পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৭৫৬

a○○ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড The people who have been elected by the public of Bangladesh. By that I did not mean these new people who have come in unopposed by any means. So, we have all along stressed the main and the basic issues involved and tried to draw people's attention to it. Now, it has been Pakistan's consistent effort to try to internationalize the issues and to try to turn it into an Indo Pak dispute. This is what I had to face everywhere. Everywhere they said If only you will agree to talk to General Yahya Khan if only your Foreign Minister can go or your representative can go, then things will be solved. It is in answer to them that I had to say that they will not be solved because this is not our country and it is only the people of the country who can solve their problems or who can state them. Naturally I had to say that Sheikh Mujibur Rahman is their undisputed leader and he is the person who is the most authorized to speak on their behalf but I did add that in order to voice the opinion of the people of Bangladesh, he must be free. He must be able to know what is happening in Bangladesh. He cannot express his opinion if he has had on knowledge of what has happened and what is happening as is to be the case. So, this attempt to bring the whole matter to the Security Council, I think is part of the same game that is to confuse the realities of the situation, and those who are moving in this direction cannot but be suspect in the eyes of the Indian people. Kashmir, of course, is as much a part of India as Gujarat or Maharashtra or any other part of the country and any attack there as any attack anywhere else will be repulsed and fought with all the strength at our command. The hon. Member who spoke just before me, has given you, in brief, an account of what happened in the earlier periods that in both the wars which we have had on the borders o Kashmir in 1974 and 1965 we did not have adequate forces there for good reasons. The people the common people the Gujjars, the peasant or the other people stood so solidly with us. They brought the first news, that the people were coming and doing propaganda against us. They gave all this news. They were the first in the line of resistance and we were able to stand up to those invasions which in the beginning were not obvious invasions they were hidden because they were infiltrators. Today also aggression in committed on India. As I said in my speeches there was a new kind of aggression. There Pakistani armies may not have massed on our soil, but it was an invasion when we have such a large proportion of the population of another country coming on to our soil. It is a kind of invasion. Now, many of them are genuine refugees in difficulties. Nevertheless, the problem that their coming has created does threaten the security of our country and the stability of our country amongst, them are people who are not genuine refugees. So from all these point of view they are threatening our security and, therefore it is a kind of aggression. Now we have remained restrained but we have silenced some Pakistani guns we have dealt with their tanks and we have brought down some of their intruding aircraft. But we have not posed a counter threat in any sense of the word. But we cannot allow the annihilation of the people next door to us. I mean this is what has to be very clearly understood by the world and which I did speak to them. It is not like two equal armies fighting there the Mukti Bahini and the West Pakistan troops. It is a fully equipped army fighting with the people some of whom have been trained in the East Pakistan Rifles and the East Bengal Regiment some of whom have trained very quickly in the various camps run by the leaders of these two Para military forces.