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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.

Zulfikar Ali Bhutto

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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
Age: 51 †
Born: 1928
Born: January 5
Died: 1979
Died: April 4
Diplomat
Former Prime Minister Of Pakistan
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Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
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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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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.
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Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.
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I am guiding you to seek truth from the facts of the historical conditions of our society and to identify the problems. The correct solutions will come with the correct identification of the problems.
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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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What can you say of a leader who starts drinking as soon as he wakes up and doesn't stop until he goes to bed? You've no idea how painful it was to deal with Yahya Khan. He was really Jack the Ripper.
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Yahya Khan wasn't interested in the government of the country, he was interested in power for its own sake and nothing else.
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I can't destroy the whole army, and anyway [Tikka Khan] bad reputation for the events in Dacca is exaggerated.
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[Yahya Khan ] I have a big problem on my hands with him. I've set up a war commission to study the responsibilities inherent in the recent conflict.
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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'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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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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Tikka Khan was a soldier doing a soldier's job.
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There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.
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If the people wanted my head I would bow without demur. If I had lost the confidence or respect of the people I would not want to live. The tragedy of the drama is that the very opposite is true.
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Every government, every country, has the right to exercise force when necessary.
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I'm not trying to minimize things I'm trying to bring them back to reality.
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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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For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.
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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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