Reddit reviews The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide

Targetting minorities and intellectuals to begin with. With death count of 300,000 ~ 3 million. How is this not genocide? Just because of cold war politics the West chose to ignore this.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/30/opinion/nixon-and-kissingers-forgotten-shame.html

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2013/09/23/unholy-alliances-3

There are tapes of US counse in Bangladesh describing genocide to Nixon, who choose to ignore it. And abuse India for helping Bangladeshi Insurgents. More than 10 million refugees had fled to India during the war.

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Kissinger-Forgotten-Genocide/dp/0307744620

Shame Pakistan it seems? It has blood of millions of Bengalis and you are talking about shame?

Try this one http://www.amazon.com/The-Blood-Telegram-Gary-Bass/dp/0307744620

I'm firmly in the first camp, I think the influence of the US government is generally a net negative; not just in terms of a fiscal perspective, but in terms of basic humanitarian perspective.

For example, I was just reading reviews of The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and the Forgotten Genocide (2014) in The New York Times and The Economist, that blasts the Nixon Administration for willfully supporting Pakistan during the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War and the ensuing genocide.

And this is just one example of the immense bloodshed, violence, and cynicism that has time and time again defined the way the US government approaches its geopolitical and foreign policy goals, and how it chooses and cultivates its allies. This has been the case whether you're looking at the systemic policies of indiscriminate, mass violence that defined policy in Vietnam, to the various forms of criminal militarism that defined the US invasion and occupation of Iraq.

If you haven’t read the book, I highly recommend it. Prepare to be outraged.

theres a book done by an american historian called the blood telegram

pretty dope book

This book is what shaped my thinking on the Bangladeshi independence war: https://amazon.com/Blood-Telegram-Kissinger-Forgotten-Genocide/dp/0307744620. One of the things it points out is that the groups you mentioned were killing and raping in Bangladesh first. This does NOT excuse the Mukti Bahini for doing the same; it is inhuman and wrong, and they should have figured out another way to establish deterrence. There is blood on both sides. But, it /is/ on both sides -- it wasn't one side attacking the other unprovoked, as your comment might suggest at first glance.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Blood-Telegram-Gary-Bass/dp/0307744620

http://www.amazon.com/Kissingers-Shadow-Americas-Controversial-Statesman/dp/1627794492