Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina

[emad]

Kissinger backed dirty war against left in Argentina

Transcripts show former secretary of state urged violent crackdown on opposition

Julian Borger in Washington and Uki Goni in Buenos Aires
Saturday August 28, 2004
The Guardian

Snip:
Henry Kissinger gave Argentina's military junta the green light to suppress political opposition at the start of the "dirty war" in 1976, telling the country's foreign minister: "If there are things that have to be done, you should do them quickly," according to newly-declassified documents published yesterday.

State department documents show the former secretary of state urged Argentina to crush the opposition just months after it seized power and before the US Congress convened to consider sanctions.

"We won't cause you unnecessary difficulties. If you can finish before Congress gets back, the better," Mr Kissinger told Admiral Cesar Augusto Guzzetti, the foreign minister, according to the State Department's transcript.

Carlos Osorio, an analyst at the National Security Archive, a US pressure group which published the transcript, said it was likely to be seen by historians as "a smoking gun". It is likely to be seized on by Mr Kissinger's critics who have been calling for him to face charges for abetting war crimes and human rights abuses in Cambodia, Chile and Argentina.
More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/argentina/story/0,11439,1292648,00.html

[still_one]

1. Remember Chile

[pinniped]

5. "Remember East Timor"

n/t

[Vladimir]

6. Remember Cambodia n/t

[aneerkoinos]

7. Remember Greece, Remember Cyprus n/t

[aneerkoinos]

8. Remember Vietnam

[acmavm]

2. I read once that old Henry has to be very careful when he travels outside

of the US so that he doesn't get nabbed for war crimes. I've always wondered if this is true or not. Does anyone know?

[Judi Lynn]

4. I've heard it, too. Maybe this can help, from Christopher Hitchens

who, in a leap of unexpected decency, wrote a great book on Kissinger:

5) On Memorial Day 2001, Kissinger was visited by the police in the Ritz Hotel in Paris and handed a warrant, issued by Judge Roger LeLoire, requesting his testimony in the matter of disappeared French citizens in Pinochet's Chile. Kissinger chose to leave town rather than appear at the Palais de Justice as requested.
(snip)

In late 2001, the Brazilian government canceled an invitation for Kissinger to speak in Sao Paulo because it could no longer guarantee his immunity. Earlier this year, a London court agreed to hear an application for Kissinger's imprisonment on war crimes charges while he was briefly in the United Kingdom. It is known that there are many countries to which he cannot travel at all, and it is also known that he takes legal advice before traveling anywhere.
(snip/...)

http://slate.msn.com/?id=2074678

[acmavm]

11. Thank you.

.

[Judi Lynn]

3. He's got quite the typical Republican legacy. He'll be in good company

in a future Republican Murderous Atrocities Hall of Fame. To even dream of putting things like this in the category "Human Rights Violations" is an affront to language itself. People who were tortured to death had more than a simple "human rights violation" committed against them.

Thirty thousand people wiped off the face of the earth, with no one coming forward to say what the hell happened. Oh, yeah: They were "leftists!" You can kiss your ass goodbye if you don't fall in line with these monsters, and let them rape you.

So how was the Argentinian and the Chilean violent take-overs and ensuing reigns of terror any different from the torturer Islam Karimov, who is heartily embraced by _{George Bush?}

US looks away as new ally tortures Islamists

Uzbekistan's president steps up repression of opponents

Nick Paton Walsh in Namangan
Monday May 26, 2003
The Guardian

Abdulkhalil was arrested in the fields of Uzbekistan's Ferghana valley in August last year. The 28-year-old farmer was sentenced to 16 years in prison for "trying to overthrow the constitutional structures".
Last week his father saw him for the first time since that day on a stretcher in a prison hospital. His head was battered and his tongue was so swollen that he could only say that he had "been kept in water for a long time".

Abdulkhalil was a victim of Uzbekistan's security service, the SNB. His detention and torture were part of a crackdown on Hizb-ut-Tahrir (Party of Liberation), an Islamist group.

Independent human rights groups estimate that there are more than 600 politically motivated arrests a year in Uzbekistan, and 6,500 political prisoners, some tortured to death. According to a forensic report commissioned by the British embassy, in August two prisoners were even boiled to death.
(snip/...)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,963497,00.html


Uzbekistan's pResident, Islam Karimov
with his fellow pResident, George W. Bush.

http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/us-and-uz.htm

(snip)
From Amnesty International's 2003 report on Uzbekistan:

The bodies of Muzafar Avazov, a 35-year-old father of four, and Khusniddin Alimov, aged 34, were brought from Jaslyk prison in the Northern Karaklapakstan region to their families in Tashkent on 8 August. Muzafar Avazov was reportedly tortured to death; an eyewitness said the body showed signs of burns on the legs, buttocks, lower back and arms. Reportedly, there was a large wound on the back of the head, bruises on the forehead, and the hands had no fingernails. The authorities reportedly restricted viewing of Khusniddin Alimov's body.

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Can it really be said that we're not right back in the same business, thanks to _Bush?

[Octafish]

9. Murderers of the right. Check out Operation CONDOR.

Everybody knows about Chile, sure.



http://www.thememoryhole.org/pol/kissinger-declass.htm

What about Argentina? Thousands were disappeared there, as well. Who profited? The same turds who always profit -- the War Party.

http://www.extremis.tv/php/mainframe.php?vDelta=0&CodeSCT=135&Langue=A&vWidth=969&vHeight=600

So, of course, Kissinger's perfect to head the 9-11 cover-up commission. Perfect.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/nov2002/kiss-n28.shtml

Wake up, America! Wake up!

[emad]

10. Yep, CONDOR!!!!!!!!!!!

Remember The Cold War? I do...

[Octafish]

12. Whatever happened to the Peace Dividend?

Duh. I forgot. The Bush Organized Crime Family stole it.

Back to Condor: For those new to the subject, the CIA set up the right wing governments throughout Central and South America: Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua and on and on and on. Why would OUR government do that? So they can penure and control the masses, loot the national treasures, and make their masters in the global elite happy. Here's a quality overview:

http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/Herman%20/Condor_Herman.html

Speaking of NAZIs. Do you remember Operation GLADIO?

[genius]

13. NO surprise there