Henry in South Asia
Kissinger and the violent suppression of Bangladesh.
2 Articles by: Mukhtar Mirjan
Mukhtar Mirjan is a Pakistani writer who studies American foreign policy.
Kissinger in Bangladesh
When war erupted in South Asia in 1971, Henry Kissinger called Indians “bastards,” and Richard Nixon said they needed “a mass famine.” For both men, US interests were worth killing hundreds of thousands of Bangladeshis and displacing millions more.