Sophal Ear

professor of Asian and global affairs at the Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State University

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Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at age 100. His carpet-bombing campaign in Cambodia helped give rise to a genocidal regime.

‘Cambodia should not have been treated this way’: Kissinger's deadly legacy

Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died on Wednesday at age 100. His carpet-bombing campaign in Cambodia helped give rise to a genocidal regime.

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