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...They have all the guns," he said of the West Pakistanis at the time. "They can kill me, but let them know that they cannot kill the spirit of the 75 million people of Bengal." Soon afterward, Pakistan's dictator, General Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, packed Mujib off to a desert prison cell under sentence of death. In a brutal military pogrom, the West Pakistanis proceeded to massacre 3 million Bengalis; 10 million others fled to India for refuge. After India entered the war and crushed Pakistani forces nine months later, Yahya was himself placed under house arrest...
...have taken is essentially a political action. I haven't arrested a single one of those people in the National Awami Party who have got historical links with India on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other. I don't want to do the Yahya Khan bit [a reference to his predecessor, who had arrested Sheik Mujibur Rahman, now Prime Minister of Bangladesh, for treason]. I don't want to brand people as traitors or indulge in recriminations and spoil the atmosphere. I will proceed with political surgery...
...alcoholic fog hovered over President's House in Rawalpindi six weeks ago when Pakistan's General Yahya Khan handed over the reins of power to Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. As one Pakistani official says of the general: "He was far too drunk to say anything about anything to Bhutto...
After Bhutto set him free, Mujib flew* first to London-where he stayed in the same special suite at Claridge's used by former Pakistani President Yahya Khan-and then to New Delhi. There he was greeted with honors by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. In Dacca, Mujib's first major decision was that Bangladesh would have a parliamentary democracy on the order of Britain's, rather than the presidential system set up by the government in exile. He relinquished the presidency conferred upon him in his absence last April by the exiled Bengali leaders and assumed...
...same day that he released Sheik Mujibur Rahman and saw him off to London, Pakistan President Zulfikar Ali Bhutto-in a supreme irony -ordered the house arrest of his predecessor, Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan, the man who imprisoned Mujib in the first place...