THE CHRONICLES OF THE FORGOTTEN GENOCIDE- The Kissinger Doctrine

Director: Ramesh Sharma

This film is a searing 100-minute feature documentary by Emmy-nominated, internationally acclaimed filmmaker Ramesh Sharma.

This film rips open the veil on one of the most brutal and unacknowledged genocides of the 20th century - the 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War - where almost 3 million civilians were slaughtered, hundreds of thousands of women were raped, and 10 million refugees were driven into India. Their suffering was buried beneath Cold War geopolitics.

Drawing from declassified White House tapes, official documents, and first-hand testimonies of survivors, diplomats, and investigative journalists, the film lays bare the complicity of the Nixon-Kissinger administration, which continued arming Pakistan’s Yahya Khan regime in defiance of a U.S. Congressional embargo - ignoring cables from its own diplomats who warned of a “selective genocide.”

Through a rigorous investigation, the documentary examines how a realpolitik lens prioritized strategic alliances over human rights, and investigates contested claims about external green lights and complicity, presenting the public record and expert analysis to invite accountability.

By connecting Bangladesh to patterns visible in Vietnam, Cambodia, and Chile - and to contemporary crises including Gaza - the film asks how power justifies extraordinary violence, and what it takes for memory to compel justice. It decodes the Imperial DNA embedded in US foreign policy which has been largely responsible for the human tragedies which could have been avoided.