Hitchens called for Kissinger’s prosecution. Henry Kissinger’s 100 th birthday thus offers an occasion to celebrate not only his own extraordinary career but also the contributions that the greatest generation, whose bravery and sacrifices saw the country through its greatest military trial, have made to the United States of America and to the world beyond its shores. With the precision and tenacity of a prosecutor, Hitchens offers an unrepentant portrait of a felonious diplomat who “maintained that laws were like cobwebs,” and implores governments around the world, including our own, to bring him swiftly to justice. Christopher Hitchens, The Trial of Henry Kissinger (London: Verso Books, 2001). One of his foremost critics was the late Christopher Hitchens, who in 2001 wrote a book-length indictment entitled The Trial of Henry Kissinger. “If the courts and lawyers of this country will not do their duty, we shall watch as the victims and survivors of this man pursue justice and vindication in their own dignified and painstaking way, and at their own expense, and we shall be put to shame.”įorget Pinochet, Milosevic, Hussein, Kim Jong-il, or Gaddafi: America need look no further than its own lauded leaders for a war criminal whose offenses rival those of the most heinous dictators in recent history-Henry Kissinger.Įmploying evidence based on firsthand testimony, unpublished documents, and new information uncovered by the Freedom of Information Act, and using only what would hold up in international courts of law, The Trial of Henry Kissinger outlines atrocities authorized by the former secretary of state in Indochina, Bangladesh, Chile, Cyprus, East Timor, and in the plight of the Iraqi Kurds, “including conspiracy to commit murder, kidnap, and torture.”

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