“The last helicopter took off from the roof of the US embassy in the South [so designated and officially registered with the United Nations Organisation on the tinsistence of the French government and the Christian or Chretien church of Rome (Italy) after the humiliation of the colonisers at the battle of Dien Bien Phu 13th Mar to 7 May 1954] Vietnamese capital, Saigon, in April 1975. But that did not mark the end of the [extra-] regional apocalypse. In the previous few years, Nixon and Kissinger had authorised an initially secret carpet-bombing campaign in Cambodia that devastated the country and helped the rise of the Maoist Khmer Rouge rebels. Kissinger’s Operation MENU, as the B-52 bombing raids were called, was broken down into Operations BREAKFAST, LUNCH, DINNER, SNACK and DESSERT. More than 100,000 civilians died as part of those military ‘meals.’ Even as [‘] the Americans [‘] made their final withdrawal from Vietnam, the Khmer Rouge seized power in the Cambodian capital, Phnomh Penh.”

p 73 Prosecuting the Powerful; War Crimes and the Battle for Justice, Steve Crawshaw, The Bridge Street Press http://www.hachette.co.uk http://www.littlebrown.co.uk Great Britain 2025

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