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To build a country, [Joseph] Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill. To mention only two recent cases, without raking over the whole history of the world.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Age: 51 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 5
Died: 1979
Died: April 4
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We(Pakistan) will eat grass, even go hungry, but we will get one of our own (Atom bomb).... We have no other choice!
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[Tikka Khan] went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to do, though he wasn't always in agreement, and I picked him because I know he'll follow my orders with the same discipline.
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[Mujib Rahman] is mad, mad! And they're all mad, the press included, who repeat after him, Three million dead, three million dead! The Indians had let out the figure of one million. He came along and doubled it. Then tripled it. It's a characteristic of the man - he'd done the same for the hurricane.
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I've known him since 1954 and I've never taken Mujib Rahiman seriously - I understood from the very first moment that there was no depth to him, no preparation, that he was an agitator breathing a lot of fire and with an absolute lack of ideas.
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I tried to explain that there was a great difference between me and Mujib [Rahiman]: he was a secessionist and I wasn't.
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For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.
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Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.
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[Tikka Khan] made his appeal with loudspeakers, and still he came to know of only four cases. Shall we multiply by ten and make it forty? We're still far from the senseless figures spread around by Mujib [Rahman] and Indra Gandhi.
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I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.
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Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.
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A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.
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Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.
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Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most non-allied.
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I don't say it in the Indian fashion that is hypocritically. I say it sincerely because, instead of hatred, I feel great compassion for Mujib Rahiman.
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Mrs. [Indira] Gandhi can rightly boast of having won a war, but if she won it, she should first of all thank Yahya Khan and his gang of illiterate psychopaths.
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We know who left the country. And many were Bengalis from West Bengal, sent from Calcutta. It was she who sent them - Mrs.[Indira] Gandhi.
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[Yahya Khan] thought of nothing but acquiring beautiful cars, building beautiful homes, making friends with bankers, and sending money abroad.
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I'm not trying to minimize things I'm trying to bring them back to reality.
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If things do not change, there will be nothing left to change. Either power must pass to the people or everything will perish.
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The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament.
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