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A NOBEL PRIZE WITHOUT PEACE

COMITATO ITALIANO revoca del Nobel per la Pac | 12.10.2001 19:47

Giving the Nobel Prize for Peace to someone who develops Peace in
everyday life requires great responsibility because of the importance of
this laureation

From: COMITATO ITALIANO revoca del Nobel per la Pace 1973
 http://www.peacelink.it/tematiche/latina/nobel/
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To: Geir Lundestad
Secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee

& The Norwegian Nobel Committee Members

CC: FOR ALL INFORMATION MEDIA
(please feel free to publish this letter)
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A NOBEL PRIZE WITHOUT PEACE

The Nobel Prize for Peace is always entrusted with a strong and direct
symbolism. Giving the Nobel Prize for Peace to someone who develops Peace in
everyday life requires great responsibility because of the importance of
this laureation. This Prize is always seen as a sign of the will to build a
better life for the whole humanity. In tha actual situation is everyday more
important to talk about Peace in a new and fresh way, acting consequently.
this is the main reason of this "open letter" to the Nobel Prize Comittee.
In the last few months, the following appeal was signed by a great number of
people form various parts of the world.

In the last few years, United States of America are trying to make their
past behaviour and responsibility about cruel dictatorships of South America
a bit clearer, particularly for Chile’s and Argentina’s ones. During these
military regimes thousands of people were raped, tortured and killed and in
many cases their bodies are still undiscovered: we are talking about
"desaparecidos", who are alive in our minds thanks to history and to all men
and women who are fighting in search of truth and in preserving memory of
this atrocious past.

Evidence of liabilities had in the ’70s and ’80s of last century by
Central Intelligence Agency and by some influent members of U.S. Government
is nowadays sure, as shown by Archive documents declassified in recent
months. Main characters of this connivance with military regimes are
suspected to be President Nixon and his Secretary of State Henry Kissinger,
the latter in open search of revenge against President Allende of Chile;
Kissinger’s idea was that Allende and his Government (in office after
democratic elections) must be overthrown by any means or crimes to permit
the power to be taken by his friend General Augusto Pinochet Ugarte, this is
made clear by many documents of the Department of State recently
becamed of public domain.
Kissinger had also a great role supporting dictatorship in Argentina where
ruled Jorge Videla, another of his confidence men.

Not with standing these bloody pacts with South American regimes, in
1973 Henry Kissinger became Nobel Laureate for Peace, alongside with Viet
Nam’s Le Duc Tho, having negotiated a cease fire agreement in that country.
But warfare in Viet Nam continued at least for a couple of years, ending
only with the falling of Saigon. For this reason Le Duc Tho did not accept
his part of Nobel Prize.

Now that United States’ position, particularly Kissinger’s preminent
role, in South American dictatorships is in full light, a relevant question
arises about the ethic and moral value of his Nobel Prize and we cannot
ignore it.

It is worth associate his name with the ones of people who really acted
for Peace and Justice, such as Rigoberta Menchu and Adolfo Perez Esquivel??
We think that he can’t be no more a Nobel Laureate for Peace because of his
part in crimes committed in Chile, Argentina and not only, and that the 1973
Prize must be revoked as Justice wants and as a repair, very small indeed,
for the sufferings of thousands victims. This is what we firmly ask to you!

This appeal is not meant as a persecutory act against one person, but
tries to give a new dignity to the word "PEACE" and to preserve the prestige
of the Nobel Prize for Peace.

We trust, in the name of who signed and will sign this appeal, in a
strong and honest response from Mr. Secretary and the whole Nobel Prize
Committee.


ITALIAN COMITEE
for Nobel Peace Prize 1973 revocation
 nonobel@libero.it


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Documentation:
 http://www.peacelink.it/tematiche/latina/nonobel.htm

Documents declasified of CIA:
 http://www.peacelink.it/tematiche/latina/kisscia.html

Petition in PDF format:
Italiano -  http://www.peacelink.it/tematiche/latina/NoNobel(IT).pdf
English -  http://www.peacelink.it/tematiche/latina/NoNobel(ENG).pdf
Español -  http://www.peacelink.it/tematiche/latina/NoNobel(ES).pdf

List of subscritors
 http://www.peacelink.it/tematiche/latina/nobel/elenco.php3

COMITATO ITALIANO revoca del Nobel per la Pac
- e-mail: nonobel@libero.it
- Homepage: http://www.peacelink.it/tematiche/latina/nobel/

Comments

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Kissinger is a demon

12.10.2001 20:50

I am a peace loving person, but I reckon that if Kissinger
were to be burnt at the stake it would be too good for him.
Awarding this creep the Nobel peace prize was sick..

tricky dicky


Irony

12.10.2001 21:02

It is ironic that Kofi Annan gets the peace prize, when around four million Africans were massacred during the various wars that erupted while he was Secretary General. Annan is a hostage to US imperialism and capitalism. He's done nothing but let genocide take its course. What a fucking wanker.

As for an anti-Muslim racist like VS Naipul winning the literature prize when the US is launching its racist war against a defenceless Muslim people, what a fucking joke.

See you tomorrow - let's stop this US/UK massacre in Afghanistan and take to the streets.

Long live the revolution!

Uno
mail e-mail: uno@union.org.za


Rant

12.10.2001 21:31

To award anyone a 'Peace Prize' at the outset of what could be the longest, most protracted, bloodiest war in history, engulfing the whole planet, is an obscenity. The G8 are vile, evil, abhorrent men, their war is sickening to the core. With each child maimed in a landmine, pained with hunger or murdered by cluster bombs and cruise missiles, my sympathy for Americans in the aftermath of WTC diminishes and recedes rapidly. This peace prize is a gross perversion and Annan should be ashamed to accept it. The UN is the New World Order dictatorship which is sustained by the blood of innocents and fills it coffers from human misery. Their hypocrisy and cynicism is boundless, their lies and propaganda transparent, and we should resist this tyranny, or die trying!

Angry


Wasted Peace Prize

13.10.2001 10:15

I almost threw-up when Waste-of-space Kofi Hanan was "awarded" the Nobel Peace Prize. 'Cmon, what peace has that idiot achieved apart from puppeting for America n' Nato. He's even failed to address the plight of state terrorism by countries like Uganda of which 3million Congolese have been butchered.

Joram


THE REAL NOBEL DISGRACE

13.10.2001 10:15

Certainly some will question the giving of the peace prize
in todays world racked with violence.
The U.N. declarations themselves, which are the cornerstones
of the organization, are certainly a noble and worthy
effort. But the U.S. has not made the contributions to the
U.N. that it had pledged. Corporate media has only
criticized,undermined, and ridiculed the U.N. That is
because corporate'globalization'injustices contravene many
articles of nummerous U.N. declarations. These declarations
are opposed to corporate world rule, so the corporate elite
consider the U.N. as an obstacle to their plan.
However the real Nobel disgrace is the prize for economics
being given to three economists who promote the fraudulant
economics of 'globalization'. Try to follow the logic of
the economics these guys put forth. It is not possible,
because their economic theories are jargonistic,convoluted,
propaganda that defy all and any rational thought. It would
seem no one at the Nobel institute is a student of economic history. They just gave this prize to three pundits of the
greatest terrorist on earth,the corporate'globalization'
network. They have just acredited the most neferious fraud
scam in recorded history. God help us all.

john the carpenter