পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৫০

714 বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ষষ্ঠ খণ্ড শিরোনাম ংবাদপত্র তারিখ News Activities for the Cause Bangladesh 3 September, 1971 Of Bangladesh Vol. 1 : No. 1 US SENATORS URGE STOPPAGE OF ALL AID TO PAKISTAN Senator Edward M. Kennedy, just returned from a week-long visit to the Bengali refugee camps in India and on the borders of Bangladesh, assailed the U. S. policy toward Pakistan as "bankrupt" and demanded: "We must end immediately all further U. S. arms shipments to West Pakistan. We must end all other economic support of a regime that continues to violate the most basic principles of humanity." In an impassioned address to the National Press Club in Washington, August 26, Senator Kennedy said, "We must demonstrate to the generals of West Pakistan and to the peoples of the world that the United States has a deep and abiding revulsion of the monumental slaughter that has ravaged East Bengal." Senator Kennedy, Chairman of the Judiciary Subcommittee on Refugees said the situation in Bangladesh should particularly distress Americans since "it is our military hardware-our guns, our tanks and aircraft-delivered over the decades which are contributing substantially to the suffering there." He urged the Americans not to "support a regime that is alien to the principles for which so many of his fellow citizens have given their lives in virtually every corner of the world." The Massachusetts Senator began by describing what he called "the most appalling tide of human misery in modern times" and asked the Americans to understand what has produced this massive human tragedy in Bangladesh. Senator Kennedy drew comparison between American actions in Vietnam and the current U. S. involvement in Bangladesh. After sacrificing nearly $100 billion and 45,000 lives to support democracy in Vietnam, he said, "America is being asked by its leadership...to cooperate in a conspiracy, against the results of a free election" in Bangladesh. Senator Charles Percy Senator Charles Percy said at a Press Conference in New Delhi August 28, that he was in favor of stoppage of all military and economic assistance to Pakistan. The Republican Senator described the developments in Bangladesh as one of the greatest human tragedies recorded in history.