If anyone has earned a throne of skulls, It's Henry Kissinger.
The War Criminal who engineered the final stages of the US's genocidal campaign against the people of Vietnam and Cambodia, Kissinger may have been responsible, through his directives, for as many deaths in Southeast Asia as the mass exterminations launched by Pol Pot.
He was complicit in the success of many repressive and genocidal regimes, through both explicit and tacit diplomatic approval and both direct and covert material support, including:
- Kissinger was an architect of Operation Condor, a transcontinental program of abduction, torture, surveillance, political repression, and murder. Organized in the United States in order to suppress political dissent and institute pro-US, authoritarian regimes of terror across Latin America, Operation Condor was the mechanism for the incarceration, deaths and disappearances of thousands.
- He did everything in his power to assist and propel the 1973 Coup against president Salvador Allende in Chile, leading to the wholesale abduction, torture, rape and murder of thousands of political activists. Kissinger said he would not allow Allende to be democratically elected president because "I don't see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist due to the irresponsibility of its own people."
- Records show that Kissinger verbally assured Indonesian dictator
Suharto that he had full US support for brutally repressing the East Timor
independence movement in 1975. The US continued to sell weapons illegally
to the authoritarian regime until 1999.
- He also supported the Pakistani army's atrocities in East Pakistan
(Bangladesh). In 1971, the American Consul General to East Pakistan
alerted both Kissinger and President Nixon to the genocide being committed
by Pakistan under the command of dictator Yahya Khan. Kissinger, then
Secretary of State, recalled the Consul, continued to pursue an alliance with
Yahya and covertly supplied Pakistan with American weapons.
(We would also accept that Henry Kissinger is the American Hitler)