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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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Israel Lands in Public Relations Nightmare
Mel Frykberg
March 14, 2010 - Israeli riot police and soldiers have, since Friday, sealed off the Al Aqsa mosque, Islam’s third holiest shrine, restricting entry to women and Palestinian men over 50. Outside the walled Old City, where the Al Aqsa mosque is situated, and in several West Bank villages, clashes were reported between Palestinian protestors, their Israeli and international supporters, and the Israel Defence Forces (IDF), leaving at least 20 Palestinians wounded. Following a security assessment Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak ordered security forces to stop tens of thousands of Palestinians from entering Jerusalem...
continua / continued  [64173] [ 14-mar-2010 23:14 ECT ] |
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UPDATE 5 - Iraq's Elections
Layla Anwar
March 14, 2010 - It's basically a MESS. A HUGE MESS. Too many contradictory statements from the Western Press and Arabic Press. I've been perusing Azzaman, Al-Sharqiya, Al-Jazeera and AP reports and I see no coherence. Let's start with the ridiculous first. Al-Jazeera in a special report on the HEC, (High Electoral Commission) states "it's difficult to convey in words quite how remarkable a place the Independent High Electoral Commission (IHEC ) is at the moment. Its guiding principles – openness, transparency, accessibility – prevail, even under the pressure of this critical moment in Iraqi politics..." You'd think this is a statement from the White House... oh well, it nearly is... Yet the Iraqiya bloc has affirmed again that "that ballots were dumped in the garbage, nearly a quarter of a million soldiers were denied voting rights and electoral commission workers fiddled with vote counts" but that it also filed complaints with the UN security council and UNAMI because innocent residents of Adhamiya (a Sunni area in Baghdad) are being harassed and arrested by the Iraqi army and that Al-Iraqiya candidates are being threatened, 7 days after the voting has been over. Al Iraqiya is asking that the final results be released immediately, and that this delay is causing a state of chaos...
continua / continued [64162] [ 14-mar-2010 15:17 ECT ] |
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Gaza...1000 Days Under Siege
By Shaimaa Mustafa
March 13, 2010 - Pitifully looking at her baby child, Om Yamen is recalling the past 1,000 days of her life under a crippling Israeli siege. "Life has been a living hell," she told IslamOnline.net on Tuesday, March 9, in a broken voice. "We can’t stand this anymore. The siege has exhausted us and broken our backs." The 1.6 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, a costal enclave, are marking 1,000 days since Israel slapped a crippling siege on their territory. "Each night seemed like a thousand days," said the tears-eyed Palestinian ...
continua / continued [64158] [ 14-mar-2010 13:00 ECT ] |
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What Torture Is and Why It's Illegal and Not "Poor Judgment"
Andy Worthington |
March 13, 2010 - It's now over three weeks since veteran Justice Department (DOJ) lawyer David Margolis dashed the hopes of those seeking accountability for the Bush administration's torturers, but this is a story of such profound importance that it must not be allowed to slip away. Margolis decided that an internal report into the conduct of John Yoo and Jay S. Bybee, who wrote the notorious memos in August 2002, which attempted to redefine torture so that it could be used by the CIA, was mistaken in concluding that both men were guilty of "professional misconduct," and should be referred to their bar associations for disciplinary action. Instead, Margolis concluded, in a memo that shredded four years of investigative work by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), the DOJ's ethics watchdog, that Yoo and Bybee had merely exercised "poor judgment."..
continua / continued [64153] [ 14-mar-2010 10:34 ECT ] |
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ISRAEL GOVT TO ENTER US HEALTHCARE PLAN
Irish4Palestine
March 13, 2010 - ...If that's not enough, now Israel wants to start entering into US healthcare. Pretty soon, your wee granny will be under the care of Israel: The CEO of the Hebrew Home at Riverdale, a prominent New York nursing home, visited Israel last month in hopes of including local companies in a business venture he thinks will ultimately benefit Israel’s public image. The Hebrew Home, which has been awarded special legislation by the state of New York to carry out a new cost-savings health-care project as part of the state’s Managed Long-Term Care, is hoping to make Israeli companies the focal point. Dan Reingold, CEO of the Hebrew Home, met with leading technology companies and government officials in an attempt to utilize Israeli innovations for the project, whose goal is to make use of a state grant of $3,600 per month per resident to provide for health-care needs...
continua / continued [64149] [ 14-mar-2010 02:55 ECT ] |
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The Green Movement
by Mina Khanlarzadeh
March 13, 2010 - The Green Movement is at a juncture, at which, in order to expand deeper into different social layers, it had better incorporate different trade and class demands, in order to change/transfer the focus of the movement from personalities to socio-political and economic demands of different social layers and classes. For example, women have had an extremely active presence in the Green Movement, and it would be good to render this presence more goal-focused by infusing it not only with supra-class demands (such as the eradication of laws discriminatory to all women), but also with class interests. It would be beneficial for the students, journalists, teachers, the unemployed and the rest to raise their trade demands in the Green Movement's discourse...
continua / continued [64146] [ 14-mar-2010 02:13 ECT ] |
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Palestinian Dispossession in East Jerusalem
by Stephen Lendman
March 13, 2010 - For Jews, Jerusalem is its historic capital. Muslims also claim it for the third holiest site in Islam, containing the 35 acre Noble Sanctuary (al-Haram al-Sharif), including the Al-Aqsa Mosque and Dome of the Rock. The 1947 UN Partition Plan designated Jerusalem an international city under a UN Trusteeship Council. After Israel's 1947-48 War of Independence, it was divided between Israel and Jordan, and during Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, East Jerusalem was captured and occupied, its current status today. In March 2009, a confidential EU report (now public) accused Israel of using settlement expansions, house demolitions, discriminatory housing policies, restrictive permits, closing Palestinian institutions, the West Bank Separation Wall, and various other ways to "actively pursu(e) the illegal annexation" of East Jerusalem and "increase Jewish presence" in the city...
continua / continued [64144] [ 14-mar-2010 01:45 ECT ] |
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Israel tortures Jerusalem minors
Pal Telegraph |
March 13, 2010 - Jerusalem Center for Social and Economic Rights revealed Saturday that Israeli police tortured Jerusalemite children, who were arrested before by Israelis. The Center published two statements made by Loai Rujby, 14, and Mahmoud Dweik,12, both residents of Al-Yemen area of the Silwan neighborhood, who were arrested on January 10, 2010 and in November, last year. Both statements provide accounts of how Israeli soldiers tortured the two children. The center said that the children's accounts were clear-cut evidence of the torture policy adopted by Israeli occupation against the Palestinian minors, which increased by recent arrest campaigns that target children and minors...
continua / continued [64142] [ 13-mar-2010 23:54 ECT ] |
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Censorship in Afghanistan: Death to journalists
by Robert Maier
March 12, 2010 - Since the beginning of the Karzai regime in 2002, twenty Afghan journalists have been murdered, and more than 200 violent physical attacks against journalists have been logged. Scores have fled Afghanistan after receiving threats against them and their families. Journalists have been sentenced to death, and several remain in jail after being arrested for their work. Radio and television stations, print media, and Internet services have been attacked, blocked, damaged, and even burned to the ground by government and other politico-religious agents and gangs. As dozens of governments around the world pour billions of dollars and 100,000+ troops into Afghanistan to defend the Karzai government, it is an appropriate time to explore the human rights and legal issues regarding censorship and freedom of the press there...
continua / continued [64134] [ 13-mar-2010 14:45 ECT ] |
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Nato ‘covered up’ botched night raid in Afghanistan that killed five (including two pregnant women)
Jerome Starkey, Khataba |
March 12, 2010 - A night raid carried out by US and Afghan gunmen led to the deaths of two pregnant women, a teenage girl and two local officials in an atrocity which Nato then tried to cover up, survivors have told The Times. The operation on Friday, February 12, was a botched pre-dawn assault on a policeman’s home a few miles outside Gardez, the capital of Paktia province, eastern Afghanistan. In a statement after the raid titled "Joint force operating in Gardez makes gruesome discovery", Nato claimed that the force had found the women’s bodies "tied up, gagged and killed" in a room. A Times investigation suggests that Nato’s claims are either wilfully false or, at best, misleading...
continua / continued [64126] [ 13-mar-2010 12:50 ECT ] |
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Gaza: relations
Eva Barlett
March 12, 2010 - "My grandmother was Jewish," a voice drifts out from behind the meagre selection of second-hand clothes. The souk al fres, a massive market in Gaza’s old district, Sahaa, carrying just about all one needs used to thrive with second-hand clothes and goods brought through open borders via Israel. It was a thrift-shop-junkies dream. Today, after 1000 days of siege (complete siege, from June 2007, but in reality the siege goes back to Hamas’ election, back to post-Oslo 'peace years’ when the closures began, denying Palestinians in Gaza of freedom, of work, of medical treatment outside, of imports and exports, and now of all but less than 40 items) (painstakingly aquired), the used-clothes market is bare-bones. Wa’el is sitting in a room devoid of nearly all but some scarves and many empty hangers. "My grandfather was from Jaffa. He fell in love with a Jewish woman. This was in the 1940s, before the Nakba, (catastrophe) our expulsion," Wa’el says...
continua / continued [64128] [ 13-mar-2010 13:09 ECT ] |
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Surging over the brink
M Shahid Alam
March 12, 2010 - The first dismantling of the Taliban was a cakewalk. In 2001, the US quickly and decisively defeated the Taliban, killed, captured or scattered their fighters, and handed over the running of Afghanistan to their rivals, mostly Uzbeks and Tajiks from the Northern Alliance. Unaware of Pashtun history, American commentators were pleased at the smashing victory of their military, convinced that they had consigned the Taliban to history’s graveyard. Instead, the Taliban came back from the dead. Within months of their near-total destruction, they had regained morale, regrouped, organised, trained, and returned to fight the foreign occupation of their country. Slowly and tenaciously they continued to build on their gains, and by 2008 they were dreaming of taking back the country they had lost in 2001. Could this really happen? Only time will tell, but prospects for the Taliban today look better than at any time since November 2001...
continua / continued [64127] [ 13-mar-2010 12:59 ECT ] |
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Israeli police launched arrest campaign among Palestinians
Jerusalem Center for Social & Economic Rights
March 12, 2010 - Israeli occupation authorities conducted a campaign of arrests in occupied Jerusalem, early yesterday morning. In Sur Baher, Israeli police arrested Tareq Bkeirat, 23, who works as a guard inside al-Aqsa mosque from his home. The police confiscated his computer and some documents. Bkeirat was released before one-and-a-half month after serving eight months in prison. He got married before two months. The arrest campaign included Fadi al-Ju'beh, Ahmad al-Jalad, Wisam Sider, Muhammad Muhalwes, Iyad Qiresh, Amar al-Hawash, Omar Muhaisen, Yihya Dweik, Ala' Fakhouri and Rami Fakhouri...
continua / continued [64121] [ 13-mar-2010 07:46 ECT ] |
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