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Für den Vietnam-Krieg errichtete die
CIA eine verborgene Stadt mitten im Dschungel von
Laos. Sie hatte 100.000 Einwohner, von
ihrem Rollfeld hoben mehr Flugzeuge ab, als vom Flughafen
Chicago - doch nicht einmal der US-Kongress war eingeweiht.
Von Jürgen Kremb (et)
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NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
(NYT, July 6, 2008):
Truth Commision for US War Crimes. When a
distinguished American military commander accuses the United
States of committing war crimes in its handling of detainees,
you know that we need a new way forward. “There is no longer any
doubt as to whether the current administration has committed war
crimes,” Antonio Taguba, the retired major
general who investigated abuses in Iraq, declares in a powerful
new report on American torture from Physicians for Human
Rights. “The only question that remains to be answered
is whether those who ordered the use of torture will be held to
account.”
It’s a national disgrace that more than 100 inmates
have died in American custody in Afghanistan, Iraq and
Guantánamo. After two Afghan inmates were beaten to death by
American soldiers, the American military investigator found that
one of the men’s legs had been “pulpified.” Moreover, many of
the people we tortured were innocent: the administration was as
incompetent as it was immoral. The McClatchy newspaper group has
just published a devastating series on torture and other abuses,
and it quotes Thomas White, the former Army secretary, as saying
that it was clear from the moment Guantánamo opened that
one-third of the inmates didn’t belong there. McClatchy says
that one inmate, Mohammed Akhtiar, was known as pro-American to
everybody but the American soldiers who battered him. Some of
his militant fellow inmates spit on him, beat him and called him
“infidel,” all because of his anti-Taliban record.
These abuses happened partly because, for several years after
9/11, many of our national institutions didn’t do their jobs.
The Democratic Party rolled over rather than serving as loyal
opposition. We in the press were often lap dogs rather than
watchdogs, and we let the public down.
Book Cites Secret Red Cross Report of C.I.A. Torture of Qaeda
Captives
By SCOTT SHANE
The Red Cross concluded that C.I.A. interrogation methods
constituted war crimes, placing Bush administration officials in
danger of prosecution, according to a book to be published next
week.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/washington/11detain.html?8bu&emc=bu
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Das Massaker in Korea
nach 58 Jahren aufgedeckt
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My Lai - Das Massaker
vor 40 Jahren
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The Myth of the Hue-Massacre
(pdf)
by Edward Herman
and D. Gareth Porter (Ramparts, Volume 13, No.
8, May-June 1975) As
HTML.
Vietnam War Bibliography:
The Huê Massacre
The Washington Connection and Third World Fascism
by Noam Chomsky and Edward Herman, 1979:
The Hue Police Chief
Doan Cong Lap shortly after the
Tet-Offensive estimated the VC-victims to be about 200
whereas US-Senator William Saxbe in
1972 talked about 7000 alleged victims. Oriana
Fallaci stated that most intellectuals in Hue
favored the Vietcong and insinuated that they might have
been killed after the collapse of the offensive by
Saigon troops.
Wikipedia states: Three professors,
members of the West German Cultural Mission who taught
at the Hue Faculty of Medicine, and the wife of one of
the professors, were abducted and murdered by the North
Vietnamese and Viet Cong during their attack on Hue
during the Tet Offensive (Feb. 1968). Their bodies,
along with those of scores of Vietnamese civilians, who
also were slain by the Communist attackers, were found
April 5 in mass graves near Hue. The slain Germans were
Professor and Mrs. Horst-Guenther and
Elisabeth Krainick, Dr. Alois Altekoester, and Dr.
Raimund Discher.
Quynh: Interessant ist ein Interview von
BBC mit Bui Tin im vergangen Januar.
Bui Tin war Oberst der Befreiungsfront bzw. der Armee
Nordvietnams und bekannt dadurch, dass er am 30.04.1975
die Kapitulation der Saigoner Regierung im
Presidentpalast (Dinh Doc Lap) entgegenahm.
Bui Tin sagte, dass er noch während der
Tet-Offensive intern von den Vorfällen unterrichtet
wurde (Er war bei der Armee-Presseabteilung). Erst
später war er selbst überrascht von der großen Zahl der
zwischen 3.000 bis 4.000 ermordeten Zivilisten. Woher
die Zahl kam ist nicht bekannt. Daraufhin wurde der
Befehlshaber der Front in Hue abgesetzt.
Auf die Frage warum diese Zivilisten ermordet wurden,
sagte er: Es gab keinen Plan, die Zivilisten
umzubringen. Diese wurden aus der Stadt in die sichere
Zone verschleppt, also in das Rückzugsgebiet der
Befreiungsfront, meist entlegene Orte in den umliegenen
Dschungeln. Unterwegs wurden die Trecks von US- und
südvietnamesischen Truppen entdeckt und u.a. aus der
Luft verfolgt. Darauf hin wurden Zivilisten umgebracht,
damit diese die geheimen Rückzugsgebiete nicht mehr
verraten können. Auf die Frage wer die Entscheidung
getroffen hat, sagt Bui Tin, dass es wohl auf die Angst
und die Konfusion der Truppenanführer zurückzuführen
ist, dass diese die Ermordung veranlasst haben. Es sei
nicht von "ganz oben" angeordnet worden.
Wie zuverlässig seine Insider-Information ist, kann man
nicht überprüfen. Interessant ist nur, dass Bui Tin
schon lang bei der vietnamesischen Führung in Ungnade
gefallen ist. Er musste wohl Vietnam verlassen und lebt
deshalb in Frankreich.
Hier kann man lesen und sich den gesamten Interview
anhören, leider nur in vietnamesisch:
BBC.
Bui Tin
Interviewed by Stephen Young
Bui Tin:
From
Saigon surrender to French exile: an officer's
bitter way.
Bui Tin has just published in French an updated version
of a 1992 book in English, "Following Ho Chi Minh:
Memoirs of a North Vietnamese", a powerful exposure of
official Vietnamese corruption and arrogance, coupled
with a passionate plea in favour of tolerance and
democracy.
Bui Tin:
Vietnam's independence leader was a hero
to his countrymen, a wise uncle to friends
and a monster to enemies:
Ho Chi Minh (TIME
100: AUGUST 23-30, 1999 VOL. 154 NO. 7/8).
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What about
John McCain's claim of
having been tortured in Hanoi? (A
Special Dossier)
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Then Vice-President
L.B. Johnson main plotter in John F. Kennedy's assassination?
E. Howard Hunt died. He just had been preparing for
publication of "American Spy: My Secret History in the
CIA, Watergate and Beyond," released this month. He
identified key players to his son and speculated that then-Vice
President Lyndon B. Johnson was
responsible for moving the venue to Dallas, where the Texan could
control the security scene. But the memoir's published passages
about the assassination have an equivocal tone. Hunt provides only
a hypothetical scenario of how events in Dallas might have
unfolded, with Lyndon B. Johnson atop a pyramid of rogue CIA
plotters. His sons insist their father related to them a
detailed plot to assassinate Kennedy.
Hunt told them he was approached by the conspirators to join them
but declined, they say. That information was cut from the memoir,
the brothers say, because Hunt's attorney warned he could face
perjury charges if he recanted sworn testimony. They are writing a
script about the father, and are shopping for a publisher for
their father's account of CIA involvement in the Kennedy shooting.
(Los
Angeles Times, 20.3.07). Don't forget: Johnson was the main
culprit for the extension of the Vietnam conflict into a major war
that cost millions of lives, including 52,000 Americans. Do you
remember the slogan:
"LBJ-LBJ - how
many kids did you kill today?"
It started with the
murder of the president.
East Timor: Kissinger gave OK for bloody occupation. The
former Indonesian ambassador to Australia, Sabam Siagian, said
Secretary of State Henry
A. Kissinger had visited Jakarta just before the invasion of East
Timor and had told President Suharto that the plans for East
Timor were acceptable as long as the operation was done “quickly
and cleanly.” But, Mr. Siagian said, “it was neither quick nor
clean.” (A Book About East Timor Jabs Indonesia’s Conscience - New York Times,
16.8.06).
Richard Nixons und Henry
Kissingers Atombombenpläne
gegen Vietnam. Madman im Weißen Haus (SPIEGEL, 2.8.06).
Haiti - Colin
Powell's Crime in Progress by The Black Commentator, 6 Dec. 2004
U.S.
Regime Change, Torture, and Murder in Chile
by Jacob
G. Hornberger, November
24, 2004
Bush und Blair haben ca. 100.000 Tote im Irak auf dem Gewissen:
Lancet
2004; 364: 1857-64, published Oct. 29, 2004:
BOOK REVIEW
All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East
Terror; Stephen Kinzer; John Wiley & Sons: 258 pp., $24.95
Vietnam
killing spree revelations shock US
by Paul Harris,
The Observer, 26.10.03
See The Toledo Blade series
about the "Tiger Force":
Elite unit savaged civilians in Vietnam
Kissinger:
Ein anderer 68er
"The
Third World Traveler" Kissinger Page
Kissingers
Kriegstreiberei begann 1968 (Christopher
Hitchens)
Kissinger
- the war criminal (by Christopher Hitchens)
The
Case Against Henry Kissinger (Hitchens in Harper's Magazine)
The
Hitchens Web (or click
here!)
Henry:
Portrait of a serial killer (panel
by Harper's Magazine)
Der
Fall Kissinger (WDR)
Henry
Kissinger: War Criminal or Old-Fashioned Murderer? (tgardnet)
Kissinger
responsible for genocide in East Timor? (etan.org)
KISSINGER
WATCH (icai - international campaign against impunity)
Bob
Kerrey's My Lai: An Awful Night in Thang Phong (New York Times
Magazine)
Bob
Kerrey and Gerhard Klann interviewed by CBS 60 Minutes II
Thang
Phong revisited (Washington Post)
The
SEAL's denial (Washington Post)
John
Kerry: We wired genitals ... (Washington Post)
The
Guilt of Political Leaders (NYT)
Vietnam's
response: Kerrey should take actions to contribute to healing the wounds
of war in Vietnam
Geplanter
Vietnam-Rückzug:
Ursache für Kennedys Ermordung
Daniel Ellsberg: Secrets (1st
chapter): Gulf of Tonkin Affair
Grover Furr's Web Pages: Vietnam
last update:
11.07.2008
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