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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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Rachel Corrie trial: Israeli military Colonel states, “There are no civilians in war zones.”
Rachel Corrie Foundation |
September 7, 2010 - Several State witnesses testified in Haifa District Court on Monday, September 6, 2010, in the civil law suit filed by Rachel Corrie’s family against the State of Israel for her unlawful killing in Rafah, Gaza. 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. One of the witnesses, known to the court as Yossi, was a Colonel in the Engineering Corps...
continua / continued  [69575] [ 08-sep-2010 18:58 ECT ] |
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US and Iran favour Maliki as Iraq PM six months after polls
By Assad Abboud (AFP)
September 7, 2010 — Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki has the backing of Washington and US arch-foe Iran to keep his job, six months after he narrowly lost an election to ex-premier Iyad Allawi, politicians said Tuesday. The United States has consistently denied having any favoured candidate for the premiership but amid growing impatience for a new government in Baghdad it now sees Maliki as the conflict-wracked country's only viable leader... A senior State of Law official said Maliki received assurances during US Vice President Joe Biden's recent visit that major neighbouring Arab countries, except Saudi Arabia, had decided to stop backing Allawi's premiership hopes. "Maliki was quoting Biden as saying, 'Iraqiya has many problems and complexities... I told Turkey, Jordan, Egypt, Qatar and United Arab Emirates to end their support for Allawi,'" the official said Biden told Maliki...
continua / continued [69557] [ 07-sep-2010 22:01 ECT ] |
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Iraq: The forgotten 'nakba'
Why has the plight of Iraq failed to capture the imagination and interest of the Arab world?
Lamis Andoni |
September 7, 2010 - The US invasion of Iraq marked a dramatic turning point for the Arab world, but the recent partial American withdrawal generated notably little interest across the region. This is partly because it signaled neither an unequivocal end to the occupation nor an explicit continuation of US military control. But the silence also reflects the bitter reality that many have simply tuned out of Iraq. When Baghdad fell in 2003, it drew comparisons with the loss of Palestine and the dispossession of its people in 1948. And while the US invasion did not lead to, or aim at, colonising the country, changing its name or razing its towns and villages, it did serve to remove a once powerful state from the regional political equation and, in so doing, weakened the Arab world. This emboldened Israel and Iran, while striking a critical blow against pan-Arabism. On both the official and popular level, Arabs failed to connect with and support the Iraqi people...If they do not, the US will have achieved one of the aims of the war - the weakening of pan-Arab solidarity - and Iraqis will continue to feel, as one recently told me, that "nothing we do seems to capture the Arab imagination and we feel far from the Arab world"...
continua / continued [69552] [ 07-sep-2010 16:06 ECT ] |
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Afghanistan — War Plans in Disarray — Bring the Troops Home Now
By Patrick Ayers
September 6, 2010 - Ten months after President Obama announced he would add 31,000 more United States troops to the war in Afghanistan, his surge is showing signs of failing. The mightiest military force in the world, with more than 128,000 troops and the most advanced weaponry on the planet, is losing to a ragtag force of an estimated 28,000 Taliban fighters. Almost nine years old, the Afghan conflict is the longest shooting war in the history of the U.S. This massive effort, costing hundreds of billions of dollars, has in no way improved the lives of Afghan people. Instead of bringing prosperity, the country remains the fifth poorest in the world. Instead of bringing democracy, Afghanistan is the second most corrupt...
continua / continued [69547] [ 07-sep-2010 04:31 ECT ] |
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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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