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

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An excerpt from the telegram reads, "Our government has failed to denounce the suppression of democracy. Our government has failed to denounce atrocities.... Our government has evidenced what many will consider moral bankruptcy...."
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to intervene. Blood later described the response from Washington as "deafening" silence. Then Blood and his staff created a dissent cable, the Blood telegram.
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Gary J. Bass is an American journalist and a professor of politics and international affairs at
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History
hardcover
paperback
ISBN
978-0-307-70020-9
Gary J. Bass
The Blood telegram
state department
Bangladesh genocide
Archer Blood
Dhaka
East Pakistan
Princeton University
1970 Pakistani general election
Yahya Khan
Awami League
Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
Bengali
East Pakistan
Punjab
West Pakistan
Hinduphobic, anti-Bengali Bangladesh Genocide
Washington, D.C.
Richard Nixon
Henry Kissinger
China
Dexter Filkins
The New York Times
Lionel Gelber Prize

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