Trail of blood leads back to Kissinger

THE newly-declassified document (Irish Examiner, August 28) that shows Henry Kissinger telling Argentina’s Foreign Minister “if there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly”, just before the campaign against dissidents in 1976, should come as no great surprise.

The US-approved military rulers and the US-backed military slaughtered at least 30,000 civilians between 1976 and 1983.

When Richard Nixon entered the White House in January 1969, Henry Kissinger became his National Security Adviser. Together, they escalated the Vietnam War which left up to three million Vietnamese dead. Another 600,000 Cambodians were killed and 350,000 Laotians were also slaughtered.