The Trial of Henry Kissinger

by Hitchens, Christopher; Dorfman, Ariel

• ISBN13: 9781455522972
• ISBN10: 145552297X
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-04-10
• Publisher: Twelve

Summary

"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." Forget 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. Employing evidence based on firsthand testimony, unpublished documents, and new information uncovered by the Freedom of Information Act, and using only what would hold up in international courts of law, THE TRIAL OF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." 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.

Author Biography

Christopher Hitchens was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair,Slate, and the Atlantic, and the author of numerous books, including works on Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Orwell. He also wrote the international bestsellers god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything, Hitch-22: A Memoir, and Arguably. He died in December 2011.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the Twelve Edition	p. ix
Preface to the Paperback Edition	p. xv
Preface	p. xxxvii
Introduction	p. xliii
Curtain-Raiser: The Secret of '68	p. 1
Indochina	p. 22
A Sample of Cases: Kissinger's War Crimes in Indochina	p. 32
Bangladesh: One Genocide, One Coup and One Assassination	p. 64
Chile	p. 82
An Afterword on Chile	p. 110
Cyprus	p. 118
East Timor	p. 138
A "Wet Job" in Washington?	p. 167
Afterword: The Profit Margin	p. 187
Law and Justice	p. 197
A Fragrant Fragment	p. 205
The Demetracopoulos Letter	p. 227
Acknowledgments	p. 231
Index	p. 237
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