This fiery speech was delievered by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto at the UN Security Council waving his hands and index finger condemning India for aggression and declaring "we will fight for a thousand years" before ripping apart some Security Council papers and storming out of the hall. After two weeks of fierce fighting, both nations faced considerable political pressure from the US, the UK and the Soviet Union and agreed to a ceasefire sponsored by the UN The conflict had resulted in a stalemate. This video is an excerpt of the whole speech. And the text of whole speech can be found at www.bhutto.org The subtitle of this excerpt is as following : My Country Beckons Me Speech at the Security Council, New York, December 15, 1971 Yesterday my eleven year old son telephoned me from Karachi and said "Do not come back with a document of surrender. We do not want to see you back in Pakistan if you do that." I will not take back a document of surrender from the Security Council. I will not be a party to the legalization of aggression. The Security Council has failed miserably, shamefully. For four days we have been deliberating here. For four days the Security Council has procrastinated. Why? Because the object was for Dacca to fall. That was the object. It was quite clear to me from the beginning. All right, so what if Dacca falls? So what if the whole of East Pakistan falls? So what if the whole of West Pakistan falls? So what if our state is obliterated? We will build a new Pakistan <b>...</b>
Published: 2009-01-15 23:49:06+00:00