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In the meanwhile, the unrelenting military crackdown in East Pakistan was well underway. Faced with the extraordinary brutality of the Pakistan Army close to 10 million East Pakistanis fled to various parts of India’s northeast and especially the state of West Bengal. Confronted with this unprecedented refugee burden Prime ...

https://sputnikglobe.com/20231130/kissingers-controversial-legacy-1115298864.htmlKissinger's Controversial LegacyKissinger's Controversial LegacyHenry Kissinger's Controversial Legacy2023-11-30T10:12+00002023-11-30T10:12+00002023-11-30T10:46+0000worldhenry kissingerkissingerrussiaussrsoviet union/html/head/meta/@content/html/head/meta/@contenthttps://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/img/07e7/0b/1e/1115297499_0:159:3077:1890_1920x0_80_0_0_d66ffc738b510ae55cdfa42488545ffb.jpgHenry Kissinger wielded uncommon influence on US foreign policy for over 50 years, having served as national security adviser and secretary of state under the Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford administrations. Even after leaving public life, he continued to be ...

Former United States Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who played a crucial and sometimes contentious role in the country’s foreign policy in the 1970s, died on Wednesday, the BBC reported. He was 100 years old.Kissinger Associates, a political consulting firm that he set up, stated that he died at ...

It took a Vladimir Putin to remind us of the long-forgotten nuclear button. Mercifully, so far, he has pushed only the rewind button. A minor military operation he started, meant to conclude in hours, isn’t going away in a hurry. It is staying on to invoke parallels from the ...

With the massive second wave of Covid threatening to overwhelm lives, health and livelihoods across the country, the present is deeply depressing. So, let me avert my gaze to indulge in a small historical anecdote, with a personal twist. Fifty years ago, we were living in Cambridge, ...

Newly declassified White House tapes disclose former US president Richard Nixon speaking disparagingly about Indians and reveal the bigotry he and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger held that influenced U.S. policy toward India and South Asia under his presidency.“As Americans grapple with problems of racism and power, a ...

Former US president Richard Nixon's disparaging remarks on Indians, revealed in newly declassified White House tapes, reflect his "vulgarity" and "racism" as well as his anti-India stance driven by his preference for Pakistan, say former Indian diplomats.While former foreign minister Natwar Singh labelled the 37th president of the ...

Declassified tapes reveal Nixon's hateful, racist and sexist remarks after a meeting with Indira GandhiWashington: Newly declassified White House tapes disclose former US president Richard Nixon speaking disparagingly about Indians and reveal the bigotry he and his national security adviser Henry Kissinger held that influenced US policy toward India ...

Richard M Nixon, the late president who left the White House in disgrace, used racist and sexist language to vent his frustration with India over the 1971 War, especially Indian women, possibly triggered by his well-known antipathy towards then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, according to recently declassified White House ...

WASHINGTON: “Undoubtedly the most unattractive women in the world are the Indian women,” they are “pathetic”, they “turn me off”, Indians are “repulsive”. These are just some of the sexist, racist, bigoted tropes essayed by former American President Richard Nixon during the nadir of US-India ties in 1970-1971, according ...