War criminals’ self-perception
"Asked whether he wants to apologize for the suffering he caused, he looks genuinely confused, has the interpreter repeat the question, and answers “No'. … “I want you to know that everything I did, I did for my country.'"
Journalist Nate Thayer interviewing a dying Pol Pot, 1997 Source: Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong), October 30, 1997, p.15, 20. [thanks to autho William Blum]
"I tell you how I feel. I would like to be remembered as a man who served his country, who served Chile throughout his entire life on this earth. And what he did was always done thinking about the welfare of Chile."
General Augusto Pinochet, under house arrest in England, 1998. Source: Sunday Telegraph (London), July 18, 1999, interview with Pinochet. [thanks to autho William Blum]