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Kissinger Watch #1 - 07



NPR Radio interview: "I am not a criminal"

http://www.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2001/aug/kissinger/010808.kissinger.html#timeline click on "Listen to Michele Kelemen's report for All Things Considered"

In a recent NPR interview, Kissinger lambasts the idea of universal jurisdiction and says legal principles should not be used as weapons to settle old political scores. "I think when every national judge can assume jurisdiction... the legal system will be a way of conducting political battles the various contestants will pursue each other in courts around the world," he said. This is a very personal issue for Kissinger and a touchy matter for the United States. Three countries -- Chile, Argentina, and France -- want him to testify about disappearances and killings in Chile, when the Nixon administration was supporting the Pinochet government. Some critics, like author Christopher Hitchens, also argue that the former secretary of state has a lot to answer for regarding the U.S. bombings of Laos and Cambodia during the Vietnam War.

OVERVIEW - Kissinger Watch #1

1.		"Holding Individual Leaders Responsible for Violations of Customary International Law: The U.S. Bombardment of Cambodia and Laos" by Nicole Barrett, J.D., Columbia Law, 2001., Summary prepared by Katharine Larsen, larsenke@law.georgetown.edu, Georgetown University Law Center, J.D. class of 2003.

2.		Ford and Kissinger Gave Green Light to Indonesia's Invasion of East Timor, 1975: New Documents Detail Conversations with Suharto.

3.		The murder of General Rene Schneider / Lawsuit against Kissinger in the US

4.		FRENCH AND CHILEAN JUDGES TRY TO INTERROGATE KISSINGER

5.		Kissinger Had a Hand in 'Dirty War'

6.		Resolution of the Genevan Parliament

7.		NPR Radio interview: "I am not a criminal"

8.		The Pitfalls of Universal Jurisdiction

9.		The case for Universal Jurisdiction

10.		Websites relating to Henry Kissinger

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