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<h1 id="reader-title">Grandson of Chile's Salvador Allende
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<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">December
11, 2016<br>
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<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">As
the legacy of Chile’s former </span><a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Pinochets-Legacy-Still-Haunts-Chile-10-Years-After-His-Death--20161210-0007.html">CIA-backed
dictator Augusto Pinochet still haunts</a> the South
American country 10 years after his death, a grandson of
ousted socialist President Salvador Allende called on
Norwegian authorities Sunday to arrest former U.S.
Secretary of State Henry Kissinger during his visit to
the Scandinavian nation for his support of the 1973 coup
in Chile and the brutal repression it unleashed. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">Pablo
Sepulveda Allende’s call joined the </span><a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Arrest-Kissinger-War-Criminal-to-Talk-at-Nobel-Peace-Forum-20161207-0019.html">voices
of thousands who have demanded Kissinger’s arrest in
Norway</a> since the Nobel Peace Prize Committee
announced that the notorious hardline former national
security heavyweight — who oversaw an expansion of war
in Vietnam and Southeast Asia and U.S. intervention in
Latin America — would deliver a speech on peace in Oslo
on Sunday, a day after the awards ceremony. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">“When
a government claims to defend peace and human rights
like Norway does,” wrote Sepulveda in a letter, “is it
too much to ask that a war criminal with direct
responsibility for genocide, torture and military
coups be declared persona non grata or be detained and
stand trial according to international law?”</span> </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">Kissinger,
who has a <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Declassified-Docs-Detail-US-Role-in-Argentina-Dirty-War-Horrors-20160809-0010.html"
target="_blank">notorious track record of supporting
U.S. intervention</a>, dictatorships, torture and
brutal counterinsurgency strategy in Latin America,
was also awarded the Nobel Peace Prize together with
his </span>Vietnamese counterpart Le Duc Tho in 1973
— the same year the then-secretary of state backed a
coup against Chile’s Allende. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">In
the letter, titled “Dear Norway, arrest Henry
Kissinger, the man that planned the coup d’etat in
which my grandfather was killed,” Sepulveda added that
he was “shocked” by the “tribute” to Kissinger that he
argued “belittles millions of victims” of the former
secretary of state’s abuses. </span> </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">He
noted that Kissinger, together with the CIA, supported
and helped orchestrate “</span>political terror
campaigns and murder of leftist, Indigenous people,
trade unionists and others who stood in the way of U.S.
objectives for control of the region." </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">In
the days immediately following the <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/4-Things-to-Remember-About-Chiles-1973-Coup-20160626-0012.html"
target="_blank">1973 coup that installed the brutal
dictatorship</a> of General Augusto Pinochet,
military intelligence agents rounded up and killed or
tortured thousands of supporters of Allende’s
socialism. Over the 17 years of his Pinochet's bloody
rule, the military regime killed or disappeared more
than 3,200 people and tortured more than 28,000. </span>
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<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">Meanwhile,
across Latin America, a <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/Operation-Condor-Cross-Border-Disappearance-and-Death-20150523-0031.html"
target="_blank">CIA-backed Dirty War known as
Operation Condor</a>, aimed at wiping out opposition
to U.S.-supported dictatorships in the 1970s and
1980s, killed and forcibly disappeared an estimated
50,000 people across </span>Argentina, Bolivia,
Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay. </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">“Norway
opened its doors to thousands of Chileans who fled the
regime in terror,” continued Sepulveda in his letter.
“That’s why it is incomprehensible that Kissinger be
received and honored in Norway on the occasion of
awarding the Nobel Peace Prize.”</span> </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">Kissinger
attended the awards ceremony Saturday, where Colombian
President <a
href="http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Juan-Manuel-Santos-Receives-Nobel-Peace-Prize-20161210-0005.html"
target="_blank">Juan Manuel Santos received the
Nobel Peace Prize</a> for his work negotiating a
landmark peace agreement with the country’s largest
rebel army, the FARC. Representatives of the FARC were
not recognized for their role in ending the
52-year-old internal armed conflict, nor were they
invited to the ceremony. </span> </p>
<p dir="ltr"><span
id="docs-internal-guid-f4976d57-eea1-0b48-9a7f-5c25c4196419">Human
rights groups have repeatedly called for Kissinger to
face charges for war crimes. The U.S. anti-war
coalition CodePink has attempted to perform a
citizen’s arrest against Kissinger, while most
recently the organization RootsAction has spearheaded
a <a
href="https://act.rootsaction.org/p/dia/action3/common/public/?action_KEY=12577"
target="_blank">petition</a> calling for his arrest
in Norway. The petition had garnered over 6,700
signatures by Sunday, the day of Kissinger’s
controversial scheduled speech in Oslo. </span> </p>
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