It almost looked as if Hank was going to make a clean getaway, going before an audience of the new generation getting to act as if the cold blooded genocide and murders had never happened, when a member of Veterans for Peace stood up and attempted to make a citizen's arrest. No one had a camcorder, but someone got some pretty good audio of the action HERE.
The Harvard Crimson wrote:
Despite [Harvard President Drew] Faust’s warm introduction, not all attendees were pleased that Kissinger had been invited to speak. As Kissinger began his remarks, an audience member yelled “war criminal” and “shame on Harvard” before he was escorted out by Harvard University Police Department officers.
The vet, Nate Goldshlag of the Boston Smedley Butler Brigade of VFP, posted this in the Occupy Harvard Facebook:
Henry Kissinger is a war criminal. He is responsible for millions of deaths in Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos. He is complicit in the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973 and the killing of many thousands of people. He is complicit in “Operation Condor” – code name for a state run death squad in Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Ecuador during the 1970s and 1980s. Its central co-ordination was run through a US base in Panama when Kissinger was the national security adviser and secretary of state (and chairman of the committee overseeing all US covert operations). Kissinger cannot travel overseas for fear of arrest and indictment for war crimes.
Kissinger in 1975 gave President Suharto of Indonesia the go ahead to invade East Timor and was complicit in the killing of tens of thousands of people there.
Nate, let's not forget the carpet bombing of Cambodia. Under the military government in Argentina ushered in after Kissinger's coup, unknown numbers of dissidents were thrown into the ocean from helicopters. Hey, let's listen to that again!
Kissinger Harvard citizens arrest MP3.
Perhaps the definitive case for charging Kissinger for war crimes was written by Christopher Hitchens for Harpers Magazine, which is part of the "Kissinger page" at Z.
Wanted for War Crimes: Henry Kissinger
Aliases: Henry Alfred Kissinger, Heinz Alfred Kissinger, Butcher of Cambodia
DESCRIPTION
Age: 80+ Build: Heavy
Sex: Male Hair: Gray
Height: ?? Eyes:
Weight: ??? pounds Race: White
CAUTION
In the minutes of a secret 1975 meeting of the National Security Council attended by President Ford reveal Henry Kissinger grumbling, "It is an act of insanity and national humiliation to have a law prohibiting the President from ordering assassination." - LOST CRUSADER: The Secret Wars of CIA Director William Colby, by John Prados, Oxford University Press, 2003
The February and March 2001 issues of Harper's Magazine feature a series by Christopher Hitchens on the case for charging Kissinger with War Crimes. Part I: The making of a war criminal Part 2 will feature an extensive section on East Timor.
Christopher Hitchens' Trial of Henry Kissinger: A Review By Mike McGlothlin ...
Hitchens presents a rather straightforward argument that establishes two seemingly undeniable propositions: on at least one occasion, Henry K. conspired to commit murder, and that on numerous other occasions, Henry K. was the primary force behind certain acts that could quite plausibly be considered war crimes. The case for Henry K. as murder conspirator is what Hitchens calls a "lay-down" case, i.e., one that stands out for its clear facts and clear law. The murder victim is General Rene Schneider, who was the Commander in Chief of the Chilean Army, whom Hitchens misidentifies as the Chilean "Chief of Staff."; According to Hitchens (and the 09 September, 1970 minutes of the "40" Committee, the Kissinger chaired secret panel that oversaw U.S. covert operations), the Chilean military had a strong tradition of neutrality in political affairs, a rarity on the South American continent. General Schneider was known as an officer committed to upholding the Chilean constitution and therefore opposed to the rumored incipient coup against newly elected Socialist President Salvador Allende by a right wing would-be junta of current and former Chilean military officers. Using U.S. Government communications cables from the CIA and documents from the State Department, and White House, Hitchens relates the facts of Kissinger's direct involvement in the direction, planning, financing, and general support by the organs of the U.S. Government in the plot to remove General Schneider... http://www.zpub.com/...