Tag: General AMA Yahya

  • Why did Nixon sell lethal-end weapons to genocider Pakistan?

    Why did Nixon sell lethal-end weapons to genocider Pakistan?

    Pakistan had a request for five F-104 replacement aircraft and wanted to get 100 US-made second-hand M47 tanks, which were part of a promise to Gen Ayub Khan from President Lyndon Johnson during a stopover visit to Karachi airport in December 1967. After months of negotiations, President Richard Nixon on June 11, 1970, approved the…

  • THE BLOOD TELEGRAM: How a US envoy exposed genocide by Pakistan Army

    THE BLOOD TELEGRAM: How a US envoy exposed genocide by Pakistan Army

    While the Nixon-Kissinger administration continued supporting military strongman General AM Yahya Khan, who launched a crackdown to “maintain the integrity of Pakistan,” a diplomat in Dhaka urged the US government to express shock, describing the atrocities in a telegram on March 27, 1971. “Selective Genocide” was the title of the telegram sent by Consul General…

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