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Article: The trial of Henry Kissinger. (War Crimes and Misdemeanors).(Review)
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- Sojourners Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 2001
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The Trial of Henry Kissinger, by Christopher Hitchens. Verso.
Christopher Hitchens, in this illuminating assessment of Henry Kissinger's war crimes, reports on a filmed 1998 interview with Michael Korda, senior editor of Simon and Schuster. That morning The New York Times had reported on a Spanish court's indictment of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet and the announcement that the Clinton administration would, however reluctantly, release secret documents on the killings and torture under Pinochet. The article added that some U.S. officials were worried about the implications for American leaders who might someday also be accused of war crimes by foreign ...