Beitrag #13 Sixth Annual Conference on Austrian Literature and Culture mein
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und hier mein beitrag zum 11.9.: *1951: CIA helps overthrow the democratic government in Guatemala, then backs new regimes who murder more than 100,000 Guatemalans over the next 40 years. *1965: CIA provokes a coup in Indonesia leading to General Suharto taking power. In following weeks a half to one million people are murdered by death squads using lists provided by US State Department. *1973: US sponsor a coup in Chile against the democratic government of Salvador Allende and help murder another 30,000 people, including US citizens. *1984: World Court declares the US government a war criminal for placing mines in harbours in Nicaragua in the 1980s, a war which resulted in the deaths of over 30,000 innocent people. *1989: US invades Panama, over 4,000 people are killed and they arrest President Manuel Noriega, one time CIA agent turned enemy. *1998: US bombs a pharmaceutical plant in Sudan claiming it was linked to bin Laden. The attack deprived Sudan of desperately needed medical drugs. The CIA later admits that information linking the plant to Osama bin Laden was probably incorrect. *2001: US bombs Afganistan to secure territory for strategic oil link from Caspian Sea to Arabian sea, over 3.5 million people starve to death in conflict." jörg |