The young men lay down on makeshift cots. needles were inserted in their veins--nd then slowly the blood was drained from their bodies until they died. This article and others like it tell of atrocity after atrocity by the Pakistani Army. Those who were lucky enough to successfully elude the West Pakistan Army are now living in refugee camps in India where disease and famine are killing thousands of them a week. A diplomatic cable from Pakistan reads: Specter of famine hangs over East Pakistan. prospects for averting widespread hunger. suffering and perhaps starvation not repeat not good. Pakistan will not recover for years to come: Already. the experts say. the countrys economy is a shambles. Since the fighting began. experts have plummeted. the vital jute crops that are Pakistans biggest foreign exchange earner rot unharvested. and the vast consumer market of the eastern region on which West Pakistans factories lived has vanished along wtih the refugees and rebels. "Unless something is done." an economist adds. "there is going to be a famine here that will make all prior suffering look like nothing." I ask unanimous consent that -the full text of the Newsweek magazine article from August 2. entitled "Bengal: The Murder of a People" be printed at the conclusion of my remarks. I ask my colleagues to read the full text of the article. Unfortunately.
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