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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
(click to listen)
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A Global Crime Spree
What’s NATO Ever Done?
by JOHN LaFORGE |
May 15, 2012 - Wondering why anyone would confront NATO’s summit in Chicago this month? A look at some of its more well-known crimes might spark some indignation. Desecration of corpses, indiscriminate attacks, bombing of allied troops, torture of prisoners and unaccountable drone war are a few of NATO’s outrages in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Libya, Yemen and elsewhere. On March 20, 2012 Pakistani lawmakers demanded an end to all NATO/CIA drone strikes against their territory...While bombing Libya last March, NATO refused to aid a group of 72 migrants adrift in the Mediterranean. Only nine people on board survived. The refusal was condemned as criminal by the Council of Europe, a human rights watchdog. NATO jets bombed and rocketed a Pakistani military base for two hours Nov. 26, 2011—the Salala Incident— killing 26 Pakistani soldiers and wounding dozens more. NATO refuses to apologize, so the Pakistani regime has kept military supply routes into Afghanistan closed since November....
continua / continued  [88081] [ 16-may-2012 02:31 ECT ] |
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Iraq: Mass Arrests, Incommunicado Detentions
Notorious Prison in Use a Year After Government Said It Was Shut Down
Human Rights Watch
May 15, 2012 - Iraq’s government has been carrying out mass arrests and unlawfully detaining people in the notorious Camp Honor prison facility in Baghdad’s Green Zone, based on numerous interviews with victims, witnesses, family members, and government officials. The government had claimed a year ago that it had closed the prison, where Human Rights Watch had documented rampant torture. Since October 2011 Iraqi authorities have conducted several waves of detentions, one of which arresting officers and officials termed "precautionary." Numerous witnesses told Human Rights Watch that security forces have typically surrounded neighborhoods in Baghdad and other provinces and gone door-to-door with long lists of names of people they wanted to detain. The government has held hundreds of detainees for months, refusing to disclose the number of those detained, their identities, any charges against them, and where they are being held...
continua / continued [88077] [ 16-may-2012 01:15 ECT ] |
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US/Israeli Special Relationship
by Stephen Lendman
May 15, 2012 - Strategic interests largely benefitting Israel, not shared values, are at issue. Washington doesn't provide the Jewish state more aid than all other nations combined because of historic binding ties. On March 25, 1948, Harry Truman met secretly with Chaim Weizmann (Israel's first president). He pledged support for the future Jewish state. Minutes after midnight on May 15, 1948, America was the first country to extend recognition. A special relationship began. Thereafter it's grown financially, politically, militarily, diplomatically, and counterproductively. Israel clearly benefits. America loses more than it gains. Serious reassessment is long overdue...
continua / continued [88076] [ 16-may-2012 01:05 ECT ] |
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War Crimes Tribunal in Malaysia Finds Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld Guilty of Torture in Guantánamo and Iraq
Andy Worthington |
May 15, 2012 - ...On Friday the tribunal duly found George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William J. Haynes II, Jay S. Bybee and John Yoo guilty of the crime of torture, noting, as the Malaysian Insider described it, that "they had wilfully participated in the formulation of executive orders and directives to exclude the applicability of international conventions and laws" — namely the UN Convention against Torture (1984), the Geneva Conventions (1949), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Charter — "in relation to the war launched by the US and others in Afghanistan in 2001 and Iraq in March 2003," and also that, "Additionally, and/or on the basis and in furtherance thereof, the accused authorised, connived in, the commission of acts of torture and cruel, degrading and inhumane treatment against victims in violation of international law, treaties and aforesaid conventions."...
continua / continued [88071] [ 15-may-2012 22:01 ECT ] |
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A Palestinian mother grapples daily with the traumas of the Nakba
Mya Guarnieri
May 15, 2012 - Amira is a 30-year-old Palestinian woman, struggling to raise her three children in Shuafat Refugee Camp. Amira grapples with fear, feelings of vulnerability, and isolation from her family in Amman. But her biggest concern is teaching her children to love... As for Amira’s personal thoughts about the nakba, she feels that the conditions in Shuafat are designed to push Palestinians out. She thinks that limiting family visits is also an attempt to put pressure on the Palestinians, to encourage them to emigrate. The nakba, Amira says, is ongoing. "We are humiliated every day, we are consumed every day, we are exhausted every day… it’s not because we work, no, it’s because something is consuming us from inside. You don’t feel like a human anymore. It’s like, why am I supposed to show my bag what’s inside my bag three times a day or four times a day? It’s like there is no privacy, my life is not mine…
continua / continued [88070] [ 15-may-2012 21:45 ECT ] |
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Palestinians in Egypt insist on right to return
Rami Almeghari |
May 14, 2012 - Said Mohammad al-Shorbajy wants to die in Palestine. "That is my only wish, which I hope God will grant me," he said. An ailing man in his late sixties, he is originally from Jaffa, a Palestinian city now in Israel. He has lived in the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria for the past four decades. His father, Mohammad, was a fishmonger in Jaffa. During the Nakba — the wave of ethnic cleansing that led to Israel’s establishment in 1948 — his family was forced from their home. At that time, Said, who is also known as Abu Mohammad, was only three years old...
continua / continued [88058] [ 15-may-2012 17:55 ECT ] |
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Third intifada is the only alternative left for Palestinians
By Abdel Bari Atwan
May 14, 2012 - For 64 years the Palestinians have patiently and steadfastly continued their struggle for justice, enduring the longest occupation in modern history.Recently, however, other events throughout the region have dominated the world’s press. First, the 'war on terror’, then the invasion of Iraq, apprehension about a nuclear Iran, and now the turmoil of the Arab revolutions.
Has the Palestinian cause been side-lined, or even forgotten, in the clamour for democracy and the horror of so much violence? Six Palestinian hunger-strikers lie close to death having refused food for up to 76?? days, but even in the Arab press their sacrifice is not given the attention it deserves...
continua / continued [88052] [ 15-may-2012 10:17 ECT ] |
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Syria News - May 13, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos |
May 13, 2012 - The number of martyrs in Syria has risen to 30 thus far, including 3 women, 1 child and 2 defected soldiers; 11 martyrs were reported in Hama (Taman’ah Al-Ghab), 5 in Daraa, 4 in Homs, 4 in Idlib, 3 in Deir Ezzor, 2 in Damascus Suburbs, and 1 in Aleppo.Hama: Taman'ah Al-Ghab Under Fire: ... Today morning, the village has witnessed a new raid by shabiha, backed by security protection, from Azizieh village. They stormed the village and conducted a campaign of burning and destruction of a large number of homes and private properties, and killed 7 civilians, including at least 1 woman...Hama: Sahl Al-Ghab: At least 3 martyrs fell due to continuously bombing villages... Homs:Rastan:The child Ahmad Obaid was martyred due to the artillery shelling on the city...Homs: Rastan: More than 255 shells have fallen, and the number of wounded has risen to more than 60 amid a severe shortage of medical supplies.
continua / continued [88037] [ 14-may-2012 20:57 ECT ] |
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Controversy and Deadly Destruction Arising from Drone Use
Johanna Treblin
May 13, 2012 - Grasshoppers and other insects might become the next generation of drones, if researchers with the Israeli research centre Technion who are studying the movements of these insects succeed. Ultimately, they hope to be able to remotely control where the insects fly. Since their introduction more than a half-century ago, drones have dramatically increased in complexity, as the Israeli research would suggest. But they also remain as controversial as they are fascinating, as a new book by Medea Benjamin launched in New York in early May, "Drone Warfare: Killing by Remote Control," demonstrates. The book is the result of in-depth research on drones, their proliferation and their impact on civilians. It also presents an overview of the controversy surrounding, opposition to and activism against this technology. Benjamin is an activist in and leader of the peace movement and the struggle for human rights and social justice....
continua / continued [88032] [ 14-may-2012 18:36 ECT ] |
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Israel's Buffoon: The UN Nakba
By Vacy Vlazna
May 13, 2012 - ... Israel's impunity to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity, its 64 year defiance of UN resolutions amplify the UN's lethal incompetence. 187 member nations, (not including Israel's quislings and human rights hypocrites; USA, UK, Australia, Germany, France), are too gutless or subservient or self-serving to protect and enforce the international laws for which they are legally obligated. International human rights law lays down obligations which States are bound to respect. By becoming parties to international treaties, States assume obligations and duties under international law to respect, to protect and to fulfil human rights. The obligation to respect means that States must refrain from interfering with or curtailing the enjoyment of human rights. The obligation to protect requires States to protect individuals and groups against human rights abuses. The obligation to fulfil means that States must take positive action to facilitate the enjoyment of basic human rights. The 64 years of the uninterrupted Palestinian Nakba with its sweeping scale of tragic suffering challenges the UN's moral and political credibility and its very existence as Israel's buffoon...
continua / continued [88023] [ 14-may-2012 07:22 ECT ] |
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"I have never lived a settled life": Church of the Nativity deportees mark 10 years of exile
Shahd Abusalama |
May 13, 2012 - Yesterday 39 Palestinians from Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank marked ten years of deportation from their precious homes. That day eleven years ago, they were expelled from Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity after a siege by the Israeli occupation forces that lasted for 39 days; 26 men went to Gaza, 13 to Europe. Since that tragedy, which marked another form of ethnic cleansing, this day has been called "Deported Palestinians’ Day." Since the prisoner exchange in October, hundreds of Palestinians have joined this category, as 203 ex-detainees were convicted to indefinite deportation. Moreover, ex-detainee Hana al-Shalabi was recently forcibly transferred from Jenin in the West Bank to Gaza after hunger striking for 45 days to protest her midnight arrest on February 16 by a huge, aggressive force of Israeli soldiers, and subsequent detention without charge or trial under administrative detention....
continua / continued [88019] [ 14-may-2012 05:04 ECT ] |
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Group: Prisoners refuse water in hunger strike escalation
Ma'an news
May 13, 2012 -- Two prisoners announced Sunday that they will escalate their hunger strike action by refusing to drink water, a prisoners group said.Kamal Issa, who is affiliated to Fatah, and Jamal al-Hour, from Hamas, will refuse both food and water as part of their strike action, Hussam Prisoners Assembly said. In the past month, around 2,000 prisoners joined a group of administrative detainees on hunger-strike, according to prisoners groups' estimates...
continua / continued [88018] [ 14-may-2012 03:59 ECT ] |
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Israeli minister: Cut power supply to Gaza this summer
Noam Sheizaf
May 13, 2012 - Israel’s minister of environmental protection, Gilad Erdan (Likud), has demanded that the government stop supplying power to the Gaza Strip in order to prevent power failure in Israeli cities this summer. In an official letter addressed to all government ministers (below), Erdan notes that 4.5 percent of Israel’s power supply is sold to Gaza. Erdan writes (emphasis in the original): The State of Israel is preparing itself for a power shortage during the summer of 2012. In order to continue the steady supply of power, we [the government] are presented with a decision which details measures for the prevention of a power shortage. Before the government discusses this option, I ask you to add a condition which states that prior to placing any limit on the power supply to Israeli citizens, power supply to all foreign elements will stop, most notably to the terror authority of Hamas in Gaza.The collapse of the natural gas agreement between Egypt and Israel will probably lead to a power shortage in Israel – a temporary problem, which can be solved when Israel begins using its own huge natural gas resources in 2013. As a result, Israelis are likely to suffer a few hours of power shortage at the peak of this summer’s heat. The 1.5 million Palestinians in Gaza already suffer 12 hours of blackout a day on average...
continua / continued [88017] [ 14-may-2012 03:48 ECT ] |
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Syria News - May 12, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos |
May 12, 2012 - Saturday drew to a close with 25 martyrs, among them 3 children and 1 martyr who died under torture. 6 martyrs were reported in Hama, 6 in the Damascus Suburbs, 5 in Homs, 4 in Idlib, 1 in Lattakia, 1 in Aleppo, 1 in Daraa, and 1 in Deir Ezzor....Idlib: Qawqafeen: Maryam Ahmad Al Qaddi, 5, was Martyred by the Regime Forces Gunfire when she was Playing in Front of her House...Hama: Sahl Al Ghab: The recruit Saleh Mahmoud Al Ali, from Asharneh village, was martyred by the regime forces gunfire as he refused to open fire at protestors in Daraa....
continua / continued [88016] [ 14-may-2012 03:31 ECT ] |
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Honoring a ‘Terror War’ Architect
By Ray McGovern
May 12, 2012 - Since even readers of the New York Times are aware of deputy national security adviser John Brennan’s open identification with torture, secret prisons and other abuses of national and international law, Fordham University’s invitation to him to give the commencement address on May 19 brought, well, shock and awe to many Fordham students, faculty and alumni. It now turns out we didn’t know the half of it. Piling outrage upon indignity, Fordham announced this week that Brennan will enjoy pride of place among the "eight notables" on whom it will confer honorary degrees at commencement. The others receiving a Doctorate in Humane Letters, honoris causa, include Timothy Cardinal Dolan (Archbishop of New York), and Brooklyn congressman Edolphus Towns...
continua / continued [88015] [ 13-may-2012 21:37 ECT ] |
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The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal: The Judgement
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
May 12, 2012 - CHIEF PROSECUTOR OF KLWCC v GEORGE W. BUSH & 7 ORS
CASE NO. 2-CTH-2011 KLWCT 7-11 MAY 2012: ...1.1 The 8 accused were charged with the crime of torture and war crimes in that I. The Accused persons had wilfully participated in the formulation of executive orders and directives to exclude the applicability of international conventions and laws, namely the Convention against Torture 1984, Geneva Convention III 1949, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the United Nations Charter in relation to the war launched by the US and others in Afghanistan (in 2001) and Iraq (in March 2003); II. Additionally, and / or on the basis and in furtherance thereof, the Accused persons authorised, connived in, the commission of acts of torture and cruel, degrading and inhumane treatment against victims in violation of international law, treaties and aforesaid conventions...
continua / continued [88010] [ 13-may-2012 18:48 ECT ] |
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Why Does the Occupation Continue?
Review of Shir Hever’s The Political Economy of Israel’s Occupation
Max Ajl
May 12, 2012 - There is a latter-day tendency to see the 44-year Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories as the organic outward growth of the Zionist idea -- as though the aspiration to hold the entirety of the land, embedded in Labor Zionist doctrine, was in fact a certainty, simply waiting for time to catch up. With the occupation deepened since the 1993 Oslo accord, and the remainder of the Palestinian populace crowded into a scattering of bantustans in the West Bank and one big one in Gaza, one can understand the diffusion of this way of thinking. It appears that the Zionist drive to dominion has neared completion. Debate about the beginnings of the Israeli state is reasonably settled in historiography if not yet in the broader public realm. The general trajectory of Israeli history, its grounding in exclusionary settler-colonialism, quite unlike the inclusionary, plantation-style variety in South Africa, emerged from trends set in motion and likely crystallized by the early twentieth century....
continua / continued [88009] [ 13-may-2012 18:32 ECT ] |
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Hunger Strikes Highlight Israeli Injustice
by Stephen Lendman
May 12, 2012 - Israel treats Palestinian prisoners horrifically. Cruel and unusual punishment is policy. Detention conditions include torture, intimidation, and other abusive practices. Hunger strikes first began in 1968. Nablus Prison detainees initiated them. Numerous others followed. At issue is abusive treatment and appalling prison conditions. Medical neglect causes sickness, disease and death. Last summer, the Palestinian Center for Defending Detainees (PCDD) reported hundreds of seriously ill prisoners. They're affected by heart disease, cancer, kidney failure, pleurisy, chronic pain, and other illnesses too grave to ignore....
continua / continued [88003] [ 13-may-2012 16:21 ECT ] |
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Bush convicted of war crimes: evidence from Cageprisoners' director crucial
by Yvonne Ridley |
May 12, 2012 - IT’S OFFICIAL - George W Bush is a war criminal. And the harrowing evidence given in person by ex-Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg, helped a panel of five judges reach their historic verdict. In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes.Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia. The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard graphic accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan. They included testimony from the Director of Cageprisoners, Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison...
continua / continued [88002] [ 13-may-2012 16:12 ECT ] |
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“Close Guantánamo” Calls on US Communities to Demand Release of Cleared Prisoners in US
Andy Worthington
May 12, 2012 - Ever since it became apparent, during the Bush administration, that there were wrongly detained prisoners at Guantánamo who could not be safely repatriated, certain principled groups and individuals have pushed for those men to be given new homes in the United States, the country responsible for their lost years of arbitrary detention and abuse. From the beginning, however, voices have also been raised in opposition to these calls, even though US officials realized early on that too many "Mickey Mouse detainees" were being sent to Guantánamo from Afghanistan, as Maj. Gen. Michael Dunlavey, the commander of Guantánamo until October 2002, explained to the Los Angeles Times later that year. Officials also realized that some of these men — and boys — couldn’t be safely repatriated, but no one in a position of authority thought about granting political asylum to any of them....
continua / continued [87998] [ 13-may-2012 15:46 ECT ] |
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Syria News - May 11, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos |
May 11, 2012 - Friday ended with eighteen martyrs, including three children; six martyrs were reported in Hama, three martyrs in Damascus Suburbs "Harasta - Douma", two martyrs in Aleppo, two martyrs in Hasakeh, two martyrs in Daraa, two martyrs in Idlib and one martyr in Homs.Hama: Khattab: The archaeological bridge built on Assi river which connects Khattab town with Balhasin is destroyed. Reports of the fall of a number of wounded due to the random gunfire opened at homes when the regime's forces stormed the villages of Balhasin and Al Qosaieieh. In addition to the burning of houses of a some activists, the arrest of more than fifteen young men, the looting and destruction of many homes and shops and setting fire to motorcycles...Hama: Helfaya: Ahmad Jaber Al-Habeeb was martyred, and more than 20 wounded fell as a result of direct gunfire at protesters. A wide arrest campaign is reported, it included all the family of Al-Haaj Abdulkareem Al-Zaatour...
continua / continued [87996] [ 13-may-2012 15:19 ECT ] |
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