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| Kissinger Watch #16 |
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| Dear readers, On March 28, Kissinger Out – K.O!, a new inter-NGO campaign will be launched. The campaign will target organizations in which Kissinger holds posts, including the International Olympic Committee and the UNESCO peace prize jury . The purpose and scope of K.O.! will be outlined in a press conference in Geneva. On March 29, the Geneva Film Festival will show “The Trials of Henry Kissinger”, (http://www.fifdh.ch/e/programme/kissinger_e.html ) followed by a debate involving the filmmaker Eugene Jarecki, Reed Brody (HRW), Eric Sottas (The World Organisation against Torture), Bruno Cathala (ICC) and a KissingerWatch representative. Thanks to the “Comité Memoria y Justicia: Chile - Suiza - América Latina”, a member of the K.O.! campaign, for co-organising this event. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ !!!! IMPORTANT - donations required !!! We require your financial support to step up our efforts against the impunity of Henry Kissinger. Together with our new partner organisation, the Geneva based anti-impunity network “TRIAL” (http://www.trial-ch.org), we are planning a whole range of activities as well as the establishment of a special campaign office this summer. - For US foundation grants and personal donations from Americans requiring tax deductibility , please send an e-mail to icai@icai-online.org and you will receive information as to how to make out your check and where to send it. - All other donations will be administered by TRIAL. Please transfer your donation to: Bank : Swissposte – Postfinance, CH - 3030 Berne International Swift Code: POFICHBE Recipient:: TRIAL (for KissingerWatch), 1211 Genève 11 Account number (CCP) 17-162954-3 We appreciate very much your support!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ In this issue: In a recent interview, the current US Secretary of State Colin Powell was questioned about US involvement in the 1973 Coup d’Etat in Chile. Powell’s replied, “With respect to your earlier comment about Chile in the 1970s and what happened with Mr. Allende, it is not a part of American history that we’re proud of.” His response is at least a partial acknowledgement of the fact that the CIA (under Kissinger’s supervision) helped overthrow the democratically elected Allende Government (article 1), Martin Almada, a winner of last year’s The Right Livelihood Award (known as the alternative Nobel prize) maintains that Kissinger is responsible for many more deaths than Bin Laden. Almada was tortured by the Strossner Regime of Paraquay, discovered the Operation Condor archives and campaigns for justice for the victims of this intergovernmental killer network of Latin American dictatorships. (article 2 in French) Henry Kissinger is accused of having endorsed and supported Operation Condor. In June 2001, Kissinger went to Paris to award the UNESCO Peace Prize to the otherwise laudable Mary Robinson, then UN High Commissioner for Human Rights. While in Paris, Kissinger was summoned by a French judge to answer questions about ‘Operation Condor.’ He immediately departed, asking the US embassy to deal with this ‘contemptible’ attempt at interrogating him about state-sponsored and US supervised terrorism. One of the least known of Kissinger’s crimes involves his role in the civil war in Angola. The Dutch journalist Sietse Bosgra has specially contributed an elaborate analysis of the genesis of the Angolan war to this issue of Kissinger Watch. (article 3) There is growing awareness in the US administration that Henry Kissinger faces the threat of prosecution. John Bolton, Undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, speaking before the conservative Federalist Society about the International Criminal Court said that if officials had to worry constantly about the danger of being indicted, “over time that’s going to have an effect on your decision-making.” “If you’re Henry Kissinger,” Bolton continued, “and every time you to go this European country or that European country you have to worry if you’re going to be served with a subpoena, it has an effect.” (article 4) Last but not least, the film “the Trials of Henry Kissinger is inexorably conquering cinemas across the US and television in Europe (arte-tv). (article 5) Thanks for your readership, Michael Schmitt, The International Campaign against Impunity, ( http://www.icai-online.org ) michael@icai-online.org John M. Miller, East-Timor Action Network ( http://www.etan.org ) fbp@igc.org Gérman Westphal, Instituto Cono Sur ( http://groups.yahoo.com/group/politicaconosur/ ) westphal@umbc.edu Philip Grant TRIAL (http://www.trial-ch.org ) philip.grant@trial-ch.org | |
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