As controversial in death as in life: Tributes pour in for Henry Kissinger
Henry Kissinger was as divisive in death as in life.
As news circulated that Kissinger, 100, died on Wednesday evening, the world reacted to his passing with mixed feelings.
Statements from political figures, world leaders and organisations poured in, recognising Kissinger’s remarkable impact on US foreign policy during the Cold War.
As former president Richard Nixon’s national security advisor, he was responsible for negotiating the US’s exit from the unpopular Vietnam War.
Though he won a Nobel Peace Prize for his work, Kissinger’s legacy was tainted when it emerged he authorised the secret carpet-bombing of Cambodia killing hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians and conducted covert negotiations to obtain the Paris Peace Accords which ultimately did not hold up.
Despite this,
