File photo : Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger responds to opening statements by members of the Senate POW/MIA committee 22 September 1992 in Washington, DC. //AFP
As global tributes to late US diplomat Henry Kissinger poured in, his death stirred fury across Southeast Asia.
Homage has been paid to Kissinger’s realpolitik and intellectual heft as secretary of state to US presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.
But in Southeast Asia, millions have remembered when the United States bombed swathes of Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War, an onslaught ordered by Kissinger and Nixon.
“Every single time I hear Kissinger’s name, my blood boils,” Sera Koulabdara, who fled Laos with her family at age six, told AFP.
The bombing was a failed attempt to disrupt rebel movements and strengthen Washington’s hand as it pulled out of Vietnam.
Koulabdara said her father…
