When US supported Pak military bloodshed in Bangladesh

[Bamboo Castle]

More than four decades ago, the Nixon Administration knowingly broke US law to help Pakistani army against Bangladesh and encouraged China to mass troops on Indian border to oppose the strong stand taken by the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, according to a new book.

In his latest book, Princeton historian Gary Bass 'The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger and a Forgotten Genocide' documents how the then US President Richard Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger supported Pakistan military dictatorship as it brutally quashed the results of a historic free election.

The Pakistani army launched a crackdown on East Pakistan, killing hundreds of thousands of people and sending ten million refugees fleeing to India - one of the worst humanitarian crisis of the 20th century.

The author writes in the latest book, which is scheduled to hit the book market on September 24, how Nixon-Kissinger hated both India and Indira Gandhi and tried their level best to oppose the strong moral stand taken by the then Indian Prime Minister.

Nixon and Kissinger thought in Cold War terms but also indulged in their personal disdain for India and its leader Indira Gandhi, Bass writes in the book, adding that they even secretly encourages China to mass troops on their India border, and illegally supplied weapons to the Pakistani military, all while censoring American officials who dared to speak up.

Based on previously unheard White House tapes, the book gives a fresh insight into the Nixon-Kissinger hatred against Indira Gandhi, and how the then American leadership supported the butchering of innocent people, who dared to speak their voice and vote against Islamabad.

As India under the strong leadership of Indira Gandhi decided to rescue the lives of people of then East Pakistan from the brutality of the Pakistani military, Bass writes in the book - running into nearly 500 pages - that Kissinger proposed three "dangerous" initiatives against India.

"The United States would illegally allow Iran and Jordan to send squadrons of US aircraft to Pakistan, secretly asks China to mass its troops on the Indian border, and deploy a US aircraft carrier group to the Bay of Bengal to threaten India. He urged Nixon to stun India with all three moves simultaneously," Bass wrote.



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[UKBengali]

Past is the past.

The old Pakistan was proven to be a mistake, so let us just move on now.

 

[Kompromat]

Pakistani military's bloodshed on Bangaldeshis says an Indian newspaper - Enough said!

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

Pakistani military's bloodshed on Bangaldeshis says an Indian newspaper - Enough said!

Ignoring all facts; blaming the Pakistanis for everything is insane. There is no fire without smokes, no winds in the map ..

 

[Kompromat]

Ignoring all facts; blaming the Pakistanis for everything is insane. There is no fire without smokes, no winds in the map ..

We are ready to take the blame, the Bangladeshis aren't willing to blame us and normalize ties. They have a govt that is a yes man to New Delhi.

 

[45'22']

Pakistani military's bloodshed on Bangaldeshis says an Indian newspaper - Enough said!

though its an Indian newspaper but the article is not written by an Indian journalist
so no need to bash India

 

[UKBengali]

We are ready to take the blame, the Bangladeshis aren't willing to blame is and normalize ties. They have a govt that is a yes man to New Delhi.

That is not the opinion of the majority of Bangladeshi's.

We should let bygones be bygones and build a strong relationship for mutual benefits.

 

[45'22']

Ignoring all facts; blaming the Pakistanis for everything is insane. There is no fire without smokes, no winds in the map ..

the article is not blaming Pakistani's

its about Nixon and kissengers hatred against Indira Gandhi and India

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

We are ready to take the blame, the Bangladeshis aren't willing to blame is and normalize ties. They have a govt that is a yes man to New Delhi.

That's more than enough for now then..

That is not the opinion of the majority of Bangladeshi's.

We should let bygones be bygones and build a strong relationship for mutual benefits.

Pakistan doesn't suit you homie

the article is not blaming Pakistani's

its about Nixon and kissengers hatred against Indira Gandhi and India

I was replying to Aeronaut; not to the article .-.

 

[kurup]

Pakistani military's bloodshed on Bangaldeshis says an Indian newspaper - Enough said!

As if this is the first time anybody is accusing pakistan of mass-murders during the events of 71 .

 

[UKBengali]

Pakistan doesn't suit you homie

What on earth do you mean by this?

 

[Yzd Khalifa]

What on earth do you mean by this?

Go figire

Your Gov't doesn't deserve any damn thing.

 

[qamar1990]

well i heard indian army did alot of the killings and a bangladeshi hindu lady wrote book about it.
pakistan and bangladesh need to good friends and unite against india the menace.
its sad to see that we aren't the same country anymore but it was bound to happen when the distance is too great and separated by a evil enemy, but we are still muslim brothers.

 

[UKBengali]

Go figire

Your Gov't doesn't deserve any damn thing.

I suggest you think more and post less for your own good.

well i heard indian army did alot of the killings and a bangladeshi hindu lady wrote book about it.
pakistan and bangladesh need to good friends and unite against india the menace.
its sad to see that we aren't the same country anymore but it was bound to happen when the distance is too great and separated by a evil enemy, but we are still muslim brothers.

Yes - India is just far too big for either BD or Pakistan to handle alone.

Pakistan needs to sort it's economy and BD needs to use it's growing economy to build a much larger conventional military.

With both a strong Pakistani, BD military and also the Chinese in the North-East of India, then India will not be able to throw it's weight around anymore.

 

[Kompromat]

@UKBengali

What @Yzd Khalifa is saying that if you want to normalize ties with Pakistan, you'd need to accept our sincere efforts to put forward apologies to Bangladesh for what happened in the past. Your govt doesn't respond - therefore doesn't deserve any of our help when you reach at the loggerheads with the Indians or burmese.