HORRIFYING PROSPECT
The thought of what the refugees and their involuntary hosts are going through is bad enough; the prospect of what the result might be is horrfying.
Just imagine : the equivalent of one-third of Australia’s population wandering about with no home, no food, no anything, save the probability of dying one way or another. It is all but impossible to visualise the full horror of what is happening in a place that has already had more than its share of misery.
This is why it is so bitterly disgraceful that those who are best placed to provide the most helf have been most reluctant to do so. The silence is shattering.
THE AUSTRALIAN, 03.06.1971
Source : Banglades Documents. P. 498