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Let Vajpayee's Address on 9/11 Not Gather Dust !

Aroon Sharma
Sep 2011

(How could an author of Rudrangshu Mukherjee's standing miss out on what could have been numbered 55th in “The Great Speech Speeches of Modern India' by Random House India ? Could be he was up against a wall at the archives at All India Radio as well as the Door Darshan, as I was. Limitations of space, force me to pick up select excerpts from the speech by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajapayee on 9/11. ( Mr Rudrangshu Mukherjee is welcome to have the full text from my personal archives ).

Telecast/broadcast over AIR/DD on September 14, 2001, three days after the Twin Towers were hit into history, Prime Minister AB Vajpayee envisioned fears of India:

“As you know, terrorists have struck yet another blow at the United States of America, at humanity, at the civilized way of life….But I have not the slightest doubt about the eventual outcome. Democracies, open, free and plural societies will prevail….Our prayers rise for those who have been killed. Our hearts go out to those who have lost their loved ones. Every Indian feels for them….More than that, at least 53,000 families in India know exactly the pain they are going through at the moment….

“….for terrorists have mowed and blown up that number here in India over the last two decades….For years, we in India have been alerting others to the fact that terrorism is a scourge of all of humanity, that what happens in Mumbai one day is bound to happen elsewhere tomorrow, that the poison that propels mercenaries and terrorists to kill and maim in Jammu and Kashmir will impel the same sort to blow up people elsewhere….In the address I had delivered at the joint meeting of the United States….

“….Congress a year ago, I had said:…I know such evil cannot succeed….But even in failing, it could inflict untold suffering….That is why the United States and India have begun to deepen their co-operation for combating terrorism…. I have reiterated to President Bush that what the terrorists have done have done sends a strong message to democracies (that we ) redouble our efforts to defeat this grave threat to our peoples, our values, and our way of life….We stand ready to co-operate with you….

“….and to strengthen our partnership in leading international efforts to ensure that terrorism never succeeds again….The Comprehensive Convention Against Terrorism is ready….Those who wreck evil have their networks across the world….We must stamp out the infrastructure that imparts the perverse the ideological poison by which the terrorist is fired up….We must hold governments wholly accountable for the terrorism that originates from their countries….the death inflicted on some….

“….distant people is as revolting as death inflicted upon us….the perpetrators of such horrors be brought to justice….The world must join hands to overwhelm them militarily, to neutralize their poison….no religion preaches terrorism….The fiendish destruction in the US has immediate consequences for us, it has direct lessons for us….Our heartfelt condolences (also ) to the families of the numerous Indians and Indian Americans who have lost their lives. These were our children, who were using their….

“….genius to unite India and the United States in a common quest for a strong and peaceful future. Their death binds our two countries in a common resolve to defeat forever the forces of terror….All who love freedom – people as well as governments – in all democracies must stand firm, and united and resolute….all in India, all of us must be one….Every Indian has to be a part of this global war on terrorism….We must and we will stamp out this evil of terrorism from our land, and from the world.

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