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> Archer Blood, the State Department’s consul general in Bengal, sent a cable to Washington on March 27. “Here in Decca we are mute and horrified witnesses to a reign of terror by the Pak[istani] military,” Blood wrote. “Evidence continues to mount that the MLA authorities have list of AWAMI League supporters whom they are systematically eliminating by seeking them out in their homes and shooting them down.

> He and 20 diplomats later sent a famous protest telegram in which he called what was occurring “genocide.” Kissinger responded to Blood’s complaints by dismissing him from his post. “The use of power against seeming odds pays off,” Kissinger observed regarding the crackdown.

It is important to keep in mind that Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.

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you realize Nobel peace prize is a bad joke and shame stain on other, serious Nobel prices?

Yap, that's the gist of my post. It was just highlighting the irony.

Yeah, one guy in the recent past actually got one for, basically, "not being George Bush".

Probably because he started diplomatic relations with China, pulled us out of Vietnam and didn't start or escalate a military conflict.

You want to throw all that out because of a strongly worded letter related to a territorial dispute that is still going on 40 years later?

He's also responsible for numerous foreign policy failures (with genocidal results) as well. He's generally considered a polarizing figure. He doesn't strike me as a deserving candidate

> The death toll is commonly estimated between at 200,000 and 3 million. Kissinger’s tacit support for the massacres in Bangladesh is one of many incidents contributing to his poor record on human rights.

such a person should be sent for life in hardest prison or executed, not walking around with such an award.

I mean, read the article. he laughs about masacres being done. some days, I feel ashamed to be part of the mankind for what we're doing here or there. today is another day like that

Probably because he started diplomatic relations with China, pulled us out of Vietnam

The U.S. left Vietnam because it lost the political will to continue in a mission that most of its citizenry began to see as a lost cause (on the heels of various other troubles on the domestic front). Kissinger, Nixon, and everyone else was just following the music, by that point.

[And because he] didn't start or escalate a military conflict.

Cambodia?

You want to throw all that out because of a strongly worded letter related to a territorial dispute that is still going on 40 years later?

That's not what the person above you was saying, of course.

It's hard to imagine a description of Kissinger that is more unfounded and, sorry to say, more ill-informed than this one.

He was awarded the Nobel for the failed cease-fire negotiation with Vietnam in 1973, that war dragged on for two more bloody years before USA would admit that it had lost. Meanwhile he was illegally carpet bombing Cambodia, as well as kidnapping and murdering his way through latin america.

> USA would admit that it had lost

When Nixon announced this to the nation, his newspeak term for it was "peace with honor in Vietnam."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXTiz8F6S5E

I downvoted you for making ahistorical claims.

> ... and didn't start or escalate a military conflict.

So all those killings that took place in South America were not military conflicts.

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