Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia

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Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia

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good read:

The U.S. carpet bombing of Cambodia between 1969 and 1973 has been well documented, but its architect, former national security adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who will turn 100 on Saturday, bears responsibility for more violence than has been previously reported. An investigation by The Intercept provides evidence of previously unreported attacks that killed or wounded hundreds of Cambodian civilians during Kissinger’s tenure in the White House. When questioned about his culpability for these deaths, Kissinger responded with sarcasm and refused to provide answers.
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The Army files and interviews with Cambodian survivors, American military personnel, Kissinger confidants, and experts demonstrate that impunity extended from the White House to American soldiers in the field. The records show that U.S. troops implicated in killing and maiming civilians received no meaningful punishments.

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Key Takeaways
**Henry Kissinger is responsible for more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known, according to an exclusive archive of U.S. military documents and groundbreaking interviews with Cambodian survivors and American witnesses.

**The archive offers previously unpublished, unreported, and underappreciated evidence of hundreds of civilian casualties that were kept secret during the war and remain almost entirely unknown to the American people.

**Previously unpublished interviews with more than 75 Cambodian witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks reveal new details of the long-term trauma borne by survivors of the American war.

**Experts say Kissinger bears significant responsibility for attacks in Cambodia that killed as many as 150,000 civilians — six times more noncombatants than the United States has killed in airstrikes since 9/11.\]

**When questioned about these deaths, Kissinger responded with sarcasm and refused to provide answers.
Henry Kissinger dodged questions about the bombing of Cambodia for decades and has spent half his life lying about his role in the killings there.
Kaing Guek Eav (known as “Duch”) who ran the Khmer Rouge’s Tuol Sleng prison, where thousands of Cambodians were tortured and murdered in the late 1970s, made the same observation. “Mister Richard Nixon and Kissinger,” he told a United Nations-backed tribunal, “allowed the Khmer Rouge to grasp golden opportunities.” After he was overthrown in a military coup and his country was plunged into genocide, Cambodia’s deposed monarch, Prince Norodom Sihanouk, leveled similar blame. “There are only two men responsible for the tragedy in Cambodia,” he said in the 1970s. “Mr. Nixon and Dr. Kissinger.”
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full story;
https://theintercept.com/2023/05/23/hen ... survivors/


The Intercept is an American non-profit news organization founded by Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, and Laura Poitras,[1] and funded by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar. Its editor is Betsy Reed.[2] It also publishes four podcasts: Intercepted (hosted by Jeremy Scahill), Deconstructed, Murderville GA, and Somebody.
The Intercept was founded by journalists Glenn Greenwald and Jeremy Scahill and filmmaker Laura Poitras. It was launched in February 2014 by First Look Media, which is funded by billionaire eBay founder Pierre Omidyar.[3] The publication initially reported on documents released by Edward Snowden.[4] Co-founders Greenwald and Poitras subsequently left amid public disagreements about the leadership and direction of the organization.[1]

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It's a shame that war criminals like Kissinger almost never face a firing squad.
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Name one American president (after WW2) who shouldnt be in the Hague court?
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Chuck Borris wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 5:02 pm Name one American president (after WW2) who shouldnt be in the Hague court?
Richard Nixon.




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John Bingham wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 5:57 pm
Chuck Borris wrote: Fri May 26, 2023 5:02 pm Name one American president (after WW2) who shouldnt be in the Hague court?
Richard Nixon.




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Henry just turned 100 years old.

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Username Taken wrote: Sun May 28, 2023 5:11 am Henry just turned 100 years old.

Only the good die young.

I was hoping someone would give Henry Ebola for his birthday
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it was another time when they seriously thought that communism was a disease that was devouring mankind. They wanted to burn it off the face of the planet and they thought they had the right to do that by defeating the Nazis in World War II. Kissinger was just a tool in the hands of the establishment and he hated Nazis and commies as much as anyone who knew Germany as a Jew during Hitler's reign. It's too easy to go after just one guy here no matter what you think about him personally, and it calls for actions towards a more sophisticated approach than wanting to beat up people in the street. This is the politics of world domination, and the victor makes the rules thereafter. Fortunately, communism could not stand the test of time, because China is more capitalist today than it has ever been in recent history.
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newsgatherer wrote: Sun May 28, 2023 7:41 am Fortunately, communism could not stand the test of time, because China is more capitalist today than it has ever been in recent history.
Yeah, China is so lovely now.

Two old comrades discuss the fall of the Soviet Union:

It's terrible, says one, Everything they told us about Communism was a lie.

And what's worse,
says his friend, Everything they told us about Capitalism was true.
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