Kissinger's extradition to Uruguay sought over Operation Condor

[Eugene]

Source: Agence France-Presse

Kissinger's extradition to Uruguay sought over Operation Condor

Sun Mar 25, 3:00 AM ET

MONTEVIDEO (AFP) - An attorney for a victim of Uruguay's
1973-1985 dictatorship has asked his government to request
the extradition of former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger
over his alleged role in the notorious Operation Condor.

Condor was a secret plan hatched by South American dictators
in the 1970s to eliminate leftist political opponents in the region.
Details of the plan have emerged over the past years in
documents and court testimony.

The Latin American dictatorships of the time "were mere
executors" of a "plan of extermination" hatched in the United
States by a group led by Kissinger, said attorney Gustavo Salle,
who represents the family of Bernardo Arnone.

Uruguayan prosecutor Mirtha Guianze has received the request
and is studying the case, according to news reports.

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Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070325/ts_alt_afp/uruguayusjusticerightscondor_070325064159

[katsy]

1. I'd volunteer to gift wrap this criminal and ship him FedEx to Uruguay. k/r

[progressoid]

2. Hell, there are a couple dozen countries that Hank can't set foot in for fear of arrest.

Just add this one to the list.

[shance]

6. Are there really? Besides France and Uraguay?

n/t

[progressoid]

10. I remember reading a long story about it a few years ago...

I thought it was in Harpers but I can't find it online. I did, however, find this reference to his nefarious life:
http://www.harpers.org/WeeklyReview2002-12-03.html

...an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks, named Henry Kissinger to be the commission's chairman. Kissinger, who has been accused of committing war crimes in Vietnam, Cambodia, East Timor, and Chile, said he did not expect to discover any conflicts of interest between his work on the commission and his work as an agent for various undisclosed transnational corporations and foreign powers.

[cosmicdot]

11. are France and Uraguay the only two?

guess he could try visiting Chile and/or Spain to see what might happen

http://www.icai-online.org/xp_resources/kissingerwatch//kissingerwatch_5.pdf

Outside the hall Guy Taylor, from Globalise Resistance, said: “Henry Kissinger will not travel to Spain, France, Switzerland and lots of countries in South America because he knows he will be arrested. But he has been swanning in and out of London for years.”

in 2002, London, UK ... phew, a close one for the Honorary Chairman of the Nixon Center Board

The former US secretary of state was at the Albert Hall in London to deliver a speech to the Institute of Directors on globalisation. But all eyes had been on Bow Street magistrates’ court, where the human rights activist Peter Tatchell had made an application to have Dr Kissinger arrested under the Geneva Conventions Act 1957 for the “killing, injuring and displacement” of three million people in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos during the Vietnam War. Outside the hall, demonstrators screamed at Dr. Kissinger, 78, branding him an “evil war criminal” for overseeing American operations in Southeast Asia and South America, where the CIA’s dirty tricks operation, Condor, had shored up rightwing dictators, including General Augusto Pinochet of Chile, through a campaign of kidnapping, bombing and murder.


http://www.icai-online.org/45365,45370.html

[Selatius]

12. He is wanted in Spain, Chile, Argentina, and now apparently Uruguay

When Pinochet launched his program to liquidate the opposition, he didn't limit it to just Chileans but foreigners in the country at the time as well. Nobody was immune from attack.

[ClayZ]

3. I'd chip in for postage, too! K and R

[AlCzervik]

4. where do i donate money to?

[Gregorian]

5. What? Is his health failing?

War criminal- Check
30 years after the crime- Check

Fine, you may proceed. Now just stonewall and sandbag and appeal until old Henry is on his deathbed. Typical MO.

You know, they say justice delayed is justice denied. And I say, I don't believe there's even justice any more.

[Wilms]

7. .

[Vidar]

8. I know it'll never happen, but it's wonderful to be asked.

[Forkboy]

9. The evil fuck should be extradited to the middle of the Kuiper Belt.