores- have been sent to Pakistan? Is it not a fact that even though there was a so-called embargo at the time of Indo-Pakistan War in 1965 the US were still supplying arms through Iran, Turkey, West Germany and other countries of the CENTO and the NATO in order to replenish the armaments of the Pakistani forces? Sir, in the present situation we find that it has been continuing ever since 1966; now it has been stepped up. In today’s newspaper we read that the Padma is carrying cannons also, not merely spares and other things. In this connection, I should like to know the policy of the Government. He has said, 35 million dollars in the pipeline, as one of the Senators has stated. It is much more but the significant part of it he has not mentioned. Now, it is known that these things are not part of “slippage’ an American expression, or 'bureaucratic bungling another American expression. The supplies are being made on orders from President Nixon himself. This is what has been disclosed in the American Senate by the Senator from Idaho, and it has not been since denied. In fact, the State Department has more or less admitted that President Nixon's orders are responsible for