Thread by @SpiritofLenin

Former National Security Advisor and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has died aged 100.

Here is an incomplete list of his crimes.

Henry Kissinger personally approved each of the 3,875 bombing raids in Cambodia between 1969-70, which ki!!ed between 150,000-500,000 people

Beginning in 1969, the carpet bombing of Cambodia was nominally undertaken "to destroy North Vietnamese and Viet Cong bases." In actuality, it was designed to improve Americas strategic position before a negotiated withdrawal.

In 1971, Kissinger viewed the regime in Pakistan as "an anti-communist bulwark in the region." As the struggle to achieve an independent Bangladesh developed, he allowed the mass ki!!ing that Pakistan unleashed to continue so as to preserve an alliance with its government.

Kissinger also removed the US consul general in Dhaka, Archer Blood, from his post for questioning the policy and blocked efforts to pressure Pakistan to end the mass ki!!ing.

Princeton professor Gary Bass has also written that "Kissinger joked about the ki!!ing of Bengali Hindus and his voice dripping with contempt sneered at Americans who "bleed" for "the dying Bengalis."

Kissinger gave the "green light" to the 1970s Argentine Dirty War. This was a round of brutal state repression, which claimed the lives of 30k people. The Argentine foreign minister was worried that the US might raise some human rights concerns, but..

a breakfast meeting with Kissinger calmed his concerns. Kissinger only asked him how long it would take to "clean up the problem" and gave the campaign his blessing.

Kissingers role in overthrowing the Allende gov in Chile in 1973 through a military coup offers evidence of his criminality at its most wilful and systematic. He believed it was permissible to bring down a duly elected gov and establish a regime if it meant furthering US goals.

As Kissinger put it, "I don't see why we should have to stand by and let a country go Communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people."

Documented evidence, including transcripts of Kissingers telephone conversations, show his "singular contribution to the denouncement of democracy and rise of dictatorship in Chile." 8 days after Allendes election, Kissinger had a conversation with the CIA director where he..

said: "we will not let Chile go down the drain." He rejected advice from his top deputy to refrain from covert action against the new gov and "lobbied President Nixon to reject the state departments recommendation that the US seek a modus vivendi with Allende."

After Pinochet carried out his coup and launched a wave of repression that would claim the lives of thousands. Kissinger sent secret instructions to his ambassador to convey to the general, "Our strongest desires to cooperate closely and establish firm basis for most..

cordial and most constructive relationship." Upon facing revelations of mass ki!!ing by the coup regime Kissinger asserted,"I think we should understand our policy - that however unpleasant they act thus gov is better for us than Allendes was."

On Dec 6, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger stopped in Jarkata to meet Suharto. Suharto signalled his intent to send troops into East Timor. Ford and Kissinger did not object. Ford told Suharto, "we will understand and will not press you on the issue"

Kissinger added, "It is important that whatever you do succeeds quickly." Kissinger also pointed out that it would be wise until Suharto waits until Ford and himself return to the US where they would be able to "influence the reaction in America"

The invasion began the next day. Here was a "green light" from Kissinger and Ford. Suhartos' brutal invasion of East Timor resulted in 200,000 deaths.

By the most conservative estimate, the number of people who died as a result of military violence and state repression orchestrated by Kissinger reaches into the hundreds of thousands. Millions more have survived under brutal military regimes that Kissinger..

helped to install or preserve whose purpose was to enforce their poverty and exploitation. Kissinger may have died, but the system of global violence and exploitation he furthered continues to remain intact.