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Kissinger's Killing Fields / Nick Turse

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🗓️ 6 June 2023

⏱️ 75 minutes

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American journalist Nick Terse joins This is Hell to discuss his recent Intercept piece, "Kissinger's Killing Fields." Interviews with more than 75 witnesses and survivors of U.S. military attacks and an exclusive archive of documents show that Henry Kissinger is responsible for even more civilian deaths in Cambodia than was previously known. You can find the article here: https://theintercept.com/series/henry-kissinger-killing-fields/

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0:00.0

The Lord is with the with the You're welcome Neil. This is hell.

0:30.0

hell.

0:34.7

manufacturing descent since 1996.

0:42.1

This is hell and a dissenting point of view a dissenting opinion here in the United States

0:50.1

is that Henry Kissinger the Nobel Prize winning Secretary of State during the

0:54.8

Nixon administration, may not be the peace-loving, peacemaking, humanitarian master of diplomacy his remaining supporters, believe he is.

1:06.0

In fact, did you know that Nobel Prize he won in 1973 was for a ceasefire in the Vietnam War that

1:12.4

was, according to a report by Reuters in January,

1:17.2

soon ignored on the ground by both North and South Vietnam, which refused to sign the deal,

1:21.6

claiming betrayal as Hanoi's forces were not required to withdraw from the South.

1:27.0

And that the Nobel Prize Committee, they knew the ceasefire would not lead to a lasting peace. But they gave Kissinger the award anyway. the

1:35.0

the ceasefire would not lead to a lasting peace. But they gave Kissinger the award anyway, despite an intense debate at the time within the Nobel Prize committee itself.

1:41.0

Yet, somehow, Kissinger still has that Nobel and was also given the Presidential Medal

1:48.3

of Freedom, America's highest civilian award in 1977.

1:54.0

And more unbelievably, after celebrating his recent birthday,

1:57.2

Kissinger has done something millions of his victims have not been able to do, and that is evade death.

2:06.3

Kissinger, along with Nixon,

2:07.7

is responsible for at least 150,000 Cambodian deaths

2:12.1

and countless more deaths, likely in the millions from Chile to East Timor and

2:16.7

seemingly every place in between. While Kissinger has avoided the grasp of the Grim Reaper.

2:23.2

He has also outmanewered the long arm of the law, and any chance that he will ever be brought to

2:27.9

justice for his war crimes and crimes against humanity seems slim at best.

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