Karachi airport. They do not know what will happen to them. They are also being butchered. Therefore, I would request Government to permit them a safe passage through India over-route either by train or otherwise and by giving them all sorts of facilities for going back to their homeland.
In conclusion, I would say that this is a momentous occasions. Let us not fail in this historic moment. Let the Prime Minister act as a courageous daughter of Mother Indian, raise the banner of defending revolution in Bangladesh and act up to the dawn of a future India.
My salute to Bangladesh! Jai Bangla Jai Hind! Mujibur Rahman zindabad. Netaji Zindabad! Netaji is the inspiration of Mujibur Rahman. I personally know that.
SHRI A.K. SEN (Calcutta North East): This is not merely a grave moment but a very proud moment, and we are all happy to see, though very anguished, that an entire nation has risen in revolution, and merely revolt against the oppressors who have been exploiting them for years and decades. Many of the areas which are now crimson red with human blood are known to us personally. There were scenes in them in our struggle for freedom, where thousands of martyrs had shed their blood under the British bullets. Happily again, those are the scenes again where the bullet of West Pakistan have come to now down millions of innocent people who only want to live like decent citizens and want to cherish the great rights to which they are entitled. What have they done?
They have merely voted their leader to power. They have voluntarily given all the authority to that leader. IIc did not wrest authority by military force like Ayub Khan or Yahya Khan. People gave all authority to him voluntarily, and the consent of the people was writ large everywhere. When these great leaders of the military were these in East Pakistan, they saw with their own eyes the flat of Bangladesh flying aloft every house and every building expert the Government IIouse and the military headquarters, and as a punishment, the military have unleashed the engines of war on an entirely innocent people house number about 70 million. Millions of women have come out into the streets, and we are all proud of them. They are the flesh of our flesh and the blood of our blood. They are people who still speak one of our languages. The songs that they have been singing on the radio have inspired our people for ages. And there are the people to lie who are going butchered by these brigands brought across the seas and armed with foreign arms for the purpose of killing these innocent individuals, men, women and children.
I recall those days when our Prime Minister's great father called the conscience of the world to unite against the Dutch who ferried across the sea their soldiers to suppress the freedom moment in Indonesia. That moment has again arrived. I would appeal to our Prime Minister to take the same leadership.
But this is not the voice of Bangladesh alone. This is not the voice of West Bengal alone. It is not our individual voices, but the voice of Asia, the voice of the colonial world which is speaking out to the whole humanity for succour and help in their hour of distress and their hour of enslavement.
