Mr. President. a report in the Washington Post of May 9 states that the Reagan administration will provide $6 million openly in nonlethal aid to refugees and Afghan people remaining in Afghanistan. This is a welcome and significant gesture on the part of the Reagan administration as well as a tacit acknowledgement of the legitimacy of the freedom fighters struggle against an enemy who has violated every principle of customary international law in its planned and systematic destruction of a nation and its people. in many ways reminiscent of the Nazi Holocaust. Because Afghanistan is the only place on Earth where the Soviet Army is engaged in direct military confrontation. it provides a showcase of Soviet military ethics and tactics from the use of poison gas. to the destruction of hospitals and farms. to the torture and murder of civilians and prisoners of war.
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