NOVANEWS
Works in Progress:
– The partition of Palestine (most recently into Gaza Strip; East Jerusalem; West Bank )
– The partition of Iraq
In Iraq , the occupation is attempting “ethnic” partition.
See second item below: A statement issued yesterday (October 10, 2010) by the BRusselS Tribunal.
In Palestine/Israel, Israel’s security forces are now drilling the concentration, in camps, and mass deportation to the Palestinian Authority of Palestinian citizens of Israel: Yesterday, military affairs reporter, Carmela Menashe, reported (in Hebrew; http://www.iba.org.il/bet/?type=1&entity=680286) that a large scale drill simulated “extreme scenarios of violent protests in the Arab sector following accords with the Palestinian Authority on population exchange. A detention camp for Israeli Arabs will be set up at Golani junction to receive detainees. The large-scale drill was administered and led by the Prison Services and included the military Home Command, the Israel Police Force, the Military Police, fire fighting forces and others.” [Translation mine]
See first item below: A statement issued yesterday by Gush Shalom.
Rela Mazali
Israeli security forces practice suppression and mass detention of Israel’s Arab citizens, in implementation of Lieberman’s “population exchange” program.
Gush Shalom: It seems Lieberman is Israel ‘s true Prime Minister
This week Israel ‘s security forces practiced the putting down of mass demonstrations and protests among Israel ‘s Arab citizens and their imprisonment in a large detention camp to be established at Golani Junction in Galilee . The exercise was based on a scenario of the riots being provoked by implementation of Avigdor Lieberman’s plan for “an exchange of populations”, i.e. massively depriving Arabs of their Israeli citizenship.
A week ago Lieberman voiced this heinous idea on the podium of the UN Assembly General and Prime Minister Netanyahu murmured some weak reservations. Now it turns out that the security forces are already preparing to implement it in practice, under the responsibility of none other than Labor Party leader Ehud Barak – the Minister of Defence.
It goes without saying that in a country having any pretence to be a democracy it would be unacceptable and unthinkable for the security forces to practice waging war against the country’s own citizens. Together with the racist “Loyalty Oath Bill” which gained the support of the government, and with the demonstrative resumption of settlement construction in the Occupied Territories , it increasingly seems that Lieberman is the true Prime Minister, and that the government follows on his path, leading the State of Israel in big and rapid strides into the abyss.
Contact: Adam Keller , Gush Shalom Spokesperson 03-5565804 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 03-5565804 end_of_the_skype_highlighting or 054-2340749 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 054-2340749 end_of_the_skype_highlighting
From: The BRussells Tribunal [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, October 10, 2010 9:17 PM
To:
Subject: Statement: Partition by Census
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We, the undersigned, defending the right of Iraq to independence, sovereignty,unity and territorial integrity, rejecting the attempts of Iraqi puppets promotedby the US occupation to trade the national rights of Iraqis and to institutionalisevia census the criminal demographic engineering they have pursued by force, declare that:From the first day of the US-UK occupation of Iraq , the occupation began to undertake aseries of measures, directly or through its local allies, to destroy Iraq as a state and a nationand to partition it along ethnic and sectarian lines.Today, the puppet government of the occupation and its Kurdish partners are trying to holda population census in Kirkuk province whose aim is to give a permanent legal character tothe criminal social engineering, ethnic cleansing and demographic changes that have beenimplemented under occupation.[1] This could unleash a full blown civil war across Iraq, andpotentially lead to its partition and a consequent regional war.In addition to the death of more than one million Iraqis, the ethnic cleansing and other meanspursued by the United States, United Kingdom and their allies in order to implement the processof partitioning Iraq, in its cities and regions, have caused the forced migration of2.5 million Iraqis out of Iraq and the forced displacement of 2.5 million others fromtheir homes inside Iraq.The ethnic cleansing suffered by the population in the provincesof Mosul, Diyala, Salahuddin and the Baghdad area, and most notably in Kirkuk and the so-called “disputed areas” — where the population is forced by various means, including systematicassassinations, bombing civilians, collective punishment, transfer, displacement, deportationand other crimes against humanity, to migrate only to be replaced by people from otherprovinces or even from outside Iraq — is a clear crime of destruction and part of theintended partition of Iraq. The United States , the United Kingdom and their allies wagedan illegal war of aggression against Iraq and occupied its territory. This war in itself is acrime punishable under international law.International law, in particular The Hague Regulations of 1907, the Geneva Conventions andadditional protocols, and the Genocide Convention, explicitly prohibits occupying powers frominstituting changes aimed at permanently altering the foundational structures of occupiedterritories, including the judiciary, economy, political institutions and social fabric.[2]International law considers the systematic transfer, deportation or displacement of popula-tion a crime against humanity.[3] Residents of affected areas, the Iraqi national forces, thedisplaced, and the majority of the people of Iraq declare this census null and void. It has nobinding legal consequences and cannot and should not be used to support or justify theintended partition of Iraq .We demand that no census be conducted before the free return of all Iraqi refugees.We demand that the question of ethnicity not be used to instigate the partition of Iraqand that it be removed from any census, now and in the future. We declare as fraudulentthe justification under occupation of a census on the basis of long term planning in thecontext of a temporary and unstable demographic situation.We demand that the United Nations and the Arab League and all governments, person-alities, organisations and institutions support the demands of the people of Iraq by notrecognising the results of this census, and by not assisting in conducting it. This censusis designed to reward criminals for their crimes at the expense of their victims.______________________________________________________________________________________________Dr Ian Douglas, coordinator of the International Initiative to Prosecute US Genocide in Iraq and member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells TribunalAbdul Ilah Albayaty, Iraqi political analyst and member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells TribunalHana Al Bayaty, member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells Tribunal and the International Initiative to Prosecute US Genocide in IraqDirk Adriaensens, member of the Executive Committee of the BRussells TribunalProf. Em. François Houtart, Participant in the Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal on US Crimes in Vietnam in 1967, Director of the Tricontinental Center (Cetri), spiritual father and member of the International Committee of the World Social Forum of Porto Alegre, Executive Secretary of the Alternative World Forum, President of the International League for Rights and Liberation of People, Honorary President of the BRussells Tribunal and senior advisor to the President of the United Nations General Assembly Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann, recipient of the 2009 UNESCO Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-ViolenceProf. Dr. Lieven De Cauter, philosopher, K.U. Leuven / Rits, initiator of the BRussells TribunalProf. Patrick Deboosere , Demographer, VUB – member of the BRussells Tribunal executive committeeWard Treunen, former TV producer – member of the BRussells Tribunal executive committeeHugo Wanner, VZW Netwerk Vlaanderen – member of the BRussells Tribunal executive committeeNOTES[1] Forced displacement and the construction of walled-in districts and their associated regimes, by contributing to demographic changes in Iraq, contravene international humanitarian law, including Article 49, paragraphs 1 and 5, of The Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War, 1949, and as such constitute war crimes.[2] Articles 43 and 55 of The Hague IV Regulations on Laws and Customs of War on Land, 1907 (HR); Articles 54 and 64 of The Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in the Time of War, 1949. Occupying powers are obliged to manage the resources of the occupied territory under the law of usufruct only. This means that while they may use national resources as necessary to the upkeep of the wellbeing of the population in the occupied territory (Fourth Geneva Convention, Article 64) they cannot profit from the use of such resources or award themselves partial or whole ownership of such resources. The US remains a belligerent occupier of Iraq .[3] Article 7 (1) (d) of the Elements of Crimes of the International Criminal Court. |
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