During that period of time. over 4 million Afghans out of a population of 14 million have been driven into exile outside of their own land. Hundreds of thousands of Afghans have been killed. many of them in the most brutal fashion imaginable. This resolution today. in addition to once again calling attention to the pervasive and systematic abuse of human rights by the Soviet Union in Afghanistan. expresses the sense of Congress that the Soviet Union should expeditiously withdraw all of its forces from that country in order to facilitate a political settlement of the conflict in Afghanistan in which the refugees. who have been driven from their homes. would be entitled to return. and in which the people of Afghanistan at long last would be given the opportunity and the right to determine their own destiny. 0l 1615 This resolution will not be itself bring about the withdrawal of the 120.000man Soviet Army of occupation in Afghanistan. but it will contibute. at least in some small measure. to the mobilization of the kinds of diplomatic pressures on the Soviet Union. which in combination with the pressure generated by the courageous resistance of the Afghan people. are a necessary condition for a political settlement in that conflict. which would result in the withdrawal of all Soviet forces from Afghanistan. So. Mr.
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