THE 60TH ANNIVERSARY OF ISRAEL/NOTHING TO CELEBRATE
by Astrid Essed Wednesday, May. 14, 2008 at 5:34 PM
In contrary to the outburst of festivities among zionists and their adherents, regarding the ´´celebration´´ of the 60th anniversary of the State of Israel, for the Palestinian victims of the etnic cleansings in 1948 and 1967 and the continuing occupation, there is nothing to celebrate Remember the Naqba
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ISRAELI ATTACKS ON GAZA/DIRTY WAR ON THE PALESTINIAN CIVILIAN POPULATION
by Astrid Essed Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009 at 8:43 AM
By their unlawful and systematic character,combined with the blockade of Gaza, housedemolitions and extrajudicial executions, the Israeli attacks on Gaza are a dirty war against the Palestinian civilian population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Towers
”This is a war without mercy”
Mr Barak, Israeli minister of Defense
http://www.euronews.net/en/article/29/12/2008/barak-tries-to-justify-war-without-mercy/
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WESTERN DIPLOMATS WALK OUT OF AHMADINEJAD SPEECH AT DURBAN II/HYPOCRISY AND VIOLATIONS
by Astrid Essed Friday, May. 01, 2009 at 1:18 PM
Not only the Western boycott of Durban II and the attitude on the Ahmadinejad speech lacks a fundamental respect for fundamental human rights, it is also hypocritical seeing in the light of her implicite support for the Israeli regime of occupation, letting get Israel away with human rights violations and war-crimes
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OSAMA BIN LADEN KILLED BY US FORCES/NO JUSTICE WITHOUT A TRIAL
by Astrid Essed Monday, May. 09, 2011 at 5:55 PM
Not only killing the unarmed Osama bin Laden is a warcrime, as any other human being he had a right on a fair and independent trial No justice without a trial
”It is surprising to see how normal crime and killing has become and how it is celebrated by imperial governments”
Elias Jaua/Vice president of Venezuela
http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia/2011/05/20115241936984209.html
””I don’t know how I feel about this,” she said. “I’m a Christian, and killing isn’t part of my beliefs. It doesn’t bring anyone back.”
Family member of 11 september attacks victim
http://english.aljazeera.net/indepth/features/2011/05/20115352740772938.html
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US: FULFILL PROMISES TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO
President Barack Obama walks from the Brady Press briefing room after taking questions from the media at the White House.
US President Barack Obama should move swiftly to fulfill newly repeated promises to end indefinite detention without trial at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
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MOROCCO: TAINTED TRIAL OF SAHRAWI CIVILIANS
Naâma Asfari, one of 25 Sahrawis convicted by a military court in the Gdeim Izik trial.
(Rabat) – A Moroccan military court has sentenced 25 Sahrawis to prison, including nine to life sentences, without looking into their allegations that their confessions were extracted under torture and other forms of coercion. The defendants include several advocates of human rights and independence for Western Sahara. The confessions were apparently the primary, if not the only, evidence against them, as the court’s written judgment, released the week of March 18, 2013, makes clear.
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THE DEATH OF GADDAFI/THE NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL’S BLOODY PATH
by Astrid Essed Friday, Nov. 25, 2011 at 6:23 PM
The resistance against the former president Gaddafi was legitimate. However, the rebels not
only allied with the NATO, sacrifying real Libyan independence, they also commit warcrimes with little
distinction between them and Gaddafi.
DEATH OF GADDAFI/THE NATIONAL TRANSITIONAL COUNCIL’S BLOODY PATH
”Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. ”
Article 10, Universal Declaration of Human Rights
http://www.ohchr.org/EN/UDHR/Pages/Language.aspx?LangID=eng
””It is forbidden to kill or injure an enemy who surrenders or who is hors de combat ”
Article 2, Basic rules of International Humanitarian Law in armed conflicts
http://www.icrc.org/eng/resources/documents/misc/basic-rules-ihl-311288.htm
The prohibition on executions without trial [summary executions] AND the obligation
to treat prisoners of war humanely is confirmed by article 3, 3th Geneva Convention
http://www.icrc.org/ihl.nsf/FULL/375?OpenDocument
INTRODUCTION:
After 42 years the dictatorship of Gaddafi has come to an end
However, the new rulers don’t deserve any benefit of the doubt
They didn’t trust on the strength of the Libyan people and made alliance with the NATO
which only serve Western interests
With a pro Western regime, the Libyan people can forget any real independence and
social advancement
Regarding human rights they made a bloody beginning with the apparent extrajudicial
execution of Gaddafi and his son Mutassim
Prisoners have been tortured and humiliated
There are vehement racist attacks on African migrant workers and black Libyans
When the situation stays this and those responsible for torture and violence
don’t face prosecution, the former Gaddafi dictatorship will be followed by a next one
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PALESTINE ACTIVISTS CALL ON THE NETHERLANDS PRINCE TO DISSOCIATE
Demonstrators in Jerusalem protest the Jewish National Fund’s colonization projects in the Naqab/Negev desert, February 2011.
(Anne Paq / ActiveStills)
Palestinian boycott activists are calling on the Netherlands’ Prince Willem-Alexander to reconsider his decision to lend his name to a water project undertaken by the Jewish National Fund Netherlands in the Naqab/Negev desert in the south of present-day Israel. The project is in honor of the prince’s inauguration as king later this month.
Omar Barghouti, a Palestinian human rights activist and a founder of the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement, told The Electronic Intifada: “The [JNF] has played a key role in the dispossession of the Palestinians and in colonizing their lands. Today, [the JNF] continues its explicitly racist practices against Palestinians and rejects any notion of equal rights for all. Palestinian civil society appreciates the prominence that equality and non-discrimination have in the Dutch constitution and based on this, appeal to Prince Willem-Alexander to reconsider his decision to lend his name to a project of the JNF.”
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