I am Pablo Sepulveda Allende, granddaughter of Chile’s elected president Salvador Allende. Usually, I speak not about myself, and I don’t like to make any number out of the familiebakgrunnen my.
But on Sunday, Henry Kissinger, who coordinated the military coup against my grandfather, hailed at the University of Oslo under the auspices of the nobel institute, without any of the victims of his war crimes and criminal policies will be advocated, or, as far as I understand, is mentioned with a word.
that’s Why I’ve written this letter to the nobel institute, the University of Oslo and the Norwegian people.
Died in the rubble of the chilean democracy
In 1970, my grandfather Salvador Allende elected president of Chile for the country’s sosialistparti. His political ambition was to contribute to a more socially equitable Chile, to equalize the fierce differences between the poor and the filthy rich, and give its workers more power, a socialism within the framework of democracy and flerpartistat.
In 1973, drowned this dream when the presidential palace in the capital city was surrounded by soldiers and tanks and bombed from the air by the military under the command of general Augusto Pinochet, who again acted on behalf of the U.s. national security adviser and later secretary of state Henry Kissinger, in cooperation with the CIA.
My grandfather had the choice to give up presidentmakten to the right-wing extremist there, or to die. He chose to fight to the last end and died in the ruins of the presidential palace and the chilean democracy.
Terrorkampanjer and murder
The bloody military coup and the brutal dictatorship that followed, both with the Kissingers active support, affected millions of chileans over the decades. Not only the thousands who were kidnapped, tortured and killed, but also all they that way of escape, we who were born abroad of parents who had to leave their countries and families.
Across South America organized Kissinger along with the CIA military coups, political terrorkampanjer and murder against the leftist, indigenous people, some of and others who stood in the way of America’s goal of control of the region with the world’s largest concentration of natural resources.
in the Middle of all this we are many who remember Norway with love – a small country that, despite its modest size, opened its doors to thousands of chileans in flight from the Pinochets Kissinger-supported reign of terror.
this is Precisely why it almost hard to believe on the news that the same Kissinger now to be welcomed and hailed in Norway in connection with the Nobel fredsprisutdeling.
Menneskefiendtlig imperialism
Kissingers responsibility for the worst terror – and mordkampanjen that have hit South America’s left wing is well-documented and indisputable. About Chile he said the following before he unleashed the CIA, Pinochet and the military coup against the population: “I don’t understand why we need to stand and watch a country become communist due to uansvarligheten to the people. This is all too important for the chilean voters to decide for yourself”.
at Least 3,000 chileans were killed and probably ten times as many in Argentina, all victims of Kissinger and Nixon menneskefiendtlige imperialism in alliance with local ultrakonservative elites.
Pregnant women were kidnapped, children stolen, and young mothers killed, to prevent that the children should “besmittes of marxist parents”.
When Latin America at the beginning of this century still had the world’s skjeveste income distribution, due to the fact that almost all attempts to create change and better distribution have been met with military coups, terrorkampanjer, political murder and torture. Few individuals have had a greater role in organizing this terror on the international level than Kissinger.
People have so little worth that they could be sacrificed in the name
Kissingers complicity in the terrorist bombing of Southeast Asia is also well-documented. For those who may be in doubt, Kissingers instructions to general Alexander Haig to be enlightening: “He [president Nixon] will have a massive bombekampanje in Cambodia. He will not hear any objections. It is an order and it will be implemented. Everything that can fly will attack anything that moves. Understood?”
Kissingers instruction led to that 2,756,941 tons of bombs and explosives were dropped over Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam. Against “everything that could touch herself”: Women, men, children, young and old, with the mind-boggling suffering in a massive scale as the predictable result.
For Kissinger, these were “everything that moves”, both in Latin America and Asia only number in a geopolitical calculation, the people who were so little worth that they could be sacrificed.
Henry Alfred Kissinger (born 1923) is an american diplomat and politician.
In the period 1969-1975, he was U.s. national security adviser.
In the period 1973-1977 he was secretary of state under president Richard Nixon and later Gerald Ford.
In 1973 he was awarded the Nobel peace prize along with its counterpart Le Duc Tho. The latter refused to accept the award because it was not yet peace in Vietnam. The award is called the most controversial nobel Prize because the man who ordered the bombing also initiated negotiations for a cease-fire.
Kissinger planned in cooperation with the CIA coup d’état in Chile against president Salvador Allende in 1973.
this almost racist human nature usual follow with colonialism and imperialism is not something new. But it is shocking that important institutions like the University of Oslo and the nobel institute invites this krigsforbryteren to a pure tribute, and disparages the millions of victims in such a degree that the audience is not a time for the law to mention us with so much as a small questions during the session.
Are we really so little worth? Is it to experiment with torture, bombs and napalm on the citizens in the third world really such a small trifle for these institutions? Are poor people from countries in the south as of little worth?
Should withdraw the Nobel prize
Maybe I’m naive. But when a government claims to stand for peace and human rights, the Norwegian make, is it too much to ask that a war with direct responsibility for the genocide, torture and the military coup should be declared persona non-grata, or that he should anholdes and be tried in accordance with international law?
Is it to experiment with torture, bombs and napalm on the citizens in the third world really such a small trifle for these institutions?
And when it comes to the nobel institute: Is there no one who has sufficient courage and morality to see that this is an opportunity to pull back the Nobel prize and make up for a historical injustice, rather than to make a historical shame is even greater at the shelf Kissinger again in an event where the victims usynliggjøres even once?
finally: If this event is implemented as planned, it will shatter many illusions about the Uk, not just with me. At the same time, those protesting know that I am personally grateful. It is you who leads the humanism I have always associated with Norway, furthermore. Those who defend Kissinger, one can never expect anything good from.
Pablo Sepulveda Allende was born in exile in Mexico in 1976 by chilean parents who fled from Pinochets dictatorship. The grandson of former president Salvador Allende who lost their lives during the military coup in 1973 led by Augusto Pinochet with the support of the CIA and Henry Kissinger. Live in Caracas Venezuela, where he works as a doctor.
Read more articles about this year’s awarding of the Nobel peace prize:
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