'War crimes, Kerry & history'

This is written in response to the news analysis, “War crimes, Kerry & history,” published on December 12, 2013 and authored by Syed Badrul Ahsan.  I completely agree with his analysis. Mr. Ahsan could have mentioned that Mr. Kerry and his foreign policy advisors should have read a book recently published by Dr. Gary J. Bass of Princeton University, U.S.A.  The title of the book is “The Blood Telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a Forgotten Genocide.” Using previously unheard White House tapes, and recently declassified documents, and along with many interviews with the White House staffers and Indian military personnel, Dr. Bass correctly accounted the genocide inflicted on the helpless people of Bangladesh in 1971 as witnessed and recorded by Mr. Archer Blood in his countless telegrams.
I knew Mr. Archer Blood. We discussed the genocide in Bangladesh while he was alive and living in Fort Collins, Colorado. We both witnessed it; he tried to stop it, but was silenced by the higher ups in the US Administration at that time. Mr. Kerry, I am sure is aware of the genocide perpetrated by the Pakistani soldiers and the Jamaat-e-Islami followers, and yet he tries to stop a nation that tries to bring to justice the perpetrators of the heinous crimes inflicted on millions. No one stopped the US when it brought Nazi war criminals to justice at the Trial of Nuremberg nor do I see anyone in the US administration making any fuss when Israelis try to bring to justice, and rightly so, the people who committed genocide against the Jewish people in Europe. Rules and policies should apply equally to all nations.
M Nazmul Karim, PhD
Professor and Head
Texas A&M University