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Video: Talk of War Crimes as Polish Troops Blow Up Afghan Home ‘for Fun’

by RAINman on 16. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Polish General Promises to Investigate Video
by Jason Ditz
Antiwar Forum  -  August 13, 2010
The Polish Army is promising an investigation following the release of a video showing Polish troops blowing up an Afghan home. An officer serving at the time told the Polish daily that released the report that “it was done for fun.”
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Robert Fisk: Israel has crept into the EU without anyone noticing

by RAINman on 03. Aug, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Independent  - 31 July 2010
The death of five Israeli servicemen in a helicopter crash in Romania this week raised scarcely a headline.
There was a Nato-Israeli exercise in progress. Well, that’s OK then. Now imagine the death of five Hamas fighters in a helicopter crash in Romania this week. We’d still be investigating this extraordinary phenomenon. Now [...]

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Video: Daughter of Mossad Chief: I Refuse to Enlist in the Israeli Military

by RAINman on 21. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Rageunderground – July 19, 2010

I refuse to take part in the war crimes committed by my country. Violence will not bring any kind of solution, and I shall not commit violence, come what may.
Omer Goldman, age 19, Tel Aviv

First Prison Sentence: 22nd Sept. – 10th Oct. 2008 (18 days)
Second Prison Sentence: 12th [...]

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Demolitions, new settlements in East Jerusalem could amount to war crimes – UN expert Richard Falk

by RAINman on 01. Jul, 2010 in Newsletter Links

Middle East Monitor - MEMO, June 30 2010
“International law does not allow Israel to bulldoze Palestinian homes to make space for the mayor’s project to build a garden, or anything else,” he said.
An independent United Nations expert today urged Israel to prevent further rights violations in East Jerusalem, warning that population transfers in or from occupied territory [...]

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US actors, intellectuals protest Obama ‘crimes’

by RAINman on 18. May, 2010 in General

Breitbart  - 13 May 2010
US actors and liberal intellectuals joined a list to be published Friday of nearly 2,000 people accusing President Barack Obama of allowing human rights violations and war crimes.
“Crimes are crimes, no matter who does them,” the statement reads over pictures of Obama and his predecessor George [...]

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Army to be sued for war crimes over its role in Fallujah attacks

by RAINman on 05. May, 2010 in General

Parents of children with birth defects say Britain knew of US chemical weapons use
By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Independent - 4 May 2010
Allegations that Britain was complicit in the use of chemical weapons linked to an upsurge in child deformity cases in Iraq, are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence.

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Drone Pilots Could Be Tried for ‘War Crimes,’ Law Prof Says

by RAINman on 04. May, 2010 in General

Nathan Hodge
Wired – 29 April 2010
The pilots waging America’s undeclared drone war in Pakistan could be liable to criminal prosecution for “war crimes,” a prominent law professor told a Congressional panel Wednesday.
Harold Koh, the State Department’s top legal adviser, outlined the administration’s legal case for the robotic attacks last month. Now, some legal experts are [...]

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Blair War Crimes Foundation

by RAINman on 24. Mar, 2010 in General

John Pilger, David Halpin, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, Ken Loach, Noam Chomsky, Richard Dawkins, Lindsey German, Ben Griffin, Dr Nawal Saadawi, Haifa Zangana, Mark Steel, Dr Kamil Mahdi, Bruce Kent, and other citizens of Spain, Argentine, USA, and UK, support a Blair War Crimes Foundation to seek signatures for a petition to the United Nations General Assembly [...]

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British lawmaker Gerald Kaufman calls Gaza blockade ‘evil’

by RAINman on 19. Jan, 2010 in General

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
The Jerusalem Post -    15 January 2010
RAFAH - Israelis who authorized the use of white phosphorous in densely populated Gaza should be tried for war crimes, British Labour Party legislator Gerald Kaufman said Friday, after entering the Strip with 60 European parliamentarians.
The lawmakers are visiting Gaza to draw attention to the territory’s “evil [...]

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UK troops ‘executed Iraqi grandmother’

by RAINman on 13. Jan, 2010 in Hard News

Royal Military Police investigate latest allegation of abuse in Basra

By Robert Verkaik, Law Editor
Independent  – 11 January 2010
Allegations that a 62-year-old Iraqi grandmother was tortured and executed by British soldiers after her family home was raided three years ago are being investigated by the Royal Military Police.
The Army’s involvement in the death and abuse [...]

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Israeli army officers fear arrest in UK

by RAINman on 07. Jan, 2010 in General

Visit cancelled over threat of prosecution for alleged war crimes against Palestinians
By Ben Lynfield in Jerusalem
Independent  –  6 January 2010
A group of Israeli army officers has cancelled a visit to Britain because London was unable to guarantee they would not be arrested for alleged war crimes under universal jurisdiction provisions, Israeli officials said yesterday.

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Researchers: US Arms Used for War Crimes in Gaza

by RAINman on 05. Jan, 2010 in General

Researchers: Erin Galbraith and Curtis Harrison – Faculty Evaluators: Andy Merrifield, PhD, Cynthia Boaz, PhD, and David McCuan, PhD Sonoma State University
Sabbah Report – 1 January  2010
Israel’s repeated firing of US-made white phosphorus shells over densely populated areas of Gaza during its recent military campaign was indiscriminate and is evidence of war crimes, Human Rights [...]

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