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| Kissinger Watch #11 |
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| Dear readers, In the last few months we have been consulting with lawyers and human rights activists in several countries to assess possibilities of legal action against Henry Kissinger by invoking national legislation (through universal jurisdiction). Notwithstanding the fact that the avenue towards justice for the victims of Kissinger's multiple crimes is strewn with obstacles, we strongly believe it is worthwhile pursuing this route. If you feel you can contribute in any way to this goal, please let us know. In the meantime, we continue to illuminate Kissinger's multifarious record. In this issue, we focus on Indochina with articles by Ben Kiernan, Director of Yale University's Genocide Studies Program, and Laos expert and investigative journalist Fred Branfman. Branfman highlights the most heavily bombed country on earth. More bombs were dropped on Laos than on Germany and Japan combined during World War II (article 1). Apart from the direct casualties - presumably several hundred thousand people killed - in the last twenty years remnants of US cluster bombs have killed more than 11,000 Laotian civilians. Kiernan, the author of an authoritative journal article on the Cambodia bombings and its implications for Cambodian society ('The American Bombardment of Kampuchea, l969 - l973,' Vietnam Generation, 1, 1, Winter 1989, pp. 4-41), contrasts and compares today's warfare with the bombings three decades ago (article 2). Kiernan's and other research point to the conclusion that the bombings led to the partial destruction of the fabric of Cambodian society which paved the way for the seizure of power by the genocidal Khmer Rouge. In our first issue we published a summary of a legal assessment of Kissinger’s command responsibility with respect to the bombings of Cambodia and Laos. That assessment is available on our website (http://www.icai-online.org/xp_resources/barrett.pdf ) and has been downloaded several hundred times since March 2002. As well as showing which files are most downloaded, the statistics of our website tell us that thus far we have had more than 100,000 hits from over 60 different countries. Thanks for your continuing interest and support. Last but not least and as promised we provide information on how to obtain the film 'The Trials of Henry Kissinger' (article 3). Thanks for your readership | |
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