Tag archieven: Human Rights

januari 13, 2014 · 4:47 am

[2006]Reflections on some aspects of the political-military career of the Israeli prime minister Sharon

REFLECTIONS ON SOME ASPECTS OF THE POLITICAL-MILITARY CAREER OF THE ISRAELI

PRIME MINISTER SHARON

 

 

Introduction:
Dear Readers,
Undoubtedly you are being informed of  the recenty started discussion by the Western media and polticians, about the real or alleged contribution of the Israeli prime-minister Sharon to peace in the Middle-East-conflict.
Immediate cause is the execution of the Gaza-disengagement-plan last year, by which the Gaza-settlements were evacuated, like four settlements on the Westbank.
In the underlying article I’ll try to emphasize on the fact, that according to my opinion, either the Gaza-disengagement-plan, or any other political and military measure of Sharon has contributed in any respect on a serious and just peace in the Middle East.
Further I’ll pay special attention to another very relevant aspect of the political-military carreer of Sharon, which is threatened to be greatly ignored in the discussion about his real or alleged peace-contribution, namely the human rights violations and war-crimes, for which he was responsible during his political and military career
I think it is of utmost importance, that those human rights violations and war-crimes, which testify of the lack of respect for the most elementary human rights, are not forgotten

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· 3:58 am

[Human Rights Watch]: Israel: Ariel Sharon’s troubling legacy

 

ISRAEL: ARIEL SHARON’S TROUBLING LEGACY

 

Evaded Prosecution Over Sabra and Shatilla Massacres
JANUARY 11, 2014

  • Relatives of the victims of the Sabra and Shatilla massacre carry candles on the 18th anniversay of the massacre, September 15, 2000.

    © 2000 Reuters
It’s a shame that Sharon has gone to his grave without facing justice for his role in Sabra and Shatilla and other abuses. . His passing is another grim reminder that years of virtual impunity for rights abuses have done nothing to bring Israeli-Palestinian peace any closer.
Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and North Africa director

(Jerusalem) – Ariel Sharon died without facing justice for his role in the massacres of hundreds and perhaps thousands of civilians by Lebanese militias in the Sabra and Shatilla refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982. The killings Verder lezen →

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januari 10, 2014 · 7:13 am

Dutch police officer, who shot Rishi Chandrikasing, acquitted/Court gives police licence to kill

Bloemen voor doodgeschoten Rishi

Station Hollands Spoor drie dagen nadat Rishi C. van 17 werd doodgeschoten door een politieman.

The Hague Station ”Hollands Spoor”/Flowers for the 17 years old Rishi,

who was shot by a police officer

Foto ANP

PHOTO RISHI CHANDRIKASINGH
RISHI CHANDRIKASINGH/RIP
PHOTO RISHI CHANDRIKASING
AUF DER FLUCHT ERSCHOSSEN
Dear Readers,
Not only the acquittal of the Dutch policeofficer, who shot Rishi
Chandrikasing to death, is an absolute scandal, it’s also a great risk.
For when a cop, who caused the death of a defenseless, unarmed civilian, is going
to work again, he is a great danger to society.
It can happen again.
Now there are people, who allege. that Rishi himself was no peach either [or to put it otherwise:
had a criminal record] [1], doesn’t matter at all.
Fact is, that any human being, whether ”respected citizen” or not, has a right to life and protection
of his/hers life, and that thew police has no right to end that life, when tere is no obvious case of self
defence.
And there wasn’t, since Rishi was running for the police [2]

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januari 4, 2014 · 7:06 am

Letter to the members of the District Council of Amsterdam Zuid-Oost about their refusal to provide basic needs for the rejected refugees of the Vluchtgarage

LETTER TO THE MEMBERS OF THE DISTRICT COUNCIL  OF AMSTERDAM ZUID-OOST
ABOUT THEIR REFUSAL TO PROVIDE BASIC NEEDS FOR THE REJECTED REFUGEES OF THE VLUCHTGARAGE
Dear Readers
A Happy, Healthy 2014 with a continuation of the struggle against injustice and human rights violations.
Hereby my translated letter to the members of the district council of Amsterdam Zuid-Oost [South-East], which
I wrote in december 2013 about their refusal to provide elementary
facilities to thegroup of rejected refugees, who is staying for now in the Vluchtgarage, Kralenbeek 100,
Amsterdam Zuid-Oost.
With great respect for those, who squatted  the ”Vlucht” locations for the refugees, everytime when they were evicted again.
And with  thanks to the Christen-Unie, which did the proposal in the District Council to provide
the refugees from basic needs.

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december 6, 2013 · 5:23 am

In honour of freedom fighter Nelson Mandela/Amandla!!!!!

 

IN HONOUR OF FREEDOM FIGHTER NELSON MANDELA
AMANDLA!!!!!!
Dear Readers,
Nelson Mandela, freedom fighter and champion of the Palestinian cause, has gone
to a better world.
Hereby my condolences to his family and the South-African people,
which I’ve sent to  the Nelson Mandela Foundation.
May he rest in Peace
AMANDLA!!!!
Kind greetings
Astrid Essed
Amsterdam

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· 3:31 am

Nelson Mandela ”I am prepared to die”/Mandela’s statement in the 1964 trial

 

 

 

NELSON MANDELA ”I AM PREPARED TO DIE”/MANDELA’S STATEMENT IN THE 1964 TRIAL

 

I am the First Accused.

I hold a Bachelor’s Degree in Arts and practised as an attorney in Johannesburg for a number of years in partnership with Oliver Tambo. I am a convicted prisoner serving five years for leaving the country without a permit and for inciting people to go on strike at the end of May 1961.

At the outset, I want to say that the suggestion made by the State in its opening that the struggle in South Africa is under the influence of foreigners or communists is wholly incorrect. I have done whatever I did, both as an individual and as a leader of my people, because of my experience in South Africa and my own proudly felt African background, and not because of what any outsider might have said.

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december 4, 2013 · 3:50 am

[Article of Peter Storm]/Ukraine: What’s going on and what does it mean

UKRAINE: WHAT’S GOING ON AND WHAT DOES IT MEAN

 

Tuesday, 3 December, 2013

My Libcom piece on Ukraine, posted there this evening

Some thoughts on the protests happening in Ukraine. Things are not completely what they may seem.

The mass protests unfolding in Ukraine are raising a few eyebrows here and there, as well as the usual hyped-up talk of people’s revolt and even revolution. The eyebrows are justified. Mass demonstrations of many hundreds of thousands in the winter cold, people blockading government buildings, attacking a presidential palace and occupying the city government office, calls for president and government to resign, talk of a general strike…all in support of closer ties to the EU? It all seems a bit odd. Add to the strange brew a strong element of extreme nationalism, and the picture of a movement that is right wing, reactionary and unsupportable from a radical, libertarian communist point of view becomes even clearer. What has been going on? I think there are at least three elements to all this.

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november 8, 2013 · 5:51 am

[Campagne tegen Wapenhandel]/Algeria, Morocco naval built-up supports EU anti-immigration policies (and the Dutch arms industry)

ALGERIA, MOROCCO NAVAL BUILT-UP SUPPORTS EU ANTI-IMMIGRATION POLICIES (AND THE DUTCH ARMS

INDUSTRY)

 

While Europe itself is beefing up military operations to prevent immigrants from entering the EU by sea, it also supports North African countries to better equip themselves to tackle the issue at their end. Of course it cuts both ways: North Africa’s military expansion is a welcome business opportunity too.

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oktober 29, 2013 · 4:10 am

[Article of Gerrit de Heus]/Black Pete (Malieveld the Hague)/Zwarte Piet (Maileveld Den Haag)

 

BLACK PETE (MAILIEVELD THE HAGUE)

ZWARTE PIET (MAILIEVELD DEN HAAG)

 

27 OKTOBER 2013 EEN REACTIE PLAATSEN

Voorstander (R) van Zwarte Piet duldt geen tegenspraak

Voorstander (R) van Zwarte Piet duldt geen tegenspraak

There she stands. A small black woman in a big white sweatshirt. Alone on a quiet patch of Malieveld (The Hague). Proudly she puts a flag in the air, the flag of West Papua where her roots lie, the flag that’s banned in Indonesia.
She demonstrates against the Indonesia that annexed West Papua. “Since that conflict, 400,000 Papuans killed.” And she demonstrates against the United Nations, the organization that does nothing to stop it.

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oktober 16, 2013 · 4:47 am

[Doorbraak]/Black Pete is sooo 1850

 

BLACK PETE IS SOOO 1850

 

The Black Pete figure is outdated. Soon this racist figure may become a museum artifact in an exhibition on 19th century colonialism. Because the black house slave of the white master Sinterklaas is sooo 1850: the year in which the teacher Jan Schenkman blew life into the figure through his book “Sint Nicolaas and his servant”. The social movement which, 150 years after the abolition of slavery, demands the abolition of the Black Pete figure is on the winning side.

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