![]() ![]() “There was clear targeting of Hindus,” says Scott Butcher.Another old man, pan stained teeth, mucus glazed eyes, (glaucoma or tears?), whimpered the loss of his family.” A tall, frail Bengali man took Myers to his scorched house: “a room with a rice ash heap and charcoaled bed stead, nothing remained to show us that his three children and wife had lived there, died there. The handful of villagers who had returned told their stories through sobs. The rice mills were burned to charcoal, the rice to ash. ![]() The army had “lined up people from their houses, shot down the lines, killing close to six hundred.” The people in nearby villages heard the gunfire and fled. Myers wrote a desolate letter home to his friends lamenting what he had seen in a small, impoverished Hindu village in the countryside.The Blood Telegram is a state department dissent memo on American policy during the 1971 Bangladesh genocide sent by Archer Blood the American Consul General to Dhaka, East Pakistan. The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide is a 2013 book by American journalist and academic Gary J. ![]()
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