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:: ONU - XX Assemblea Generale (1965): |
La
XX Assemblea Generale dell’ONU (1965)
dichiara "la legittimità della
lotta da parte dei popoli sotto
oppressione coloniale, per esercitare il
loro diritto all' autodeter-
minazione e
all'indipendenza".
Inoltre, l'Assemblea invita "tutti
gli Stati a fornire assistenza morale e
materiale ai movimenti di liberazione
nazionale nei territori coloniali". |
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:: ONU
- Risoluzione 1514 |
"L'Assemblea
Generale dichiara che: la soggezione dei
popoli a dominio straniero, conquista e
asservimento costituisce una negazione
dei diritti umani fondamentali, è
contraria alla Carta delle Nazioni Unite
ed è un impedimento alla promozione
della pace e della cooperazione mondiali.
Tutti i popoli hanno diritto
all' autodeter-
minazione; in virtù di
tale diritto essi devono liberamente
determinare il loro status politico e
liberamente perseguire il loro sviluppo
economico, sociale e culturale". |
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:: Convenzione
di Ginevra, Protocollo Addizionale I
(1977): |
La lotta
armata può essere usata, come ultima
risorsa, come mezzo per esercitare il
diritto all' autodeter-
minazione. |
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:: Tribunale
penale internazionale |
In
base allo Statuto del Tribunale penale
internazionale, sono definiti “crimini
di guerra”:
(1) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
contro popolazione civili in quanto tali
o contro civili che non prendano
direttamente parte alle ostilità;
(4) attacchi lanciati intenzionalmente
nella consapevolezza che gli stessi
avranno come conseguenza la perdita di
vite umane tra la popolazione civile, e
lesioni a civili o danni a proprietà
civili ovvero danni diffusi duraturi e
gravi all’ambiente naturale che siano
manifestamente eccessivi rispetto all’insieme
dei concreti e diretti i vantaggi
militari previsti. |
:: Iraq anthem
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Is France to Start Killing People 'the American Way'?
By François Sergent |
May 20, 2013 -War without a battlefield, without direct confrontation and without any risk to the attackers. Drones change not only the art of war, but also blur the laws of war. And American monopoly currently only shared by Israel, drones have become the weapon of choice of the "war against terror" - a phrase coined by George W. Bush after the September 11 - then continued and expanded by Obama. From Somalia to the frontiers of Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan, dozens of suspected terrorists, including senior al-Qaeda leaders, have been killed by missiles launched by drones operated from the comfort of sanitized bases in Virginia. These men were killed secretly and without trial, in the manner of extrajudicial executions. As sophisticated as these unmanned aircraft have become, however, hundreds of civilian men, women and children, have fallen - collateral victims of this shadowy war...
continua / continued  [97770] [ 22-may-2013 20:49 ECT ] |
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New Sleaze Allegations Tarnish JPMorgan Chase's 'Teflon Don'
By Tom Burghardt
May 20, 2013 - While Barack Obama's "favorite banker" continues to receive the royal treatment in Washington, new sleaze allegations threaten to further tarnish the golden boy image of "teflon don" Jamie Dimon, the CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase. Wearing multiple hats, Dimon is the Chairman of The Business Council, a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, a "Class A" Director of the New York Federal Reserve and Advisory Board member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, that is, until the Council was foreclosed on earlier this year. It doesn't hurt that JPM's embattled capo di tutti capi is also a leading light and Executive Committee member of The Business Roundtable, a corporatist "association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies with more than $7.3 trillion in annual revenues and nearly 16 million employees."...
continua / continued [97768] [ 22-may-2013 20:20 ECT ] |
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Walking Tours Connect Palestinians to Their Past
By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
May 20 , 2013 - A reddish-brown dome sits atop an ancient stone house, used hundreds of years ago for prayer. It peeks out from the surrounding trees as the rolling green valleys and hills of the central West Bank stretch out into the distance. This shrine, known as the Al-Khawass shrine, sits 540 metres above sea level in the Palestinian village of Deir Ghassaneh. It is one of several stops along the Sufi trail, which begins in the valley below and takes visitors and locals alike back in time to when Sufism, a mystical form of Islam, was widespread in the area."I want foreigners to know Palestinian culture, our culture. And I want Palestinians to take [steadfastness] from it. This is your home. Be proud of the land, of the homeland," explained Rafat Jamil, director of tours and a guide at the Rozana Association...
continua / continued [97765] [ 22-may-2013 19:47 ECT ] |
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The Prisoners' Diaries - Palestinian voices from the Israeli Gulag
Review by Ramona Wadi
May 20, 2013 - Edited and published during the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, The Prisoners' Diaries is a distressing fragment of testimonies from Palestinians whose deterioration in Israeli jails has become a fact of life, rather than a blatant violation of human rights. The resilience against the occupation and a lack of global outrage against torture and apartheid practices resonated with irregular frequencies within the international community, as leaders relegate human rights to the vestiges of redundant diplomacy. As the epitomes of the hunger strike, Samer Issawi and Ayman Sharawna, seem to have faded from public scrutiny, this book serves as a reminder of the reality experienced by hundreds of prisoners who have, at some point, been incarcerated and subjected to torture in Israeli prisons. The brief narrations manage to dissolve the facade of statistics and portray the humanitarian aspect - estranged families, poverty, illness, death and the metaphor of time experienced as a perpetual waiting and loathed dependence on an entity responsible for the deterioration of life as envisaged by the occupying power...
continua / continued [97763] [ 22-may-2013 19:35 ECT ] |
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Israeli Army Kidnaps Two Palestinian Fishermen In Northern Gaza
Saed Bannoura
May 20, 2013 - The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, has reported that the Israeli Navy kidnapped, on Sunday at night, two Palestinian fishermen near the coast of Beit Lahia city, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The PCHR said that the soldiers kidnapped Mahmoud Zayed, 27, and his brother Khaled, as they were fishing in Palestinian territorial waters, and took them to an unknown destination before confiscating their boat. The soldiers also prevented Palestinian fishermen in the area from fishing and forced them back to the shore...
continua / continued [97753] [ 22-may-2013 18:30 ECT ] |
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Israeli archive file shows that Israel's founder tried to erase Palestinian Nakba
Saed Bannoura
May 19, 2013- A new report published in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz describes the information found in a newly-uncovered document in the government archives, which reveals that the first Israeli government, including the first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, worked to re-write the history of Israel's founding in 1948 to deny the fact that over 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled. The file, number GL-18/17028, was apparently missed by the Israeli military censor, who has sealed all other historical documents related to Israel's creation in 1948. With the advent of historians like Benny Morris, who went through previously de-classified documents in detail and found strong evidence of massacres of Palestinians by Israeli armed militias as well as the forced expulsion of most of the indigenous population of Palestine in 1948, documents that had been de-classified were sealed again and remain so until today.
continua / continued [97732] [ 21-may-2013 04:43 ECT ] |
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Syria News - May 18, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos |
May 18, 2013 - By the end of Saturday the Local Coordination Committees documented 116 martyrs including 11 women, 9 children and 5 under torture; 37 martyrs in Damascus and its Suburbs; 29 martyrs in Aleppo; 27 martyrs in Homs; 6 in Hama; 6 in Idlib; 6 in Daraa; 3 in Deir Ezzor; 1 in Banias and 1 in Qunaitera.The Local Coordination Committees has documented 301 points of shelling including in 36 points warplanes the most violent was in Qosair Homs and the cities of East Ghouta Damascus Suburbs, Cluster bombs were reported in Kaferlata, Idlib and Halfaia Hama, Steric bombs were reported in Halfaia as well, explosive barrels were reported in four points in East Ghouta Damascus Suburbs, in Salma Latakia, Halfaia Hama, and in Raqaa. Surface-to Surface missiles were reported in Raqqa. The shelling using rocket launchers was reported in 58 points, mortar shelling was reported in 82 points, and artillery shelling was reported in 110 points in different areas in Syria...
continua / continued [97723] [ 21-may-2013 02:54 ECT ] |
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Syria : Without Water, Revolution
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
May 18, 2013 - ... I came here to write my column and work on a film for the Showtime series, "Years of Living Dangerously," about the "Jafaf," or drought, one of the key drivers of the Syrian war. In an age of climate change, we’re likely to see many more such conflicts. "The drought did not cause Syria’s civil war," said the Syrian economist Samir Aita, but, he added, the failure of the government to respond to the drought played a huge role in fueling the uprising. What happened, Aita explained, was that after Assad took over in 2000 he opened up the regulated agricultural sector in Syria for big farmers, many of them government cronies, to buy up land and drill as much water as they wanted, eventually severely diminishing the water table. This began driving small farmers off the land into towns, where they had to scrounge for work. Because of the population explosion that started here in the 1980s and 1990s thanks to better health care, those leaving the countryside came with huge families and settled in towns around cities like Aleppo. Some of those small towns swelled from 2,000 people to 400,000 in a decade or so. The government failed to provide proper schools, jobs or services for this youth bulge, which hit its teens and 20s right when the revolution erupted ...
continua / continued [97718] [ 20-may-2013 17:26 ECT ] |
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UPDATE: Cousins of Palestinian teenager murdered at checkpoint arrested
International Solidarity Movement
May 18, 2913 - Two brothers of the arrested Deiyaa’ Nassar, cousins of the murdered Amer Nassar, were arrested last week Monday, May 13 past 2 am at night. Deiyaa’ Nassar, 19, and Fadi Abu-’Asr continue to be held in Mejiddo Israeli prison as their trials continue to be rescheduled on each previous trial date. Deiyaa’s brothers, Bahaa, 20, and Baraa, 21, were arrested randomly; Bahaa is studying at university and Baraa is an artist in calligraphy who makes wooden plaques and ornaments with calligraphic Arabic text or Palestinian images. Deiyaa, Bahaa, and Baraa are of a household of seven boys. A local Red Crescent representative met with the family and said that the boys’ mother is only comforted that the brothers are said to be together in Mejiddo prison...
continua / continued [97713] [ 20-may-2013 15:31 ECT ] |
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Libyans in North Africa scared to return home
IRIN News |
May 18, 2013 - Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been determined never to leave. But after two weeks of imprisonment and torture, the 68-year-old former contractor fled. "They accused me of supporting [former ruler Muammar] Gaddafi during the revolution, which is not true at all," Warfella told IRIN in Cairo. "These people have turned life into hell for people, not just in Bani Walid, but everywhere in Libya." Warfella is one of tens of thousands of Libyans who have fled to Egypt. Many are accused, often falsely they say, of having fought in pro-Gaddafi forces in 2011, or having publicly expressed support for him.Far from home, many struggle to find employment and affordable accommodation, and lack almost any formal support. But they fear revenge attacks should they return home...
continua / continued [97711] [ 20-may-2013 14:51 ECT ] |
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My Body in Shatat, My Heart in Gaza, My Soul in Beit Daras
By Ghada Ageel |
May 18, 2013- On the 65th anniversary of the Nakba (what we Palestinians call the catastrophe of dispossession), Palestinians who were born in historic Palestine and are currently growing old in refugee camps – remain determined to return to the homes and lands from which we were expelled in 1948. My grandmother, Khadija, is one of them. A mother of ten, a grandmother of 68, and a great grandmother of 49, Khadija now lives under tragic circumstances in Khan Younis refugee camp, in Gaza. She previously owned lands and a home in Beit Daras, a village that was part of historic Palestine. (She still have deeds in hand). Once full of hope and honor, my grandmother is very much like the other seven million Palestinian refugees and their descendants scattered all over the world, including in Occupied Palestine. In her late 80s, she feels abandoned...
continua / continued [97707] [ 20-may-2013 05:47 ECT ] |
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Pentagon Spec Ops Chief Sees ’10 to 20′ More Years of War Against al-Qaida
By Spencer Ackerman
May 18, 2013 - The war in Afghanistan may be winding down. But the Pentagon’s chief of irregular warfare still sees a war against al-Qaida that will last decades, all over the world — a prospect that prompted astonishment and constitutional debate in the Senate.Asked at a Senate hearing today how long the war on terrorism will last, Michael Sheehan, the assistant secretary of defense for special operations and low-intensity conflict, answered, "At least 10 to 20 years."It was just two months ago that the top U.S. intelligence official testified that al-Qaida had been battered by the U.S. into a state of disarray. A year ago, the current CIA director, John Brennan, said that "For the first time since this fight began, we can look ahead and envision a world in which the al Qaeda core is simply no longer relevant." Just this week, the commander of the Joint Special Operations Command, Army Lt. Gen. Joseph Votel, told a Florida conference that he was looking at missions beyond the counterterrorism manhunt...
continua / continued [97699] [ 20-may-2013 03:35 ECT ] |
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Israeli Soldiers Break Into The Negev Detention Camp, Attack Detainees
Saed Bannoura
May 18, 2013 - The Palestinian Detainees Study Center has reported that undercover forces of the Israeli military broke, on Thursday, into section 24 of the Negev detention camp, attacked the detainees and searched their beds and property. Riyadh Al-Ashqar, head of the center, issued a press release on Friday stating that the attack took place on Thursday at night, approximately at 10, when dozens of soldiers forced the detainees out of their tents, forced them into the external toilets, and searched their tents for more than one hour...
continua / continued [97698] [ 20-may-2013 03:19 ECT ] |
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Syria News - May 17, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos |
May 17, 2013 - By the end of Friday, the Local coordination committees documentated 113 martyrs between 7 women, 4 children and 1 martyr under torture: 39 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its suburbs; 17 martyrs in Idlib; 15 martyrs in Homs, inlcuding 3 unidentified martyred in Damascus suburbs; 14 in Deir Ezzor; 8 in Hama; 8 in Daraa; 8 in Aleppo; 2 in Raqqa; and 2 in Hassakeh. The committees have documented 323 points of shelling as 32 warplane air strikes were recorded, fiercest of which was in Yabroud, Damascus Suburbs, shelling with explosive barrels was recorded in 3 points: Yabroud in Damascus Suburbs, and Helfaya and Fletah in Hama, also the use of thermobaric and cluster bombs were documented in Helfaya. Shelling with mortars was recorded in 103 points, and artillery shelling in 95 points, whole rocket shelling was recorded in 88 points in different Syrian cities and towns.
continua / continued [97712] [ 20-may-2013 15:14 ECT ] |
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Libya : Tawerghans say mass grave bodies mis-identified, demand neutral investigation
By Ahmed Elumami.
Exhumed bodies found in a mass grave discovered earlier this week are not civilians from Misrata but are people from Tawergha, the town’s local council in exile has said, demanding that a neutral committee be formed to investigate the grave. The head of the Tawergha refugee camp in Tripoli, Ali Arrous, told the Libya Herald that the displaced people of Tawergha do not trust the research team of the Ministry of Martyrs and Missing People.Tawerghan refugees, he said, are demanding that a neutral committee be formed to investigate the cemetery. This, he said, should consist of members of the Red Cross and the UN mission in Libya to fully investigate the mass grave."The cemetery is about 300 years old," Arrous said, "but the bodies in this grave were victims of a NATO airstrike. They were martyrs." He added that the Tawerghans have witnesses, including those who actually buried the bodies on 11 August 2011...
continua / continued [97692] [ 20-may-2013 00:37 ECT ] |
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A Saudi, a pressure cooker and the FBI…
Ali Khan Mahmudabad |
May 17, 2013 - What do you get when you put a Saudi student, the FBI and a 'bullet coloured’ pressure cooker together? Kabsah! Talal al-Rouqi, an Arab student in Michigan had cooked his favourite rice and meat dish, Kabsah (also know as Mandi) and was walking over to share it with his other Arab friend when a neighbor spotted him strolling in public with a 'bullet coloured’ pressure cooker. Naturally, worried about the swarthy looking young man’s intentions, especially given the Tsarnaev brother’s use of the pressure cooker as a bomb container, the conscious citizen decided to report the incident to the FBI. Armed agents surrounded the Al-Rouqi’s apartment, asked to enter the premises and then quizzed him on his sojourn of two days earlier...In another incident a Saudi man who was being held for irregularities to do with his passport was also quizzed and detained for bringing two pressure cookers from Saudi Arabia for his nephew...Obviously, the threat from an 'Ay-Rab’ pressure cooker is much greater than one sold in the U.S. of A...Now that carrying everyday items is a sign of being a potential suspect, especially if one has too much melanin (even though the Tsarnaev brothers looked more Caucasian than anything else), I have some advice for brown people and in particular Muslims in America...
continua / continued [97688] [ 19-may-2013 05:23 ECT ] |
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How Qatar seized control of the Syrian revolution
By Roula Khalaf and Abigail Fielding-Smith |
May 17, 2013 - ...In the shell-blasted areas of rebel-held Syria, few appear to be aware of the vast sums that Qatar has contributed – estimated by rebel and diplomatic sources to be about $1bn, but put by people close to the Qatar government at as much as $3bn. However, a perception is taking root among growing numbers of Syrians that Qatar is using its financial muscle to develop networks of loyalty among rebels and set the stage for influence in a post-Assad era. "Qatar has a lot of money and buys everything with money, and it can put its fingerprints on it," says a rebel officer from the northern province of Idlib interviewed by the FT. However, for Qatar, Syria is also the culmination of an opportunistic foreign policy which saw Doha become the unlikely backer of other Arab revolts in north Africa – and a friend of those who emerge as winners, in most cases Islamists. Qatar has supported the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt and Tunisia’s Islamist al-Nahda party, which won the first elections after the popular revolts.... In Syria the Qataris worked through members of the exiled Muslim Brotherhood to identify rebel factions that should be supported. For example, she says, that is how they linked up with the Farouq brigades, one of the largest and more mainstream factions...
continua / continued [97685] [ 19-may-2013 05:05 ECT ] |
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Senior BBC official insists that all of Jerusalem is an “Israeli” city
Amena Saleem
May 17, 2013 - The BBC has provided evidence this week that it prefers to use the territorial claims of the Israeli government to the whole of Jerusalem as a framework for its reporting, rather than acknowledging international law.International law considers only West Jerusalem, conquered in 1948 — amid the expulsion by Zionist militias of tens of thousands of Palestinians — to be under de facto Israeli control, while East Jerusalem, conquered in 1967 is occupied territory. This is reflected in the UK government’s position, which, since 1950, has recognized Israeli de facto authority in West Jerusalem, but not sovereignty, and considers East Jerusalem to be under military occupation...
continua / continued [97683] [ 19-may-2013 04:44 ECT ] |
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The Biggest Obama Scandals Are Proven and Ignored
Conor Friedersdorf
May 17, 2013- ...Has this president broken the law, lied under oath, or authorized war crimes? Yes, President Obama has broken the law on multiple occasions. Despite clearly stating, in a 2008 questionnaire, that the commander-in-chief is not lawfully empowered to ignore treaties duly ratified by the Senate, Obama has willfully failed to enforce the torture treaty, signed by Ronald Reagan and duly ratified by the Senate, that compels him to investigate and prosecute torture. As Sullivan put it earlier this year, "what Obama and Holder have done (or rather not done) is illegal." Obama also violated the War Powers Resolution, a law he has specifically proclaimed to be Constitutionally valid, when committing U.S. troops to Libya without Congressional approval. Or as Sullivan put it in 2011, "I'm with Conor. The war in Libya becomes illegal from now on. And the imperial presidency grows even more powerful." ....
continua / continued [97678] [ 19-may-2013 03:44 ECT ] |
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Palestinian refugees are not at your service
Moe Ali Nayel |
May 17, 2013 - Are you enjoying filming our misery? Film: it’s fine, you are like the others. You show up in the camp, film, leave, and we are still here."I used to reply: but we want to tell the world about your story. Always, with the same sarcasm, is the reply: "how much are you getting paid to tell the world our story?"Throughout my time working as a fixer with international journalists I never understood why people on the sidewalks of the camps’ busy streets always regarded our "humanitarian" mission with skepticism. But earlier this year I came to understand this skepticism of Palestinian refugees in camps in Lebanon.It was a gloomy day and clouds condensed above Sabra, a shanty town adjacent to Beirut’s Sports City stadium, overlooking the Palestinian refugee camp Shatila.We walked through a maze of narrow alleys in Sabra, led by Abdullah, a young Palestinian from Syria, doing relief work for his fellow Palestinian refugees who fled violence in Syria and were now seeking safety all over Lebanon...
continua / continued [97676] [ 19-may-2013 03:01 ECT ] |
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Laborers hurt after Israel police dog attack near Hebron
Ma'an news
May 17, 2013-- Three Palestinian laborers were wounded on Friday in Beit Ula northwest of Hebron after Israeli forces fired rubber-coated steel bullets and unleashed police dogs at them, a local official said. Issa al-Amla, coordinator for the popular struggle committee, said that Omar Al-Amla, 31, and Abdulkadir Al-Amla, 28, suffered multiple dog bites in the neck and hands. The third laborer, Jihad Saleem, was shot in the leg with a rubber-coated steel bullet...
continua / continued [97671] [ 19-may-2013 02:00 ECT ] |
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