Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
Yeah.."The beginning"....The whole #¤#¤¤ region have been a #¤#¤¤ minefield for decades and still is!
Part of Öcalan´s message: "Political oppression and benefits have subjected the people of Mesopotamia with the support of Western intervening powers. The peoples of Middle East and Asia are awakening now and saying no to the wars waged against them". "Millions of people taking to the Newroz areas today demand peace and solution. The struggle I initiated is against the oppression, injustice and ignorance".
"A new door is being opened from the process of armed conflict to democratization and democratic politics. We paid a high price but none of the sacrifices of struggles of Kurds went for nothing"
Aa "new phase is now beginning".
Öcalan said that the western imperialism created artificial borders between the peoples of the Middle East in the last century and aimed to make peoples kill each other. “This fight is against injustice, reactionism and exploitation, not against any society or culture. We are waking up for a new Turkey, for a new Middle East”, said Öcalan and underlined that “A new process is beginning”.
Öcalans-message
"A new door is being opened from the process of armed conflict to democratization and democratic politics. We paid a high price but none of the sacrifices of struggles of Kurds went for nothing"
Aa "new phase is now beginning".
Öcalan said that the western imperialism created artificial borders between the peoples of the Middle East in the last century and aimed to make peoples kill each other. “This fight is against injustice, reactionism and exploitation, not against any society or culture. We are waking up for a new Turkey, for a new Middle East”, said Öcalan and underlined that “A new process is beginning”.
Öcalans-message
Yeah...And then there was a "war on terrorism" in Iraq..
Ten people have been killed and at least 60 others wounded in the artillery attack in the mainly Kurdish neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsoud and Bistan Pasa on Friday. The attack which targeted the region of Mardilli between two neighborhoods came following clashes with militants of the Free Syrian Army. Four of the civilians killed in the attack are reported to be children. The treatment for the wounded is provided by a hospital in Efrin. Some of these people are reported to be facing critical situation and the death toll is feared to increase.
Yeah...such a clever composition and strategy mass genocidal psychopaths believes they have achieved unseen and unknown of!
"Between former KGB´s and CIA" we actually do not believe it´s a coincident that Syria looks like Iraq, while Iraqis are still attacked and killed and Russia´s "war on terrorism" in Chechnya and Grozny!
If "The world powers will come to an end"...Israel will be first in line to take over AND THAT WE DO NOT WANT, SO TAKE A #¤#¤¤¤¤ GRIP ON YOURSELVES!
Yeah...such a clever composition and strategy mass genocidal psychopaths believes they have achieved unseen and unknown of!
"Between former KGB´s and CIA" we actually do not believe it´s a coincident that Syria looks like Iraq, while Iraqis are still attacked and killed and Russia´s "war on terrorism" in Chechnya and Grozny!
If "The world powers will come to an end"...Israel will be first in line to take over AND THAT WE DO NOT WANT, SO TAKE A #¤#¤¤¤¤ GRIP ON YOURSELVES!
Phoenix - patriotic American´s dad claims son worked in Syria for CIA
As US Army veteran Eric Harroun awaits trial in Virginia for allegedly fighting alongside al-Qaeda supporters, the man’s father claims he was working for the CIA and was reporting back to the agency from Syria.
Harroun, a 30-year-old American from Phoenix, Arizona, has been charged by the US government for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (namely a rocket propelled grenade launcher) to conduct an attack against the Syrian government.
The US Army veteran dubbed by media ‘Phoenix jihadist’ appeared in numerous videos alongside members of the al-Nusra Front, designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization in December, but which has also been fighting alongside the Syrian opposition to take down the Assad regime. To date, 29 US-backed Syrian opposition groups have linked with al-Nusra, and have signed a petition calling for the support of the Islamist group that the White House believes is a branch of al-Qaeda.
According to FBI documents, Harroun traveled to Turkey last November and joined the fight led by the Free Syrian Army shortly thereafter. His father, Darryl Harroun, on Thursday told reporters that he doesn’t understand why the US government arrested his son, who he says was working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He referred to his son as a ‘patriotic’ American who would never get involved with al-Qaeda, and claims he was gathering information for the US government. “I know he was doing some work for the CIA over there,” the man’s father said. “I know for a fact that he was passing information onto the CIA.”
After seeing the documents regarding his son’s charges, Harroun told a CBS News reporter that it is all inaccurate and misleading and that the truth will eventually come out, since his son was simply gathering intelligence. “About 99 percent of that stuff that you read on there is a bunch of bull,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any truth in any of this – he’s very patriotic”
The CIA is known to have contributed to the opposition fighters’ initiatives in Syria. Last week, the New York Times published an article describing how the agency has allegedly been helping foreign governments contribute to the Free Syrian Army. Unnamed US officials told the paper that the CIA has been secretly airlifting arms and other military equipment to Arab governments and Turkey, who provided them to the country’s opposition fighters. With the agency’s alleged involvement in the conflict, some believe it is very possible for the CIA to also have sent their own agents into Syria.
Paul Joseph Watson suggests on InfoWars that Harroun’s arrest may have something to do with the lack of communication and rivalry between the FBI and the CIA. The FBI affidavit makes no mention of Harroun having any sort of connection to the CIA, but includes transcripts of interviews in which the man describes being treated like a prisoner in the al-Nusra camp and eventually being accepted by the members. Soon thereafter, he was helping them conduct several attacks on the Syrian regime.
He also recalled being questioned about why the US government designated the group as a terrorist organization. But the FBI is worried that while he may have gone into Syria with good intentions, he may also have become radicalized. A main component of the affidavit focuses on a Facebook status Harroun allegedly posted, in which he states that “the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.” But the man did not seem to try to hide any of his acitivities in Syria. He frequently uploaded pictures of himself in the conflict zone and made opinionated statements regarding the Assad regime. He allowed journalists to interview him over Skype and labeled himself as a “freedom fighter”, working on behalf of the opposition movement that the US supports.
His alleged CIA involvement has so far only been mentioned by the man’s father, but could play a major part in the case as Harroun awaits trial. He faces a maximum of life imprisonment.
CIAchickens-come-home-to-roost-phoenix-jihadists-dad-claims-son-worked-in-syria-for CIA
http://rt.com/usa/cia-harroun-us-syrian-064/
Harroun, a 30-year-old American from Phoenix, Arizona, has been charged by the US government for conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction (namely a rocket propelled grenade launcher) to conduct an attack against the Syrian government.
The US Army veteran dubbed by media ‘Phoenix jihadist’ appeared in numerous videos alongside members of the al-Nusra Front, designated by the State Department as a terrorist organization in December, but which has also been fighting alongside the Syrian opposition to take down the Assad regime. To date, 29 US-backed Syrian opposition groups have linked with al-Nusra, and have signed a petition calling for the support of the Islamist group that the White House believes is a branch of al-Qaeda.
According to FBI documents, Harroun traveled to Turkey last November and joined the fight led by the Free Syrian Army shortly thereafter. His father, Darryl Harroun, on Thursday told reporters that he doesn’t understand why the US government arrested his son, who he says was working for the Central Intelligence Agency. He referred to his son as a ‘patriotic’ American who would never get involved with al-Qaeda, and claims he was gathering information for the US government. “I know he was doing some work for the CIA over there,” the man’s father said. “I know for a fact that he was passing information onto the CIA.”
After seeing the documents regarding his son’s charges, Harroun told a CBS News reporter that it is all inaccurate and misleading and that the truth will eventually come out, since his son was simply gathering intelligence. “About 99 percent of that stuff that you read on there is a bunch of bull,” he said. “I don’t think there’s any truth in any of this – he’s very patriotic”
The CIA is known to have contributed to the opposition fighters’ initiatives in Syria. Last week, the New York Times published an article describing how the agency has allegedly been helping foreign governments contribute to the Free Syrian Army. Unnamed US officials told the paper that the CIA has been secretly airlifting arms and other military equipment to Arab governments and Turkey, who provided them to the country’s opposition fighters. With the agency’s alleged involvement in the conflict, some believe it is very possible for the CIA to also have sent their own agents into Syria.
Paul Joseph Watson suggests on InfoWars that Harroun’s arrest may have something to do with the lack of communication and rivalry between the FBI and the CIA. The FBI affidavit makes no mention of Harroun having any sort of connection to the CIA, but includes transcripts of interviews in which the man describes being treated like a prisoner in the al-Nusra camp and eventually being accepted by the members. Soon thereafter, he was helping them conduct several attacks on the Syrian regime.
He also recalled being questioned about why the US government designated the group as a terrorist organization. But the FBI is worried that while he may have gone into Syria with good intentions, he may also have become radicalized. A main component of the affidavit focuses on a Facebook status Harroun allegedly posted, in which he states that “the only good Zionist is a dead Zionist.” But the man did not seem to try to hide any of his acitivities in Syria. He frequently uploaded pictures of himself in the conflict zone and made opinionated statements regarding the Assad regime. He allowed journalists to interview him over Skype and labeled himself as a “freedom fighter”, working on behalf of the opposition movement that the US supports.
His alleged CIA involvement has so far only been mentioned by the man’s father, but could play a major part in the case as Harroun awaits trial. He faces a maximum of life imprisonment.
CIAchickens-come-home-to-roost-phoenix-jihadists-dad-claims-son-worked-in-syria-for CIA
http://rt.com/usa/cia-harroun-us-syrian-064/
Life is filled with choices, one make a choice and that´s the way one live and learn...You cannot buy history!
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry paid a visit to Ankara on March 1st. During a meeting with Prime Minister Erdoğan, Kerry expressed his desire for "a normalization of ties" between Turkey and Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu expressed "Israel's apology to the Turkish people for any mistakes that might have led to the loss of life or injury," Netanyahu's office said in a statement.
Netanyahu and Erdoğan reached a consensus to normalize ties including returning their ambassadors to their posts. Erdoğan's office said he had accepted the apology and had told Netanyahu that he valued centuries of "strong friendship and cooperation between the Turkish and Jewish nation".
"Three conditions set forth by Turkey for a normalization of ties have been fulfilled by Israel, which has also both agreed to pay compensation to the families of the victims in the Mavi Marmara raid. Netanyahu said that they had no intentions of killing anyone and that after an investigation into the incident they realize that there were a number of operational errors on their side."
Netanyahu and Erdoğan reached a consensus to normalize ties including returning their ambassadors to their posts. Erdoğan's office said he had accepted the apology and had told Netanyahu that he valued centuries of "strong friendship and cooperation between the Turkish and Jewish nation".
"Three conditions set forth by Turkey for a normalization of ties have been fulfilled by Israel, which has also both agreed to pay compensation to the families of the victims in the Mavi Marmara raid. Netanyahu said that they had no intentions of killing anyone and that after an investigation into the incident they realize that there were a number of operational errors on their side."
One make a choice and that´s the way one live and learn. Maybe one can compensate and try to use the experience of a wrong or bad choice to do something better....
...but You cannot buy history!
Reality check:
While the Israeli military drags seven to 15 years into buses like a real Nazi state, Syrian "rebels" are armed and aided, at the same time Kurdish "rebels" are designated as terrorists and attacked and ethnically cleaned, just like Iranian designated terrorists and "protected persons" at the same time are attacked and killed, 80.000 Syrians and Palestinians in refugee camps are exterminated....
......the British, Israeli, Turkish and US intelligences that cooperates...are not that effective when it comes to the "war on terrorism" going on in Iraq for 10 years with over one and half of millions killed..and with troops deployed attacked and killed and that "threatened the Turkish, Israeli, US etc.. states"...
In fact we have hard to believe any intelligences can become more ineffective, embarrassing stupid, useless and untrustworthy!
Iraq Bloodshed: 33 Killed, 165 Wounded
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Scattered-attacks-leaves-seven-killed-across-iraq
Twelve-killed-in-iraq-including-another-political-candidate
......the British, Israeli, Turkish and US intelligences that cooperates...are not that effective when it comes to the "war on terrorism" going on in Iraq for 10 years with over one and half of millions killed..and with troops deployed attacked and killed and that "threatened the Turkish, Israeli, US etc.. states"...
In fact we have hard to believe any intelligences can become more ineffective, embarrassing stupid, useless and untrustworthy!
Iraq Bloodshed: 33 Killed, 165 Wounded
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Scattered-attacks-leaves-seven-killed-across-iraq
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A full fledged Nazi state with Palestinians bombed, tortured, killed, exterminated, ethnically cleaned, attacked and killed, massacred in refugee camps, deported, displaced, deprived human rights, International laws, property, means of living all over the #¤#¤¤ region going on in a destruction of a whole people for over half a century!
24 March 2013 AL-KHALIL (HEBRON): Mass arrest of schoolchildren. Three remain at Ofer military prison as of 26 March. Three children under the age of 15 remain under Israeli military custody after the 20 March arrest of twenty-seven Palestinian children, ages seven to 15, while on their way to school in the West Bank city of Hebron.
The principal of the Hebron Public School reported that he was standing at the gate to his school at 7:30 a.m. on 20 March when about 22 soldiers arrived and immediately began taking children from the street without speaking with the principal, teachers or the children.
The street was full of children on their way to five area schools. Several adults arrived and tried to prevent the soldiers from taking the students but soldiers pulled the children away. Israeli soldiers arrested 27 students, age seven to 15. They made them walk to checkpoint 29 and violently forced them into the jeeps. Some of the children reported injuries. The soldiers drove them to the police station near the Ibrahimi Mosque, brought 25 children inside and released two on a nearby road.
They questioned the students without parents, a lawyer or teachers present and without permission from parents or other adults. Eight of the children were in grades one through four. Obaida Babyeh, age 15, a student at the Ibrahimi School, was one of the two released near the station.
He said, “We were passing to go to our school and they arrested us. The soldiers pushed us into the jeep, then they took us away from the school checkpoint. They hit me on my knee. Then the commander came and talked with them in Hebrew. The commander slapped me and my friend on the face and let us go.”
Teachers from the school came to the police station but were not allowed in. Soldiers told the teachers that they were checking the children against photographs and would release children whose photos they did not have. A Palestinian adult who was being detained in the police station when the children were arrested reported that the children were handcuffed and blindfolded.
At 2:00 p.m. soldiers released the eight youngest children and transported the remaining 17 to the Jabarah and Junaid military stations where they continued to question them. Some were questioned at both locations. The students were fingerprinted, photographed and questioned multiple times without the presence or consent of family, lawyers or teachers. Throughout the incident the children were held together with adult detainees.
Ahmad Abed Al Ra’aoof Sudky Burqan, age fourteen and a student at Hebron public elementary school, said, "I was in a small store with my friend on our way to school. When we came out of the market to go to our school the soldiers grabbed us from behind. They took us to checkpoint 29, and then pushed us into the jeep. They took us to the first police station [Ja’abra], then to another one [Junied]. They questioned us, and took our finger prints. I was there from 7:30 a.m. until 7:00 p.m."
Later that night soldiers released fourteen of the children. Three of the children were transported to Ofer military prison and continue to be held there.
Israel is currently detaining 195 Palestinian children, 93 of them in Ofer prison. For several weeks prior to the incident, members of Christian Peacemaker Teams and other internationals monitoring checkpoints near the schools observed soldiers asking children about photos on a camera before allowing them to pass through to their schools.
Students attending school near the Old City must pass through military checkpoints each day as they walk to and from school. On 20 March, Israeli officials committed at least four clear violations of rights guaranteeed to these children under international law.
Parents or legal guardians should be informed of the arrest of children within the shortest possible time thereafter, in a language understood by the child and the parents or legal guardians. (The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), article 9 (1) and (2); Beijing Rules, Rule 10.1) All children should be free from compulsory self-incrimination, which includes the right to silence. ‘Compulsory’ should be interpreted broadly and not limited to physical force. The age of the child and the length of the interrogation, the child’s lack of understanding and the fear of unknown consequences may all lead a child to give a confession that is not true.
According to UNICEF (Children in Israeli Military Detention; Observations and Recommendations, February 2012), approximately 700 Palestinian children aged 12 to 17 are arrested, interrogated and detained by the Israeli army, police and security agents each year.
In the past ten years approximately 7000 children have been detained, interrogated, prosecuted and/or imprisoned within the Israeli military justice system.
http://cpt.org/cptnet/2013/03/24/al-khalil-hebron-mass-arrest-schoolchildren
Friday, March 29, 2013
Bashar, Bassel - Basil
School of the University of Damascus, Western Eye Hospital - London
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Damascus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Percy,_Earl_Percy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Ismat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_University
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Damascus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Percy,_Earl_Percy
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Riad_Ismat
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardiff_University
Benjamin Netanyahu and the Israelis states that nones can deny that the Jewish people have a connection to the land. Then, nones can deny that the Palestinians which have lived there the whole time have a connection to the land. #¤#¤¤¤ Idiots! It´s Nazism to make the whole region Palestinian rein!
This so called "peace process" is actually a ethnically cleaning, genocide, Holocaust with crimes all over the region in ongoing calculated, coordinated, systematically wars and crimes for over half a century where not just Gaza and the Palestinian territories are made Palestinian rein, but the whole region is made Palestinian rein, including refugee camps. Just as the ongoing Iraqi Holocaust, the Kurdish, Syrian, genocides, Persian ethnically cleaning and beyond.
It´s everything the Nazis did! And it´s the same colonization, apartheid, extermination methods and policies Britain has used for hundred years.
It´s everything the Nazis did! And it´s the same colonization, apartheid, extermination methods and policies Britain has used for hundred years.
Amnesty International: Respect for rights must be at heart of negotiations with PKK
The Turkish authorities must act on announcement of ceasefire by the imprisoned Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) leader Abdulah Ocalan, Amnesty International said.
“The Turkish authorities must seize the opportunity created by Abdulah Ocalan’s call for a truce and work for a lasting peace based on justice for victims of human rights abuses committed by both sides during the decades of conflict,” said John Dalhuisen, Europe and Central Asia Programme Director.
“The road to peace will throw up challenges but an atmosphere of openness and free exchange of opinion will provide the surest foundation for the negotiations the Turkish authorities have been having with the PKK in recent months.”
Witnesses of 1999's withdrawal: There must be assurance
(DİHA) - Evaluating the discussions on the withdrawals of People's Defense Forces (HPG), Peace Group Members Mehmet Şirin Tunç and Seydi Fırat stated that the Parliament must give assurance for withdrawal. Tunç, "It is necessary to take a decision at the degree of Parliament. And so, the withdrawal will be taken under supervision.
The witnesses of 1999's withdrawal and being included in Peace Group and coming to Turkey Mehmet Şirin Tunç and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Permanent Council Member Seydi Fırat spoke to Dicle News Agency (DİHA) about the discussions.
Peace Group Member Mehmet Şirin Tunç, "It is necessary to take a decision at the degree of Parliament. Again, The withdrawal will be under the testimonies of some personalities in Turkey. This must of course be at the level of Parliament and occur formally. In this way, the withdrawal will occur healthy," he said.
'1999's withdrawal caused to great sorrows'
Witnessing PKK's withdrawal in 1999, the Peace Group Member and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Permanent Council Member Seydi Fırat said the process in fact is a total process. Withdrawal must be officialy under the legal regulations. The "State must clearly be sincere, ethical and democratic."
(DİHA) - Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor's Office (Yargıtay Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı) has demanded the approval of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) İstanbul Parliamentarian Sebahat Tuncel's 8 years 9 months of imprisonment penalty which was given with the motive of "being member of organization". The decision of penalty came on 18 September 2012 in a lawsuit opening by Istanbul 10th High Penalty Courthouse.
Evaluating the decision, MP Tuncel said: "This lawsuit is a political lawsuit from the day when it began. While even a deputy isn't let to do politics, how will other channels be opened," she asked.
http://www.diclehaber.com/2
http://rojhelat.info/en/
http://nucetv.com/
“The Turkish authorities must seize the opportunity created by Abdulah Ocalan’s call for a truce and work for a lasting peace based on justice for victims of human rights abuses committed by both sides during the decades of conflict,” said John Dalhuisen, Europe and Central Asia Programme Director.
“The road to peace will throw up challenges but an atmosphere of openness and free exchange of opinion will provide the surest foundation for the negotiations the Turkish authorities have been having with the PKK in recent months.”
Witnesses of 1999's withdrawal: There must be assurance
(DİHA) - Evaluating the discussions on the withdrawals of People's Defense Forces (HPG), Peace Group Members Mehmet Şirin Tunç and Seydi Fırat stated that the Parliament must give assurance for withdrawal. Tunç, "It is necessary to take a decision at the degree of Parliament. And so, the withdrawal will be taken under supervision.
The witnesses of 1999's withdrawal and being included in Peace Group and coming to Turkey Mehmet Şirin Tunç and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Permanent Council Member Seydi Fırat spoke to Dicle News Agency (DİHA) about the discussions.
Peace Group Member Mehmet Şirin Tunç, "It is necessary to take a decision at the degree of Parliament. Again, The withdrawal will be under the testimonies of some personalities in Turkey. This must of course be at the level of Parliament and occur formally. In this way, the withdrawal will occur healthy," he said.
'1999's withdrawal caused to great sorrows'
Witnessing PKK's withdrawal in 1999, the Peace Group Member and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Permanent Council Member Seydi Fırat said the process in fact is a total process. Withdrawal must be officialy under the legal regulations. The "State must clearly be sincere, ethical and democratic."
(DİHA) - Supreme Court of Appeals Prosecutor's Office (Yargıtay Cumhuriyet Başsavcılığı) has demanded the approval of Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) İstanbul Parliamentarian Sebahat Tuncel's 8 years 9 months of imprisonment penalty which was given with the motive of "being member of organization". The decision of penalty came on 18 September 2012 in a lawsuit opening by Istanbul 10th High Penalty Courthouse.
Evaluating the decision, MP Tuncel said: "This lawsuit is a political lawsuit from the day when it began. While even a deputy isn't let to do politics, how will other channels be opened," she asked.
http://www.diclehaber.com/2
http://rojhelat.info/en/
http://nucetv.com/
The Israeli state´s Holocaust memorial - more like a insult
More excess death due to Israel’s Siege: 20-yr old Mohammad Ahmad al-Sarhi killed in eastern Gaza
Genocide of Palestinian refugees in Syria
Palestinians-in-syrian-situation
Protest demands BBC lift reporting blackout on Palestinian hunger strikers
Arafat Jaradat tortured to death in G4S secured Israeli prison
G4S Complicity In Torture and caging of Palestinian children
Free Palestinian Prisoners
Stop Arming Israel
MPs call for review of arms exports to Israel
Letter with 52 signatories including artists and activists also denounces US and EU 'complicity' through weapons sales. The 52 signatories include the Nobel peace laureates Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel; the film directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach; the author Alice Walker; the US academic Noam Chomsky; Roger Waters of Pink Floyd; and Stéphane Hessel, a former French diplomat and Holocaust survivor who was co-author of the universal declaration of human rights.
Nobel peace laureates call for Israel military boycott over Gaza assault
Holocaust Survivor Protests Israeli Massacre in Gaza - 2009
UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza
Baroness Tonge: "Israel stands accused of war crimes witnessed by the whole world"
Patrick Buchanan - "Gaza is an Israeli concentration camp."
Genocide of Palestinian refugees in Syria
Palestinians-in-syrian-situation
Protest demands BBC lift reporting blackout on Palestinian hunger strikers
Arafat Jaradat tortured to death in G4S secured Israeli prison
G4S Complicity In Torture and caging of Palestinian children
Free Palestinian Prisoners
Stop Arming Israel
MPs call for review of arms exports to Israel
Letter with 52 signatories including artists and activists also denounces US and EU 'complicity' through weapons sales. The 52 signatories include the Nobel peace laureates Mairead Maguire and Adolfo Pérez Esquivel; the film directors Mike Leigh and Ken Loach; the author Alice Walker; the US academic Noam Chomsky; Roger Waters of Pink Floyd; and Stéphane Hessel, a former French diplomat and Holocaust survivor who was co-author of the universal declaration of human rights.
Nobel peace laureates call for Israel military boycott over Gaza assault
Holocaust Survivor Protests Israeli Massacre in Gaza - 2009
UK Jewish MP: Israel acting like Nazis in Gaza
Baroness Tonge: "Israel stands accused of war crimes witnessed by the whole world"
Patrick Buchanan - "Gaza is an Israeli concentration camp."
Gaza: Not Just a Prison - a Laboratory
At the Paris Air Show was the Israeli defense giant Elbit, which plans to showcase its Hermes 450 and 900 unmanned air vehicles. According to press reports, Israel used the drones on bombing missions in Gaza
Much of Israel´s growth has been in the so-called “homeland security” sector. Key products and services are high-tech fences, unmanned drones, biometric IDs, video and audio surveillance gear, air passenger profiling and prisoner interrogation systems - precisely the tools and technologies Israel has used to lock-in the occupied territories.
Since Israel began its policy of sealing off the occupied territories with checkpoints and walls, human rights activists have often compared Gaza and the West Bank to open-air prisons. But in researching the explosion of Israel’s homeland security sector, a topic I explore in greater detail in a forthcoming book (The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism), it strikes me that they are something else too: laboratories where the terrifying tools of our security states are being field-tested. Palestinians - whether living in the West Bank or Gaza — are no longer just targets. They are guinea pigs.
Read full article: Gaza: Not Just a Prison - a Laboratory
Bloomberg Pushing for Drone-Filled Manhattan Sky
Stop Israeli drone developer building in Manhattan!
Dangerroom - Former CIA, now Defense Secretary Leon Panetta - shadow wars
Or/and whole peoples over half this planet is a #¤#¤¤ Laboratory..
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/emp-grenades
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/subsonic-bullets
Much of Israel´s growth has been in the so-called “homeland security” sector. Key products and services are high-tech fences, unmanned drones, biometric IDs, video and audio surveillance gear, air passenger profiling and prisoner interrogation systems - precisely the tools and technologies Israel has used to lock-in the occupied territories.
Since Israel began its policy of sealing off the occupied territories with checkpoints and walls, human rights activists have often compared Gaza and the West Bank to open-air prisons. But in researching the explosion of Israel’s homeland security sector, a topic I explore in greater detail in a forthcoming book (The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism), it strikes me that they are something else too: laboratories where the terrifying tools of our security states are being field-tested. Palestinians - whether living in the West Bank or Gaza — are no longer just targets. They are guinea pigs.
Read full article: Gaza: Not Just a Prison - a Laboratory
Bloomberg Pushing for Drone-Filled Manhattan Sky
Stop Israeli drone developer building in Manhattan!
Dangerroom - Former CIA, now Defense Secretary Leon Panetta - shadow wars
Or/and whole peoples over half this planet is a #¤#¤¤ Laboratory..
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/emp-grenades
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/11/subsonic-bullets
After lobbying for instigated war-fare against the Kurds Israel´s and Turkey´s military trade rose with 2.7 billion, while bombing Gaza, exterminating Palestinians, destabilizing the whole region with millions of Iraqis killed and Kurds, Iranians, Baluch, Afghans, Arabs exterminated into the hangmen in Iran! #¤¤#¤ BASTARDS! Exterminating and burning down the whole region! A #¤#¤¤ DISGRACE to the human race!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0aN_LSt3Wk&feature=player_embedded
Just a very small example of MASSIVE crimes put in system all over the region for decades!
May 31, 2007, Henry Kissinger Bildenberg meeting Istanbul, Turkey
Kilner: Against PKK we give millions to Turkey
Iran - Mahabad 2007, Hadi Emini’s experiences in Iranian prisons
Iran sent 400 Kurdish girls to war zones. As part of its trainings, the Iranian authorities have sent 400 Kurdish girls to Iran-Iraq war zones. The Iranian authorities often send off great numbers of students to the war zones each year. Within this context 400 Kurdish girls grouped under the title of “Parade of Light” were sent off to war zones on 4 November. A group of female students have recently been killed in a road accident while they were returning from the war zones trips.
Allegations against PMOI rejected in rulings over terrorist designation
Who controls the Treasury department
UN chief calls on Iran to free all political prisoners.
http://iranhr.net/
Kurdish boy murdered by Iranian police After killing a young Kurdish boy near the border of Salmas, the police forces left his lifeless body amidst the snow. The police forces in the Province of Dashivan in Salmas, captured a young 16 year old Kurdish boy, Behzad Golmohamadi, as he was crossing the boarder to Turkey, and tortured him. This young Kurdish citizen lost his life. After leaving his body on Turkish soil, the police forces left the scene.
kurdishrights.org-kurdish-boy-murdered-by-police/
Iran-14-year-old Kurdish boy dies after receiving 85-lashes
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Reuters - "Iran, North Korea cause trouble for U.N. arms trade treaty." As 80.000 Syrians have been killed according to reports..
Reuters - "Iran, North Korea cause trouble for U.N. arms trade treaty."
Yeah.....right!
Bloomberg Pushing for Drone-Filled Manhattan Sky
Stop Israeli drone developer building in Manhattan!
Bloomberg Gun Control Mayor
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Presses Banks On Guns - Gun Rights
Dangerroom - Former CIA, now Defense Secretary Leon Panetta - shadow wars
From our hypocrite in chief
Israel's video game killing technology
Stop Arming Israel
MPs call for review of arms exports to Israel
Gaza: Not Just a Prison - a Laboratory
Leading questions...
Yeah.....right!
Bloomberg Pushing for Drone-Filled Manhattan Sky
Stop Israeli drone developer building in Manhattan!
Bloomberg Gun Control Mayor
Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel Presses Banks On Guns - Gun Rights
Dangerroom - Former CIA, now Defense Secretary Leon Panetta - shadow wars
From our hypocrite in chief
Israel's video game killing technology
Stop Arming Israel
MPs call for review of arms exports to Israel
Gaza: Not Just a Prison - a Laboratory
Leading questions...
Julio Noel Rausseo and Investigative Reporter Wayne Madsen: Rahm Emanuel and the Chicago Political Syndicate
January 2011, Investigative Reporter Wayne Madsen of waynemadsenreport.com sit down with Julio Noel Rausseo: on the Power Emanuel Family, former White House Chief of Staff and current Mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel. Emanuel Family Tree from father Benjamin, and brothers Ezekiel and Ari.
If the Iranian regime is responsible for to be biggest terrorist sponsor in this world....
If the Iranian regime is responsible for to be biggest terrorist sponsor in this world....How come its opposition have been and are on the US and its Treasury departments terrorist list for many years and tortured in the most horrible ways for decades, executed, hanged and exterminated then?
And being designated as terrorists and on terrorist list at the same time as being "protected persons" under the UN convention?
VA?
VA?
And being designated as terrorists and on terrorist list at the same time as being "protected persons" under the UN convention?
VA?
VA?
Amnesty: Respect for rights must be at heart of negotiations with PKK
In the frontline: INSIDE A UN AND NATO MEMBER: The right to human and political rights according to UN declarations, the right to life, existence and peace with the rest of the world in their own homeland dating 7.000 years back.
http://nucetv.com
http://www.freeocalan.org
http://peaceinkurdistancampaign.wordpress.com
Öcalan’s historical Newroz 2013 Statement
Murat Karayilan - Peyama Newroz 2013 Mesaji
Amnesty: Respect for rights must be at heart of negotiations with PKK
Amnesty: The right to freedom of expression is under attack in Turkey
http://kurd-info.blogspot.se
Rojhelat
Yuksekovahaber
Firat News Agency
Bianet
Diclehaber
http://nucetv.com
http://www.freeocalan.org
http://peaceinkurdistancampaign.wordpress.com
Öcalan’s historical Newroz 2013 Statement
Murat Karayilan - Peyama Newroz 2013 Mesaji
Amnesty: Respect for rights must be at heart of negotiations with PKK
Amnesty: The right to freedom of expression is under attack in Turkey
http://kurd-info.blogspot.se
Rojhelat
Yuksekovahaber
Firat News Agency
Bianet
Diclehaber
Wednesday, March 27, 2013
"Arms airlift to syria rebels expands with CIA aid."..Yeah..never mind "the war on terrorism" in Iraq #¤#¤¤¤¤ BASTARDS!
Suspected bomb changes venue of Ninewa Council's meeting
Interior ministry officer hit by sticky bomb mid Baghdad
Warning against "terrorist" attacks against mosques, govt. establishments in Baghdad
20 Mujahidi Khalq members suffered burning injuries in Liberty Camp
Two provincial council's members killed in South Kirkuk
Municipality official hit south Baghdad
Elections candidate wounded in Mosul
Qaeda organization threatening more explosions
Explosion near mosque in New Baghdad area
5 killed, 8 wounded in suicidal explosion mid of Mosul
Candidate's son injured in Mosul
Kobler condemns "organized" attacks in Baghdad
One killed, 10 wounded in three explosion south west Baghdad
Displaced family killed in Salahal-Din province
2 killed, 8 wounded in south Baghdad explosion
Cop injured in a blast south Kirkuk
One soldier killed, 4 civilians wounded east of Mosul
Traffic officer, cop killed in Baghdad
4 injured in a blast in Kadhimiya area
aswataliraq.info
Amnesty International: Respect for rights must be at heart of negotiations with PKK
Warplanes over guerrilla-controlled areas
Warplanes over guerrilla-controlled areas -a provocation
Seventy people detained in Amed
26.03.2013, Over 70 people have been taken into custody as a result of simultaneous police raids in the main Kurdish city Diyarbakır early Tuesday, Nuçe TV reported. According to the report, the operation targeted a number of houses in the districts of Bağlar, Yenişehir and Sur. Executives and members of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) have also been taken into custody in the operation. Detainees have been taken to the police headquarters.
kurd-info, seventy-people-detained-in-amed
IRAN: Wave of mass arrests in eastern Kurdistan; preventing all civil activities and the press
Thirty one arrests in Diyarbakır criminal police operation
Lawyers of jailed Kurdish leader set to face judges once again
http://kurd-info.blogspot.se/
http://www.freeocalan.org/
http://peaceinkurdistancampaign.wordpress.com/
http://rojhelat
Interior ministry officer hit by sticky bomb mid Baghdad
Warning against "terrorist" attacks against mosques, govt. establishments in Baghdad
20 Mujahidi Khalq members suffered burning injuries in Liberty Camp
Two provincial council's members killed in South Kirkuk
Municipality official hit south Baghdad
Elections candidate wounded in Mosul
Qaeda organization threatening more explosions
Explosion near mosque in New Baghdad area
5 killed, 8 wounded in suicidal explosion mid of Mosul
Candidate's son injured in Mosul
Kobler condemns "organized" attacks in Baghdad
One killed, 10 wounded in three explosion south west Baghdad
Displaced family killed in Salahal-Din province
2 killed, 8 wounded in south Baghdad explosion
Cop injured in a blast south Kirkuk
One soldier killed, 4 civilians wounded east of Mosul
Traffic officer, cop killed in Baghdad
4 injured in a blast in Kadhimiya area
aswataliraq.info
Amnesty International: Respect for rights must be at heart of negotiations with PKK
Warplanes over guerrilla-controlled areas
Warplanes over guerrilla-controlled areas -a provocation
Seventy people detained in Amed
26.03.2013, Over 70 people have been taken into custody as a result of simultaneous police raids in the main Kurdish city Diyarbakır early Tuesday, Nuçe TV reported. According to the report, the operation targeted a number of houses in the districts of Bağlar, Yenişehir and Sur. Executives and members of the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) have also been taken into custody in the operation. Detainees have been taken to the police headquarters.
kurd-info, seventy-people-detained-in-amed
IRAN: Wave of mass arrests in eastern Kurdistan; preventing all civil activities and the press
Thirty one arrests in Diyarbakır criminal police operation
Lawyers of jailed Kurdish leader set to face judges once again
http://kurd-info.blogspot.se/
http://www.freeocalan.org/
http://peaceinkurdistancampaign.wordpress.com/
http://rojhelat
Facebook - "connecting family and friends" ...Or a #¤#¤¤¤ EXTERMINATION TOOL FOR MASS GENOCIDAL PSYCHOPATHS AND EVERY OTHER PSYCHOPATHS - MORE LIKE IT!
Facebook as in a world - book of faces!
EVERYONE - TRY AND LOOK BRITISH FÖRF***N!
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EVERYONE - TRY AND LOOK BRITISH FÖRF***N!
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Saturday, March 23, 2013
Ancient community on verge of extinction in Iraq
March 21, 2013 One of Iraq’s most ancient communities is threatened with extinction with only a few thousand remaining in the country. The Mandeans, who are locally known as Sabaeans, were present in Iraq, and specifically in the southern plateau between the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers, more than 2000 years ago.
Prior to the 2003-U.S. invasion there were a total of 75,000 Mandeans in the country, according Sattar Jabbar, the community’s deputy religious leader. Today, Jabbar says, the majority has fled with about 10,000 remaining in the country and many of them would want to leave had they the means to do so. The Mandeans trace their religion to John the Baptist and have traditionally been known to be the country’s finest silver and gold craftsmen as well as canoe builders. Iraq was home to almost half of the community’s population in the world, estimated at 1500,000 people.
Most of Iraqi Mandeans used to live in southern Iraq and close to the marshes, where water is abundant. Jabbar said his people were victims of the violence that engulfed Iraq in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion, adding that many Mandeans have been killed and others kidnapped. Insecurity forced many to leave and most of those staying behind live in the southern provinces of Basra and Missan, he said. "I fear that our community will become extinct in Iraq."
http://www.azzaman.com
Assyrians in Iraq - aina.org
U.S.-Sponsored Genocides: From Guatemala to Congo
Genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a U.S.-sponsored holocaust that has so far claimed 6 million lives
Prior to the 2003-U.S. invasion there were a total of 75,000 Mandeans in the country, according Sattar Jabbar, the community’s deputy religious leader. Today, Jabbar says, the majority has fled with about 10,000 remaining in the country and many of them would want to leave had they the means to do so. The Mandeans trace their religion to John the Baptist and have traditionally been known to be the country’s finest silver and gold craftsmen as well as canoe builders. Iraq was home to almost half of the community’s population in the world, estimated at 1500,000 people.
Most of Iraqi Mandeans used to live in southern Iraq and close to the marshes, where water is abundant. Jabbar said his people were victims of the violence that engulfed Iraq in the aftermath of the U.S. invasion, adding that many Mandeans have been killed and others kidnapped. Insecurity forced many to leave and most of those staying behind live in the southern provinces of Basra and Missan, he said. "I fear that our community will become extinct in Iraq."
http://www.azzaman.com
Assyrians in Iraq - aina.org
U.S.-Sponsored Genocides: From Guatemala to Congo
Genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo – a U.S.-sponsored holocaust that has so far claimed 6 million lives
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood supporters and opponents clash in Cairo as Al-Waer area in Homs is under heavy attack
Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood supporters and opponents clash in Cairo
Al-Waer area in Homs is under heavy attack at the moment. Most of those displaced in Homs are seeking refuge in al-Waer and currently the area is home to at least half a million civilians with around 3-5 families occupying each home.
Al-Waer area in Homs
Palestinians in Syrian situation
British-Syrian "Revolution"
Al-Waer area in Homs is under heavy attack at the moment. Most of those displaced in Homs are seeking refuge in al-Waer and currently the area is home to at least half a million civilians with around 3-5 families occupying each home.
Al-Waer area in Homs
Palestinians in Syrian situation
British-Syrian "Revolution"
Friday, March 22, 2013
"Unbreakable US/Israeli Ties." As Paralyzed Iraq War vet Tomas Young discusses his 'Last Letter'
Longstanding US/Israeli ties remain firm. Obama's visit reinforces them. It does more. It assures continued support. It endorses hardline extremism. It affirms occupation harshness. It lets Israel do what it pleases.
America's special relationship does more harm than good. It's wrongheaded. Israel is more strategic liability than asset. So are other regional allies. After "failed wars-cum-occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan; a war on terror that has turned Muslim societies ever more firmly against U.S. policy; and de facto support for open-ended Israeli occupation of Arab populations, America’s (regional) position is in free fall."
Palestinians are entirely shut out. Their rights don't matter.
During Obama's visit, Israeli security forces violently arrested dozens of Palestinian children. Some were aged 10 or younger. They're held on baseless charges. They were on their way to school. Israel's Youth Law requires parents or an adult be present during interrogations. Shin Bet pays it no heed. Children are isolated from parents.
Read full article by Stephen Lendman
Palestinians in Syrian situation
Palestinian Observatory for Human Rights POHR
The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians
The Genocide on Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Horrific: Birth Defects, Cancer Rates Tied to U.S. Use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq
Paralyzed Iraq War vet Tomas Young discusses his 'Last Letter' to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9929
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9928
America's special relationship does more harm than good. It's wrongheaded. Israel is more strategic liability than asset. So are other regional allies. After "failed wars-cum-occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan; a war on terror that has turned Muslim societies ever more firmly against U.S. policy; and de facto support for open-ended Israeli occupation of Arab populations, America’s (regional) position is in free fall."
Palestinians are entirely shut out. Their rights don't matter.
During Obama's visit, Israeli security forces violently arrested dozens of Palestinian children. Some were aged 10 or younger. They're held on baseless charges. They were on their way to school. Israel's Youth Law requires parents or an adult be present during interrogations. Shin Bet pays it no heed. Children are isolated from parents.
Read full article by Stephen Lendman
Palestinians in Syrian situation
Palestinian Observatory for Human Rights POHR
The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians
The Genocide on Palestinian Refugees in Syria
Horrific: Birth Defects, Cancer Rates Tied to U.S. Use of Depleted Uranium in Iraq
Paralyzed Iraq War vet Tomas Young discusses his 'Last Letter' to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9929
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=9928
Thursday, March 21, 2013
Friday, March 08, 2013
Crimes against peace and humanity, war crimes, chemical warfares, mass murders, massacres, wanton destruction. Violations of the Charter of the UN, the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Hague Regulations of 1907, the Geneva Protocol of 1925, the 1929 and 1949 Geneva Conventions, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, International law..Put in system, INSIDE The UN, NATO!
Under Siege, Palestinian Women Call for Human Rights on International Women’s Day
UNICEF: Children in Israeli Military Detention - Observations and Recommendations
IOF soldiers raid southern Gaza
Sri Lanka 'disappeared': Families stage Colombo protest
Shia life in Peshawar: from harmony to horror – by Fattu Lohar
Prison sentences asked for Kurdish politicians in France
Karasu: French state knows the perpetrator of Paris killings
Kurdish Political Prisoners Under Intense Pressure to “Cooperate” at Orumiyeh Prison
Iranian security forces raided the homes of villagers
A Kurdish Kolber was shot by Iranian security forces
Ahmet Türk: Military operations weakening the trust in peace process
NEWROZ TV — Salih Muslim the leader of The Democratic Union Party (PYD) blamed Turkey for bloodshed in Syria and West Kurdistan. Salih Muslim in a press conference in Paris on February 27 stated; it was Turkey that diverted the Syrian revolution from its main way and militarized it.
It is Turkey that supports Jihadists groups in Syria. While emphasizing that Turkey intervenes in the internal affairs of Syria, Muslim said: “Ankara wants to change the situation of Syria in its favor. Turkey supports the Syrian opposition with the condition that the opposition cut their ties with Kurds”.
“The Jihadist group of Jebhat al-Nusra is being trained in the camps in Turkey with the support of Turkish government”, the leader of PYD added. “What Kurdish people are doing in West Kurdistan is a mere self-defence”, Muslim stated.
At least five people died and eleven others were wounded as a result of artillery shootings by the military of the Baas regime on February 26. The artillery shootings which targeted the Kurdish neighborhoods of Şêx Meqsûd and Esrefiye in Aleppo caused a great damage in the houses and living areas of civilians. Among the wounded are also four children aged under 13.
In retaliation, People’s Defense Units, YPG on February 28 clashed with Syrian regime forces. At least 1 Syrian soldier killed, several injured and 11 soldiers captured by YPG forces in these clashes. Around 600 thousand Kurds live in the neighborhoods of Shex Meqsud and Eshrefiye in Aleppo. Newroz TV (newroz.tv)
http://rojhelat.info/en/?p=5393
Through the Pakistani ISI the United States recruited Mujahadeen by staging them in Chechnya to fight in Bosnia and Kosovo. Chechen militants arrived in the Balkans via Turkey
The Clinton administration followed up by providing strong support to the KLA. Then Secretary of State Madeleine Albright had the KLA removed from the State Department list of terrorists. This action paved the way for the United States to provide the KLA with needed logistical support. At the same time, the KLA also received support from Iran and Usama bin Laden, along with 'Islamic holy warriors' who were jihad veterans from Bosnia, Chechnya and Afghanistan.
Swiss journalist Richard Labeviere, in his book, 'Dollars for Terror,' said that the international Islamic networks linked to bin Laden received help from U.S. intelligence community. The United States worked closely with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence organization. Through ISI, the United States recruited Mujahadeen by staging them in Chechnya to fight in Bosnia and later in Kosovo. These Islamic organisations constitute a key instrument of US military-intelligence operations in the Balkans.
OSAMAGATE - From Bosnia to Kosovo
The "Bosnian pattern" described in the 1997 Congressional RPC report was replicated in Kosovo. With the complicity of NATO and the US State Department. Mujahideen mercenaries from the Middle East and Central Asia were recruited to fight in the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1998-99, largely supporting NATO's war effort. Confirmed by British military sources, the task of arming and training of the KLA had been entrusted in 1998 to the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Britain's Secret Intelligence Services MI6, together with "former and serving members of 22 SAS [Britain's 22nd Special Air Services Regiment], as well as three British and American private security companies".
While these covert operations were continuing, serving members of 22 SAS Regiment, mostly from the unit's D Squadron, were first deployed in Kosovo before the beginning of the bombing campaign in March.
While British SAS Special Forces in bases in Northern Albania were training the KLA, military instructors from Turkey and Afghanistan financed by the "Islamic jihad" were collaborating in training the KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.
Bin Laden had visited Albania himself. He was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo, ... Bin Laden is believed to have established an operation in Albania in 1994 ... Albanian sources say Sali Berisha, who was then president, had links with some groups that later proved to be extreme fundamentalists. Congressional Testimonies on KLA-Osama links According to Frank Ciluffo of the Globalized Organised Crime Program, in a testimony presented to the House of Representatives Judicial Committee: What was largely hidden from public view was the fact that the KLA raise part of their funds from the sale of narcotics. Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the "Balkan Route" that links the "Golden Crescent" of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe. This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe.
Another link to bin Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an Egyptian Jihad organization and also a military commander of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict.
These KLA links to international terrorism and organised crime documented by the US Congress were totally ignored by the Clinton Administration. In fact, in the months preceding the bombing of Yugoslavia, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was busy building a "political legitimacy" for the KLA. The paramilitary army had --from one day to the next-- been elevated to the status of a bona fide "democratic" force in Kosovo. In turn, Madeleine Albright has forced the pace of international diplomacy: the KLA had been spearheaded into playing a central role in the failed "peace negotiations" at Rambouiillet in early 1999.
In 1999, Senator Jo Lieberman had stated authoritatively that "Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values." In the hours following the October 7 missile attacks on Afghanistan, the same Jo Lieberman called for punitive air strikes against Iraq: "We're in a war against terrorism... We can't stop with bin Laden and the Taliban." Yet Senator Jo Lieberman, as member of the Armed Services Committee of the Senate had access to all the Congressional documents pertaining to "KLA-Osama" links. In making this statement, he was fully aware that that agencies of the US government as well as NATO were supporting international terrorism.
The War in Macedonia In the wake of the 1999 war in Yugoslavia, the terrorist activities of the KLA were extended into Southern Serbia and Macedonia. Meanwhile, the KLA --renamed the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC)-- was elevated to United Nations status, implying the granting of "legitimate" sources of funding through United Nations as well as through bilateral channels, including direct US military aid. And barely two months after the official inauguration of the KPC under UN auspices (September 1999), KPC-KLA commanders - using UN resources and equipment - were already preparing the assaults into Macedonia, as a logical follow-up to their terrorist activities in Kosovo.
According to the BBC, "Western special forces were still training the guerrillas" meaning that they were assisting the KLA in opening up "a sixth operation zone" in Southern Serbia and Macedonia. "The Islamic Militant Network" and NATO join hands in Macedonia Among the foreign mercenaries now fighting in Macedonia (October 2001) in the ranks of self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), are Mujahideen from the Middle East and the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union.
Also within the KLA's proxy force in Macedonia are senior US military advisers from a private mercenary outfit on contract to the Pentagon as well as "soldiers of fortune" from Britain, Holland and Germany. Some of these Western mercenaries had previously fought with the KLA and the Bosnian Muslim Army.
Extensively documented by the Macedonian press and statements of the Macedonian authorities, the US government and the "Islamic Militant Network" are working hand in glove in supporting and financing the self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), involved in the terrorist attacks in Macedonia. The NLA is a proxy of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In turn the KLA and the UN sponsored Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) are identical institutions with the same commanders and military personnel. KPC Commanders on UN salaries are fighting in the NLA together with the Mujahideen.
In a bitter twist, while supported and financed by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, the KLA-NLA is also supported by NATO and the United Nations mission to Kosovo (UNMIK). In fact, the "Islamic Militant Network" --also using Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) as the CIA's go-between-- still constitutes an integral part of Washington's covert military-intelligence operations in Macedonia and Southern Serbia.
The KLA-NLA terrorists are funded from US military aid, the United Nations peace-keeping budget as well as by several Islamic organisations including Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. Drug money is also being used to finance the terrorists with the complicity of the US government. The recruitment of Mujahideen to fight in the ranks of the NLA in Macedonia is implemented through various Islamic groups.
US military advisers mingle with Mujahideen within the same paramilitary force, Western mercenaries from NATO countries fight alongside Mujahideen recruited in the Middle East and Central Asia.
In other words, the so-called "intelligence assets" are still serving the interests of their US sponsors. Pardew's background is revealing in this regard. He started his Balkans career in 1993 as a senior intelligence officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff responsible for channeling US aid to the Bosnian Muslim Army. Coronel Pardew had been put in charge of arranging the "air-drops" of supplies to Bosnian forces. James Pardew played an important role as part of the team of intelligence officials working closely with the Chairman of the National Security Council Anthony Lake. Pardew was later involved in the Dayton negotiations (1995) on behalf of the US Defence Department.
In 1999, prior to the bombing of Yugoslavia, he was appointed "Special Representative for Military Stabilisation and Kosovo Implementation" by President Clinton. One of his tasks was to channel support to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which at the time was also being supported by Osama bin Laden. Pardew was in this regard instrumental in replicating the "Bosnian pattern" in Kosovo and subsequently in Macedonia...
Read full article: "OSAMAGATE" http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html
Swiss journalist Richard Labeviere, in his book, 'Dollars for Terror,' said that the international Islamic networks linked to bin Laden received help from U.S. intelligence community. The United States worked closely with Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence organization. Through ISI, the United States recruited Mujahadeen by staging them in Chechnya to fight in Bosnia and later in Kosovo. These Islamic organisations constitute a key instrument of US military-intelligence operations in the Balkans.
OSAMAGATE - From Bosnia to Kosovo
The "Bosnian pattern" described in the 1997 Congressional RPC report was replicated in Kosovo. With the complicity of NATO and the US State Department. Mujahideen mercenaries from the Middle East and Central Asia were recruited to fight in the ranks of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in 1998-99, largely supporting NATO's war effort. Confirmed by British military sources, the task of arming and training of the KLA had been entrusted in 1998 to the US Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) and Britain's Secret Intelligence Services MI6, together with "former and serving members of 22 SAS [Britain's 22nd Special Air Services Regiment], as well as three British and American private security companies".
While these covert operations were continuing, serving members of 22 SAS Regiment, mostly from the unit's D Squadron, were first deployed in Kosovo before the beginning of the bombing campaign in March.
While British SAS Special Forces in bases in Northern Albania were training the KLA, military instructors from Turkey and Afghanistan financed by the "Islamic jihad" were collaborating in training the KLA in guerilla and diversion tactics.
Bin Laden had visited Albania himself. He was one of several fundamentalist groups that had sent units to fight in Kosovo, ... Bin Laden is believed to have established an operation in Albania in 1994 ... Albanian sources say Sali Berisha, who was then president, had links with some groups that later proved to be extreme fundamentalists. Congressional Testimonies on KLA-Osama links According to Frank Ciluffo of the Globalized Organised Crime Program, in a testimony presented to the House of Representatives Judicial Committee: What was largely hidden from public view was the fact that the KLA raise part of their funds from the sale of narcotics. Albania and Kosovo lie at the heart of the "Balkan Route" that links the "Golden Crescent" of Afghanistan and Pakistan to the drug markets of Europe. This route is worth an estimated $400 billion a year and handles 80 percent of heroin destined for Europe.
Another link to bin Laden is the fact that the brother of a leader in an Egyptian Jihad organization and also a military commander of Usama bin Laden, was leading an elite KLA unit during the Kosovo conflict.
These KLA links to international terrorism and organised crime documented by the US Congress were totally ignored by the Clinton Administration. In fact, in the months preceding the bombing of Yugoslavia, Secretary of State Madeleine Albright was busy building a "political legitimacy" for the KLA. The paramilitary army had --from one day to the next-- been elevated to the status of a bona fide "democratic" force in Kosovo. In turn, Madeleine Albright has forced the pace of international diplomacy: the KLA had been spearheaded into playing a central role in the failed "peace negotiations" at Rambouiillet in early 1999.
In 1999, Senator Jo Lieberman had stated authoritatively that "Fighting for the KLA is fighting for human rights and American values." In the hours following the October 7 missile attacks on Afghanistan, the same Jo Lieberman called for punitive air strikes against Iraq: "We're in a war against terrorism... We can't stop with bin Laden and the Taliban." Yet Senator Jo Lieberman, as member of the Armed Services Committee of the Senate had access to all the Congressional documents pertaining to "KLA-Osama" links. In making this statement, he was fully aware that that agencies of the US government as well as NATO were supporting international terrorism.
The War in Macedonia In the wake of the 1999 war in Yugoslavia, the terrorist activities of the KLA were extended into Southern Serbia and Macedonia. Meanwhile, the KLA --renamed the Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC)-- was elevated to United Nations status, implying the granting of "legitimate" sources of funding through United Nations as well as through bilateral channels, including direct US military aid. And barely two months after the official inauguration of the KPC under UN auspices (September 1999), KPC-KLA commanders - using UN resources and equipment - were already preparing the assaults into Macedonia, as a logical follow-up to their terrorist activities in Kosovo.
According to the BBC, "Western special forces were still training the guerrillas" meaning that they were assisting the KLA in opening up "a sixth operation zone" in Southern Serbia and Macedonia. "The Islamic Militant Network" and NATO join hands in Macedonia Among the foreign mercenaries now fighting in Macedonia (October 2001) in the ranks of self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), are Mujahideen from the Middle East and the Central Asian republics of the former Soviet Union.
Also within the KLA's proxy force in Macedonia are senior US military advisers from a private mercenary outfit on contract to the Pentagon as well as "soldiers of fortune" from Britain, Holland and Germany. Some of these Western mercenaries had previously fought with the KLA and the Bosnian Muslim Army.
Extensively documented by the Macedonian press and statements of the Macedonian authorities, the US government and the "Islamic Militant Network" are working hand in glove in supporting and financing the self-proclaimed National Liberation Army (NLA), involved in the terrorist attacks in Macedonia. The NLA is a proxy of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA). In turn the KLA and the UN sponsored Kosovo Protection Corps (KPC) are identical institutions with the same commanders and military personnel. KPC Commanders on UN salaries are fighting in the NLA together with the Mujahideen.
In a bitter twist, while supported and financed by Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda, the KLA-NLA is also supported by NATO and the United Nations mission to Kosovo (UNMIK). In fact, the "Islamic Militant Network" --also using Pakistan's Inter Service Intelligence (ISI) as the CIA's go-between-- still constitutes an integral part of Washington's covert military-intelligence operations in Macedonia and Southern Serbia.
The KLA-NLA terrorists are funded from US military aid, the United Nations peace-keeping budget as well as by several Islamic organisations including Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda. Drug money is also being used to finance the terrorists with the complicity of the US government. The recruitment of Mujahideen to fight in the ranks of the NLA in Macedonia is implemented through various Islamic groups.
US military advisers mingle with Mujahideen within the same paramilitary force, Western mercenaries from NATO countries fight alongside Mujahideen recruited in the Middle East and Central Asia.
In other words, the so-called "intelligence assets" are still serving the interests of their US sponsors. Pardew's background is revealing in this regard. He started his Balkans career in 1993 as a senior intelligence officer for the Joint Chiefs of Staff responsible for channeling US aid to the Bosnian Muslim Army. Coronel Pardew had been put in charge of arranging the "air-drops" of supplies to Bosnian forces. James Pardew played an important role as part of the team of intelligence officials working closely with the Chairman of the National Security Council Anthony Lake. Pardew was later involved in the Dayton negotiations (1995) on behalf of the US Defence Department.
In 1999, prior to the bombing of Yugoslavia, he was appointed "Special Representative for Military Stabilisation and Kosovo Implementation" by President Clinton. One of his tasks was to channel support to the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), which at the time was also being supported by Osama bin Laden. Pardew was in this regard instrumental in replicating the "Bosnian pattern" in Kosovo and subsequently in Macedonia...
Read full article: "OSAMAGATE" http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO110A.html
U.N. Security Council slams North Korea, expands sanctions
U.N. Security Council slams North Korea, expands sanctions
When war broke out in 1950, the U.S. declared North Korea "Indian Territory," Clark said. This was a racist term meaning a free-fire zone. The invading troops killed 3.5 million civilians in three years.
The best-known period is from June 25, 1950, until July 27, 1953, the "Korean War," when over 4.6 million Koreans perished, according to conservative Western estimates, including 3 million civilians in the north and 500,000 civilians in the south.
Washington has kept up the "torture of economic sanctions" since.
Clark explained the KTC's decision to focus not only on the U.S. slaughter of civilians during the 1950-1953 Korean War, but also on the periods that preceded and followed it: first, the repression and murder of leftists from 1945 to 1950, and later the U.S. occupation of the south and economic sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north following the 1953 truce.
AFTER 50 YEARS OF SUFFERING: TRIBUNAL FINDS U.S. GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES IN KOREA 1945-1950:
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, legal representative of the Partnership for Civil Justice in Washington, presented the prosecution's brief for the 1945 to 1950 period. She instructed the jury that during this period the U.S. committed "crimes against peace," which were defined at Nuremberg as the most serious of all war crimes. As an example of the political persecution and outright slaughter by the U.S.-backed military regime in the south during this period, the tribunal heard the testimony of witness Lee Do Young regarding the massacre of a quarter of the population of Cheju Island after an uprising in the spring of 1948.
The island lies off the southern coast of the Korean peninsula. Lee said he was still frightened that the regime might punish him for presenting his testimony. Indeed, Seoul stopped some of the Cheju witnesses from coming to the tribunal. Lee's own father, who had worked for the rural government, was killed later, in August 1950, for alleged participation in the uprising on the island. His story brought up an additional aspect--the U.S.-backed slaughter of hundreds of thousands of leftists and activists in South Korea in the summer of 1950.
A half-dozen witnesses from South Korea then came forward to describe U.S. atrocities. Their stories, which they had been unable to tell for 50 years, caused many in the audience to weep. Any criticism of the U.S. was interpreted as sympathy with the DPRK and was punishable under the National Security Law, so they had had to swallow their suffering in silence.
One witness told of a pond near his home village. When drained, it yielded five truckloads of bodies. Outside the auditorium were exhibits showing the location and details of this and other atrocities. He said that some 3,500 people were killed in his area. Kang Soo Jo, who had been a young girl when she lost her mother to the war, told of being shot in the leg. She showed her mangled leg and foot to the audience. In fury she demanded the U.S. either "return things to the way they were before or give compensation for my suffering."
A man from a northern province of South Korea told of being bombed non-stop by U.S. B-29s. "We raised South Korean flags to say hello, but were surprised by bombs. I lost my mother and father. Fifty-nine people were killed in that attack," he said, out of 450 people killed altogether in the village and environs. U.S. officials claimed what happened was an error, he said, but then bombed again for 40 minutes a few days later. An "error," was made, another survivor said, when U.S. planes bombed and machine-gunned a boat carrying refugees and flying the South Korean flag. Some "150 people were killed in the bombing. Others were shot on the stairwell trying to leave the boat."
WAR CRIMES IN NORTH KOREA
Attorney Lennox Hinds, the permanent representative to the United Nations of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, led the prosecution's presentation on civilian massacres in the north. He also raised the U.S. use of biological and chemical warfare. Hinds introduced into evidence a study made in 1952 by an eight-member delegation from his organization at the invitation of the DPRK.
This IADL study showed evidence of mass murders, massacres and other atrocities that violated Article 16 and Article 6A of the Nuremburg Laws, said Hinds. It also showed that the U.S. used weapons banned by the articles of war, including bacteriological and chemical weapons. U.S. planes had dropped canisters containing flies and other insects infected with plague, cholera and other epidemic diseases.
A letter was then read to the tribunal from Stephen Endicott, whose research into declassified documents appears in the book "The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea." Expert witness Anne Katrin-Becker of Germany told of U.S.- led massacres that killed one-fourth of the population of Sinchon province--35,383 people--mostly elderly people, non- combatant women and children.
In October 1950, U.S. troops forced 900 people into a building and burned it to death, and in another area 1,000 women were drowned. In a video the KTC made earlier this spring in North Korea, survivors testified of U.S. atrocities carried out against their villages and loved ones.
The crimes were similar to those in the south, but with no pretense of "error." Former U.S. bomber pilot Charles Overby confessed to his own role in dropping 40 bombs each run, each with 500 pounds of TNT, on the population of North Korea.
1953-2001: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
The fourth prosecutor, Kim Seung Kyo, addressed crimes against humanity committed from 1953 to 2001, including political repression, military dictatorship, U.S. troop occupation, the infamous National Security Law that led to charges against a million South Koreans, the torture of political prisoners, the massacre after the 1980 Kwangju uprising, and U.S. Air Force bombing practice at Maehyang- ri.
Ismael Guadalupe of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques testified on the U.S. Navy's use of his island as a bombing practice range and expressed his solidarity with the Koreans at Maehyang-ri. The work of the tribunal has furthered Korean-Puerto Rican solidarity.
Other presentations included IAC West Coast coordinator Gloria La Riva on the struggle of the Daewoo workers, Sandra Smith from Canada on the deprivations caused by sanctions, and former German Admiral Elmar Schmaehling on U.S. plans for a National Missile Defense. The tribunal showed cooperation between North and South Korean organizations, as well as solidarity of the U.S. anti- war movement with the Korean Truth Commission, which is rooted in mass organizations in South Korea.
KTC Secretary General Rev. Kiyul Chung, Brian Willson of Veterans for Peace and Brian Becker of the IAC ended the presentations with political analyses of the tribunal and a call for continued activity by all the participants to help get U.S. troops out of Korea and allow the Koreans to reunify their country.
The Members of the Korea International War Crimes Tribunal, meeting in New York, having considered the Indictment for Offenses Committed by the Government of the United States of America Against the People of Korea, 1945-2001, which charges all U.S. Presidents, all Secretaries of State, all Secretaries of Defense, all Secretaries of the armed services, all Chiefs of Staff, all heads of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. foreign intelligence agencies, all Directors of the National Security Agency, all National Security Advisors, all U.S. military commanders in Korea and commanders of units which participated in war crimes, over the period from 1945 to the present, with nineteen separate War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace and Crimes Against Humanity in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Hague Regulations of 1907, the Geneva Protocol of 1925, the 1929 and 1949 Geneva Conventions, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, other international agreements and customary international law, the laws of the United States, the laws of Korea and the laws of other nations that have been forced to provide bases, support and military personnel for United States actions against Korea.
The evidence of U.S. war crimes presented to this Tribunal included eyewitness testimony and documentary accounts of massacres of thousands of civilians in southern Korea by U.S. military forces during the war.
Abundant evidence was also presented concerning criminal and even genocidal U.S. conduct in northern Korea, including the systematic leveling of most buildings and dwellings by U.S. artillery and aerial bombardment; widespread atrocities committed by U.S. and R.O.K. forces against civilians and prisoners of war; the deliberate destruction of facilities essential to civilian life and economic production; and the use of illegal weapons and biological and chemical warfare by the U.S. against the people and the environment of northern Korea.
Documentary and eyewitness evidence was also presented showing gross and systematic violence committed against women in northern and southern Korea, characterized by mass rapes, sexual assaults and murders. Less known but of crucial importance in understanding the war period is the preceding five years, from the landing of U.S. troops in Korea on September 8, 1945, to the outbreak of the war.
The Members of the Tribunal examined extensive evidence of U.S. crimes against peace and crimes against humanity in this period. The Members conclude that the U.S. government acted to divide Korea against the will of the vast majority of the people, limit its sovereignty, create a police state in southern Korea using many former collaborators with Japanese rule, and provoke tension and threats between southern and northern Korea, opposing and disrupting any plans for peaceful reunification.
In this period the U.S. trained, directed and supported the ROK in systematic murder, imprisonment, torture, surveillance, harassment and violations of human rights of hundreds of thousands of people, especially of those individuals or groups considered nationalists, leftists, peasants seeking land reform, union organizers and/or those sympathetic to the north.
The Members find that in the period from July 1953 to the present, the U.S. has continued to maintain a powerful military force in southern Korea, backed by nuclear weapons, in violation of international law and intended to obstruct the will of the Korean people for reunification.
Military occupation has been accompanied by the organized sexual exploitation of Korean women, frequently leading to violence and even murder of women by U.S. soldiers who have felt above the law.
U.S.-imposed economic sanctions have impoverished and debilitated the people of northern Korea, leading to a reduction of life expectancy, widespread malnutrition and even starvation in a country that once exported food.
The refusal of the U.S. government to grant visas to a delegation from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea who planned to attend this Tribunal only confirms the criminal intent of the defendants to isolate those whom they have abused to prevent them from telling their story to the world.
In all these 55 years, the U.S. government has systematically manipulated, controlled, directed, misinformed and restricted press and media coverage to obtain consistent support for its military intervention, occupation and crimes against the people of Korea.
It has also inculcated racist attitudes within the U.S. troops and general population that prepared them to commit and/or accept atrocities and genocidal policies against the Korean people. It has violated the Constitution of the United States, the delegation of powers over war and the military, the Bill of Rights, the UN Charter, international law and the laws of the ROK, DPRK, People's Republic of China, Japan and many others, in its lawless determination to exercise its will over the Korean peninsula.
The Members of the Korea International War Crimes Tribunal hold the United States government and its leaders accountable for these criminal acts and condemn those found guilty in the strongest possible terms.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Members call for the immediate end of U.S. occupation of all Korean territory, the removal of all U.S. bases, forces and materiel, including land mines, from the region, the rectification of environmental damage, and the cessation of overt and covert operations against northern Korea.
The Members urge the immediate revocation of all embargoes, sanctions and penalties against northern Korea because they constitute a continuing crime against humanity.
The Members call for emergency funds to be provided to the people of northern Korea through the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to feed the hungry and care for the sick, whose suffering is a direct result of U.S. policies.
The Members call for reparations to be paid by the U.S. government to all of Korea to compensate for the damage inflicted by 55 years of violence and economic warfare.
The Members further call for an immediate end to all interference by the U.S. aimed at preventing the people of Korea from reunifying as they choose.
The Members call for the U.S. government to make full disclosure of all information about U.S. crimes and wrongful acts committed in Korea since September 7, 1945.
The Members urge the Commission to provide for the permanent preservation of the reports, evidence and materials gathered to make them available to others, and to seek ways to provide the widest possible distribution of the truth about U.S. crimes in Korea.
We urge all people of the world to act on recommendations developed by the Commission to hold power accountable and to secure social justice on which lasting peace must be based.
Done in New York this 23rd day of June, 2001
Read full article:
http://www.iacenter.org/Koreafiles/ktc_guilty.htm
http://japanfocus.org/-Charles_K_-Armstrong
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_usa
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-korean-war-the-unknown-war-the-coverup-of-us-war-crimes
When war broke out in 1950, the U.S. declared North Korea "Indian Territory," Clark said. This was a racist term meaning a free-fire zone. The invading troops killed 3.5 million civilians in three years.
The best-known period is from June 25, 1950, until July 27, 1953, the "Korean War," when over 4.6 million Koreans perished, according to conservative Western estimates, including 3 million civilians in the north and 500,000 civilians in the south.
Washington has kept up the "torture of economic sanctions" since.
Clark explained the KTC's decision to focus not only on the U.S. slaughter of civilians during the 1950-1953 Korean War, but also on the periods that preceded and followed it: first, the repression and murder of leftists from 1945 to 1950, and later the U.S. occupation of the south and economic sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea in the north following the 1953 truce.
AFTER 50 YEARS OF SUFFERING: TRIBUNAL FINDS U.S. GUILTY OF WAR CRIMES IN KOREA 1945-1950:
CRIMES AGAINST PEACE
Mara Verheyden-Hilliard, legal representative of the Partnership for Civil Justice in Washington, presented the prosecution's brief for the 1945 to 1950 period. She instructed the jury that during this period the U.S. committed "crimes against peace," which were defined at Nuremberg as the most serious of all war crimes. As an example of the political persecution and outright slaughter by the U.S.-backed military regime in the south during this period, the tribunal heard the testimony of witness Lee Do Young regarding the massacre of a quarter of the population of Cheju Island after an uprising in the spring of 1948.
The island lies off the southern coast of the Korean peninsula. Lee said he was still frightened that the regime might punish him for presenting his testimony. Indeed, Seoul stopped some of the Cheju witnesses from coming to the tribunal. Lee's own father, who had worked for the rural government, was killed later, in August 1950, for alleged participation in the uprising on the island. His story brought up an additional aspect--the U.S.-backed slaughter of hundreds of thousands of leftists and activists in South Korea in the summer of 1950.
A half-dozen witnesses from South Korea then came forward to describe U.S. atrocities. Their stories, which they had been unable to tell for 50 years, caused many in the audience to weep. Any criticism of the U.S. was interpreted as sympathy with the DPRK and was punishable under the National Security Law, so they had had to swallow their suffering in silence.
One witness told of a pond near his home village. When drained, it yielded five truckloads of bodies. Outside the auditorium were exhibits showing the location and details of this and other atrocities. He said that some 3,500 people were killed in his area. Kang Soo Jo, who had been a young girl when she lost her mother to the war, told of being shot in the leg. She showed her mangled leg and foot to the audience. In fury she demanded the U.S. either "return things to the way they were before or give compensation for my suffering."
A man from a northern province of South Korea told of being bombed non-stop by U.S. B-29s. "We raised South Korean flags to say hello, but were surprised by bombs. I lost my mother and father. Fifty-nine people were killed in that attack," he said, out of 450 people killed altogether in the village and environs. U.S. officials claimed what happened was an error, he said, but then bombed again for 40 minutes a few days later. An "error," was made, another survivor said, when U.S. planes bombed and machine-gunned a boat carrying refugees and flying the South Korean flag. Some "150 people were killed in the bombing. Others were shot on the stairwell trying to leave the boat."
WAR CRIMES IN NORTH KOREA
Attorney Lennox Hinds, the permanent representative to the United Nations of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers, led the prosecution's presentation on civilian massacres in the north. He also raised the U.S. use of biological and chemical warfare. Hinds introduced into evidence a study made in 1952 by an eight-member delegation from his organization at the invitation of the DPRK.
This IADL study showed evidence of mass murders, massacres and other atrocities that violated Article 16 and Article 6A of the Nuremburg Laws, said Hinds. It also showed that the U.S. used weapons banned by the articles of war, including bacteriological and chemical weapons. U.S. planes had dropped canisters containing flies and other insects infected with plague, cholera and other epidemic diseases.
A letter was then read to the tribunal from Stephen Endicott, whose research into declassified documents appears in the book "The United States and Biological Warfare: Secrets from the Early Cold War and Korea." Expert witness Anne Katrin-Becker of Germany told of U.S.- led massacres that killed one-fourth of the population of Sinchon province--35,383 people--mostly elderly people, non- combatant women and children.
In October 1950, U.S. troops forced 900 people into a building and burned it to death, and in another area 1,000 women were drowned. In a video the KTC made earlier this spring in North Korea, survivors testified of U.S. atrocities carried out against their villages and loved ones.
The crimes were similar to those in the south, but with no pretense of "error." Former U.S. bomber pilot Charles Overby confessed to his own role in dropping 40 bombs each run, each with 500 pounds of TNT, on the population of North Korea.
1953-2001: CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
The fourth prosecutor, Kim Seung Kyo, addressed crimes against humanity committed from 1953 to 2001, including political repression, military dictatorship, U.S. troop occupation, the infamous National Security Law that led to charges against a million South Koreans, the torture of political prisoners, the massacre after the 1980 Kwangju uprising, and U.S. Air Force bombing practice at Maehyang- ri.
Ismael Guadalupe of the Committee for the Rescue and Development of Vieques testified on the U.S. Navy's use of his island as a bombing practice range and expressed his solidarity with the Koreans at Maehyang-ri. The work of the tribunal has furthered Korean-Puerto Rican solidarity.
Other presentations included IAC West Coast coordinator Gloria La Riva on the struggle of the Daewoo workers, Sandra Smith from Canada on the deprivations caused by sanctions, and former German Admiral Elmar Schmaehling on U.S. plans for a National Missile Defense. The tribunal showed cooperation between North and South Korean organizations, as well as solidarity of the U.S. anti- war movement with the Korean Truth Commission, which is rooted in mass organizations in South Korea.
KTC Secretary General Rev. Kiyul Chung, Brian Willson of Veterans for Peace and Brian Becker of the IAC ended the presentations with political analyses of the tribunal and a call for continued activity by all the participants to help get U.S. troops out of Korea and allow the Koreans to reunify their country.
The Members of the Korea International War Crimes Tribunal, meeting in New York, having considered the Indictment for Offenses Committed by the Government of the United States of America Against the People of Korea, 1945-2001, which charges all U.S. Presidents, all Secretaries of State, all Secretaries of Defense, all Secretaries of the armed services, all Chiefs of Staff, all heads of the Central Intelligence Agency and other U.S. foreign intelligence agencies, all Directors of the National Security Agency, all National Security Advisors, all U.S. military commanders in Korea and commanders of units which participated in war crimes, over the period from 1945 to the present, with nineteen separate War Crimes, Crimes Against Peace and Crimes Against Humanity in violation of the Charter of the United Nations, the Charter of the Nuremberg Tribunal, the Hague Regulations of 1907, the Geneva Protocol of 1925, the 1929 and 1949 Geneva Conventions, the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, other international agreements and customary international law, the laws of the United States, the laws of Korea and the laws of other nations that have been forced to provide bases, support and military personnel for United States actions against Korea.
The evidence of U.S. war crimes presented to this Tribunal included eyewitness testimony and documentary accounts of massacres of thousands of civilians in southern Korea by U.S. military forces during the war.
Abundant evidence was also presented concerning criminal and even genocidal U.S. conduct in northern Korea, including the systematic leveling of most buildings and dwellings by U.S. artillery and aerial bombardment; widespread atrocities committed by U.S. and R.O.K. forces against civilians and prisoners of war; the deliberate destruction of facilities essential to civilian life and economic production; and the use of illegal weapons and biological and chemical warfare by the U.S. against the people and the environment of northern Korea.
Documentary and eyewitness evidence was also presented showing gross and systematic violence committed against women in northern and southern Korea, characterized by mass rapes, sexual assaults and murders. Less known but of crucial importance in understanding the war period is the preceding five years, from the landing of U.S. troops in Korea on September 8, 1945, to the outbreak of the war.
The Members of the Tribunal examined extensive evidence of U.S. crimes against peace and crimes against humanity in this period. The Members conclude that the U.S. government acted to divide Korea against the will of the vast majority of the people, limit its sovereignty, create a police state in southern Korea using many former collaborators with Japanese rule, and provoke tension and threats between southern and northern Korea, opposing and disrupting any plans for peaceful reunification.
In this period the U.S. trained, directed and supported the ROK in systematic murder, imprisonment, torture, surveillance, harassment and violations of human rights of hundreds of thousands of people, especially of those individuals or groups considered nationalists, leftists, peasants seeking land reform, union organizers and/or those sympathetic to the north.
The Members find that in the period from July 1953 to the present, the U.S. has continued to maintain a powerful military force in southern Korea, backed by nuclear weapons, in violation of international law and intended to obstruct the will of the Korean people for reunification.
Military occupation has been accompanied by the organized sexual exploitation of Korean women, frequently leading to violence and even murder of women by U.S. soldiers who have felt above the law.
U.S.-imposed economic sanctions have impoverished and debilitated the people of northern Korea, leading to a reduction of life expectancy, widespread malnutrition and even starvation in a country that once exported food.
The refusal of the U.S. government to grant visas to a delegation from the Democratic People's Republic of Korea who planned to attend this Tribunal only confirms the criminal intent of the defendants to isolate those whom they have abused to prevent them from telling their story to the world.
In all these 55 years, the U.S. government has systematically manipulated, controlled, directed, misinformed and restricted press and media coverage to obtain consistent support for its military intervention, occupation and crimes against the people of Korea.
It has also inculcated racist attitudes within the U.S. troops and general population that prepared them to commit and/or accept atrocities and genocidal policies against the Korean people. It has violated the Constitution of the United States, the delegation of powers over war and the military, the Bill of Rights, the UN Charter, international law and the laws of the ROK, DPRK, People's Republic of China, Japan and many others, in its lawless determination to exercise its will over the Korean peninsula.
The Members of the Korea International War Crimes Tribunal hold the United States government and its leaders accountable for these criminal acts and condemn those found guilty in the strongest possible terms.
RECOMMENDATIONS:
The Members call for the immediate end of U.S. occupation of all Korean territory, the removal of all U.S. bases, forces and materiel, including land mines, from the region, the rectification of environmental damage, and the cessation of overt and covert operations against northern Korea.
The Members urge the immediate revocation of all embargoes, sanctions and penalties against northern Korea because they constitute a continuing crime against humanity.
The Members call for emergency funds to be provided to the people of northern Korea through the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to feed the hungry and care for the sick, whose suffering is a direct result of U.S. policies.
The Members call for reparations to be paid by the U.S. government to all of Korea to compensate for the damage inflicted by 55 years of violence and economic warfare.
The Members further call for an immediate end to all interference by the U.S. aimed at preventing the people of Korea from reunifying as they choose.
The Members call for the U.S. government to make full disclosure of all information about U.S. crimes and wrongful acts committed in Korea since September 7, 1945.
The Members urge the Commission to provide for the permanent preservation of the reports, evidence and materials gathered to make them available to others, and to seek ways to provide the widest possible distribution of the truth about U.S. crimes in Korea.
We urge all people of the world to act on recommendations developed by the Commission to hold power accountable and to secure social justice on which lasting peace must be based.
Done in New York this 23rd day of June, 2001
Read full article:
http://www.iacenter.org/Koreafiles/ktc_guilty.htm
http://japanfocus.org/-Charles_K_-Armstrong
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/korea_usa
http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-korean-war-the-unknown-war-the-coverup-of-us-war-crimes
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