STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK --------------------------- ListBot Sponsor -------------------------- Get a low APR NextCard Visa in 30 seconds! 1. Fill in the brief application 2. Receive approval decision within 30 seconds 3. Get rates as low as 2.99% Intro or 9.99% Ongoing APR and no annual fee! Apply NOW! http://www.bcentral.com/listbot/NextCard ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >Nizkor Int. Human Rights Team >Derechos Human Rights >Serpaj Europe >Information >01Jun01 > >HENRY KISSINGER UTILIZES HIS DIPLOMATIC EXPERIENCE TO RETURN TO >WASHINGTON AND ESCAPING THE QUESTIONNING OF A FRENCH JUDGE. > >HENRY KISSINGER, the former US Secretary of State, left Paris yesterday >after declining to answer the questions of a French magistrate seeking >information about political killings in Chile. > >The American embassy told Judge Roger Le Loire that he should ask the >State Department for details of American knowledge of the murder and >disappearance of political opponents - including five French nationals - >under the Pinochet regime after the 1973 coup. Mr Kissinger was visiting >Paris when police delivered a summons to the Ritz, where he was staying, >asking him to present himself at the Palais de Justice. > >The embassy later sent a letter to M Le Loire saying other obligations >had prevented the 1973 Nobel Peace Prize winner from replying to the >request and that he should direct his questions to Washington through >official channels. A State Department spokesman said it would pass on to >the French authorities what information it had about the disappearance >of French citizens during the post-coup era. > >Maitre William Bourdon, representing families of the missing French >nationals, said Mr Kissinger - Secretary of State from 1973-77 - had a >duty to tell what he knew. M Le Loire is pursuing a campaign to discover >the fate of the five French people who went missing in the years after >Gen Pinochet came to power. One, Jean-Yves Claudet-Fernandez, >disappeared during an operation codenamed "Condor" in which Chile and >other South American regimes co-operated to eradicate political >opponents. M Le Loire says the Americans knew about the plan. > >[Source: The Daily Telegraph - By Patrick Bishop in Paris - Issue 2197 - >31May01] >----------------------------------------- >----------------------------------------- >USEFUL LINKS: >- No immunity for crimes against humanity: membership in a criminal >organization and the principle of command responsibility. >http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/chile/juicio/ua2.html >- Special report on the preparation and development of General Augusto >Pinochet's detention and Spanish judges' ruling recognizing the >principle of universal criminal jurisdiction for domestic courts. >http://www.derechos.org/nizkor/chile/juicio/report.html >- The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials (Avalon Project) >http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/imt/imt.htm#proc >- Statute of the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former >Yugoslavia (ICTY) >http://www.un.org/icty/basic/statut/statute.htm >- Rome Statute of the ICC (as corrected by the procés-verbaux of 10 >November 1998 and 12 July 1999) >http://www.igc.org/icc/html/icc19990712.html >-- >FIN DEL MENSAJE END OF MESAGGE EINDE BERICHT FIM DA MENSAGEM FINE >DEL MESSAGGIO ENDE NACHRICHT FIN DEL MENSAJE END OF MESAGGE EINDE >BERICHT FIM DA MENSAGEM FINE DEL MESSAGGIO ENDE NACHRICHT >************************************************************************ > >Information is an Urgent Solidarity service edited and disseminated by >Nizkor International >Human Rights Team. Nizkor is a member of the Peace and Justice >Service-Europe (Serpaj), >Derechos Human Rights (USA) and GILC (Global Internet Liberty Campaign). > >PO Box 156037 - 28080 - Madrid - Espanha. Telephone: +34.91.526.7502 >Fax: +34.91.526.7515 http://www.equiponizkor.org >Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - The content of this message is protected >under >Spanish Criminal Code according to Title X-Chapter I and Title >XIII-Chapter XI. >If you do not wish to receive Information messages send "unsubscribe" as >subject. >*********************************************************************** ______________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
