"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Employing evidence based on firsthand testimony, unpublished documents,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.