The trial of henry kissenger

The Trials of Henry Kissinger. Photos 4. Add photo. Top cast Edit. Brian Cox Narrator as Narrator voice. Henry Kissinger Self as Self archive footage.

Anna Chennault Self as Self. Amy Goodman Self as Self. Alexander Haig Self as Self. Seymour Hersh Self author as Self author. Christopher Hitchens Self as Self. Barbara Howar Self as Self. Self as Self. Salvador Allende Self as Self archive footage uncredited. Leonid Brezhnev Self as Self archive footage uncredited.

Eugene Jarecki. More like this. Watch options. Storyline Edit. Part contemporary investigation and part historical inquiry, documentary follows the quest of one journalist in search of justice. The film focuses on Christopher Hitchens' charges against Henry Kissinger as a war criminal - allegations documented in Hitchens' book of the same title - based on his role in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, and Indonesia.

Kissinger's story raises profound questions about American foreign policy and highlights a new era of human rights. Increasing evidence about one man's role in a long history of human rights abuses leads to a critical examination of American diplomacy through the lens of international standards of justice.

Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Soundtracks Mr. User reviews 12 Review. Top review. Evil by any other name If you don't know who the 80 year old Kissinger is, you may want to pass on this film. When Hirota heard of the 'Rape of Nanking' by Japanese forces, he demanded and received assurances from the War Ministry that any atrocities would be stopped. The Tokyo tribunal however, found Hirota guilty because he was "derelict in his duty in not insisting before the Cabinet that immediate action be taken to put an end to the atrocities.

What holds for Hirota should hold for Kissinger maintains Hitchens. Hirota, front row, third from left at the Tokyo War Crimes Trial. Methinks, he did not protest enough. But fair-minded people might question the judgement against Hirota at Tokyo.

Hirota, like Kissinger, had no control over troops in the battle zone. Hirota showed that he disapproved of misbehaviour by troops in the field and we don't know that Kissinger thought any differently from Hirota on this subject. People are fond of group guilt because it makes convictions easier. But is it right? Imagine that a person is the head of a firm and makes it clear that he thinks the law should be obeyed.

Imagine further that some of his workers commit a robbery whilst working for the firm. Would it be fair to hold him responsible for their behaviour?

I hold that the workers and any immediate supervisors should be held responsible. Similarly, I hold that the troops in Nanking and their officers should be held responsible for any misbehaviour which took place there.

And it really would be strange if a representative of the administration which did most to end the war in Indochina should be put on trial for the horrors which went on there. I would be more inclined to lay the blame on the two previous administrations of Kennedy and Johnson who both expanded the American presence in Vietnam One might add that the Kennedy White House mounted a successful coup against the South Vietnamese government in which the president, Ngo Dinh Diem, was killed.

One might point out that Lyndon Johnson used a trumped-up naval incident to fool the American Congress into passing the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution thereby widening the war. In the hunting of Henry, Hitchens seems to be missing the real culprits.

Salvador Allende -- did he fall foul of Kissinger? Hitchens may be on firmer ground when considers the American government's behaviour towards Chile after It's true that Hitchens seems to subscribe to many of the fairy stories which surround the Allende government. For instance, he stresses the measures to destabilise the Chilean government by the U.

Hitchens claims that machine guns were sent from Washington to coup plotters in a diplomatic pouch. Schneider was eventually kidnapped and murdered, though not with the guns from the U. This is a matter which plainly needs further investigation.

Hitchens also criticises Kissinger for lack of intervention on a number of occasions: Kissinger failed to warn off the Greek government which was implicated in a coup in Cyprus in Schlesinger wisely took actions required to make sure the Republic was well and legally served by its military.

The same statement cannot be made about Kissinger. He dropped 3. Like Like. WHO can we trust now? Such liars. Such deceivers. We wanted to trust them, we put our trust in them, but now we have seen they are compromised and we can never ever trust them again.

So very sad.