Even to get Yahya Khan to reason was an impossible task - it only made you lose your temper.

[Tikka Khan] went to East Pakistan with precise orders and came back by precise orders. He did what he was ordered to do, though he wasn't always in agreement, and I picked him because I know he'll follow my orders with the same discipline.

For instance, in the name of unity. You can't build without destroying.

Yes, there are circumstances where a bloody suppression is justifiable and justified.

Mujib [Rahman] talks at random, depending on his mood and the disorders of his sick mind.

There's only one man really responsible for those events - Yahya Khan. Both he and his advisers were so drunk with power and corruption they'd even forgotten the honor of the army.

[Mujib Rahman] is mad, mad! And they're all mad, the press included, who repeat after him, "Three million dead, three million dead!" The Indians had let out the figure of one million. He came along and doubled it. Then tripled it. It's a characteristic of the man - he'd done the same for the hurricane.