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Nixon and Kissinger’s Forgotten Shame
By GARY J. BASS
Published: September 29, 2013
Some of Bangladesh’s current problems stem from its traumatic birth in 1971 ― when President Richard M. Nixon and Henry A. Kissinger, his national security adviser, vigorously supported the killers and tormentors of a generation of Bangladeshis.
As recently declassified documents and White House tapes show, Nixon and Kissinger stood stoutly behind Pakistan’s generals, supporting the murderous regime at many of the most crucial moments. This largely overlooked horror ranks among the darkest chapters in the entire cold war.
Of course, no country, not even the United States, can prevent massacres everywhere in the world ― but this was a close American ally, which prized its warm relationship with the United States and used American weapons and military supplies against its own people.
Nixon and Kissinger were not just motivated by dispassionate realpolitik, weighing Pakistan’s help with the secret opening to China or India’s pro-Soviet leanings. The White House tapes capture their emotional rage, going far beyond Nixon’s habitual vulgarity. In the Oval Office, Nixon told Kissinger that the Indians needed “a mass famine.” Kissinger sneered at people who “bleed” for “the dying Bengalis.”
They were unmoved by the suffering of Bengalis, despite detailed reporting about the killing from Archer K. Blood, the brave United States consul general in East Pakistan.
After Mr. Blood’s consulate sent an extraordinary cable formally dissenting from American policy, decrying what it called genocide, Nixon and Kissinger ousted Mr. Blood from his post in East Pakistan. Kissinger privately scorned Mr. Blood as “this maniac”; Nixon called Mr. Keating “a traitor.”
It will be up to Bangladeshis to fix their country’s rancorous politics, but their task was made harder from the outset by Nixon and Kissinger’s callousness. The legacy of 1971 still stains the reputation of the United States in India as well. If an apology from Kissinger is too much to expect, Americans ought at least to remember what he and Nixon did in those terrible days.
バングラディッシュ独立のとき、ニクソン、キッシンジャーは虐殺を止めようとしなかったどころか、止めようとした大使を首にして、アメリカの武器を使わせて、ジェノサイドを継続させた、と。
サディスティックでさえあるな。
キッシンジャーはバングラディッシュに謝罪すべき。
ＮＹＴはこの時期によく、この手の記事を掲載しましたね。そう考えると、ファクラー記者やタブチ記者が橋下氏の問題提起をうけて、韓国、米軍による性奴隷の搾取を記事にしなかったのは大きな汚点であり、罪でしょうね。
将来のジャーナリズムの教材に不作為の罪として掲載してほしいですね。
それにしても、
東京に大空襲し、広島、長崎に原爆を落として、大量市民虐殺して以降、アメリカはＢｒｅａｋｉｎｇ Ｂad してしまったのだろうか？
