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b>> বাংরাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ দ্বাদশ খন্ড We have been brought up in the peaceful traditions bequeathed to us by Mahatma Gandhi. We had never thought that we would be aggressors at any time. We had never conceived our role as an aggressor at any time but we have been victim of aggression perhaps for the fourth time by Pakistan. All the aggressions in the past had been repulsed by India but let me hope that this aggressions in the past had been repulsed by India but let me hope that this aggression would be more decisively repulsed so that the aggressor does not have the courage to do it again in future. Let us also be aware that the international community also must be fully ready with battery of steps that it might take. Some other important countries to might be ready with many good offices that they might like to offer. With full awareness of all this I have no doubt that our country will face up to this task with determination undiminished by any circumstances, and the Government will face up to this task with faith, confidence and fortitude of which the Prime Minister spoke in her broadcast last night. I have no doubt that the whole country, in whatever sections of the community we might be divided for other purposes, is going to rise as one man today and whatever tasks are assigned to us would be accomplished with perfection. We would not be satisfied with anything less perfection in every field of life. With these words, Mr. Speaker, I assure the Government of full support and cooperation on behalf of my party. In fact, it would sound trite but it is indeed important to emphasize that we are going to do all the best we can in the effort that would be required to mobilize the country against the aggressor. SHRI FRANK ANTHONY (Nominated-Anglo-Indians): Mr. Speaker, Sir I have the privilege to associate the Members of the United Independent Group with the sentiments that have fallen from the spokesmen of the other Groups. Only the other day, at the lunch you gave I told Senator Frank Church of America that I expected the Pakistan military junta to attack us in a few days. He asked me my reasons and I told him that the unspeakable atrocities of the Islamabad but other were coming home to roost and that he must have realized that he and his mercenaries could not hold on in Bangla Desh but that like every military dictator he had to save face and he could only save face by attacking us. And it has come. The spokesmen and representatives of every Party and Group in this House have pledged their unwavering, unstinted support to the Prime Minister and the Government in this hour of national crisis. But I think we are also at one on this that this time there cannot be and there just not be another Tashkent. The Security Council, the Governments of leading nations have looked on mutely with almost cynical inhumanity while the Islamabad butcher and his mercenaries were massacring more than a million innocent men, women and children, and committing mounting aggression against India by driving out over 10 million people on to our territory. Indeed, some Governments seem to have the temerity to tell us not even to defend our borders but to withdraw our troops while they were, in fact, abetting in word and deed this greatest genocide in history. I believe but for the abetment of genocide that even