Kissinger: mistakes may have been made

Staff and agencies- The Guardian

Wednesday April 24, 2002

As human rights campaigners demonstrated outside the Royal Albert Hall in London, the target of their protest, Henry Kissinger, today admitted inside it was possible that "mistakes were made" by the US administrations he served in.

But the former secretary of state questioned whether a court was the right place to examine them, saying it would be impossible to recall every one of thousands of cases.

The protesters, human rights activists joined by anti-globalisation demonstrators, accuse him of war crimes for his role in US actions in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia.

Some banged drums while others chanted "war criminal" and "this is what democracy looks like".

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