From 1969 to 1973, as national security adviser and secretary of state under President Nixon, Kissinger directed the carpet bombing of Cambodia that would later draw accusations that he was a “war criminal.”
For many in the country, Kissinger’s impact was not abstract but visceral and continues even after his death. Land mines planted during Cambodia’s three-decade-long civil war, which was driven in part by U.S. interference, are still exploding today. In neighboring Vietnam and Laos, officials are also still undergoing the painstaking process of identifying and removing unexploded ordnance from a war that Kissinger helped to wage five decades ago.
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