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Henry Kissinger turns 100 today, across his lengthy career, his policies have led to the destruction of several countries: -US carpet bombing of Cambodia, which killed between 150,000-500,000 civilians, approving each of the 3875 bombing raids between 1969-70 -Gave the green light for Pakistan to launch its brutal killings in Bangladesh, which led to 3 million deaths -Approved Argentina’s ‘Dirty War’ against left-wing Argentinians, which killed around 30,000 people -Oversaw many of the years of the US bombing of Laos, in which the United States dropped 260 million bombs on the country, which killed an estimated 200,000 -Oversaw the Nixon years of the US’ imperial was on Vietnam, the final death toll of the war was 2.5-3 million Vietnamese deaths -Helped organise Augusto Pinochet’s fascist coup in Chile, thousands killed in the formative years of Pinochet’s regime -Gave the green light for Indonesia to invade East Timor, resulting in a brutal occupation that would last 24 years. Hundreds of thousands died.