"Kennedy declared, “Nothing is more clear, or easily documented, than the systematic campaign of terror—and its genocidal consequences—launched by the Pakistan army on the night of March 25th.” Invoking the Holocaust, he said that Hindus were being specifically targeted, “systematically slaughtered, and, in some places, painted with yellow patches marked ‘H.’ ” He blamed the Nixon administration for much of this: “America’s heavy support of Islamabad is nothing short of complicity in the human and political tragedy of East Bengal.”"
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Ted Kennedy, quoted in Bass, G. J. (2014) The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide, ch 15 from NSC Files, Box 574, Indo-Pak War, South Asian Congressional, Kennedy speech (1 November 1971)
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