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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
(click to listen)
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Syria News - May 21, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos |
May 21, 2013 - By the end of Tuesday, the coordination committees were able to document 89 martyrs, among them 6 women, 9 children, and 2 martyrs under torture: 31 martyrs were reported in Damascus and its suburbs; 27 in Homs; 14 in Aleppo; 6 in Daraa; 6 in Idlib; 3 in Raqqa; and 2 in Deir Ezzor.The committees have documented 365 points of shelling, fiercest of which was in Qusair in Homs for the third day in a row, air strikes by warplanes were recorded in 39 points, fiercest of which was in Qusair and Daraya, shelling with surface-to-surface missiles was recorded in Tal Refaat in Aleppo, and shelling with explosive barrels was recorded in 6 points: Qusair in Homs, Eastern Ghouta cities in Damascus suburbs, Salma in Lattakia, and Tabqa in Raqqa. While mortar shelling was documented in 95 points, rocket shelling in 110 points, and artillery shelling was recorded in 114 points in different areas across Syria...
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Neoliberalism and the Genocide of 6 Million in Congo
Heads of UN and World Bank Visit Congo - Fail to Hold Rwanda and Uganda Accountable
The Real News
May 21, 2013 - Since 1996, more than 6 million people have been killed in civil war in the Congo. In February of this year, a groundbreaking agreement was signed called Peace, Security, and Cooperation Framework for the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Region. The agreement was signed in February by 11 African countries, including Angola, Burundi, Central African Republic, Republic of Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, South Africa, South Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia. On Wednesday, May 22, World Bank Group president Dr. Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a visit to the African Great Lakes region to show their support for this peace agreement and to push for economic development...
continua / continued [97797] [ 23-may-2013 22:55 ECT ] |
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The Reason for Hunger Strikes-from Northern Ireland to Guantanamo
By Ann Wright
May 21, 2013 -I'm in Northern Ireland and yesterday on May 20, 2013, I spoke with several members of the Northern Ireland Parliament. With over 100 prisoners in Guantanamo on a 100 day hunger strike, the Obama administration would be wise to talk to some of them too--about the importance and legacy of hungerstrikes. In 1981, Pat Sheehan was one of the Maze Prison hunger strikers-a hunger strike that brought huge international attention to the Northern Ireland "Troubles," with the goal of forcing the British government to treat those imprisoned as political prisoners, not criminals. Hunger strikers demanded the right to wear civilian clothes, the right to education and recreational opportunities, freedom from work obligations, and a set of other benefits not afforded to other inmates.Pat was on the hunger strike for 55 days and still alive when the hunger strike was called off by the prisoners...
continua / continued [97795] [ 23-may-2013 22:11 ECT ] |
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Drones Are the Napalm of Our Crazy Time
by Ethan Casey
May 21, 2013 - I was born in 1965, the year the first U.S. combat troops went to Vietnam. Growing up in middle-class America in the late 1970s and early 1980s, I distinctly remember that "Vietnam" – the place name stood in for a great many things left unsaid – was not discussed, almost taboo, among my parents’ generation. I didn’t realize this at the time, of course. I could only smell it, like the residue of something the dog left on the carpet, through the layers of deodorant and disinfectant. Americans who had lived through "Vietnam" were emotionally and politically exhausted and had declared a tacit truce among themselves. That suited them – all of them, on all sides – but it left my generation poorly served. How can young people learn the lessons of history, if no one is willing to teach them? I had to assemble the puzzle for myself later, through self-directed reading and actually going to live in Southeast Asia ...
continua / continued [97794] [ 23-may-2013 22:05 ECT ] |
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Two Fishermen Arrested and Fishing Equipment Confiscated; PCHR Condemns the Israeli Forces' Assaults on Palestinian Fishermen in Gaza Waters
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR)
May 21, 2013 - The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli forces’ attacks against Palestinian fishermen in the Gaza Strip and expresses deep concern over the rise in such attacks. In the past two days, the Israeli forces arrested 2 fishermen and held their boat while they were fishing nearly 70 meters off the seashore. The Israeli forces also fired at other fishermen in the central Gaza Strip and confiscated their fishing equipment. According to investigations conducted by PCHR, at approximately 21:30 on Sunday, 19 May 2013, an Israeli gunboat approached a Palestinian fishing boat boarding 2 fishermen, sailing nearly 70 meters of al-Waha Resort shore in the north of the Gaza Strip. Israeli soldiers fired around the boat and then forced the two fishermen to take their clothes off, jump into the water and swim towards the gunboat. They arrested the two fishermen and held their boat. The two fishermen were identified as Mahmoud Mohammed Zayed, 25, and his brother Khaled, 20. They were released at 11:30 on Monday, 20 May 2013...
continua / continued [97790] [ 23-may-2013 04:54 ECT ] |
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Prisoners who starved for art honored by Gaza show
Joe Catron |
May 21, 2013 - For former Palestinian detainee Abdelfattah Abu Jahil, prison art is a victory."At the beginning, it was really hard," he said of painting, embroidery and sculpture during his first detention by Israeli forces in 1983. "It wasn’t allowed. We had to keep it hidden from the guards. And we had to smuggle the tools, like beads and threads, to make the art."That changed, he said, when a mass hunger strike forced the Israeli Prison Service to let Palestinian detainees keep and use art supplies."The greatest achievements of the prisoners’ movement were in 1985," Abu Jahil said. "We went on hunger strike to force the Israelis to allow us to make art, among other things. I myself went on hunger strike for 79 days."...
continua / continued [97788] [ 23-may-2013 04:47 ECT ] |
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Iraq: Organizer of Anbar protest killed
NINA
May 21, 2013– Sheikh Malik al-Dulaimi, one of the Anbar protest organizers, killed when an improvised explosive device, attached to his car, went off on Tuesday evening, May 21. Security source told NINA that an improvised explosive device attached to Sheik al-Dulaimi's car went off in downtown Ramadi, killing him instantly. Sheikh al-Dulaimi, along with other capable tribal chiefs of Anbar, took care of supplying tents, food and other requirements to the protestors in Ramadi...
continua / continued [97784] [ 23-may-2013 04:33 ECT ] |
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Guantánamo Hunger Strike: Obama Administration Hints at Progress on Releasing Yemenis
Andy Worthington
May 21, 2013- 100 days after the majority of the remaining 166 prisoners in Guantánamo embarked on a hunger strike, and after a weekend of actions in the US, the UK and elsewhere to highlight the continuing injustice of the prison, the world is waiting — again — to hear from President Obama.As news of the hunger strike filtered out of the prison in late February, and, throughout March, spread like wildfire throughout the world’s media, attracting criticism of the administration from the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations, as well as critical coverage in the US, President Obama remained silent...
continua / continued [97780] [ 23-may-2013 04:21 ECT ] |
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The State Explodes Itself
Arthur Silber
May 21, 2013- ...Top Obama aides, including Obama's chief of staff, all knew of the specific nature of the IRS abuses. They all "intentionally kept Obama in the dark." We are informed that systematically depriving the president of critical information is their job.This is your government at work. "Serious" has been banished to another world. I ache for the moment when a single person, finally rebelling against the ludicrous pretense of treating muttered blurps and smuffles as language that signifies meaning, stands up at a press briefing, and cries in despair: "When you lie in bed in the middle of the night unable to sleep, do you ever weep for your shattered soul, that you find it so easy to be such a goddamned liar? And are we any better, that we refuse to acknowledge that you are a goddamned liar, and that we are all liars too?"...
continua / continued [97779] [ 23-may-2013 04:16 ECT ] |
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Military Resistance 11E13: Now and Forever
Thomas F Barton
May 20, 2013 - The United States may keep a force of 6,000 to 12,000 troops in Afghanistan after 2014, when Afghan forces will be responsible for security across the country, a top American Senator has said. "We are planning to keep a force of perhaps 6,000 to 12,000 after 2014 when all combat forces are to be out of Afghanistan," Senator Carl Levin, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said during a Congressional hearing...
continua / continued [97774] [ 22-may-2013 22:44 ECT ] |
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Deep in Enemy Territory – Fast Times in Palestine
By Pamela Olson |
May 20, 2013 - A friend from college named Cameron was in Israel visiting family for Passover. He was an adventurous soul, a world traveler and entrepreneur, with curly brown hair, blue eyes, and a slim athletic build. When his family learned I was in the Holy Land, they invited me to their Passover seder — until they realized I lived in Ramallah, at which point they promptly rescinded the invitation.Cameron was a strong supporter of Israel and hawkish on security issues, but he was embarrassed by his family’s behavior. I told him he could make it up to me by visiting the West Bank for a week and seeing the occupation for himself. To my pleasant surprise he agreed. In order not to upset his family, he told them he was heading to the Sinai for a week. He arrived in Ramallah just as the Dancing Traffic Cop was beginning his shift in Al Manara. Tall, lanky, and graceful, wearing reflective silver aviator sunglasses, the man didn’t just direct traffic. He made a show of it. Cameron and I watched in amazement as his long arms moved in quick, precise, exaggerated arcs and twirls to match his intricate, impeccable footwork....
continua / continued [97773] [ 22-may-2013 22:27 ECT ] |
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Is France to Start Killing People 'the American Way'?
By François Sergent |
May 20, 2013 -War without a battlefield, without direct confrontation and without any risk to the attackers. Drones change not only the art of war, but also blur the laws of war. And American monopoly currently only shared by Israel, drones have become the weapon of choice of the "war against terror" - a phrase coined by George W. Bush after the September 11 - then continued and expanded by Obama. From Somalia to the frontiers of Pakistan, Yemen and Afghanistan, dozens of suspected terrorists, including senior al-Qaeda leaders, have been killed by missiles launched by drones operated from the comfort of sanitized bases in Virginia. These men were killed secretly and without trial, in the manner of extrajudicial executions. As sophisticated as these unmanned aircraft have become, however, hundreds of civilian men, women and children, have fallen - collateral victims of this shadowy war...
continua / continued [97770] [ 22-may-2013 20:49 ECT ] |
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New Sleaze Allegations Tarnish JPMorgan Chase's 'Teflon Don'
By Tom Burghardt
May 20, 2013 - While Barack Obama's "favorite banker" continues to receive the royal treatment in Washington, new sleaze allegations threaten to further tarnish the golden boy image of "teflon don" Jamie Dimon, the CEO and Chairman of JPMorgan Chase. Wearing multiple hats, Dimon is the Chairman of The Business Council, a long-time member of the Council on Foreign Relations, The Trilateral Commission, a "Class A" Director of the New York Federal Reserve and Advisory Board member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, that is, until the Council was foreclosed on earlier this year. It doesn't hurt that JPM's embattled capo di tutti capi is also a leading light and Executive Committee member of The Business Roundtable, a corporatist "association of chief executive officers of leading U.S. companies with more than $7.3 trillion in annual revenues and nearly 16 million employees."...
continua / continued [97768] [ 22-may-2013 20:20 ECT ] |
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Walking Tours Connect Palestinians to Their Past
By Jillian Kestler-D'Amours
May 20 , 2013 - A reddish-brown dome sits atop an ancient stone house, used hundreds of years ago for prayer. It peeks out from the surrounding trees as the rolling green valleys and hills of the central West Bank stretch out into the distance. This shrine, known as the Al-Khawass shrine, sits 540 metres above sea level in the Palestinian village of Deir Ghassaneh. It is one of several stops along the Sufi trail, which begins in the valley below and takes visitors and locals alike back in time to when Sufism, a mystical form of Islam, was widespread in the area."I want foreigners to know Palestinian culture, our culture. And I want Palestinians to take [steadfastness] from it. This is your home. Be proud of the land, of the homeland," explained Rafat Jamil, director of tours and a guide at the Rozana Association...
continua / continued [97765] [ 22-may-2013 19:47 ECT ] |
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The Prisoners' Diaries - Palestinian voices from the Israeli Gulag
Review by Ramona Wadi
May 20, 2013 - Edited and published during the Palestinian prisoners' hunger strike, The Prisoners' Diaries is a distressing fragment of testimonies from Palestinians whose deterioration in Israeli jails has become a fact of life, rather than a blatant violation of human rights. The resilience against the occupation and a lack of global outrage against torture and apartheid practices resonated with irregular frequencies within the international community, as leaders relegate human rights to the vestiges of redundant diplomacy. As the epitomes of the hunger strike, Samer Issawi and Ayman Sharawna, seem to have faded from public scrutiny, this book serves as a reminder of the reality experienced by hundreds of prisoners who have, at some point, been incarcerated and subjected to torture in Israeli prisons. The brief narrations manage to dissolve the facade of statistics and portray the humanitarian aspect - estranged families, poverty, illness, death and the metaphor of time experienced as a perpetual waiting and loathed dependence on an entity responsible for the deterioration of life as envisaged by the occupying power...
continua / continued [97763] [ 22-may-2013 19:35 ECT ] |
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Israeli Army Kidnaps Two Palestinian Fishermen In Northern Gaza
Saed Bannoura
May 20, 2013 - The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), based in Gaza, has reported that the Israeli Navy kidnapped, on Sunday at night, two Palestinian fishermen near the coast of Beit Lahia city, in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. The PCHR said that the soldiers kidnapped Mahmoud Zayed, 27, and his brother Khaled, as they were fishing in Palestinian territorial waters, and took them to an unknown destination before confiscating their boat. The soldiers also prevented Palestinian fishermen in the area from fishing and forced them back to the shore...
continua / continued [97753] [ 22-may-2013 18:30 ECT ] |
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Israeli archive file shows that Israel's founder tried to erase Palestinian Nakba
Saed Bannoura
May 19, 2013- A new report published in the Israeli newspaper Ha'aretz describes the information found in a newly-uncovered document in the government archives, which reveals that the first Israeli government, including the first Prime Minister David Ben Gurion, worked to re-write the history of Israel's founding in 1948 to deny the fact that over 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly expelled. The file, number GL-18/17028, was apparently missed by the Israeli military censor, who has sealed all other historical documents related to Israel's creation in 1948. With the advent of historians like Benny Morris, who went through previously de-classified documents in detail and found strong evidence of massacres of Palestinians by Israeli armed militias as well as the forced expulsion of most of the indigenous population of Palestine in 1948, documents that had been de-classified were sealed again and remain so until today.
continua / continued [97732] [ 21-may-2013 04:43 ECT ] |
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Syria News - May 18, 2013 (Warning: Graphic Videos)
Local Coordination Committees of Syria + Videos |
May 18, 2013 - By the end of Saturday the Local Coordination Committees documented 116 martyrs including 11 women, 9 children and 5 under torture; 37 martyrs in Damascus and its Suburbs; 29 martyrs in Aleppo; 27 martyrs in Homs; 6 in Hama; 6 in Idlib; 6 in Daraa; 3 in Deir Ezzor; 1 in Banias and 1 in Qunaitera.The Local Coordination Committees has documented 301 points of shelling including in 36 points warplanes the most violent was in Qosair Homs and the cities of East Ghouta Damascus Suburbs, Cluster bombs were reported in Kaferlata, Idlib and Halfaia Hama, Steric bombs were reported in Halfaia as well, explosive barrels were reported in four points in East Ghouta Damascus Suburbs, in Salma Latakia, Halfaia Hama, and in Raqaa. Surface-to Surface missiles were reported in Raqqa. The shelling using rocket launchers was reported in 58 points, mortar shelling was reported in 82 points, and artillery shelling was reported in 110 points in different areas in Syria...
continua / continued [97723] [ 21-may-2013 02:54 ECT ] |
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Syria : Without Water, Revolution
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN
May 18, 2013 - ... I came here to write my column and work on a film for the Showtime series, "Years of Living Dangerously," about the "Jafaf," or drought, one of the key drivers of the Syrian war. In an age of climate change, we’re likely to see many more such conflicts. "The drought did not cause Syria’s civil war," said the Syrian economist Samir Aita, but, he added, the failure of the government to respond to the drought played a huge role in fueling the uprising. What happened, Aita explained, was that after Assad took over in 2000 he opened up the regulated agricultural sector in Syria for big farmers, many of them government cronies, to buy up land and drill as much water as they wanted, eventually severely diminishing the water table. This began driving small farmers off the land into towns, where they had to scrounge for work. Because of the population explosion that started here in the 1980s and 1990s thanks to better health care, those leaving the countryside came with huge families and settled in towns around cities like Aleppo. Some of those small towns swelled from 2,000 people to 400,000 in a decade or so. The government failed to provide proper schools, jobs or services for this youth bulge, which hit its teens and 20s right when the revolution erupted ...
continua / continued [97718] [ 20-may-2013 17:26 ECT ] |
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UPDATE: Cousins of Palestinian teenager murdered at checkpoint arrested
International Solidarity Movement
May 18, 2913 - Two brothers of the arrested Deiyaa’ Nassar, cousins of the murdered Amer Nassar, were arrested last week Monday, May 13 past 2 am at night. Deiyaa’ Nassar, 19, and Fadi Abu-’Asr continue to be held in Mejiddo Israeli prison as their trials continue to be rescheduled on each previous trial date. Deiyaa’s brothers, Bahaa, 20, and Baraa, 21, were arrested randomly; Bahaa is studying at university and Baraa is an artist in calligraphy who makes wooden plaques and ornaments with calligraphic Arabic text or Palestinian images. Deiyaa, Bahaa, and Baraa are of a household of seven boys. A local Red Crescent representative met with the family and said that the boys’ mother is only comforted that the brothers are said to be together in Mejiddo prison...
continua / continued [97713] [ 20-may-2013 15:31 ECT ] |
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Libyans in North Africa scared to return home
IRIN News |
May 18, 2013 - Until government and revolutionary forces attacked the Libyan town of Bani Walid, about 170km southeast of the capital Tripoli in October last year, Abdullah Warfella had been determined never to leave. But after two weeks of imprisonment and torture, the 68-year-old former contractor fled. "They accused me of supporting [former ruler Muammar] Gaddafi during the revolution, which is not true at all," Warfella told IRIN in Cairo. "These people have turned life into hell for people, not just in Bani Walid, but everywhere in Libya." Warfella is one of tens of thousands of Libyans who have fled to Egypt. Many are accused, often falsely they say, of having fought in pro-Gaddafi forces in 2011, or having publicly expressed support for him.Far from home, many struggle to find employment and affordable accommodation, and lack almost any formal support. But they fear revenge attacks should they return home...
continua / continued [97711] [ 20-may-2013 14:51 ECT ] |
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My Body in Shatat, My Heart in Gaza, My Soul in Beit Daras
By Ghada Ageel |
May 18, 2013- On the 65th anniversary of the Nakba (what we Palestinians call the catastrophe of dispossession), Palestinians who were born in historic Palestine and are currently growing old in refugee camps – remain determined to return to the homes and lands from which we were expelled in 1948. My grandmother, Khadija, is one of them. A mother of ten, a grandmother of 68, and a great grandmother of 49, Khadija now lives under tragic circumstances in Khan Younis refugee camp, in Gaza. She previously owned lands and a home in Beit Daras, a village that was part of historic Palestine. (She still have deeds in hand). Once full of hope and honor, my grandmother is very much like the other seven million Palestinian refugees and their descendants scattered all over the world, including in Occupied Palestine. In her late 80s, she feels abandoned...
continua / continued [97707] [ 20-may-2013 05:47 ECT ] |
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