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Henry Kissinger, the most powerful U.S. diplomat of the Cold War era, who helped Washington open up to China, forge arms control deals with the Soviet Union and end the Vietnam War, but who was ...
Operation Menu was a covert United States Strategic Air Command (SAC) tactical bombing campaign conducted in eastern Cambodia from 18 March 1969 to 26 May 1970 as part of both the Vietnam War and the Cambodian Civil War. The targets of these attacks were sanctuaries and base areas of the People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN – commonly referred to ...
Kissinger’s supposed crime was believing that, when at war, the U.S. military should drop its bombs where the enemy is rather than where the enemy would prefer those bombs be dropped. This was ...
Henry Kissinger’s influence in Latin America is a controversial aspect of his legacy following his death at 100, and his role in the Vietnam War helped spark the Chicano movement.
One editorial published by Al-Jazeera labeled him "a war criminal with a Nobel Prize," calling the 1973 award "abhorrent" and "a slap in the face for the victims of Kissinger’s brutality," while Norwegian Nobel historian Asle Sveen told the Agence France-Presse that it was "the worst prize in the entire history of the Nobel Peace Prize."
Kissinger’s death sparked division, with some hailing him as a master of global politics while others labelled him a war criminal The Daily Show bids brutal farewell to ‘GOAT of war criminals ...
The reason we mention Kissinger's war crimes is that every newsorg mentioned the allegations of war crimes in their obituaries of the man at least briefly. Like, I list them below. Some of the left-leaning ones, like Huffpost, Rolling Stone, and Teen Vogue, call him a war criminal in the article voice.
A war crime is a violation of the laws of war that gives rise to individual criminal responsibility for actions by combatants in action, such as intentionally killing civilians or intentionally killing prisoners of war, torture, taking hostages, unnecessarily destroying civilian property, deception by perfidy, wartime sexual violence, pillaging, and for any individual that is part of the ...