Kissinger behind 3 million civilian deaths – The Intercept

[J. Helm]

Well, heck, that's only half the number of civilians killed in the
Holocaust. Madelyn Albright was only behind half a million Iraqi
children's deaths.

https://www.rt.com/news/576859-henry-kissinger-civilian-deaths-cambodia/

Henry Kissinger, the foreign policy eminence grise who has advised half
a dozen US presidents, has caused the deaths of over 3 million people,
according to an Intercept report published Tuesday to mark the
realpolitik strategist’s 100th birthday.

While critics of the Nixon-era secretary of state and national security
adviser often describe him as a war criminal for his pivotal role in
numerous US-backed genocides and coups, the report argues Kissinger's
body count has been widely underestimated, particularly regarding the
secretive, highly illegal expansion of the Vietnam War into Cambodia in
the 1970s.

Between the genocides he sponsored in East Timor and Bangladesh,
continent-wide terrorism, coups and death squads in Latin America (known
as Operation Condor), the fomenting of civil wars in Southern Africa,
and the carpet-bombing of Cambodia and Laos under the guise of chasing
the Vietnamese, Kissinger is believed to be responsible for over 3
million civilian deaths – more if one counts the casualties that have
resulted from advice he gave the private sector.

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Kissinger has 'only' acknowledged that his actions caused the deaths of
50,000 Cambodians and blames the Vietnamese, the supposed targets of the
US bombing campaign (the coordinates of which were logged incorrectly so
as to be recorded as legal strikes within Vietnam).

Intercept reporter Nick Truse argues the number is closer to 150,000,
pointing to numerous documented examples of egregious and deliberate
undercounting of civilian casualties. The figure represents over six
times more civilians than the US has killed in airstrikes since 9/11.

Transcripts from the Intercept's “exclusive archive” of declassified US
military documents from a secret Pentagon war crimes task force reveal
it was Kissinger’s decision to relay then-president Richard Nixon’s
often drunk, belligerent trash talk about Cambodia into coherent
instructions to the Pentagon to begin a “massive bombing campaign” in
the country in 1970.

Kissinger’s now-infamous directive to shoot “anything that flies on
anything that moves” exploded the secret war, tripling the number of
bombings by the end of the year. He allegedly approved all 3,875
individual bombings of the war, and the bombers dropped over 257,000
tonnes of explosives on Cambodia in 1973 alone.

The Intercept’s archive also revealed numerous brutal ground raids on
Cambodian villages that have since been all but memory-holed; Truse
confirmed via interviews with survivors that the raids were far deadlier
than reported. While the airstrikes were frequently hushed up as “pilot
error” – “errors” that were nevertheless repeated thousands of times –
the US Army, in an internal investigation, actually blamed its press
corps when ground troops were caught looting a village they had just raided.

Kissinger's carpet-bombing of Cambodia paved the way for the Khmer
Rouge, the genocidal dictatorship that killed 2 million Cambodians – 20%
of the country’s population – which he privately (and approvingly)
referred to as “murderous thugs” while helping them secure regional allies.

Kissinger has never been prosecuted – or even officially charged – with
war crimes, nor has the US military made any systemic efforts to hold
accountable the troops who actually did the killing.


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