People ... Henry Kissinger
His legacy ... being challenged

Nobel Committee has arranged for well-known war mastermind Henry Kissinger to speak as an honored guest at a forum that is part of the Nobel Peace Prize events this year in Oslo.

Burgess COMMENTARY
This came as something of a surprise to me ... and I am wary of its authenticity and meaning. I retain the information as a reminder that there are many points of view and many perspectives on history.
Peter Burgess

Unbelievably, the Nobel Committee has arranged for well-known war mastermind Henry Kissinger to speak as an honored guest at a forum that is part of the Nobel Peace Prize events this year in Oslo.

Nobel Peace Prize Watch has asked the Norwegian Director of Public Prosecutions to arrest Kissinger.

Kissinger transmitted President Nixon's orders for 'massive' bombing of Cambodia in 1969, saying, 'Anything that flies on everything that moves.' He played a major role in the policies that heavily bombed Vietnam and Laos.

For fear of being apprehended and tried for a unique record of serious crimes under international law, Kissinger is very careful about where he travels. In 2001 in Paris, Kissinger was served with a summons to appear before a judge the next day, and then immediately checked out of the Ritz Hotel and left the country. The summons was for his role in Operation Condor in the 1970s, a coordinated campaign of murder and torture by the secret police forces of seven South American dictatorships.

After supporting an assassination in Chile, Kissinger commented: 'I don't see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible.'

Kissinger supported violence in Cyprus, Kurdistan, East Timor, India, and elsewhere. Several of Kissinger's crimes come under treaties that make it mandatory for Norway to prosecute. Kissinger is complicit or a main actor in many violations of the Genocide Convention and of the Geneva Conventions.

This petition has been signed by

Fredrik Heffermehl and Tomas Magnusson, Nobel Peace Prize Watch, Norway and co-signed by Richard Falk, professor of international law emeritus, Princeton University, USA Erni and Ola Friholt, peace movement activists, Orust, Sweden Jon Hellesnes, professor emeritus of philosophy, Tromsoe, Norway Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, Ph.D., author, Bondi Beach, NSW 2026, Australia Gunnar Nerdrum, attorney-at-law, Tromsoe, Norway Jan Oberg, director TFF, peace research and activism, Lund, Sweden Antonio Carlos da Silva Rosa, M.A., editor, researcher, Porto, Portugal / São Paulo, Brazil Sven Ruin, human rights activist, Köping, Sweden David Swanson, author, World Beyond War, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA Ola Tellesbø, attorney-at-law, Norway Kenji Urata, professor emeritus of constitutional law, Waseda University, Japan Gunnar Westberg, professor emeritus, Sahlgrenska Academy, Göteborg, Sweden

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Background: >> Request for Summons Submitted by Nobel Peace Prize Watch >> Invitation by the Nobel Committee and the University of Oslo >> AlterNet: America Keeps Honoring One of Its Worst Mass Murderers: Henry Kissinger >> New Yorker: Does Henry Kissinger Have a Conscience? www.RootsAction.org