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| Kissinger Watch #10 |
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| Dear readers, In our last editorial we expressed our concern about the concerted efforts of the US administration to undermine the work of the International Criminal Court (ICC). In this issue we reproduce articles corroborating what human rights activists have maintained for some time: The US government’s mainly worry that charges could be brought against its high-ranking public officials such as Henry Kissinger, who have been accused of having committed grave human rights violations “In the forefront of the Americans' minds are the continuing assertions from various quarters that Henry Kissinger, the former secretary of state, should be tried as a war criminal for his alleged actions in Indochina, Chile, Indonesia and Cyprus, all of which his spokesmen have dismissed out of hand.” (IHT, September 25, 2002, article 1) We also would like to draw your attention to a new BBC sponsored film by Eugene Jarecki and Alex Gibney “The Trials of Henry Kissinger”. The film was launched in US during the Human Rights Watch film festival in NY and is currently shown in cinemas across the US (“Film Forum” in NY, “Visions” in Washington DC). It is also scheduled to be shown on television in Germany, Switzerland in France (Arte). KissingerWatch presented the film in cooperation with a lawyers association in Berlin last August. While it received the expected criticism in the New York Times (Article 4) "The Trials of Henry Kissinger" is a muckraking effort that will probably play best to the converted. When it does stoop to show the secretary of state dating a parade of starlets, it posits that this was subterfuge to cover his pernicious machinations in Vietnam, East Timor and Chile. It asks, Was Henry Kissinger a ruthless apparatchik or the Devil?, but knows its answer in advance.” we highly recommend “The Trials of Henry Kissinger” as invaluable to efforts to raise awareness on the crimes committed by Henry Kissinger (see article 3). We will inform you in a future issue where you can obtain the film for showings. The last two articles in this issue deal with Latin America: Twenty-six years after the murder of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt in Washington DC, the man ultimately responsible – Augusto Pinochet – is still at large and the question of Kissinger’s possible foreknowledge of this act of state terrorism has not yet been satisfactorily answered. (article 5) Regarding human rights violations in Argentina, newly released documents shed light on the military juntas perception of Kissinger’s Argentina policy. (article 6) Thanks for your readership | |
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