• afraid_of_zombies@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    It was locked for me. I assume it goes into details about how he was involved with a plan to bomb Northern Cambodia during the Vietnam war which resulted in 100,000s to possibly a whole million deaths mostly civilian. Then it mentions how he might have been involved in installing a new dictator there which, combined with the bombings, drove people to Pol Pot. Who in turn unleashed, in percentages, the worst documented democide in human history, within five years eliminating 20% of the population.

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      11 months ago

      Yes. Also sabotaging peace in Vietnam so Nixon could stand a better chance of getting elected. And attacking Laos (also neutral).

      And instigating a coup against Chile’s fairly elected democratic socialist president Allende resulting in the reign of torture by fascist psychopath Pinochet for years.