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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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Disgraced ex-military interrogator threatens to reveal Israeli government secrets
Yossi Gurvitz
February 4, 2012 - Yediot Ahronot’s "7 Yamim", a weekend supplement, published a long interview yesterday with "Captain George," the nom de guerre of a disgraced army interrogator, who has become Israel’s most infamous torturer. George, who sued the government for kicking him out of the army, states clearly that his goal is blackmailing the government... In short, like many before him who carried out the security apparatus’ dirty jobs and were exposed, George thinks he was sold, thrown to the dogs, and this despite doing just what everyone else was doing or what they were ordered to do. Unlike others before him, who said they merely wanted to clear their name, George has a price tag: A job in Alaska. As he didn’t get it, he is going to break the apparatus’ omerta oath and testify in court...
continua / continued  [85416] [ 05-feb-2012 02:20 ECT ] |
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Video: In Washington D.C., Andy Worthington Discusses Protests in Guantánamo, and the Campaign to Free Shaker Aamer
Andy Worthington
February 4, 2012 - On January 10, while I was visiting the US for events marking the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, the World Can’t Wait, the campaigning organization responsible for my visit, hosted a screening of the documentary film, "Outside the Law: Stories from Guantánamo" (which I co-directed with Polly Nash) at a branch of Busboys and Poets in Washington D.C... I told the audience about the "Close Guantánamo" campaign, and our petition on the White House’s "We the People" website, asking President Obama to fulfil his promise to close Guantánamo. The petition has a one-month deadline, which comes to an end on February 6, so please sign it if you haven’t done so already...
continua / continued [85410] [ 04-feb-2012 17:21 ECT ] |
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Former Gaddafi official tortured to death in Libya
By Patrick Martin
February 4, 2012 - A former Libyan diplomat who went over to the opposition National Transitional Council last year was detained and then tortured to death by a militia force based in the town of Zintan, according to a statement from the group Human Rights Watch. Omar Brebesh was detained in Tripoli on January 19. His body was found at a hospital in Zintan, 60 miles southwest of the Libyan capital, the next day, with multiple injuries and fractured ribs. Evidence of torture included welts and cuts on Brebesh’s body and the apparent removal of toenails. Human Rights Watch said that the militia in control of Zintan, al-Shohada Ashura, which also has forces in Tripoli, was implicated in the killing. The group said in a statement that its representatives "read a report by the judicial police in Tripoli, which said that Brebesh had died from torture and that an unnamed suspect had confessed to killing him." This same militia presently has custody of Muammar Gaddafi’s son, Saif al-Islam, who was captured November 19, after the overthrow of the regime and the murder of his father. He is being held at a prison in Zintan....
continua / continued [85411] [ 04-feb-2012 17:28 ECT ] |
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Iraq War Crimes: Haditha: Another Small Massacre – No One Guilty.
Felicity Arbuthnot |
February 4, 2012 - On the 24th January, the day President Obama delivered his last State of the Union speech to Congress before the election, citing the:"selflessness and teamwork of America’s Armed Forces (their) focus on the mission at hand", the "selfless" Staff Sgt., Frank Wuterich, leader of the massacre at Haditha, in Iraq, became the seventh soldier to walk free - from the mass murder of twenty four unarmed men, women and children, in three homes and a taxi. It was another chilling, ruthless, cold blooded, up to five hour rampage, revenge for the death a colleague, in a roadside bomb - which had nothing to do with the rural families that paid the price. The youngest to die was one year, the oldest was seventy six year old, wheelchair-bound amputee, Abdul Hamid Hassan Ali. He died with nine rounds in the chest and abdomen. Other children who died were aged 3,4,5,8,10 and 14....
continua / continued [85412] [ 04-feb-2012 17:39 ECT ] |
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Last Call to Sign the White House Petition to Close Guantánamo
Andy Worthington
February 3, 2012 - To mark the 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, on January 11, I was involved in two particular projects — firstly, the establishment of a new campaign and website, "Close Guantánamo," designed to raise awareness of the continuing injustice of Guantánamo, and, in particular, the injustice of continuing to hold 89 of the remaining 171 prisoners, even though they have been cleared for release; and secondly, the establishment of a petition on the White House’s "We the People" website, calling on President Obama to fulfil his promise to close Guantánamo....
continua / continued [85380] [ 03-feb-2012 20:09 ECT ] |
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Libya: Diplomat Dies from Torture in Militia Custody
Human Rights Watch |
February 3, 2012 - A Libyan diplomat who served as ambassador to France died less than 24 hours after he was detained by a Tripoli-based militia from the town of Zintan, Human Rights Watch said today. Dr. Omar Brebesh, who was detained on January 19, 2012, appears to have died from torture. A preliminary autopsy report viewed by Human Rights Watch said the cause of death included multiple bodily injuries and fractured ribs. Photos of Brebesh’s body, seen by Human Rights Watch, show welts, cuts, and the apparent removal of toenails, indicating that he was tortured prior to death. Human Rights Watch also read a report by the judicial police in Tripoli, which said that Brebesh had died from torture and that an unnamed suspect had confessed to killing him. "The torture and killing of detainees is sadly an ongoing activity by some Libyan militias," said Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director at Human Rights Watch....
continua / continued [85378] [ 03-feb-2012 19:29 ECT ] |
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Shoes For Ki-Moon Because Eggs And Tomatoes Are Expensive
Kawther Salam
February 2, 2012 - Ban Ki-moon was welcomed in a very special way at the border of Gaza, where dozens of Palestinian families of prisoners and victims of the Israeli genocide and war crimes who lost their loved ones, among them children and members of their families during the continued Israeli invasions on Gaza. Also present were a number of Palestinians deported to Gaza by the Israeli occupation from Bethlehem and the West Bank. They all blocked the passage for the convoy of Ki-moon and hurled shoes, sticks, stones, chairs at him as an expression of their anger for the visit and his refusal to meet with them and listen to their humanitarian problems. According to the Palestinian protesters: "eggs and tomatoes are very expensive in Gaza, therefore we were not able to buy them to throw them at the convoy of the Secretary General of the United Nations Ban ki-Moon. The protesters only had their shoes and other things to throw. After they threw their shoes, they collected them and put them on". They said "Sorry Mr. Ban Ki-moon, the economic situation in Gaza under the blockade is very much deteriorated, and eggs and tomatoes are not available"....
continua / continued [85365] [ 03-feb-2012 06:02 ECT ] |
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Former Guantánamo Prisoner Adel Al-Gazzar Is Freed in Egypt After Six Months in Custody
Andy Worthington |
February 2, 2012 - When looking at the stories of the released Guantánamo prisoners, one of the most tragic individual stories of last year was that of Adel al-Gazzar (aka Adel El-Gazzar), a former officer in the Egyptian army, who lost a leg in US custody and spent eight years in Guantánamo. Adel returned to Egypt last June, after being freed in Slovakia in January 2010, where he embarked on a hunger strike to protest about the Slovakian government’s inability to look after him adequately, and where, at one point, he was interviewed by his fellow ex-prisoner Moazzam Begg in a powerful and revealing interview available here. On his return to Egypt, he was promptly arrested, and imprisoned based on trumped-up charges that had been used to secure a conviction against him while he was in Guantánamo, and while the now-deposed dictator Hosni Mubarak was in power....
continua / continued [85363] [ 03-feb-2012 05:47 ECT ] |
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2011: A Record Year for House Demolitions & Displacement in the West Bank
By Dylan Collins |
February 2, 2012 - Akin to most Israeli Occupation Authority (IOA) atrocities in the West Bank, home demolitions and forced displacements rose tremendously during 2011. According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs’s (OCHA) latest report, approximately 1,100 Palestinians, half of which were children, were displaced due to home demolitions by the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) in 2011, signaling an 80% rise from 2010 figures. An additional 4,200 people’s livelihoods were affected by the demolitions. The IOF demolished 622 private Palestinian structures in the West Bank during the year, including 222 homes, 170 animal shelters, two classrooms, and one mosque two times, marking a 42% increase in comparison to 2010...
continua / continued [85357] [ 03-feb-2012 02:50 ECT ] |
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Weekly Report On Israeli Human Rights Violations in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (26 Jan. – 01 Feb. 2012)
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) |
February 2, 2012 - ... Summary: Israeli violations of international law and humanitarian law in the OPT continued during the reporting period (26January – 01 February 2012): Shooting: During the reporting period, IOF wounded 3 Palestinian civilians, including 2 cameramen, in the West Bank. In the West Bank, during the reporting period, IOF used excessive force to disperse peaceful demonstrations organized in protest to Israeli settlement activities and the construction of the annexation wall in the West Bank. As a result, Muhib Mohammed Asaad al-Barghouthi, 46, photographer of al-Hayat al-Jadida Newspaper, sustained wounds by two bullets to the feet. Al- Barghouthi was transferred to Palestine Medical Compound in Ramallah for treatment. Also Mohammed Ateya al-Tamimi, cameraman of the Popular Committee against the Wall and Settlement in Nabi Saleh village, sustained wounds by a tear gas canister to the right foot. A third Palestinian demonstrator also sustained wounds by a bullet to the right leg. PCHR fieldworker was unable to get the personal information of the third wounded person as he came from another village and he was not transferred to any hospital or medical center for treatment....
continua / continued [85350] [ 03-feb-2012 01:30 ECT ] |
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Why Algeria Is Not A Safe Country for the Repatriation of Guantánamo Prisoners
Andy Worthington
February 1, 2012 - Since July 2008, when the first Algerian prisoners were repatriated from Guantánamo, the position taken by the US government — first under George W. Bush, and, for the last three years, under Barack Obama — has been that Algeria is a safe country for the repatriation of prisoners cleared for release. Lawyers and NGOs aware of Algeria’s poor human rights record disagreed, as did some of the Algerian prisoners themselves, to the extent that the last two Algerians sent home — Abdul Aziz Naji in July 2010 and Farhi Saeed bin Mohammed in January 2011 — had actively resisted being sent home, and had taken their cases all the way to the US Supreme Court, which had paved the way for their enforced return by refusing to accept their appeals...
continua / continued [85344] [ 02-feb-2012 20:03 ECT ] |
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Syria News - February 1, 2012 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos |
February 1, 2012 - The number of martyrs today has risen to 70 so far including 14 martyrs from the Free Syrian Army, 2 ladies and 2 children. 36 martyrs in Wady Barada (Damascus suburbs), 14 in Homs, 8 in Daraa, 5 in Damascus suburbs (Arbeen,Rankous and Moadamiya), 3 in idlib and one in each of Damascus "Saydei Zainab",Hama and Qamishly... Damascus: Saida Zainab: The corpse of martyr Private Abdel Rahman Abou Fouda, of the occupied Golan Heights, was delivered to his family by security forces who surrounded his home and forced the family to bury the martyr immediately. In response, local residents in the Golan Heights chanted for the martyr and called for the fall of the regime...
continua / continued [85343] [ 02-feb-2012 19:39 ECT ] |
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Israeli Army Kidnapped 320 Palestinians in January
Saed Bannoura
February 1, 2012 - Israeli soldiers arrested more than 320 Palestinians in numerous parts of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and occupied East Jerusalem during the month of January, a Palestinian researcher stated.Researcher Riyadh Al-Ashqar, specialized in detainees’ affairs, stated in his report that four elected legislators, 53 children, eight women, and one former detainee, were among the kidnapped in January. He added that Israel re-arrested the four elected legislators, including the head of the Legislative Council, Dr. Aziz Dweik, and imprisoned them under Administrative Detention orders...
continua / continued [85341] [ 02-feb-2012 17:41 ECT ] |
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Left behind at the scene of the crime: Israel wages war on Bil’in
Sixteen Minutes to Palestine |
February 1, 2012 - Weeks ago, Wedad Yassin traveled back to Ein Yabrud, a village near Ramallah in the West Bank, to visit her family and to experience Palestine’s rich cultural heritage. Her intention had been to tour through the Al-Khalil district, Ramallah, Bil’in, and Jerusalem. However, she was denied entry to Jerusalem. Nevertheless, Yassin explored Bil’in, site of the weekly demonstrations against Israel’s apartheid wall, and came across this jam’iyya or association dedicated to "enhancing and reviving Palestinian culture along with documenting Israeli crimes"...
continua / continued [85329] [ 02-feb-2012 05:45 ECT ] |
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Hundreds of slaughtered civilians isn't a 'huge number' for Obama
RussiaToday |
February 1, 2012 - On Monday afternoon, Barack Obama became the first president to host a virtual town hall live on the Internet. While that might be a feat worthy of the record books, President Obama did something else during his address that America has become accustomed to: he lied to the world.... Tackling a question posed on drone strikes, President Obama defended the ongoing missions on Monday, saying they were necessary to target terrorists in a most effective manner. "For us to be able to get them in another way would involve probably a lot more intrusive military action than the ones we're already engaging in," the president said on the topic of drones. While an argument could easily be made that operating drone missions in lieu of putting boots on the ground is best for the US Armed Forces, the president put a lot on the line Monday when he downplayed the result of the strikes. Those drone attacks, carried out by unmanned aircraft controlled thousands of miles away, don’t do a lot of harm, said the president. According to Obama, drones had "not caused a huge number of civilian casualties" and he added that it’s "important for everybody to understand that this thing is kept on a very tight leash."...
continua / continued [85323] [ 02-feb-2012 02:36 ECT ] |
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