UNGA: Condemnation of Pakistan

[Red John]

Esteemed members of the general assembly,

The humble delegation from India speaks before you today in order to address the most heinous, disgusting, illegal and morally reprehensible actions we have seen from Pakistan in years.

*The Pakistani President indefinitely postpones the upcoming National Assembly session, prompting protests in East Pakistan. In response, the Pakistani Army occupies its distant eastern province.

*Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, East Pakistani political leader, calls on people to prepare to fight for their independence.

*A military operation is soon launched by the Pakistani authorities to suppress Bengali nationalism in East Pakistan. What ensues is quickly denounced as a genocide by critics of the regime, with apparent reports of hundreds of thousands of Bengalis are killed or raped, with many more fleeing as refugees into India. Some estimates for the violence list the numbers of casualties in the millions. Pakistan maintains it is responding to an internal rebellion and the question remains one of its sovereignty and is a domestic matter.

*The violence growing out of control prompts significant numbers of Bengali military personnel to defect, forming (allegedly with Indian complicity) a guerrilla organisation based on Indian soil, called Mukti Bahini - "Freedom Fighters".

*East Pakistan attempts to declare its independence as the People's Republic of Bangladesh, with newly-imprisoned Sheikh Mujibur Rahman as President and a government-in-exile established in western Bengal, bordering India. However resistance to the Pakistani military is disorganised and disparate. As the violence against the population increases, support for Mukti Bahini grows - but ultimately the group primarily operates as guerrillas, conducting hit and run attacks.

Pakistan has violated the basic human rights of the Bangladeshi people. Not only have they refused to accept the democratic will of the people, they have resorted to brutish violence in such scale that we can only describe it in one, clear word: Genocide. The people of Bangladesh are being slaughtered like cattle- rape and murder is commonplace, and what little stability was left in East Pakistan - or what we now recognise as Bangladesh - has been disrupted after years of abuse finally prompting the people to make their voice heard. It was not even forty years ago that the world witnessed untold atrocities occur in Europe, under the regime of Germany. Millions of Jewish people were corralled and culled, with much of the continent lying in ruins after a vicious conquest.

Just as the international community joined hand in hand to take action against such a deplorable regime, India requests that we do so again: This genocide must be stopped immediately.

United Nations General Assembly Resolution on the Republic of Pakistan

Deeply concerned with the violent suppression of the people of Bangladesh,

Recognising that all peoples have the right to self determination under the UN Charter,

Recognising that the actions of the Republic of Pakistan represent a clear violation of the UN charter, and also show a complete disrespect for basic human rights,

1. Strongly condemns the Republic of Pakistan for its refusal to adhere to the will of its people,

2. Strongly condemns the Republic of Pakistan for the atrocious acts of terror committed to the people of Bangladesh,

3. Abhors the actions of the Pakistani military, and it's complicity in the aforementioned acts of terror,

4. Calls upon the United Nations security council to immediately begin employing economic and diplomatic sanctions, employing the powers granted to them by the UN charter, against the Republic of Pakistan,

5. Recommends that members of the United Nations show solidarity with the people of Bangladesh, and implement their own sanctions, in whatever form they wish,

[Flaming Bolshevik]

In the spirit of international brotherhood and solidarity, The Democratic People's Republic of Korea will absolutely condemn the Government of Pakistan for their harsh repression against the Bengali people.

We vote yes.

[Huojin]

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN

Ladies and gentlemen of the United Nations,

First and foremost, Pakistan vehemently denies these accusations levelled against it. Yes, there is violence in East Pakistan. Yes, there have been greater casualties than any side would have wished. But are these violations of human rights? No. Is this comparable in any way to the Nazis? No. Is this genocide? Absolutely not.

Moreover, these events are wholly a domestic matter for the Pakistani people and the Pakistani nation. Under the United Nations Charter, they are beyond the remit of this organisation to intervene with in any way. Under Article 2, Paragraph 7 - "Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter ..."

We urge the nations of the world to assist us in this matter - preserve the peace in in South Asia, and make clear here and now that the world does not support Indian warmongering, desperate as they are to complete the oppression of the Muslim people of South Asia, to win back their national prestige after their defeat in the Sino-Indian War, and to seize yet more territory from the Pakistani nation. For not once has India reached out to us to discuss this matter, not once have they sought a diplomatic resolution. Instead, they have begun already to lay down ultimatums of the kind that led to years of bloodshed and violence in global wars. We cannot forget this history, or allow such threats to become commonplace.

Is this to be the legacy of Gandhi and Nehru laid bare?

[Red John]

ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN

Ladies and gentlemen of the United Nations,

First and foremost, Pakistan vehemently denies these accusations levelled against it. Yes, there is violence in East Pakistan. Yes, there have been greater casualties than any side would have wished. But are these violations of human rights? No. Is this comparable in any way to the Nazis? No. Is this genocide? Absolutely not.

Moreover, these events are wholly a domestic matter for the Pakistani people and the Pakistani nation. Under the United Nations Charter, they are beyond the remit of this organisation to intervene with in any way. Under Article 2, Paragraph 7 - "Nothing contained in the present Charter shall authorize the United Nations to intervene in matters which are essentially within the domestic jurisdiction of any state or shall require the Members to submit such matters to settlement under the present Charter ..."

We urge the nations of the world to assist us in this matter - preserve the peace in in South Asia, and make clear here and now that the world does not support Indian warmongering, desperate as they are to complete the oppression of the Muslim people of South Asia, to win back their national prestige after their defeat in the Sino-Indian War, and to seize yet more territory from the Pakistani nation. For not once has India reached out to us to discuss this matter, not once have they sought a diplomatic resolution. Instead, they have begun already to lay down ultimatums of the kind that led to years of bloodshed and violence in global wars. We cannot forget this history, or allow such threats to become commonplace.

Is this to be the legacy of Gandhi and Nehru laid bare?

We are outraged by the words of the Pakistani delegate. That Pakistan would have the audacity to stand up to the United Nations and brush off the blatant genocide occurring in Bangladesh, as mere "violence" is atrocious.

This matter is no longer a "domestic" situation. This matter ceased being a "domestic" matter when tens of thousands of innocent people's were forced to flee from the Pakistani army. India will not stand by idly and watch as the people of Bangladesh suffer brutal repression, expulsion, and death, at the hands of the Pakistani government. People, we remind Pakistan, that encompass all faiths - Muslims included.

All unprejudiced persons objectively surveying the grim events in Bangladesh since March 25 have recognised the revolt of 75 million people, a people who were forced to the conclusion that neither their life, nor their liberty, to say nothing of the possibility of the pursuit of happiness, was available to them.

Mahātmā Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was a proponent of non-violent disobedience- certainly, he would no doubt condemn the formation of the Mukti Bahini, were it formed without just cause. Yet what other path lay open to the Bengali people, than to rise up against tyrants? Democracy failed the Bengali people- the notion of providing any sort of concession to the people who had just months before, suffered from a catastrophic natural disaster, clearly was unacceptable to the Pakistani government.

Members of the United Nations, we face a crossroads. Do we declare that there is peace in our time, and act oblivious to the illegal actions of the Pakistani government, as Europe did not half a century ago, or do we recognise the need for immediate action and act to save the lives of millions?

The Republic of India believes there to be only one clear choice.

[Gesar]

Syrian Arab Republic

While Syria unequivocally condemns the deaths and other crimes against the people of East Pakistan, apparently committed by a nation we have considered a friend to Syria and the Arab people, we must protest the language of this resolution on what appears to a Pakistani internal affair. Until such a time as it provides an avenue for international mediation and investigation between the involved parties -which, one might note, appears to include the Republic of India themselves- we will abstain.

[Xaph]

The United States vote No.

[scorpion]

France votes No.

[Coin]

République démocratique du Congo

The Democratic Republic of the Congo would call for the United Nations to be able to send aid and investigators to the territory variously described as East Pakistan and Bangladesh, that we might assertain the truth of the allegations, and whatever truth might be in them.

[Luc]

Republic of Cuba

What is currently underway in Bangladesh is no simple military action. It is a genocide, pure and simple. The nations of this body who do not support this resolution should be seen by the peoples of this earth as direct sponsors of such cruel Pakistani attitude. Due to that, the Republic of Cuba votes YES for this resolution.

[Smyg]

Syrian Arab Republic

While Syria unequivocally condemns the deaths and other crimes against the people of East Pakistan, apparently committed by a nation we have considered a friend to Syria and the Arab people, we must protest the language of this resolution on what appears to a Pakistani internal affair. Until such a time as it provides an avenue for international mediation and investigation between the involved parties -which, one might note, appears to include the Republic of India themselves- we will abstain.

Libyan Arab Republic

We will, although deeply sympathetic to the Indian cause and the plight of our Muslim brothers in Bangladesh, for now abstain. Arab unity is of the utmost importance, and we will hold off until further evidence has been presented, at which point we will sadly condemned our Pakistani kinsmen.