Roughly 80.000 West Pakistani troops were deployed in East Pakistan. East Pakistan then became an army garrison and the Bengali people became prisoners. Those who escaped flowed over into India at the rate of over 50.000 people per day to become citizens of refugee camps. Their refuge has been overcrowded camps and the open air where survival is a daily question. Mr. President. I must pause here in this brief rundown of events to stress the portent of this fact. Fifty thousand refugees per day brought a total of over 8 million East Pakistanis in India by the end of August. Now the figure is somewhere in the range of 10 million. a figure almost too startling to imagine in human terms. For those of us who tried to grasp what this meant in human suffering and in international tension. there was a realization of the ominous urgency of this problem.
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