Tag: Selective Genocide

1971: In US Senate, Ted Kennedy spoke for Bangladesh’s independence

▶️ US maintained that it was an internal affair of Pakistan▶️ On May 3, the Senator called for UN intervention▶️ On November 1, Kennedy’s report revealed plights of refugees On the third day of May 1971, the ruthless Pakistani military of General AMA Yahya Khan was conducting the genocidal “Operational Searchlight” in East Pakistan: butchering…

15/01/2025
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…

27/03/2020