Thursday, September 17, 2009

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Speech @ Security Council on December 15, 1971



Yesterday my eleven year old son telephoned me from Karachi...
And he said to me "Do not come back with a document of surrender" ...
We do not want to see you back in Pakistan if you come like that".

I will not take back a document of surrender from the Security Council...
I will not be a party to the legalization of aggression...

The security council has failed miserably, shamefully ...
For 4 days we have deliberated here...
For 4 days the Security Council has procrastinated.
Why?

Because the object was for Dacca to fall...
That was the object, it was quite clear to me from the beginning...
Alright, so what if Dacca falls?
So what if the whole of East Pakistan falls?
So what if the whole of West Pakistan falls?
So what if we are obliterated?

We will build a new Pakistan ... We will build a better Pakistan.
We will build a greater Pakistan.

The security Council has acted short sightedly ... By ... acquiescing to the dilatory tactics.
You know! You have come to a point when we'll say "Do what you like”...

If before you had come to this point we could have made a commitment...
We could have said "Alright, we are prepared to do some things.”
Now why should we?

You want to silence us by guns ?
Silence our Voices by arms.
So why should we say that we shall agreeing to anything?
Now you decide what you like... Your decision will not be binding on us,
You can decide what you like... You can do... because...

If you had left us a margin of hope ... we might have been a party to some settlement.
I find it disgraceful to my person and to my country to remain here a moment longer than necessary...

But I am not boycotting... Impose!!! Impose any decision!!! ...
Have a Treaty worse than the Treaty of Versailles... Legalize aggression ... Legalize occupation...
Legalize everything that has been illegal till the 14th or 15th of December 1971.
I will not be a party to it.

We will fight; we will go back and fight.
my country beckons for me ...
Why should i waste my time here in the Security Council?
I am going!!!

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