The world is still waiting - 34 years after the event - for the targeting of UN Commissioner for Namibia, Bernt Carlsson, on Pan Am Flight 103 of 21 December 1988, to be the subject of a police murder inquiry.
The Guardian published this obituary "Key figure in Namibian peace process" on 23 December 1988:
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Bernt_Carlsson#The_Guardian
Journalist Stephen Vines added:
Bernt Carlsson belonged to that venerable breed of Scandinavians who are found in the most unlikely places serving the global community.
Apart from his instinctively international outlook, shared with many in his post-war generation, he was also drawn towards socialist politics and as a student became a key leader of the ruling Social Democratic Party's youth wing.
He later became a full time official for the party and served as its International Secretary from 1970-76 and then became the General Secretary of the Socialist International, based in London. It was a period of transition for the umbrella body of the world's social democratic parties.
Under the presidency of former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt and the secretaryship of Bernt Carlsson, there was a major effort to push the International beyond its European base into Third World countries.
On the other hand the International was engaged in pioneering Middle East peace work, using its unique position of possessing Israel's ruling Labour Party as a member, and at the same time keeping very good ties with Arab countries and Yasser Arafat's faction in the PLO.
Bernt Carlsson developed a particularly close relationship with Arafat's right hand man Issam Sartawi, who was murdered during a conference of the International in Portugal.
Carlsson shunned the limelight, preferring a behind-the-scenes role. He instinctively distrusted grand gestures and high profile negotiations, believing instead in the art of consensus building. He was a better listener than a talker, indeed, an embarrassingly shy person who battled hard to perform his public duties. But he inspired the more trust among those among those with whom he had dealings.
Hence the late Swedish prime minister Olof Palme entrusted him with a special Middle East role during his delicate attempts at negotiating a peace agreement between Iran and Iraq.
Bernt Carlsson had only been doing the job of Namibia Commissioner for two years.
https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Stephen_Vines#Obituary_to_Bernt_Carlsson
It is high time for the UK police to investigate Bernt Carlsson's murder. Sir Iain Livingstone, Chief Constable of Police Scotland, should now either:
A. Open a Police Scotland inquiry into the targeting of Bernt Carlsson on Pan Am Flight 103; or,
B. Authorise the Metropolitan Police Service to launch a Bernt Carlsson murder inquiry.