Phoenix
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chicago containment zone // 32 // any pronouns ask not what a lesbian can do for you but what you can do for a lesbian read my work: archiveofourown.org/users/FunWithNix
![The "Blood Telegram" from April 1971:
"Our government has failed to denounce the suppression of democracy. Our government has failed to denounce atrocities. Our government has failed to take forceful measures to protect its citizens while at the same time bending over backwards to placate the West Pak[istan] dominated government and to lessen any deservedly negative international public relations impact against them. Our government has evidenced what many will consider moral bankruptcy,... But we have chosen not to intervene, even morally, on the grounds that the Awami conflict, in which unfortunately the overworked term genocide is applicable, is purely an internal matter of a sovereign state. Private Americans have expressed disgust. We, as professional civil servants, express our dissent with current policy and fervently hope that our true and lasting interests here can be defined and our policies redirected in order to salvage our nation's position as a moral leader of the free world."
— U.S. Consulate (Dacca) Cable, Dissent from U.S. Policy Toward East Pakistan, April 6, 1971, Confidential, 5 pp. Includes Signatures from the Department of State. Source: RG 59, SN 70-73 Pol and Def. From: Pol Pak-U.S. To: Pol 17-1 Pak-U.S. Box 2535](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:rv2pzpdhwp2fvkihyt3mnbwk/bafkreiat4xdwzaogwvsbvyorudgguo6n3guf72j5vngqg7qpqyatyf3pfu)
