Han var trods alt den politiske direktør i udenrigsministeriet i et regime, som var ansvarligt for 800.000 menneskers død, man skulle egentlig sige for nedslagtningen af 800.000 mennesker.
He was, after all, the political director in the foreign ministry of a regime that was responsible for the deaths of 800 000 people - we should really say for the slaughter of 800 000 people.