Joseph S. Farland

Joseph Simpson Farland (August 11, 1914 – January 28, 2007) served as United States Ambassador to four countries.

Quotes

• Even Farland’s embassy in Islamabad—helmed by an ambassador who saw the best in Yahya—admitted that the “army has clearly been singling out Hindus for especially harsh treatment,” although he did not think that “army policy as such is to expel Hindus.” He wrote, “Coupled with official anti-Hindu propaganda, army brutality has effect of spurring Hindu exodus.” He noted “an emotional anti-Hindu bias” in the “thinking of West Paks.” Even if Yahya’s government was not “officially encouraging mass exodus, we doubt it [is] sorry Hindus are leaving. Pak military probably view Hindu departure as blessing which reduces element [they] regard as untrustworthy and subversive.”
  • J Farland, POL 23-9 PAK, Box 2531, Farland to Rogers, 14 May 1971, Islamabad 4655. quoted from Bass, G. J. (2014). The Blood telegram: Nixon, Kissinger, and a forgotten genocide.