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Henry Kissenger to receive award - Defending Freedom & Democracy
• rootsaction.orgNo living American has done more to subvert both freedom and democracy than Mr. Kissinger.1
Kissinger worked with President Nixon to betray the U.S. Constitution by illegally bombing Cambodia without even informing Congress, and
committed countless crimes against humanity through his role in dropping
3.7 million tons of bombs -- twice that dropped in all of World War II
-- on civilian targets in Indochina.2
As someone who lived in Laos during much of the time, I interviewed more than 1,000 refugees from Kissinger's and Nixon's bombing in Laos. Every one reported seeing countless loved ones and neighbors being burned and buried alive, and that their village was totally destroyed.
A Laotian farmer on the Plain of Jars wrote: "Every
day and every night the planes came to drop bombs on us. We lived in
holes to protect our lives. I saw my cousin die in the field of death.
My heart was most disturbed and my voice called out loudly as I ran to
the houses. Thus, I saw life and death for the people on account of the
war of many airplanes in the region of the Plain of Jars. Until there
were no houses at all. And the cows and buffalo were dead. Until
everything was leveled and you could see only the red, red ground."3
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All told, Kissinger helped murder, maim, or make homeless an officially estimated six million human beings between 1969 and 1972 -- a crime against humanity for which he would have been executed had he been subject to the Nuremberg Judgement.
Mr. Kissinger's entire
"realpolitik" foreign policy was based on supporting brutal and
undemocratic regimes that killed and tortured their own citizens. This included overthrowing the democratically elected government of Chile and supporting genocide by Indonesia in East Timor.4
Let's honor the memory of all the countless lives Kissinger destroyed, and support genuine freedom and democracy.
Please join us in protesting this outrageous award.
Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends.
-- Fred Branfman for RootsAction.org
P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, Frances Fox Piven, and many others.
Background:Fred Branfman, Alternet: "America Keeps Honoring One of Its Worst Mass Murderers: Henry Kissinger"
Youtube: "The Trials of Henry Kissinger"