Henry Kissinger: The Genocide Enabler is Dead

Henry Kissinger, the genocide assister and controversial Nobel Prize winner, is no more.

Henry Kissinger’s death ignites debate over his blood-drenched political legacy, highlighting the controversies and consequences of his actions, particularly in South Asia and Southeast Asia.

Henry Kissinger, the former U.S. Secretary of State, is dead. That he went on to live for 100 years is the single most potent evidence to negate the existence of god in this universe.

It is generally not socially allowed to celebrate the death of an enemy in Hindu culture in this part of the world. Otherwise, celebrating death of a genocide abetter would have been completely justified.

In his singular proclivity to use Paksitan’s Yahya Khan’s good relations with China in order to open the door of friendship with the latter and nursing a keen desire to emerge as a foreign policy hero, this man allowed Yahya Khan’s men to butcher, rape, kill, maraud lakhs of innocent Bangladeshi Hindus and Muslims.

Anyone who has read the Books The Blood Telegram by Gary J Bass or The Trial of Henry Kissinger by Christopher Hitchens would not hesitate a minute in wishing hell to this abomination of a man who walked this earth for so long.

In a just world, people like Henry Kissinger would have been in jails.

That he was given a Nobel Prize is enough to show that all is not good with this world as it runs today.

In South Asia, Kissinger’s actions during the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971 remain heinous, particularly his support for Pakistan amidst the genocide against Bengali Hindus, and to some extent Bengali Muslims too.

This pro-Pakistan tilt, shared with President Nixon, is often criticized for its humanitarian impact as it left millions of Hindus dead, raped and displaced in the name of some imagined strategic diplomatic objectives and dent in US-China relationship.

Kissinger’s strategy in Southeast Asia, notably in Vietnam and Cambodia, is equally controversial.

His involvement in the massive bombings in North Vietnam and the secret bombings in Cambodia, which led to significant civilian casualties and regional destabilization, has been widely condemned.

In Cambodia, the resultant power vacuum enabled the Khmer Rouge’s rise, leading to the deaths of millions.

Kissinger’s death reopens discussions about his Nobel Peace Prize, juxtaposed against his actions that arguably contradicted peace efforts.

As history judges Kissinger’s legacy, every Indian, especially Hindus, must know about the horrific deeds that were wreaked on innocent people in East Pakistan.

Sadly, not many know about what happened in East Pakistan.

For, those who forget, or ignore History, are not very far from suffering a repeat of History.