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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. |
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White House Repeats Pentagon Lies About Guantánamo “Recidivists”
Andy Worthington |
February 8, 2010 - What is to be done about the idiocy that has spread, like a poisonous but imperceptible gas, from the Pentagon to Congress, and is now wafting through the White House, deranging all it touches? As it travels, this dismal infection transforms statistical impossibilities into magic numbers, which appear, to the uninformed observer, to confirm the most shameless lies of former Vice President Dick Cheney: that Guantánamo was teeming with hardcore terrorists, who couldn’t wait to "return to the battlefield."...
continua / continued  [63087] [ 09-feb-2010 05:07 ECT ] |
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The US Military: A Mindset of Barbarism, Part 2
Dahr Jamail
February 8, 2010 - ...In the second part of his interview with Truthout, Dr. Mestrovic examines the fallacious nature of the rules of engagement, Operation Iron Triangle in Iraq, the rampant nature of atrocities in the US military today, and the possibility of a solution. In Operation Iron Triangle, Iraqi detainees were murdered by US soldiers under the command of a legendary American colonel, Michael Steele. On May 9, 2006, American soldiers executed three unarmed men they had captured in an operation in the so-called Sunni Triangle in Iraq. Several of these soldiers were court-martialed and imprisoned, but some within the military say that responsibility ultimately lies with Colonel Steele...
continua / continued [63086] [ 09-feb-2010 03:40 ECT ] |
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Bad to Worse in Iraq
Robert Dreyfuss
February 8, 2010 - The election in Iraq is less than a month away -- that is, if indeed it is held as scheduled on March 7 -- and things are going from bad to worse. Last month, an unelected commission held over from the early days of the US occupation of Iraq, the Justice and Accountability Commission, issued a shocking ruling banning more than 500 candidates from taking part in the election, including a number of members of the current parliament running for reelection. That commission, successor to the old De-Baathification Commission, is controlled by Ahmed Chalabi and one of his cronies, Ali al-Lami. Chalabi, the darling of Bush-era neoconservatives, who pushed Chalabi as Iraq's leader after 2003, has long had close ties to Tehran, and in this case the ban struck at those Iraqi politicians most opposed to Iran's growing influence in Iraq. Last week, an Iraqi appeals court seemed to overturn the ban...Following the court's decision, the government of Iraq -- led by a coalition of Shiite-sectarian politicians closely tied to Iran -- demanded that the appeals court decision be overruled. Ali al-Dabbagh, one of Prime Minister Maliki's closest aides, called the lifting of the ban "illegal and not constitutional."...
continua / continued [63085] [ 09-feb-2010 03:23 ECT ] |
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The Useless Logic of Round Numbers: War is Criminal Any Day
Ramzy Baroud |
February 8, 2010 - The media's habit of revisiting certain issues at set intervals can be strange and even illogical at times. For example, many news outlets commented on President Barack Obama’s first 100 days in office, as well as on the anniversary of his election win, and then again one year after his inauguration day. With every new round number, more commentators joined in and discussions heated up between proponents and detractors of his government’s performance... We determine the order in which legacies such as Obama’s should be dissected. After a decided date, the subject can be ignored until the next round number arrives, bringing with it more useless chatter. Of course, this is a delusion. Like much of the media’s behaviour, it has no connection to reality. It’s all a mind game. A lie, even. For victims of US policies in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, and elsewhere, the attention given to round numbers is wholly illogical. The drones flying over Afghanistan and Pakistan, loaded with killing technology, care little for numbers, including the number of lives they destroy daily. Did Gazans starve less when we 'examined’ Obama’s (pro-Israel) legacy after 100 days of his presidency? Where they better off one year from his election victory or one year from his inauguration? How about 273 days from his ascendancy to the White House? Was that a particularly chaotic day in Baghdad’s streets? Do soldiers take a break from killing on even days, and resume the slaughter on odd ones? ..
continua / continued [63083] [ 09-feb-2010 03:13 ECT ] |
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When Death becomes Love during Wartime
Hussein Anwar |
February 8, 2010 - This post is not what you think, I am not going to make a romantic play out here, it is not about the love we all hear about between man and woman, not about a romantic relationship, this field does not interest me when it comes to writing, so open your eyes for another type of love that you have never ever heard of before. Ever since I began hearing about the raping of Iraqi women in prison, I started to think about the aftermath these women will have for the rest of their lives, I dig too deep trying to figure out what sort of a life they will live and who will embrace them and take them in. No matter what I think, how I thought, and no matter how creative my imagination is...I will not reach or feel not even a small portion of what these Innocent women felt during prison, feel after prison, live and suffer for the rest of their lives simply because what happened to them did not happen to me...
continua / continued [63080] [ 09-feb-2010 02:32 ECT ] |
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IRAN: As many as 3 million protesters anticipated at Thursday rally
Los Angeles Times
February 8, 2010 - The 22nd day of the Persian calendar month of Bahman, the date 31 years ago when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini declared Iran an Islamic republic, is traditionally a time for official patriotic fervor and the unveiling of national achievements. But on Sunday, a source inside Tehran police headquarters told a friend of the Los Angeles Times in Iran that security forces expect as many as 3 million anti-government protesters to descend on the center of the capital during the holiday, which falls on Thursday this year, after loud calls by opposition leaders to take the streets. The government is also expected to be prepared, deploying about 12,000 baton-wielding Basiji militiamen from outside the capital and legions of supporters bused in from around the country. "The government managed to collect and gather around 500,000 supporters," the friend of the newspaper said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "This number is very real. All of their efforts have amounted to 500,000."...
continua / continued [63078] [ 09-feb-2010 01:23 ECT ] |
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Aafia Siddiqui: Victimized by American Injustice
Stephen Lendman |
February 8, 2010 - ...Carefully orchestrated, the trial proceeded like numerous others, targeting innocent victims because of their faith, ethnicity, prominence, benevolent charity, activism, or other reasons for political advantage, ending with convictions and punitive incarcerations against innocent defendants, guilty of being Muslims in America at the wrong time when we’re all just as vulnerable. In a manipulated climate of fear, the same process repeats, using bogus charges, secret evidence, enlisted witnesses to cooperate, the defense prohibited from introducing exculpatory evidence, and proceedings carefully scripted to intimidate juries to convict. Justice is again denied, Siddiqui another victim, a human tragedy, portrayed by the dominant media as a jihadist, and getting public sentiment to agree because disturbing truths are carefully suppressed...
continua / continued [63077] [ 09-feb-2010 01:18 ECT ] |
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Stop the Wall offices hit in late night raid
Palestinian Grassroots Anti-Apartheid Wall Campaign
February 8, 2010 - Late last night Occupation forces raided the Stop the Wall offices in Ramallah. Some 10 military jeeps, hummers and an armoured bus surrounded the building as soldiers searched rooms, turning the office upside down and confiscating computer hard disks, laptops, and video cameras along with paper documents, CDs, and video cassettes. Part of the mounting repression of the anti-Wall movement, this attack on the Campaign offices comes after the arrests of Jamal Juma’ and Mohammed Othman, who were both were later released after significant international pressure. Other arrest operations are ongoing, and currently some 40 anti-Wall activists are held for their grassroots mobilizing and international advocacy efforts in Israeli jails...
continua / continued [63059] [ 08-feb-2010 21:57 ECT ] |
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Emergency in Gaza
War doctor Mads Gilbert discusses the politics of health in the Occupied Territories
By Humera Jabir
February 7, 2010 - Mads Gilbert and Erik Fosse became the eyes of the world in Gaza during Operation Cast Lead, the Israeli invasion of December 2008. As the only two foreign doctors in Gaza when the fighting broke out, Gilbert and Fosse reported to CNN, Al-Jazeera, ABC, BBC, and CBS from outside al-Shifa hospital where they worked, allowing the world to see the conflict through the eyes of those affected. Gilbert spoke to students Friday night at an event hosted by the McGill chapter of Solidarity for Palestinian Human Rights. Gilbert described the interwoven nature of politics and medicine, and his belief that health is the most important foreign policy issue of our time. Gilbert’s political opinions stand out in a profession where neutrality is often the expected norm. But in his view, to be neutral would be tantamount to complicity – putting his patients in further danger. He has argued that the wall separating Gaza from Israel is a dividing line between those who have the right to health care and those who do not, and that pushing for an end to violence and the blockade of Gaza is just "good preventative medicine."...
continua / continued [63052] [ 08-feb-2010 06:39 ECT ] |
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The truth lies in Iraq, not Chilcot!
Hussein Al-alak, The Iraq Solidarity Campaign
February 7, 2010 - To Comrades of the Communist Party of Great Britain. The recent article "Why we should not call for jailing of Tony Blair" published by Weekly Worker (4/2/2010) gave a simplistic response to those involved with the campaign to have Tony Blair arrested and in some points also came across as being quite flippant. Watching Blair rehash the old rhetoric at Chilcot, was like listening to a scratched record, where once again we had to endure the same old garbage about Saddam’s WMD, the false link to Al-Qaida and the other allegations relating to human rights abuses...And whilst you simply state that abuses have "continued under the occupation", with no reference to any of the facts, for the Iraqi people the abuse is far more systematic than these simple words can even muster.The mass murder of one million Iraqi’s, the creation of five millions orphans, the destitution of millions of refugees, along with the forced unemployment of millions, under the banner of "de-Baathification", is not even worthy of a trial at the Hague but of direct justice at the hands of the Iraqi people...
continua / continued [63038] [ 08-feb-2010 01:58 ECT ] |
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U.S.-Supported Night Raids Bring Terror to Afghanis
Firedoglake |
February 7, 2010 - An assortment of American military, security contractors from the U.S., and Afghani security and police organizations that likely answer to U.S. military leaders engage in war on a daily basis and, as Anand Gopal recently detailed, are subject to targeted assassinations, night raids, secret detention centers, disappearances, and other acts of "counterterror." Many Americans have heard stories seep into corporate media’s news coverage of the Afghanistan War (or, in general, the "war on terror"). Americans know detention has been a common tool used against "terror suspects" and that certain "suspects" have in many cases been held secretly. Who knows how many Americans are aware of disappearances which terrify a population along with targeted assassinations that come from foreign military or security forces that are seeking to enforce "counterterror" measures...
continua / continued [63032] [ 07-feb-2010 22:50 ECT ] |
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Karzai eyes return to conscript army
AFP
February 7, 2010 - Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is mulling a return to a conscript army as he seeks to build his insurgency-hit nation's security forces over the next five years. "This will be philosophically one of our pursuits as we move ahead, into the future, in consultation with the Afghan people," Mr Karzai told senior officials and security experts at a conference in Munich, southern Germany. "Right now we have a volunteer system, which means an army entirely paid for, and professionals," he said, noting, "as in other countries, Afghanistan had a strong tradition of conscript army"...
continua / continued [63031] [ 07-feb-2010 22:36 ECT ] |
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