From: covici@ccs.covici.com (John Covici)
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Subject: IPO President, Zepp-LaRouche Address UN Human Rights Commission
Date: 20 Aug 92 23:17:7 GMT
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           IPO President, Zepp-LaRouche Address
               U.N. Human Rights Commission

GENEVA, August 19 (EIRNS)--This morning at 11:30 a.m., Dr.
Hans Ko@auchler, President of the Vienna-based International
Progress Organization, and Helga Zepp-LaRouche, wife of the
jailed American political figure Lyndon H. LaRouche,
addressed the current session in Geneva of the United
Nations Human Rights Commission, Sub-Commission on
Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. 
   Speaking first, Dr. Ko@auchler expressed dismay that in
spite of specific and detailed allegations made to the same
Sub-Commission in 1991, no steps had been taken by the
United States Government to put right three areas of grave
concern: the application of the death penalty, as
exemplified by the appalling case of Roger Coleman; the
so-called Thornburgh doctrine, purporting to authorize
kidnapping of foreign citizens abroad by U.S. officials, a
doctrine upheld by the Supreme Court on June 16, 1992; and
the case of Lyndon LaRouche. He then gave the floor to Mr.
LaRouche's wife, Helga Zepp-LaRouche. 
   Mrs. LaRouche drew the attention of the numerous
assembly to the fact that her husband, who has lain in jail
for almost four years, will be 70 years old on September
8th. Never, she said, has a major public figure been so
slandered, so vilified by official institutions of the
United States Government. The real reason behind this, she
said, is the fact that ``millions of people look to my
husband and his fight for a global reconstruction plan, as
the only alternative to a worldwide Thirty Years' War,
famine and depopulation. The same is true for the
re-emerging civil rights movement in the U.S., who see in my
husband the person taking up the fight of Dr. Martin Luther
King.'' 
   Thanks to documents recently released under the FOIA,
she continued, we now know that not only the police, but
also, and most significantly, the U.S. Armed Forces, took
part in operations against her husband, notably the October
6, 1986 raid on their home in Virginia, which was supposed
to have ended in the deaths of her husband and probably
herself. The U.S. military, deployed against a political
opposition movement! 
   Her husband, she said, is innocent of the charges the
Government had him condemned for. The major obstacle to a
fair trial, is the refusal of George Bush and the
prosecution to release thousands of pages of exculpatory
documents. She appealed to the assembly to take up the cause
of LaRouche, just as he has taken up the cause of those in
this world who have no rights because they are poor. 

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INTERNATIONAL PROGRESS ORGANIZATION 

United Nations Commission on Human Rights 
Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination 
   and Protection of Minorities  
Forty-fourth session 
 
Geneva, August 19, 1992 
 
Agenda item 10:  The administation of justice and the 
                 human rights of detainees
 Agenda item 11:  Independence and impartiality of the 
     judiciary, jurors and assessors and the independence of
     lawyers 
 
Presentation by Dr. Hans Ko@auchler,
     President of the International Progress Organization 

Mr. Chairman, 
 
   When the International Progress Organization warned of
serious abuses in the judicial system in the United States
of America (see intervention by the IPO at the 43rd session
of the Sub-Commission on Prevention of Discrimination and
Protection of Minorities, 21 August 1991), it did so in the
earnest hope, that steps would be taken to promptly remedy
these abuses. 
   A year has now gone by, and one must unfortunately
conclude that not only have no remedial steps been taken,
but developments show that the warnings uttered by the
International Progress Organization must be reiterated
today. 
   Without repeating in detail our remarks from a year
ago, three aspects deserve to be mentioned in particular: 

   1. The practice of the DEATH PENALTY in the U.S. So far
this year, 22 persons have been executed, more than in any
other year since the death penalty was re-introduced to the
United States in 1976. The turning point for world public
opinion was the case of Roger K. Coleman, who was almost
certainly innocent. A hearing to examine new evidence was
denied, on the formal grounds that his defense had filed the
motion one day late. In spite of appeals by the Pope, by
high officials of nations closely allied to the United
States, by thousands of individuals and civil rights
organizations, Coleman was executed on May 20th 1992. 
   Flying in the face of the international outcry, the
death penalty continues to be carried out. The International
Progress Organization takes this opportunity to support the
European Parliament's resolution of June 11, 1992, most
especially the appeal to candidates for high office in the
United States to set an example by opposing the death
penalty. 

   2. On 15 June 1992, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that
KIDNAPPING FOREIGN CITIZENS abroad (US vs. Alvarez-Machain),
to bring them to trial in the United States, does not
contradict the U.S. Constitution. This decision by the
Supreme Court under William Rehnquist, a decision strongly
criticized by the minority of the Court, seeks to place U.S.
law above all principles of international law. Both the
Mexican and Canadian governments intervened as {amici
curiae} against the U.S. in this instance, and a storm of
protest broke out in Latin America when the decision was
announced. Were this and other, similar decisions to be
allowed to stand, we may expect a complete breakdown of the
rule of law in the relations among nations. 

   3. The case of U.S. political prisoner Lyndon H.
LaRouche, which the International Progress Organization has
repeatedly brought to the attention of this body and the
United Nations Commission on Human Rights, is of great
concern to a growing circle of international observers. 
   
   The International Progress Organization today wishes to
give the opportunity to the wife of Mr. Lyndon LaRouche,
Mrs. Helga Zepp-LaRouche, to testify on human rights
violations in her husband's case. With your permission, Mr.
Chairman, I therefore will give the rest of my speaking time
to Mrs. Helga Zepp-LaRouche. 
 
Testimony by Helga Zepp-LaRouche:
 
Mr. Chairman, 

   For more than three years and eight months my husband,
Lyndon LaRouche, presently an independent presidential
candidate in the United States, has been jailed, though
innocent, in an American prison in Rochester, Minnesota. 
   In a railroad trial, which trampled on all principles
of the Rule of Law of a civilized nation, my husband was
falsely charged and in reality condemned as a political
dissident against the currently ruling American
establishment, to fifteen years in prison. With him, the
intent was to sink the political movement inspired by him.
Yet, despite the banning--through a federally ordered
bankruptcy ruling--of a scientific magazine spreading
LaRouche's ideas, of a publishing company and of a weekly
magazine, as well as criminal proceedings against 50 further
collaborators of my husband (with sentences of up to 77
years), the American prosecution authorities have not
succeeded in wiping out this political movement. 
   Nonetheless, my husband, innocent, remains in prison,
because massive injustice was committed in the trial. All
appeals have upheld the verdict of Judge Albert V. Bryan.
The same Judge Bryan (on May 18, 1992) rejected the last
legal recourse, a motion for a new trial, and confirmed his
own unjust verdict. The defense, under former U.S. Attorney
General Ramsey Clark, documented the massive trial
illegalities in 16 single points backed up by 6 massive
files of evidence--none of which was seriously taken into
consideration by Judge Bryan. One leading obstacle to a fair
trial for my husband is the refusal on the part of President
Bush and the prosecution, to release any exculpatory
material, under the pretext of ``national security
reasons.'' 
   I have known my husband for over 20 years, and have
been happily married to him for 14 years, and I must say
that I find him the most noble and selfless person I have
ever met. He has devoted all his energies and his life's
work to bring about a just new world economic order, which
is in cohesion with the divine order of creation and which
can guarantee the inalienable and human rights of each
person living on this planet. 
   Indelibly printed in my memory is the impression left
on me by our two discussions with Indira Gandhi regarding a
40-year development plan for India, designed by my husband,
which she wanted to implement, before she was assassinated
shortly after. In 1982 President Lopez Portillo of Mexico
began to implement a program designed by my husband with the
name of ``Operation Juarez,'' which could have turned the
Ibero-American continent into a prospering part of the
world. From these and many other similar experiences over
the last two decades, I know that literally millions of
people look to my husband and his fight for a global
reconstruction plan as the only hope and alternative to a
worldwide Thirty Years' War, famine and depopulation. The
same is true for the reemerging civil rights movement in the
U.S., who see in my husband the person who is taking up the
fight of Dr. Martin Luther King, at a moment when civil and
human rights in the U.S. are trampled upon as never before. 
   These are the real reasons why, on orders of Dr.
Kissinger among others, an unimaginable array of lies has
been fabricated by the prosecution. 
   I still have the noise of the low-flying helicopters in
my ears, which in the early dawn of October 6, 1986, buzzed
our residence in Leesburg, while an armed ``combat force''
comprising 400 military and police agents was deployed to
raid our home, during which my husband, and possibly myself,
were to be shot by storming agents. It was only a telegram
to President Reagan and a worldwide mobilization which
prevented a bloodbath. Documents today confirm the existence
of this plan. The same documents confirm the suspicion I had
at the time, that special units of the American military
participated in the action and that the Pentagon
collaborated fully in the operation! What a monstrous event,
that the military should be deployed against a political
opposition movement in the United States! 
   In my own activity as President of the Schiller
Institute, I have had to experience time and again, how the
same slanders and lies, spread in the judicial apparatus and
``anti-LaRouche task force'' against my husband, have also
been retailed through American outfits, embassies and other
international American organizations, against my work in
Germany and that of my Institute worldwide. Hundreds of
documents, which have come into my hands through the FOIA
(Freedom of Information Act), prove this to be the case. 
   I know that my husband is innocent. I, too, have
personally experienced the machinations of his enemies in
their attempt to ``eliminate'' him. Up until the present,
the American judicial apparatus has obsequiously ratified an
act of injustice which cries out to heaven for redress. 
   Next month my husband will have to spend his seventieth
birthday behind prison walls. I appeal to you to do
everything in your power, to liberate my innocent, jailed
husband, and to render him justice, who has taken the cross
for the millions, who are poor and have no voice in this
world. 



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         John Covici
          covici@ccs.covici.com