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

To build a country, [Joseph] Stalin was obliged to use force and kill. Mao Tse-tung was obliged to use force and kill. To mention only two recent cases, without raking over the whole history of the world.

We know who left the country. And many were Bengalis from West Bengal, sent from Calcutta. It was she who sent them - Mrs.[Indira] Gandhi.

I would not let myself be intimidated by Yahya Khan, his methods had led us to disaster.

[Tikka Khan] made his appeal with loudspeakers, and still he came to know of only four cases. Shall we multiply by ten and make it forty? We're still far from the senseless figures spread around by Mujib [Rahman] and Indra Gandhi.

I'm not trying to minimize things; I'm trying to bring them back to reality.

A regime which puts in a bunker the highest law in the land does not have the moral authority to say that nobody is above the law.