From the Progressive Review:
http://prorevnews.blogspot.com/2011/11/over-110-historians-protest-award-to.html
November 3, 2011
Over 110 historians protest award to Henry Kissinger
*In a letter sent yesterday, more than 110 historians urged the New-York
Historical Society to "withdraw the name of Henry Kissinger as an
honoree" at its upcoming event scheduled for November 7.
In their letter to the Society's Board of Trustees, the scholars wrote:
"Kissinger remains one of the twentieth century's worst war criminals,
and to pretend otherwise is to condone his crimes. It is difficult to
understand how the New-York Historical Society could consider honoring
such a man."
"The failure to hold Kissinger to account for his myriad crimes has
allowed him to continue dispensing recommendations for new wars and
foreign interventions," the letter says. The failure to confront this
record has facilitated the invasion of Iraq, the use of torture at Abu
Ghraib and elsewhere, the policy of rendition and the detentions at
Guantánamo Bay, and other illegal actions of the 'war on terror.'"
Between 1969 and 1977, Kissinger served as National Security Adviser and
then Secretary of State. He designed and implemented policies which led
to hundreds of thousands of deaths, the overthrow of
democratically-elected governments, and the invasion and occupation of
sovereign countries. Examples include the invasion of Cambodia, the
overthrow of the government of Chile and Indonesia's invasion and
occupation of East Timor.
*
Natalia
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