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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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The other day in Lebanon
Allsources
September 6, 2010 - ...The other day in Lebanon, I decided to spent more time in this splendid country. I know, the infrastructure is wanting: the continual power cuts, the slow internet, the traffic jams. I know, it can be hot and humid. I know, you are camping on a powder keg. I know, people are always late, change plans in the last minute or don't show up at all. But this last point is perhaps the very essence of it all. In Lebanon, at least in the Lebanon I know, you can enjoy a personal freedom in the midst of a multi-layered chaos that has been long lost in other places I know...
continua / continued  [69541] [ 07-sep-2010 00:53 ECT ] |
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Zionist Settlers: A Long History of Terrorism
Reham Alhelsi |
September 6, 2010 - Zionist settlers, illegal colonists coming from all over the world to steal and occupy Palestinian land, armed with a green light to shoot and kill Palestinians whenever they want, won’t hesitate to use force against civilian Palestinians. Their violence includes shooting, stabbing beating, running over Palestinians, stealing their land, property and water, razing agricultural land, uprooting trees and burning crops, stealing harvest, raiding houses and blocking roads. Settler attacks are often initiated by them without any provocation or threat to their safety from Palestinians. In their attacks, the Zionist colonists are often accompanied by Israeli soldiers who either watch and don’t intervene to stop the settler terror or participate in the attacks and provide protection to the settlers. Zionist colonists are seldom prosecuted for their terror actions and in the very rare cases when they were prosecuted, they received very mild sentences..
continua / continued [69537] [ 07-sep-2010 00:23 ECT ] |
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Gaza: a castle in the sand
Graham Usher
September 6, 2010 - ...That victory has redounded to Hamas, the Islamic movement and now government that blockades, assaults and attempted coups all tried to topple. Three years since it vanquished Fatah in a brief but bloody civil war, Hamas looks indomitable in Gaza, shaping a new Palestinian polity out of the ruins of the old. The new order is felt not so much in the marquee projects that so intrigue in the West: like the small flurry of resorts on the seafront and an even smaller mall in Gaza City. For Gazans it is felt more in a new sense of personal security...Yet Hamas is hardly more popular than Fatah. Like them, it cannot deliver what its people most want: not governance but liberation. "Freedom to move, to travel, to leave," says a man who hasn't left Gaza for five years. Save for rare "exceptions", most Palestinians remain interned in the largest prison camp on earth, locked in by Egypt to the south, locked out by Israel everywhere else...
continua / continued [69536] [ 06-sep-2010 19:12 ECT ] |
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NATO eyes 2,000 extra troops for Afghanistan: official
By Laurent Thomet (AFP)
September 6, 2010 — US General David Petraeus, the commander of the war in Afghanistan, has requested 2,000 extra troops to bolster a crucial mission to train Afghan security forces, a NATO official said Monday. The mission would come on the heels of the deployment of tens of thousands of soldiers who were sent as part of a surge strategy aimed at crushing a resilient Taliban insurgency, the official said. "There is now a discussion under way for additional resources, principally trainers, that could be sent to Afghanistan to bolster the mission," said the official, who requested anonymity...
continua / continued [69535] [ 06-sep-2010 19:06 ECT ] |
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PCHR Condemns Detention and Harassment of the Amru Family in Hebron
Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) |
September 6, 2010 - The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns detention and harassment of members of the 'Amru family by Palestinian security forces that raided the family's house in Dura village near Hebron. PCHR calls upon the government and security officials in Ramallah to issue strict instructions with regard to the use of force by law enforcement officials, in order to maintain the dignity of the Palestinian people, for home the police and security forces are formed. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 13:20 on Friday, 03 September 2010, Palestinian security forces stormed Sinjer quarter in the east of Dura town, southwest of Hebron, in order to arrest Ahmed 'Eissa 'Amru, 67, claiming that he delivered a sermon in a mosque inciting against the Palestinian Authority. Security officers insulted and violently beat members of his family, including women and children...
continua / continued [69526] [ 06-sep-2010 17:20 ECT ] |
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Honduran Repression Continues Unabated
by Stephen Lendman
September 6, 2010 - Earlier articles explained the June 28, 2009 coup and aftermath. For Hondurans, the event marked a new beginning, not an end to their dark history. Widespread killings and human rights abuses followed and a sham November election, installing Porfirio (Pepe) Lobo Sosa president, a US-friendly stooge heading a fascist regime. The nation's military is firmly in control against popular resistance, street violence and death squad terror its repressive tools. The Obama administrative stands firmly supportive. It blessed the coup, the new government and provides aid, all for hardline rule, none for popular needs. Activists and journalists are especially threatened...
continua / continued [69523] [ 06-sep-2010 17:08 ECT ] |
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The Last Believer: From Omar’s Mistake to Obama’s Atrocities
Chris Floyd |
September 6, 2010 - ...Yet in the days after 9/11, there was Mulllah Omar clinging firmly to the belief that the United States would never attack his country. After all, the Taliban had no prior knowledge of the attacks in New York and Washington – attacks which the Taliban had condemned unequivocally and publicly the next day, while calling for the perpetrators to be brought to justice. If the Americans suspected Osama bin Laden, the former CIA ally living in Afghanistan, then surely they would produce documentary evidence of his guilt. And if such incriminating evidence was forthcoming, then the Taliban, as publicly promised, would cooperate in finding ways to bring bin Laden to trial. Thus, America had no legal reason to attack Afghanistan; and so the country was safe. This was the reasoning that Mullah Omar expressed to one of his top foreign affairs advisers, Abdul Salam Zaeef, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistan, as Jonathan Steele recounts in an excellent article in the latest London Review of Books. Omar simply could not conceive that the United States would simply shred all notions of law and due process to launch a devastating attack on an entire country, in order – ostensibly – to get revenge on handful of men: men whom the Taliban were more than willing to give up – in accordance with the rule of law and due process. But the dossier of "hard proof" of bin Laden’s guilt promised by Colin Powell in the few remaining days of peace after 9/11 never materialized (and still has not materialized)....
continua / continued [69522] [ 06-sep-2010 17:04 ECT ] |
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"We need to nationalize the resistance"
Jody McIntyre writing from al-Nabi Saleh, occupied West Bank
September 6, 2010 - ...I was born in 1967, and in my mind as a child growing up, an Israeli is someone who shoots at me, questions me in prison, beats me up, or someone I see assaulting women. I've been jailed over 10 times in the space of four years, mostly for questioning or administrative reasons. My sister was killed after she was assaulted by a translator in an Israeli military court. Right in front of the eyes of the Israeli justice system, the soldiers translating proceedings beat her until she fell off her chair, hit her head on the ground and died. At the time, I was in an Israeli jail being interrogated. They used illegal torture techniques on me that induced hemorrhaging and an eight-day coma, and half my body remained paralyzed for a while. These experiences did not help the image I had of Israelis, but after we started our demonstrations in al-Nabi Saleh and I met the Israeli activists that would join us, I realized that once the mentality of the occupiers had been removed from their minds, they became humans just like us. They became our friends, they lived with us and ate and slept in our homes. This gives me the belief that one nation, where we are all equal citizens, is a possibility...
continua / continued [69521] [ 06-sep-2010 16:58 ECT ] |
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Hamas Back Out of Its Box
Nicolas Pelham
September 5, 2010 - ...Hamas’ decision to scuttle the calm with its August 31 killing of the four settlers, on the eve of the renewal of negotiations, left the Islamist movement’s political wisdom open to question. In forfeiting its five-year calm, Hamas risks not only the intensification of the two-pronged campaign against it in the West Bank, but also renewed strikes on the movement’s accumulating assets in Gaza. At least initially, Israel refrained from bombardment of Gaza, apparently to avoid shifting the spotlight back onto the absent chair on the opening day of negotiations. But in the West Bank, PA security forces reportedly carried out their largest roundup of the three-year campaign, detaining 250 suspected Hamas activists. It also threatened the political capital Hamas had garnered from its overtures internationally. And above all the attack appeared redundant: The Obama administration’s new peace process seemed set to sink of its own accord, without a Hamas torpedo. But by its own reckoning, the attack has resurrected Hamas as a political player in the West Bank. In its attacks on settlers on two consecutive nights in different parts of the West Bank, Hamas demonstrated its reach despite a three-year, US-backed PA military campaign and exposed the fallacy of the PA’s claims to have established security control in the West Bank. "It’s not muqawama (resistance) against Israel," says 'Adnan Dumayri, a Fatah Revolutionary Council member and PA security force general. "It’s muqawama against Abbas." ...
continua / continued [69515] [ 06-sep-2010 15:50 ECT ] |
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Military police investigator’s testimony reveals additional flaws in the investigation into Rachel Corrie’s killing
Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace and Justice
September 5, 2010 - On Sunday, September 5, 2010, the civil law suit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza, resumed in the Haifa District Court. In March, the Corrie family called their witnesses to the stand. Today marked the beginning of the State’s testimony. Rachel Corrie, an American human rights defender from Olympia, WA, was crushed to death on March 16, 2003, by a Caterpillar D9R military bulldozer. She had been nonviolently demonstrating against the demolitions of Palestinian homes...
continua / continued [69512] [ 06-sep-2010 12:54 ECT ] |
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Ripping Off Dead War Vets' Beneficiaries
by Stephen Lendman
September 5, 2010 - Wall Street and other financial scammers do it from the living, Prudential and many insurers from the dead, ripping off families of killed war vets. On July 28, Bloomberg.com's David Evans discussed how it works in an article titled, "Fallen Soldiers' Families Denied Cash as Insurers Profit," a polite way of explaining grand theft. From the living, it's bad enough, from the dead, it gives chutzpah new meaning, affecting countless thousands of bereaved families. Evans wrote about one, Cindy Lohman. Two weeks after her son Ryan was killed, she received a Prudential Financial, Inc. "9-inch-by-12-inch envelope," the company managing life insurance for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)..
continua / continued [69509] [ 06-sep-2010 04:33 ECT ] |
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Hamas, don't blow this chance
Stuart Littlewood
September 5, 2010 - ...From now on, Hamas would do well to always link their words, actions and demands to established law, human rights declarations and UN recommendations, and press forward their equal entitlement to security, in order to show that their aims and aspirations are no different from the values of all decent citizens of the world. They could even consider setting up alternative, parallel peace talks to ridicule the US-Israel-Fatah axis and to produce an alternative, parallel final status solution based on justice… just for fun, or maybe as a serious counterpoint. Hamas would also do well to frame their case in a manner that allows others, outside the Holy Land, to sympathise and feel persuaded that it’s time they were welcomed into the mainstream. It is part of the re-positioning and re-branding process one hoped had already begun. But judging from those threats to step up violence they haven't yet made a start. This is a disappointment considering the hopes of so many are pinned on Hamas coming good...
continua / continued [69508] [ 06-sep-2010 03:45 ECT ] |
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The Lights Are Going Out on Gaza
By Mohammed Omer |
September 5, 2010 - The Muslim festival Eid approaches, but not the end to power cuts that have darkened the month-long Ramadan fasting leading up to the festival. Or to the agony of Gazans, made worse by the reminder that it's approaching festive time. The prolonged electricity cuts, lasting from 12 to 16 hours daily, is the topic of conversation on everyone's lips in the Gaza Strip. It's hot, it's Ramadan, and the people are tired, thirsty, hungry and desperate. The electricity supply began crumbling after the 2006 election when Hamas won, leading to Israel and Egypt imposing an economic blockade. Israel launched air strikes in December 2008, knocking out all the six transformers supplying power to Gaza...
continua / continued [69504] [ 06-sep-2010 02:48 ECT ] |
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“End of Combat Mission” in Iraq; another Charade
K. Gajendra Singh
September 5, 2010 - ...The country has been looted and devastated as described above. Normal civic services have collapsed. There are only a few hours of electric power .None of the municipal facilities like water supply, sewage system work So diseases are rampant, with an epidemic of mental illness, after seven years of innocent people being killed as part of daily life. There is between 40 to 50 percent unemployment, with sprawling slums. Before the invasion, the percentage of the urban population in slums was below 20 percent. Today, it has risen to 53 percent: 11 million of the 19 million total urban dwellers. In most countries the number of slum dwellers has come down. The United States has "betrayed its duty to bring peace and security" to Iraq, according to Chaldean Auxiliary Bishop Shlemon Warduni of Baghdad, in an interview recently with the Italian daily La Stampa. The Americans leave behind "an Iraq worse off than the one they found seven years ago," said Warduni, The ethnic, religious and sectional divisions were encouraged by the occupiers as the imperialists have done in history...
continua / continued [69496] [ 06-sep-2010 00:17 ECT ] |
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Group: Israeli officer who killed Palestinian received public money
Ma'an news
September 5, 2010 - An Israeli police officer convicted of manslaughter for killing an unarmed Palestinian received over $90,000 of Israeli public money, a rights group said Sunday. Adalah, the legal center for Arab minority rights in Israel, said Sunday that it had obtained internal Israeli police documentation revealing that officer Shahar Mizrahi received almost 350,000 shekels (over $90,000) in financial assistance from the Israeli police for his legal defense. In July 2006, Mizrahi shot Mahammoud Ghanayim, 24, in the head at close range after using his gun to smash the window of the car in which Ghanayim was sitting...
continua / continued [69495] [ 06-sep-2010 00:00 ECT ] |
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