919 ংলাদেশের স্বাধীনতা যুদ্ধ দলিলপত্রঃ ত্রয়োদশ খন্ড they come-not because we are looking after them well; in fact, we are looking after them extremely badly with our limited resources. There are bad sanitary conditions and many other evils. The refugees are living in most horrible conditions. Nonetheless, they come. Nobody wants to leave his home to live in such conditions unless there are compelling reasons to do so. These compelling reasons are the brutalities of the Pakistan Army, the denial of the rights of 75 million people, the total negation of everything that human life stands for, the deliberate attempt to hold under colonial rule 75 million persons whom they have exploited for 23 years. I have all the statistics here. I shall make a fuller statement to establish all these points. There is complete domination, complete subjugation, complete military butchery. Against that the people revolted. We hear a great deal about the revolutionary doctrine: peoples' rights. I do not know how these revolutionaries will be have when Bangladesh becomes independent, as it certainly will. It will become independent, not merely because India helps itIndia will continue to help it-but because the spirit of man in 75 million persons cannot be crushed. They have tried everything. They have tried military means. They have tried fictitious ad- ministration. They have tried phantom elections. They have put out bulletins, declarations nothing has any effect. Now, the Security Council is meeting and we are regaled with a long tirade about Indian wickedness for breaking up Pakistan in our selfish interests, to become a great power-quotations from various books and jurists and academicians. They have broken themselves up. We are facing the consequences. The only question now is: How do we stop this? It is not a Pakistan Representative that we have heard today: it is half a Pakistan Representative that we have heard today. The other half is waiting somewhere in the wings to be called. If the Security Council, in its wisdom, does not do it, the situation will not get better, it will get worse. Much has been said about a cease-fire. I have looked at some of these experiments floating around about a cease-fire. A cease-fire between whom and whom? Shall we release the Pakistani soldiers by a so-called cease-fire so that they can go on a rampage and kill the civilians in Dacca, in Chittagong, and in other places? Is this the kind of cease-fire we desire? Are the soldiers meant to fight and die for whatever cause they believe in, whether it is the cause of civilization or the cause of darkness, or are they to be relieved from this particular duty for which they have taken an oath so that they can go and butcher women and rape young girls of 19, 17, 15, #3, 11 and even less? I hear some jocular comments from the gallery. Perhaps we are privileged to near this humor, but I do not find it humorous at all. The Pakistani Delegation has probably arranged all this. Thank you. I do not find it at all humorous that women should be raped. And, this raping is not because of lust, but because of a deliberate campaign to humiliate people. In our part of the world, if a woman is raped it has various social consequences of a most unbearable nature, and many people, rather dramatically perhaps, say that it is better to be killed than to be raped. The Pakistan army knows that, and this campaign of rape is on a systematic basis so that the people of East Pakistan can be humiliated.
