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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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Gaza: where is the buffer zone?
Eva Bartlett |
November 20, 2009 - At 8:30 on November 15, a number of young men went as usual to the land near Gaza’s northern border with Israel, intending to catch birds. Amjad Hassanain, 27, was among the bird-catchers hunting near the border fence when Israeli soldiers began shooting. The shots which missed the other bird-catchers hit Hassanain, grazing his shoulder. Cameraman Abdul Rahman Hussain, filming in the vicinity, reports having seen the group of bird-catches head north. "We were near the former Israeli settlement of Doghit," said Hussain, referring to the area northwest of Beit Lahia in Gaza’s north. "I had gone to the border area to photograph a young bird-catcher. We were about 400 m from the border fence, but when we heard the shooting, we moved back to around 1 km."..
continua / continued  [60275] [ 20-nov-2009 18:38 ECT ] |
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Friday's Dream or Short Notes on Sovereignty
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
November 20, 2009 - ...Of course, this got me thinking about notions of Sovereignty and the pathetic, ludicrous, debates that are currently taking place before the up coming Iraqi elections. These so-called politicians hold discourses as if they are actually running a sovereign country. They have engaged themselves in a huge political lie and have ended up believing it, continuously constructing and perfecting the lie and thus feeding the U.S Occupation project. Delusional parliamentary debates and vetoes, some believing they are actually making a difference. They are so far up the deception ladder, that they, themselves, have forgotten that they are the product of the Occupation, a bit like those bastard street vending children. They have forgotten that they too, are the product of a gang rape, the gang rape of the Zionist project...
continua / continued [60266] [ 20-nov-2009 16:45 ECT ] |
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Palestinian Ministry of Prisoners' affairs: Israeli army kidnapped 6200 children since 2000
Official Report
IMEMC |
November 20, 2009 - An official report, received by Arab League from the minister of prisoners' affairs in the Palestinian Authority (Ramallah), revealed that the Israeli occupation forces have kidnapped about 6,200 Palestinian children since the beginning of Al Aqsa Intifada (2000), including approximately 337 children still detained in Israeli prisons and interrogation centers. During last Saturday's meeting of the Arab League's permanent delegates council, which was set to discuss the conditions of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails, Minister Issa Qaraqe introduced the report, which unveiled the "repressive, inhumane practices of the Israeli occupation authorities against Palestinian children in Israeli prisons and detention camps," stressing that this violates the rules of international law, conventions on children's rights, and all international norms...
continua / continued [60265] [ 20-nov-2009 16:42 ECT ] |
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Jahalin Bedouin suffer without representation
Kieron Monks |
November 19, 2009 - Beyond the demolitions in its suburbs and the frequent, violent clashes around the al-Aqsa mosque, Jerusalem is the scene of a quieter shame. Southeast of the holy city live the Jahalin Bedouin, a community that has been repeatedly displaced and transferred, now enduring unimaginable poverty beside Jerusalem's largest garbage dump. An embarrassment to Palestinians and Israelis alike, the Bedouin and their unique way of life are under grave threat. Eid Raeb is a coordinator between the Jabal camp and the European nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that are its lifeblood. "Bedouin life is finished," he declared without hesitation. "Sometimes when I look outside I imagine how it was before, but I know that life is over." Eid is one of the founding members of the camp after they were displaced from their land that became Ma'ale Adumim, one of the fastest growing Israeli settlements. "After they built [Ma'ale Adumim] in 1979, they began to move us. At first very slowly, one family at a time...
continua / continued [60243] [ 19-nov-2009 20:17 ECT ] |
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Gaza: defunding children
Eva Bartlett |
November 19, 2009 - In a Rafah-based grassroots community organization serving children, women and impoverished families, the consequences of the violent siege on Gaza, imposed shortly after Hamas was elected in early 2006, can be seen in the cracked furniture, shabby toys, tattered books, near-empty rooms, and small number of children participating in after-school homework sessions. Najwa, the centre’s director, explains how prior to the siege, the centre not only provided extra-curricular school support and development for children, but also ran summer courses and games for hundreds of Rafah’s poorest, most oppressed youths...
continua / continued [60232] [ 19-nov-2009 16:24 ECT ] |
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Transcript of explosive testimony to Commons committee on Afghan detainees
The Canadian Press
November 18, 2009 -...According to a very authoritative source, many of the Afghans we detained had no connection to the insurgency whatsoever. From an intelligence point of view, they had little or no value. Frankly, the NDS (Afghan intelligence service) did not want them. Some of these Afghans may have been foot soldiers or day fighters. But many were just local people - farmers, truck drivers, tailors, peasants; random human beings in the wrong place at the wrong time; young men in their fields and villages who were completely innocent but were nevertheless rounded up. In other words, we detained, and handed over for severe torture, a lot of innocent people...
continua / continued [60211] [ 19-nov-2009 00:35 ECT ] |
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Iraq snapshot - November 17, 2009
The Common Ills
Tuesday, November 17, 2009. Chaos and violence continue, the 'intended' elections get more iffy, the US Justice Dept files charges against a contractor, CNN begins airing a four-part investigation into US abuse of Iraqi prisoners, and more. Starting with the 'intended' elections in January. There was already objection to the law: " Waleed Ibrahim, Michael Christie and Micheal Roddy (Reuters) reports Iraq's Sunni vice president, Tariq al-Hashimi, has stated the law needs to be changed to allow external Iraqi refugees to participate and to be represented. If the law is not changed (by Tuesday afternoon), he states he will veto it...
continua / continued [60192] [ 18-nov-2009 04:06 ECT ] |
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Will Palestine Be Declared A State?
Crossing the Rubicon
By Khalid Amayreh |
November 17, 2009 - ... However, no matter how cautious and meticulous the PA will be in seeking UN endorsement of a Palestinian state, it seems that the mission will be an arduous uphill battle. Indeed, in the absence of massive international backing, including vigorous and meaningful Arab and Muslim support, the goal of enlisting Western, especially American backing for the statehood scheme, may prove to be very illusive. More to the point, in the absence of true Palestinian national unity, the continued showdown between Hamas and Fateh could corrode any real prospects toward achieving Palestinian statehood and ending the Israeli military occupation...
continua / continued [60190] [ 18-nov-2009 04:01 ECT ] |
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A Festival to Remember
Hussein Al-alak
November 17, 2009 - Campaigners kicked off a film festival on Tuesday, with a series of films that will charter the Palestinian experiences, at the month long event that will ultimately conclude in December. The Palestinian Film Festival, which is being organised by the Manchester Metropolitan University, is promising to highlight the plight of the Palestinian people, by showing a series of Middle Eastern films, which will cover the recent attacks on the Gaza Strip, the occupation of the West Bank and Jerusalem, along with films, that will also illustrate the ongoing struggle against the separation wall...
continua / continued [60188] [ 18-nov-2009 02:34 ECT ] |
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CORRUPTION: Afghanistan, Iraq Near Bottom of Transparency Index
By Jim Lobe
November 17, 2009 - Despite billions of dollars spent by the U.S. and other countries to improve governance in Afghanistan and Iraq, the two countries remain among the world's most corrupt nations, according to the latest edition of Transparency International's (TI) Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI). Of the 180 countries covered by the 2009 CPI, Iraq ranks 176 and Afghanistan 179, according to the CPI, which was released by the Berlin-based group Tuesday. Only Somalia, which has not had a functioning government capable of controlling a major portion of its territory since 1991, ranked lower than Afghanistan, where the administration of President Barack Obama is currently considering adding as many as 44,000 more U.S. troops to the nearly 68,000 currently deployed there....
continua / continued [60185] [ 18-nov-2009 02:05 ECT ] |
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YEMEN: Nasser Ridhwan, "I had nothing in life but my wife, who I’ve now lost"
IRIN News
November 17, 2009 - Nasser Ridhwan, 78, is a recent arrival in the al-Mazraq Camp for internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Haradh District, Hajjah Governorate, some 130km southwest of his home village of Mashnaq, near Dukhan Mountain, which has become a battleground in fighting between the Saudi army and Houthi-led Shia rebels. Ridwhan, who for the past 30 years has worked as a day labourer in the Saudi town of Jaizan, 20km away from his home, has lost contact with his 80-year-old wife since 12 September, when fighting between the Yemeni army and Houthis cut off access to his home. From al-Mazraq camp, Ridhwan told IRIN his story...
continua / continued [60179] [ 17-nov-2009 23:57 ECT ] |
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A Short Note on the Iraqi Resistance.
Layla Anwar, An Arab Woman Blues
November 17, 2009 - ...Yesterday a spokesman for the Iraqi Resistance was shortly interviewed on Al-Jazeera. He said in very simple terms : We don't believe in the political and election process under Occupation. For us this is like Kiosk politics alluding to a vendor's mentality. Now, there are some who are marketing themselves as the Resistance and have joined the political process time and time again (referring to Muqtada Al Sadr and the Sadrists.) They are no Resistance. The truth is that we are all alone, all by ourselves, with no outside support, no external funding, nor external arming, and there is a huge blackout on us. Many attempts and ploys have been made to discredit us. The Sahwa, the Al-Qaeda and others...but we resisted those as well... In the very complex context we find ourselves in, we are doing what we can, the best we can...we have not stopped and we will not stop until Iraq is Free. And he repeated: We are ALL alone, with NO outside support from anyone. So true. The Iraqi resistance has been all alone from the very beginning, with absolutely no support from anyone...
continua / continued [60154] [ 17-nov-2009 04:19 ECT ] |
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Walls of Shame
By Dr. Elias Akleh |
November 17, 2009 - On November 2nd many western leaders gathered at the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, to celebrate the downing of the notorious Berlin Wall. These hypocrite leaders; German Chancellor Merkel, French President Sarkozy, Russian President Medvedev, British Prime Minister Brown, US Secretary of State Clinton, and US President Obama, praised those who tore down the wall, emphasized the need to "overcome the walls of our time", "keep fighting for freedom …so people get to live their dreams", and emphasized that "all men are created equal …have the right to life, liberty and pursuit of happiness’, yet none of them recognized the rights of Palestinians and Iraqis to their freedom, and none of them condemned the uglier Israeli separation and imprisoning wall that cuts the West Bank into smaller Bantustans, or the Baghdad wall that divides the city into smaller sections. Contrary to their cajoling speeches the foreign policies of these leaders have encouraged the erection of these walls...
continua / continued [60155] [ 17-nov-2009 04:32 ECT ] |
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Memories of an Anti-Zionist Jew
Kawther Salam |
November 16, 2009 - I received the text which follows from Ms. Hanna Braun, who is now 82 years old. She was born to a jewish family from Germany, a family which emigrated to Palestine in 1937 due Hanna Braunto the increasing animosity against jews in Germany of that time. In her memories which Ms. Braun shares, she remembers the time during which she and her family lived in Palestine between their arrival in 1937 and until their emigration to England in 1958 due to their disillusionment with zionism and Israel. The memories of Ms. Braun are telling because they show from a first-person perspective, how all the propaganda, everything which the zionists say about zionism and Israel, does simply not correspond to truth, that "zionism" had and has nothing to do with "making the desert bloom", that groups like Hagana were not about defense but about murdering and expelling Palestinians, that despite asseverations to the contrary Jews from Arab countries were lured to "Israel" under false pretexts. In short, the whole text is one scandal when compared with the zionist orthodoxy spread in western countries...
continua / continued [60148] [ 17-nov-2009 03:23 ECT ] |
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The Struggle For Internet Neutrality
By Stephen Lendman
November 16, 2009 - During his 2008 campaign, Barack Obama promised to "Support the principle of network neutrality to preserve the benefits of open competition on the Internet." Perhaps not given a worse record than his fiercest critics feared, worse than George Bush, across the board on both domestic and foreign policies, including: -- failing to deliver promised change; -- being the standard bearer for the corrupted political/business elite; -- governing like a crime boss in league with Wall Street; -- disdaining democratic rights, freedoms, and the rule of law; -- betraying working Americans; -- proposing social services cuts instead of increasing them when they're most needed; -- denying budget-strapped states vitally needed aid; -- ignoring growing poverty, hunger, homelessness and despair; -- expanding militarism, imperial wars, and state-sponsored terrorism; -- violating human rights and civil liberties; and -- providing open-ended banker bailouts, an array of pro-business measures, and the greatest ever amounts of military spending at a time America has no enemies. Will Net Neutrality fare better?...
continua / continued [60146] [ 17-nov-2009 02:27 ECT ] |
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Threads of potential
Eva Bartlett |
November 16, 2009 - Embroidery lives on in Palestine, a tradition passed down through the generations. While Palestine is as modern as a choking, all-encompassing 3 year siege (since soon after Hamas was elected in early 2006) and numerous Israeli wars and attacks will allow, the traditions from generations ago are not forgotten: songs, dabke (dance), food, farming and fishing techniques, clothing…and embroidery. In recent years, the art has taken on a new role in occupied Palestine, re-affirming Palestinian identity in proudly embroidered kuffiyehs (scarves) and bracelets, along with traditional dresses and shawls....
continua / continued [60145] [ 17-nov-2009 02:12 ECT ] |
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13 vs. 2,000,000: Fort Hood Shootings a Shocker...Why Not U.S. War Crimes?
Ted Rall
November 16, 2009 --American lives are worth a lot. So when Americans get killed, it's a big story. There are lots of editorials. Congressmen call for investigations. We want to find out what happened, why it happened, and how to make sure it never happens again. The lives of foreigners, on the other hand, are pretty much worthless. Even when they die because Americans killed them, news accounts marking their deaths are short, sweet, and short-lived. Congressional investigations? No way. To the contrary! If anyone is inconsiderate enough to mention the killings of people overseas in a public forum, they get shouted down or simply ignored. The massacre of 13 soldiers at an Army post in Texas earlier this week places this dichotomy in sharp relief... The American military has killed roughly two million people in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001. Those attacks were illegal--no declaration of war, no UN mandate--and are largely recognized as such by the American public. Many of the victims were killed with chemical and radioactive weapons, and some while under torture. In other words, these are crimes--some of the biggest mass murders in human history...
continua / continued [60144] [ 17-nov-2009 01:37 ECT ] |
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