The reaction of President Yahya Khans government was to cancel the meeting of the Assembly and to suppress with violence and brutality the expressed wishes of the East Pakistani people. For months the world watched in horror as rape. pillage. and murder swept over the territory of East Pakistan. Nine million refugees sought survival in India. but hundreds of thousands of others were denied even thatthey were the victims of genocide. One would have hoped that the United Statesthe land of the free and the home of the bravewould have taken a resolute stance against the barbarism and would have supported the results of a free election. After all. is a free election not what we have been fighting for all these years in South Vietnam?
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