krj@csri.toronto.edu (Ken Jackson) (03/17/88)
I am posting this for
Professor Israel Halperin,
Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada,
Secretary of the Canadian Committee of Scientists and Scholars,
Former Vice-President of the Canadian Mathematical Society.
International Campaign Chile is the fourth in a series of campaigns aimed
at ending torture and political oppression. This main sound naive, but
the previous three campaigns have been remarkably successful. They were
International Campaign Massera (Uruguay), 1981-84,
which ended with Massera's release from prison.
International Campaign Orlov and Shcharansky (USSR), 1984-86,
which ended with Shcharansky's release from prison and
emigration to Israel.
International Campaign Orlov (USSR), 1986-86,
which ended with Orlov's release from prison and
emigration to the U.S.
The current campaign -- International Campaign Chile -- for all victims
of torture and political oppression in that country began in 1986 and
is very active today.
The objective of these International Campaigns is to strengthen worldwide
public opinion to the point that torture would be eliminated from
civilized society, as cannibalism and slavery have been eliminated. This
Chile Campaign supports the many organizations which seek an end to all
torture, abduction and murder by agents of the Pinochet regime in Chile.
With the help of thousands of organizations and persons in many countries,
including more than 100 Nobel Laureates, the Campaign will escalate (with
the same persistence that helped to free Massera, Orlov and Shcharansky)
until the objective is obtained.
To help this campaign write to the President or Prime Minister of your
country and ask for serious action to persuade the government of Chile
to stop the practice of torture, abduction and murder; then send a copy
of that letter to
General Fernando Matthei,
Comandante en Jefe de la Fuerza Aerea,
Edificio Diego Portales,
Santiago, Chile.
Your opinion will count, whether you are famous or not, provided that you
express it.
For further information or to join the Campaign and receive regular
bulletins, send your name and address to
Professor Israel Halperin,
Mathematics Dept.,
University of Toronto,
Toronto, Ontario,
Canada M5S 1A1
or e-mail me your name and regular mail address (not e-mail) and I will
forward it to Professor Halperin.
"The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny."
Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate.
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Kenneth R. Jackson, krj@csri.toronto.edu (csnet)
Department of Computer Science, uunet!csri.toronto.edu!krj (uucp)
University of Toronto, krj@csri.toronto.cdn (ean x.400)
Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 krj%csri.toronto.edu@relay.cs.net (arpa)
(416) 978-7075 krj@csri.utoronto (bitnet)macros@deepthot.UUCP (R.) (03/20/88)
Kenneth R. Jackson passes on a note about "International Campaign
Chile" which is a campaign aimed at ending torture and political
oppression. He states:
"Your opinion will count, whether you are famous or not, provided
that you express it."
The wording of this is curious in light of the tenor of the rest of
the article; MY impression is that an opinion would count ONLY if it
agreed with the campaign's. If, for example, a room full of messages
was received politely asking them to BUTT-OUT, would they be dumped
and the campaign continued regardless? So it appears to me (imagine
the Chileans counterattacking with a flood of delicately worded "NO's",
for example).
Why am I writing this? Merely because I see an irony in an article
asking everyone to collaborate in the elimination of political
oppression by putting international sanctions on the offender.
Clearly, however, being on the side of "obvious" moral superiority
makes all of the difference.
Raymond J. Tigg