The Trial of Henry KissingerWith the detention of Augusto Pinochet, and intense international pressure for the arrest of Slobodan Milosovic, the possibility of international law acting against tyrants around the world is emerging as a reality. In this incendiary book, Hitchens takes the floor as prosecuting counsel and mounts a devastating indictment of a man whose ambitions and ruthlessness have directly resulted in both individual murders and widespread, indiscriminate slaughter. He investigates and reveals Kissingers' involvement in: the deliberate mass killings of civilian populations in Indochina; the deliberate collusion in mass murder and assassination in Bangladesh; the personal suborning and planning of a murder, of a senior constitutional officer in a democratic nation that the USA was not war with - Chile; the incitement and enabling of a mass genocide in East Timor; and the personal involvement in the kidnap and murder of a journalist living in Washinton DC. |
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User Review - JonArnold - LibraryThingReally this one’s Hitchens shooting one very large fish in a tiny barrel. Hitchens had a reputation for being a professional puppy kicker, taking down idols such as Mother Teresa and Bill Clinton ... Read full review
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Contents
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AFTERWORD THE PROFIT MARGIN | 120 |
LAW AND JUSTICE | 127 |
A FRAGRANT FRAGMENT | 132 |
THE DEMETRACOPOULOS LETTER | 146 |
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 149 |
INDEX | 153 |
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| Title | The Trial of Henry Kissinger |
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Verso, 2002 |
| ISBN | 1859843980, 9781859843987 |
| Length | 161 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / Literary |
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