1971-12-11
By United Press International
Page: 12
NEW DELHI, Dec. 10 (UPI) — Prime Minister Indira Gandhi told 100,000 college students at a rally today that India would keep fighting until Pakistani troops were driven from East Pakistan.
Mrs. Gandhi said that the Government was considering the United Nations ceasefire resolution but that “nothing can deter us from driving the occupation forces out of the region and helping the Bangle Desh people to live in peace and prosperity.”
“Fight well, my countrymen,” she said later in a broadcast to the armed forces. “Victory will be ours.”
In remarks apparently aimed at the United States, Mrs. Gandhi told the students that “certain countries giving us aid are angry with us because we could not possibly act on their advice, which we thought was not in our country's interests.”