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POPSUK Denies Money to Wounded Afghans I think there are a lot more deaths from "collateral damage" and so do officials reprting...It's disgusting what our tax dollars are doing.... ‘We have huge concerns, especially over the number of casualties from air strikes,’ said Marc Garlasco, a former air strike commander for the Pentagon who left after becoming disillusioned with the number of innocent victims in Afghanistan and who is the author of this week’s HRW report. He said the casualty figures must be viewed as extremely conservative with the total representing the ‘bare minimum’.
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POPSHRW accuse Ethiopia of War Crimes "We don't like to rank abuses in different parts of the world, but what is happening in the Ogaden is up there with the worst," said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. "We are talking about village elders being strangled, and women raped until the point of unconsciousness. And it is being done with complete impunity, and with a blind eye from the international community." A small-scale rebellion in the Ogaden region, populated mainly by ethnic Somalis, had been simmering for decades before the ONLF attacked an oil installation in April last year. More than 70 Chinese and Ethiopian workers were killed. ...Guardian
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POPSUS is 'the World's Leading Jailer' Land of the free? The odds are better for that if you're white. Otherwise, it's the land of the incarcerated. Remember that the next time someone tells you that the occupation of Iraq is about "fighting for freedom."
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POPSNew: Israeli War Crimes against Own Citizen!!! "The study found that the Arab towns and villages that suffered the most intensive attacks during the war were ones that were surrounded by military installations, either on a permanent basis or temporarily during the course of the war," the report states. Such findings lend credibility to complaints made during the war by Israel's Arab legislators, including Bishara himself, that Arab communities were being used as "human shields" by the Israeli army -- possibly to deter Hizbullah from targeting its positions. In early August 2006, Bishara told the Maariv newspaper: "What ordinary citizens are afraid to say, the Arab Knesset members are declaring loudly. Israel turned the Galilee and the Arab villages in particular into human shields by surrounding them with artillery positions and missile batteries."
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POPSIsrael's Gaza Blockade is "Collective Punishment" This situation is frustrating and insane. Collective punishment is illegal under all international law, and yet whenever anyone confronts the Israeli government with this fact, they are accused of being anti-Israel and/or an anti-Semite. As a Jew, I am very proud of all Israel has accomplished, and I yearn to see that tiny country live in peace with its neighbours. I do not fault Israel entirely for the situation that exists between them and the Palestinians. There is much fault and provocation to be found on both sides. While it is true that Hamas attacks Israeli towns with rockets, which must be stopped, there are constant attacks against Palestinians by Jewish settlers. And the story goes on and on. But collectively punishing an entire nation of people because of the actions of a few is quite simply, inhumane, and the world should condemn these actions by the Israeli government.
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POPSHuman Rights Watch Condemn Israel for Civilian Deaths. The head of NGO Monitor, Gerald Steinberg, charged that "Human Rights Watch's latest attack on Israel's actions during the Second Lebanon War follows a clear pattern which has sought to create a moral equivalence between the deliberate targeting of civilians by a terrorist organization and the efforts of a democratic country to defend itself. "Despite their own admission in this report that Hizbullah fired from the vicinity of UN outposts on an almost daily basis, HRW has defied logic in failing to condemn this systematic use of human shields," wrote Steinberg.
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POPSHRW: No Justice for War Violations, a year later! The IDF relentlessly bombarded civilian areas throughout southern Lebanon, launching some 7,000 bomb and missile strikes in Lebanon, which were supplemented by thousands of artillery attacks and naval bombardment. These attacks led to at least 1,125 deaths in Lebanon – the vast majority of whom were civilians – as well as 4,399 injured and an estimated 1 million displaced. IDF attacks killed and injured civilians attempting to flee the fighting and disrupted convoys of humanitarian food aid to those who remained in southern Lebanon.
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POPS"How the New York Times Misreports Conflict in the Middle East,”
“The Occupying Power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.” Fourth Geneva Convention. Article 49(6) of the Convention. These nineteen words — which would easily fit into any news article or editorial in the Times — prohibit, and thus outlaw, Israel’s settlements in occupied Palestinian territory. To my knowledge, the Times almost never, if ever, mentions the Fourth Geneva Convention in the context of Israel’s settlements in Palestinian territory. Bronner in effect confirmed this. Every relevant international authority—the International Committee of the Red Cross, the UN General Assembly, the UN Security Council, the International Court of Justice, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, the Israeli human rights organization, B’Tselem, in addition to virtually every UN member state (except Israel)—has affirmed that the Fourth Geneva Convention applies to Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory. The NYT ignores the
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POPSIran to Prosecute Women's Rights Activists Human Rights Watch (HRW) is demanding that the women be dismissed due to lack of legal grounds for their arrest. The freedom to peaceful assembly is guaranteed not only by the Iranian constitution, but also by Article 20 of the UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Article 21 of the UN International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, to which Iran is a party.
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POPSThe Attack on Human Rights Watch Good overview of the controversies over HRW's reporting of the Israel-Lebanon conflict. Neier deals with the following arguments: * HRW devotes a disproportionate amount of attention to Israel (false) * HRW did not declare Hezbollah an aggressor (HRW never declares aggressors in its reporting, because it realizes that "aggression" is an inherently political concept, as Israel and the US pointed out when they protested the creation of the International Criminal Court) * He also takes down Dershowitz's argument that because sometimes Hezbollah mingled with civilians, Israel should be exonerated for all civilian deaths caused by its air strikes. Dershowitz failed to note that HRW documented two dozen cases where Israeli strikes killed civilians where there was no evidence of a Hezbollah presence. Moreover, Dershowitz himself used sloppy evidence to overstate the presence of Hezbollah among civilians. Via http://www.matthewyglesias.com/
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POPSSaddam Trial 'Fundamentally Flawed' Say US Observers “Judging Dujail” reports previously undocumented and serious procedural flaws in the trial, including: regular failure to disclose key evidence, including exculpatory evidence, to the defense in advance; violations of the defendants’ basic fair trial right to confront witnesses against them; lapses of judicial demeanor that undermined the apparent impartiality of the presiding judge; and important gaps in evidence that undermine the persuasiveness of the prosecution case, and put in doubt whether all the elements of the crimes charged were established. At stake is not only justice for hundreds of thousands of victims but, as at Nuremberg, the historical record itself.... Executing while other trials are ongoing will also deprive many thousands of victims of their day in court.
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