Archive for the ‘war crimes’ Category
November 20, 2009
by Jacob G. Hornberger, The Future of Freedom Foundation, Nov 18, 2009
Speaking about the Ft. Hood killings, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs stated, “The investigation is ongoing to figure out what would motivate an individual to carry out the type of act that this major carried out.” Of course, it goes without saying that in examining into motive, Gibbs is not justifying what the alleged killer, Major Nidal Hasan, did. (See my article “Motivation vs. Justification.”)
As the investigation into motive progresses, it will be interesting to see the extent to which the U.S. military’s policy on conscientious-objector status played in the Ft. Hood horror.
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Tags:an illegal invasion, conscientious-objector status, Ft. Hood killings, Jacob G. Hornberger, Major Nidal Hasan, U.S. government’s war on Iraq, United States, wars of aggression
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November 14, 2009
by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report, November 14, 2009
Blood on the floor and walls of a cell at Abu Ghraib. Defense Secretary Robert Gates invoked his new authority to block images like these from being released under the Freedom of Information Act. (Photo: Wikicommons)
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has blocked the release of photographs depicting US soldiers abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, using authority just granted to him by Congress to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to keep the images under wraps on national security grounds.
In a brief filed with the US Supreme Court late Friday, Department of Defense General Counsel Jeh Johnson, and Solicitor General Elena Kagan, said Gates “personally exercised his certification authority” on Friday to withhold the photos and “determined that public disclosure of these photographs would endanger citizens of the United States, members of the United States Armed Forces, or employees of the United States Government deployed outside the United States.”
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Tags:ACLU, crimes, detainees abused in Iraq, Obama administration, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, US soldiers, witholding photos of prisoner abuse
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November 12, 2009
by Lizzie Cocker
DISASTER ZONE: Joe Glenton has been arrested after speaking out against injustice and illegality of the war in Afghanistan
Anti-war Lance Corporal Joe Glenton has been arrested and faces 10 years in jail for bravely honouring his moral responsibility to speak out against the illegal occupation of Afghanistan.
The serving soldier faces up to seven charges after he defied orders to address 10,000 demonstrators last month in Trafalgar Square and told the media that he did not believe the war was legitimate or in the nation’s interest.
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Tags:Anti-war Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, arrest, Malalai Joya's letter to Joe, occupation of Afghanistan, Stop the War Coalition
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November 7, 2009
Judge Richard Goldstone and the United Nations fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict have issued a report about Gaza that is strongly critical of both Israel and Hamas for their violations of human rights. On Wednesday, a special meeting of the U.N. General Assembly began a debate on whether to refer the report to the Security Council.
In January 2009 rudimentary rockets had been launched from Gaza toward nearby Jewish communities, and Israel had wreaked havoc with bombs, missiles, and ground invading forces. Judge Goldstone’s claim is that they are both guilty of “crimes against humanity.” Predictably, both the accused parties have denounced the report as biased and inaccurate.
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Tags:crimes against humanity, deaths and damage in Gaza, destruction of Gaza, Gaza, Goldstone report, Israeli attack, plight of Gazans, President Jimmy Carter, rockerts from Gaza
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November 6, 2009
Stephen Zunes, Foreign Policy In Focus, November 4, 2009
In a stunning blow against international law and human rights, the U.S. House of Representatives overwhelmingly approved a resolution on Tuesday attacking the report of the United Nations Human Rights Council’s fact-finding mission on the Gaza conflict. The report was authored by the well-respected South African jurist Richard Goldstone and three other noted authorities on international humanitarian law, who had been widely praised for taking leadership in previous investigations of war crimes in Rwanda, Darfur, the former Yugoslavia, and elsewhere. Since this report documented apparent war crimes by a key U.S. ally, however, Congress has taken the unprecedented action of passing a resolution condemning it. Perhaps most ominously, the resolution also endorses Israel’s right to attack Syria and Iran on the grounds that they are “state sponsors of terrorism.”
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Tags:attack on Goldstone report, Christine Chinkin attacked, Gaza, Goldstone mission report, Israel, misleading accusations, Stephen Zunes, U.S. House of Representatives resolution
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November 5, 2009
China View, November 5, 2009
UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 4 (Xinhua) — Vietnam here Wednesday voiced concern over the “absence of Israel’s cooperation,” as well as their failure to take “precautious measures” to prevent further abuses of international and human rights law.
Bui The Giang, Vietnamese deputy permanent representative to the United Nations, made these remarks at his address during the plenary General Assembly session here to consider the Goldstone report, which accused both Israel and Hamas militants of war crimes during the 22-day Gaza conflict that broke out on Dec. 27, 2008.
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Tags:abuses of international and human rights law, blocade of Gaza, Goldstone report, Israel, Vietnam, war crimes
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November 4, 2009
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The US House of Representatives has rejected as “irredeemably biased” the findings of a UN-sponsored report which says Israel committed war crimes during its military assault on the Gaza Strip.
The house on Tuesday voted 344 to 36 in favour of a non-binding resolution calling on Barack Obama, the US president, to maintain his opposition to the report, which was written by a panel led by Richard Goldstone, a South African judge.
The report accused Israel and the Palestinian Hamas group, which has de facto control of Gaza, of war crimes during the 22-day conflict in December and January.
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Tags:Gaza war, General Assembly, Goldstone report rejected, Israel, Palestinians killed, US House of Representatives, war crimes allegations
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November 2, 2009
By Maria J. Dass, The Sun Daily, Nov. 1, 2009
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Former Guantanamo detainee, Moazzam Begg, aided by Sami
Al-Hajj(standing) demonstrates how he was shackled at the camp. |
KUALA LUMPUR (Oct 30, 2009): The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission today heard harrowing testimonies about the atrocities committed against the Guantanamo Bay detainees, which included psychological torture and routine humiliation.
A total of seven detainees including Sudanese journalist Sami Al’Hajj, and British nationals Moazzam Begg and Rahul Ahmed testified today about the atrocities that took place in the camps including how they were shackled, stripped naked in front of female soldiers, thrown naked into makeshift cells made with barbed wires, injected with substances and subjected to mental torture to the point they hallucinated.
Begg was detained in January 2002 in Pakistan, said he was told that there was no specific reason for his arrest except for the fact that he “fit a profile”.
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Tags:Al Qaeda, atrocities, British government, Guantanamo Bay detainees, journalist Sami Al’Hajj, Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission, Moazzam Begg, Rahul Ahmed, torture
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October 29, 2009
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Peace be Upon You… Sami Al Hajj opened his speech with the words of Muslim greetings to the 1,000 strong crowd at the Kuala Lumpur PWTC Conference Hall on the 2nd day of the Conference to Criminalise War.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (Mathaba) After thanking those who are present and those who spoke out
against torture and human rights abuses, and Dr Mahathir the former Prime Minister of Malaysia, and all the people of the world who want peace for mankind, the Al-Jazeera journalist who had been abducted to Guantanamo Bay and tortured, he went on to say:
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Tags:Baghram and Guantanamo, Conference to Criminalise War, Dr Ayman Batarfi, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, Sami Al Hajj, U.S. policies
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October 28, 2009
Saed Bannoura,IMEMC, Oct 28, 2009
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A number of European lawyers and human rights activities stated that they obtained names of Israeli army officers suspected of committing war crimes during the war against the Gaza Strip earlier this year.
The lawyers said they would be filing lawsuits against the officers for committing war crimes against the Palestinian people.
Israeli paper Haaretz said that the lawyers collected testimonies from residents of the Gaza Strip in preparation to file the lawsuits.
The lists are being filed in Britain, Spain, Norway, Belgium and Holland as the legislation in these countries allow arrest warrants against war crimes suspects.
Haaretz added that attorney Daniel Makeover, from London, told its reporter that the report of Judge Richard Goldstone will be helpful in the lawsuits.
Israel said it would be countering the lawsuits, and that it is preparing legal teams but did not offer further details.
The Israeli Foreign Ministry said that it is working against the issue which it described as ‘efforts carried out by pro Palestinian groups and their supporters to harm Israel’.
Last month, former Israeli Army Chief of Staff, Moshe Yaalon, had to cancel a trip to London due to fears of being apprehended there.
Yaalon is the current vice Prime Minister and Minister of the so-called Strategic Affairs.
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Tags:HR organisations, Israeli army officers, Moshe Yaalon, war crimes, war on Gaza
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Gates Invokes New Authority to Block Release of Detainee Abuse Photos
November 14, 2009by: Jason Leopold, t r u t h o u t | Report, November 14, 2009
Blood on the floor and walls of a cell at Abu Ghraib. Defense Secretary Robert Gates invoked his new authority to block images like these from being released under the Freedom of Information Act. (Photo: Wikicommons)
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates has blocked the release of photographs depicting US soldiers abusing detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan, using authority just granted to him by Congress to circumvent the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to keep the images under wraps on national security grounds.
In a brief filed with the US Supreme Court late Friday, Department of Defense General Counsel Jeh Johnson, and Solicitor General Elena Kagan, said Gates “personally exercised his certification authority” on Friday to withhold the photos and “determined that public disclosure of these photographs would endanger citizens of the United States, members of the United States Armed Forces, or employees of the United States Government deployed outside the United States.”
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