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Kissinger Watch #3 - 04



Chile II - Letter to the editor of NYTimes (not-published) / ICAI



Your article "For Chilean Coup, Kissinger Is Numbered Among the Hunted" (March 28 2002) provides important insight into Henry Kissinger's role in the deliberate and unlawful destabilisation of the democratically elected Allende government as well as his involvement in Operation Condor. Indeed, declassified Government documents prove his responsibility for the murder of General Schneider in Chile as well as his approval of the repressive tactics of the military junta in Argentina. Latin America is only one of the continents where Henry Kissinger is accused of having endorsed or committed violations of international law of the gravest nature. Declassified documents released last December proved that Kissinger and then-president Ford gave the green light to Suharto's genocidal occupation of East Timor and continuously supplied weapons in violation of U.S. law. Moreover, there is increasing evidence that Henry Kissinger bears direct responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Indochina. He himself admits to having directed the secret bombings of Cambodia, which led to the death of several hundred thousand civilians (Serious estimates reveal a startling figure: up to 600,000 Cambodians might have lost their lives directly as a result of the carpet bombings). Legal experts maintain that the U.S. bombings of Laos and Cambodia violate Customary International Law and that Kissinger can and should be held accountable under theories of command responsibility. Henry Kissinger is still at large. However, encouraged by the Pinochet Precedent and the trial of Slobodan Milosevic, the international movement to bring Kissinger to justice is rapidly gaining momentum: It is time that the West confronts its own criminals; it cannot remain blind to their crimes. Michael Schmitt, Brussels Coordinator of the International Campaign against Impunity and editor of KissingerWatch

OVERVIEW - Kissinger Watch #3

1.		Angola I - U.S. lied about Cuban role in Angola

2.		Angola II - Old files contradict U.S. account of war

3.		Chile I - For Chilean Coup, Kissinger Is Numbered Among the Hunted

4.		Chile II - Letter to the editor of NYTimes (not-published) / ICAI

5.		Campaign and Protests at College of William and Mary I - Kissinger visits College / Flat Hat

6.		Campaign and Protests at College of William and Mary II - Kissinger Draws Small Campus Protest / Washington Post

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