PART ONE
The American reporter Seymour Hersh, born in 1937, in 1969 reported on the 1968 American murder of men, women and children and the rape of some of them in Mai Lai.
He reported later on the clandestine American bombing of Cambodia which brought Pol Pot to power and apparently won Henry Kissinger the Nobel Prize for Peace.
He covered the Watergate Scandal for The New York Times in the 1970s.
In 2004 he exposed the depraved and humiliating mistreatment by American servicemen and women of detainees at Abu Ghraib.
He later accused the Obama administration of lying about the events surrounding the killing of Osama Bin Laden.
He later disputed the American claim that the Assad regime in Syria used chemical weapons in the civil war there. If I recall correctly, the late Robert Fisk, a reporter of great physical and moral courage, also disputed that claim.
Seymour Hersh earned himself a Pulitzer Prize and many other honours for his unyielding witness for truth and justice.
At the age of 85 he is still revealing truths which discomfit scoundrels in high places.
To be continued shortly.
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