BLOODBATH IN BENGLA

Washington’s persistent silence on recent  events in Pakistan become increasingly Incomprehensible in the light of mounting    eyewitness evidence that the Pakistani Army has engaged in  indiscriminate slaughter of civilians and the selective elimin-

ation of leadership groups in the separatist state of East Bengla .

A State department spokesman conceded yesterday that “ we  would be concerned If States has on first- band  knowledge that such is the case. This is sophistry. Only Last month the Secretary of State, ill his annual foreign policy report, noted  that This country had agreed  to sell additional to the Pakistan is “for their largely U.S. equipped army.” On any basis, the United States would have a humanitarian duty spake out Against the bloodbath in Bengla.As the Soviet Union already hase done.

Washington as Pakistan chief arms supplier, has a double obligation to Declare its disappovel of the tactics employed and to make clear that on Additional   American arms-including spare parts –will be sent to Pakistan Until this savage repression on the East is stopped . America’s own interests call for it to do everything possible to help bring A speed end to a civil conflict that could touch off a chain reaction of  Communal strife throughous   the Indian subcontinent, with grave International implication.