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EthicalMUN II Dear Delegates: Welcome to Ethical MUN II! First a little about your chairs! All three of us are sophomores at Fieldston, Lily has been involved in Model UN since 7th grade, and this will be her second time chairing at EMUNC. Besides Model UN, she enjoys coaching sailing in the summer, playing softball, and spending time with her friends. Theo Dassin Alex has been involved in Model UN since freshman year and this will be his Co-Secretary General second time chairing at EMUNC. Alex loves playing tennis...asdjf;. Besides Model UN Sam enjoys playing lacrosse, skiing, and spending time with his family. Iva Knezevic Back to work! We are incredibly excited to be chairing this this three way Co-Secretary General Joint Crisis Committee on the Indo-Pakistani War. Your background guide has been carefully written so as to include information essential and beneficial to your Alex Keswani understanding of this complex issue, and urge you to read thoroughly, but also Chief of Staff suggest you read the background guides of the other two rooms as well as some thorough outside research. In order to navigate this committee successfully, you Jacob Greene must be well versed in your own perspective, but more importantly be well versed in Chief of Staff the perspectives of others. In this committee, we want to see solutions that are creative and unique. We know how imaginative your young minds can be, so as long Ryan Kelly as you are realistic anything is plausible. We hope to see collaborations both in and out of the room, as this will only strengthen your solutions and ideas. Our main goal Vice-Secretary of as your committee chairs is to have all of you work together and engage in Committees meaningful and substantive structured debate while strengthening your crisis management skills. We anticipate providing a novel experience that will allow all of Olivia Becker you to become better delegates while learning, and having fun. Vice-Secretary of We know that for some of you this may be your first Model UN experience, Administration so we hope that our committee will provide a safe and fun space for you to learn the “ins and outs” of a JCC committee. For those of you who are more experienced, we Halle Friedman hope this will be an enjoyable experience where you can let your debate and Vice-Secretary of international policy skills shine. As India continues to battle Pakistan, the citizens Outreach and soldiers alike who call this great nation their home turn to you, the Indian cabinet, to see what will happen next. Leilani Elkaslasy Please feel free to contact us at [email protected], Community Service [email protected], or [email protected] with any questions! We look Director forward to meeting you all in May. Good Luck! Best Regards, Lily Josephson, Alex Zlotchenko, and Sam Gold JCC: India EthicalMUN II Crisis Committee Description: with that despot Yayha Khan of Pakistan. Thus, a direct confrontation with Pakistan It’s 1971. Led Zeppelin’s about to provoked by us may lead to quick escalation release their best album, microprocessors are and unpleasant scenarios one does not yet fast catching on, John Lennon is still alive, wish to imagine. Furthermore, a partition and oh! Revolution is in the air comrades. could again lead to a massive influx of India’s got its fair share of problems, but our refugees to India and instability in the pesky neighbors in the west have trouble already disturbed region of West Bengal. brewing in their backyard. East Pakistan, the And since India is a land of so many better half of Pakistan (otherwise known as cultures, helping a country divide on the Bangladesh,) has been causing trouble for basis of different cultures could massively the leaders sitting in Islamabad with backfire on us. We won’t be currying favor secessionist ideas that have been floating with the international community either if around in Dacca and other parts of their we are caught openly as playing territory. East & West Pakistan are the troublemaker. much-touted two-state solution founded on the basis that a country with a unified religion will be more stable. Its creation led to much bloodshed and a messy partition of the glorious landmass of what was once a unified India. The leaders of India sense opportunity. This is a golden chance to divide Pakistan and make our enemies weaker, establish ourselves as the leaders of the South Asian region, and help democracy in the process. However, we have a long and treacherous path ahead of us. We’re still licking our wounds from our defeat by China in our first war as an independent country. Furthermore, the United States of But we cannot ignore the pleas and protests America under the (gloriously disastrous) of our fellow men who so desperately crave rule of Nixon have sided themselves firmly 1 JCC: India EthicalMUN II Crisis to liberate themselves from such a draconian landmass of India. The last act of British nation’s constraints. While we risk looking rule left the subcontinent in shambles after like the villains nosing for selfish reasons an extremely messy partition of our country (which granted, do exist), we must act for a on the basis of religion that has had severe higher cause. It is our moral obligation and ramifications to this day. India and Pakistan our duty to help them achieve it. India do not enjoy the warmest bilateral relations stands for the principles of human rights, with each other. India, under the Congress freedom and democracy, the very antithesis Party (popular Indian Party fighting for of the Pakistani administration. And to Independence) leader and future Prime ensure our principles and values triumph Minsiter Jawahar Lal Nehru pleaded with will be the best damn victory we will ever Viceroy Mountbatten (the British Head of achieve. Colonial India) and other Imperial Officials to not divide the country upon Background Information: Independence. However, on the insistence of Muhammed Ali Jinhah, the founder of The Situation in the Indian Pakistan and leader of All-India Muslim Subcontinent: League, the country went through a partition General Yahya Khan, the right before it tasted Independence. This magnificently incompetent dictator of partition was based on the underlying Pakistan, recently announced he would be principle of religion, with India (called stepping down. Thus Pakistan, in a rare and Hindustan in Hindi) being the land of surprising win for the suffrage supporters, Hindus and East and West Pakistan being held an open and fair election. However, the country of Muslims. The idea was that there was one problem that Yahya, and the countries with a unifying religion would be main front-runner political heavyweight of inherently more stable (if only they knew West Pakistan Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, did not what it looks like today) On India’s west, anticipate: the elections were won by a bordering the states of Punjab, Jammu & Bengali activist sitting thousands of miles Kashmir, Rajasthan and Gujarat is West away from them in East Pakistan, Mujibur Pakistan. And to India’s east, bordering Rahman. East Pakistan is the other half of West Bengal, is East Pakistan. While the West Pakistan, separated only by the religion most prolifically practiced in East 2 JCC: India EthicalMUN II Crisis Pakistan is Islam, the population shares us? Because the geo-political power struggle more in common with their counterparts in in South Asia has been largely missing a West Bengal than their countrymen in West single dominating power due to a lack of Pakistan. They speak the same regional precedence of might by Pakistan or India. dialect Bengali, and have a plethora of The current situation is ripe for exploitation. cultural similarities while West Pakistan has Creation of Pakistan had always been various subsets of people and a native considered the worst mistake of the British language of Urdu. East Pakistan also had a (and believe me they have a huge list of Hindu minority unlike West Pakistan. But mistakes) by us Indians and helping East why does this pose a problem? Because East Pakistan secede would be the perfect stage Pakistan never wanted to exist under the to prove how Pakistan’s “two state” solution shadow of West Pakistan. The Bengalis is fundamentally flawed, weaken our biggest there always wanted to secede, and threat to national security, and help us autonomy was their top priority. The emerge as the victor of this geo-political government in the west had long neglected struggle: a perfect trifecta. However, history them and their differences were more than has proven that nothing is truer than the enough reason to provide weight to their proverb ‘no pain no gain’. Yahya and independence argument. However, the USA Pakistan won’t let such ideas of carving up was firmly for an undivided Pakistan. their country float around without Here’s where the plot thickens: repercussions, and India could be caught in Mujibur Rahman, the populist leader of East the crossfire of this independence struggle. Pakistan and his Party Awami league won India’s partition in 1947 rendered millions 141 seats in the elections, losing only 2 in of families homeless, which led to mass the East. This makes Mujibur Rahman set to migration movements, uprooting households become the Prime Minister of all of that had existed for centuries. It also led to Pakistan. Rumors are afoot that he wants to both Pakistan and India being forced to use his current position to secede and create accommodate these refugees when they an independent “desh” (Country), which weren’t capable of supporting them.