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The Blood telegram Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide

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 g...

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Main Author: Bass, Gary Jonathan, 1969- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2013.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
United States > Foreign relations > 1969-1974.
Bangladesh > History > Revolution, 1971 > Atrocities.
Genocide > Bangladesh.
Nixon, Richard M. > (Richard Milhous), > 1913-1994.
Kissinger, Henry, > 1923-
United States > Foreign relations > South Asia.
South Asia > Foreign relations > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • South Asia, 1971
  • The tilt
  • Cyclone Pakistan
  • Mrs. Gandhi
  • "Mute and horrified witnesses"
  • The Blood telegram
  • The inferno next door
  • "Don't squeeze Yahya"
  • Exodus
  • India alone
  • The China channel
  • The East is Red
  • The Mukti Bahini
  • "The hell with the damn Congress"
  • Soviet friends
  • Kennedy
  • "We really slobbered over the old witch"
  • The guns of November
  • The fourteen-day war
  • "I consider this our Rhineland"
  • Aftermaths.

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