The Blood telegram
by Gary J. Bass · first published 1991
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A full-length account of the involvement of Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger in Pakistan's brutal 1970s military dictatorship argues that they encouraged China's military presence in India, illegally supplied weapons used in massacres and embraced military strategies that have negatively impacted geopolitics for decades. By the author of Freedom's Battle.
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This is the subject of an excellent book on Archer Blood: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Gary-J-Bass/dp/0307744...
on “The U.S. Navy Almost Fought the Soviets Over Bangladesh” ↗…chance at citizenship Given the opposition, the CAA law might be struck down. The absurdity of much of this thread is that measures which help active victims of genocide are being opposed. The book Blood Telegram, by Gary Bass about a state department memo, documents one aspect of how this genocide was buried. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_Kis...
on “India builds detention camps for up to 1.9M people not on citizens register” ↗…stopping it, the US and the UK dispatched Nuclear armed naval strike forces to defend the Pakistani right to commit genocide. All documented in the famous book by American Diplomat Gary Bass, called "The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide"[1]. He was (famously) fired for protesting American Policy supporting genocide. Just like when the CIA and MI6 got the democratically elected Mosaddegh govt.…
on “India explores setting up rupee trade accounts with Russia to soften sanctions” ↗No, Kissinger was far, far worse than any other recipient of the peace prize. Quote from Gary Bass, professor of politics and international affairs at Princeton University and author of "The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide:" "In at least one crucial part of the world, Kissinger’s legacy is fixed: In South Asia, Indians and Bangladeshis widely remember Kissinger as an unusually…
on “The Nobel Prize and the Laureate Are Inseparable” ↗I haven't read it but the summary here seems useful: https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Kissinger-Forgotten-Ge... > Giving an astonishing inside view of how the White House really works in a crisis, The Blood Telegram is an unprecedented chronicle of a pivotal but little-known chapter of…
on “Kissinger's killing fields” ↗> India created the situation in order to split Pakistan in half. Do you reject what the US ambassador wrote in Blood Telegram itself? As far as I have read, it wasn't that they created the situation, the genocide was already happening; they created a situation for an independent Bangladesh by supporting rebels. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blood_Telegram:_Nixon,_K...
on “U.S. university reverses decision to remove Olympic protest posters” ↗