পাতা:বাংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্র (দ্বাদশ খণ্ড).pdf/৮৭৮

brぐこ বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড What are we doing in order to enable them, what do we do to assist them, that they may perform their duties and tasks when they go back? I don't say that we should smuggle arms in to Bangladesh but we must help the Bangladesh refugees to use the opportunities to enable them to meet the onslaughts of Pakistan aggression. I would not and do not say anything in the way of suggesting that we should wage war against Pakistan or in Bangladesh. I have heard a great deal in this House from the Treasury Benches about the question being one of an internal affairs of Pakistan. I have heard the Foreign Minister say that or similar things on many occasions. Now, even if we say that Pakistani actions may be or may not be an "internal affairs," can the question of our recognizing a nation whom we deem to be such be an external affairs? Is it some external authority that should tell us? Should we reconcile ourselves to the position that other countries must tell us? I submit, Mr. Chairman that it is our own decision, our own decision alone and, no country can. therefore, have the right to threaten reprisals, or war. No time can be lost in this matter because, as situations develop new positions arise. There would be set up other “governments” in the area. I want to say deliberately, and whatever some people may say about my thinking, after I speak, I will and want to say, that our Government is laying the foundations for imperial interests seeking to convert East Bengal into another Vietnam. When I stated this on the first occasion when the matter of Bangladesh was raised in the Chamber, many eyebrows were raised. I say frankly, that the United States pumping in arms into Pakistan not only when our Foreign Minister was there in the United States but even after he quits and continuously is blatant evidence of American intervention. An HON’BLE MEMBER: Can you restrain China? MR. CHAIRMAN: No interference please. SHRI KRISHNA MENON: When arms which are not available to Pakistan's militarists otherwise, personnel which are not available to them otherwise, when they are made available for suppressing a government then there develops a situation same as in Indo-China. We are gradually drifting towards that. This country at present and fore few year now, I say this with all sense of responsibility has had no foreign policy worth mentioning. We drift from day to day into greater armless ness and peril. We seek to find out as to what is our position in this affair. We are neither for recognition of Bangladesh nor non-intervention like Britain in the Spanish Civil War, holding the ring for the aggressor. But our policy or the back of helps and abets the aggressor. Therefore. I appeal to this Government not to be imprisoned by its own folly. That is to say because they have said repeatedly by that they will not give reorganization. It is not that they say that they will not recognize, but that "the time has not come or is not appropriate." To the Government time is not by the clock; time is not by the event; then what is time by? It is only to be measured by the pace of the drift, which appears to be the policy. 16.00 hrs. One-tenth of the population of Pakistan-as Shri Indrajit Gupta has said, has been pushed out of Pakistan. This is an indirect form of aggression. When a State does not allow people to live in its own home territory but pushes them out into another in this