GAZA, 17 avril 2008 (AFP) – Des centaines de personnes, dont des dizaines de journalistes, ont participé jeudi aux funérailles de Fadel Chanaa, un journaliste de l’agence britannique Reuters […]. La vidéo du journaliste, quelques secondes avant sa mort, montre le char ouvrant le feu. […]

Dix-huit Palestiniens, dont une majorité de civils, et trois soldats israéliens ont été tués mercredi dans les opérations israéliennes dans la bande de Gaza, contrôlée par le Hamas. Parmi les victimes figurent cinq Palestiniens âgés de moins de 15 ans.

Selon une enquête de l’organisation israélienne B’Tselem pour la défense des droits de l’Homme, le journaliste a été victime d’un obus de char de type “Flechette”, dont l’usage est interdit.
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Reuters Video Photojournalist Fadel Shana, 23, Killed In Gaza Blast

GAZA (April 16, 2008) – Reuters video photojournalist Fadel Shana, 23, was killed today on his way to cover violence in the Gaza Strip.[...]

Dion Nissenbaum reported that doctors could tell that Shana was hit with a “flechette shell,” one that’s fired from a tank and explodes in the air sending thousands of small metal arrows flying. Human rights groups have argued unsuccessfully for years with Israel, asking them not to use flechette shells in Gaza because of the increased danger they pose to innocent bystander citizens.[...]

It was a day of intense fighting and violence in the Gaza Strip, where 16 other Palestinians and three Israeli soldiers were also reported killed in fighting today. The BBC reports that five Palestinian children were among the victims, and that today’s death toll is the worst day of fighting since Israeli incursions into the area in March.
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Environs 1000 personnes originaires de 17 pays européens ont pris ce matin la direction du quartier-général de l’OTAN à Evere pour participer à l’action internationale non violente NATO GAME OVER. Cinq ans après le début de la guerre en Irak et dix jours avant un important sommet de l’OTAN, des activistes pour la paix de toute l’Europe transmettent un message clair : empêcher les guerres, ça commence ici, en Europe. Plus (article, photos, vidéos) >>

About 1,000 people from 17 European countries went to the NATO headquarters in Brussels on the 23rd of March to take part in the international non-violent action NATO GAME OVER. 5 years after the start of the Iraq war and 10 days before the Bucharest NATO summit, peace activists from all over Europe demonstrate that preventing war starts in Europe. More (article, pictures, videos) >>

Canada to take US, Israel off torture list
Real News Network (video), Jan. 22nd, 2008

Alex Neve from Amnesty says Canadian foreign policy interests trump human rights
Alex Neve has been Secretary-General of Amnesty International Canada since 2000. He has been a member of Amnesty in various roles for over fifteen years. Neve is a lawyer, with Master’s Degree in International Human Rights law. He has taught both international human rights and refugee law.

Did Canada cave under US Israeli pressure?
Real News Network (video), Jan. 22nd, 2008

Michael Ratner: Canada gave in to pressure from US ambassador
Michael Ratner is President of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) in New York. He has taught at Yale Law School, lectured at Columbia Law School, and was President of the National Lawyers Guild.

26 Oct. 2007

Lors de son séjour à Paris, une plainte pour torture et mauvais traitements à Guantanamo et à Abou Ghraib a été déposée contre l’ancien Secrétaire d’Etat à la Défense.

La Fédération internationale des ligues des droits de l’Homme (FIDH), le Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), l’European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) et la Ligue française des droits de l’Homme (LDH) viennent de déposer une plainte auprès du Procureur du Tribunal de Grande Instance de Paris, contre l’ancien secrétaire d’Etat à la Défense, Donald Rumsfeld, pour avoir ordonné et autorisé la torture.

Complaint Filed Against Former Defense Secretary for Torture, Abuse at Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib

Today, the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) along with the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and the French League for Human Rights (LDH) filed a complaint with the Paris Prosecutor before the “Court of First Instance” (Tribunal de Grande Instance) charging former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld with ordering and authorizing torture.

Why Canadian Forces Should Immediately Withdraw From Afghanistan, Michael Skinner*, oct. 2007.

[Français] Extraits : Le 18 octobre 2007, 2 000 délégués du Congrès national du Syndicat canadien de la fonction publique (SCFP) a décidé, en un vote presque unanime, d’exiger du gouvernement du Canada le retrait immédiat des troupes canadiennes de l’Afghanistan. (...)

Un peu plus tard le même jour, la Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) [...], le quotidien The Globe and Mail et le quotidien La Presse ont diffusé les résultats d’un sondage qu’ils ont payé conjointement et qui a été mené en Afghanistan par la firme de sondage canadienne Environics. D’après le sondage de cette firme, un grande majorité des Afghan voudraient que les troupes canadiennes restent en Afghanistan. (...)

( La version originale anglaise contient aussi un argumentaire pour le retrait de l’Afghanistan.)

[English] Excerpts: On 18 October 2007, two thousand delegates at the national convention of the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) decided in a nearly unanimous vote to demand the Government of Canada immediately withdraw the Canadian Forces from Afghanistan. (...)

Later on the same day, CBC, the Globe and Mail, and La Presse released the results of a jointly-commissioned poll conducted in Afghanistan by the Canadian research firm Environics. The Environics poll indicates a large majority of Afghans want the Canadian Forces to remain in Afghanistan.

by John Pilger in the New Stateman, 13th November 2006
Pilger is a renowned journalist. He is known and respected for being of the rare few to dare mention truths.

In a show trial whose theatrical climax was clearly timed to promote George W Bush in the American midterm elections, Saddam Hussein was convicted and sentenced to hang. Drivel about “end of an era” and “a new start for Iraq” was promoted by the usual false moral accountants, who uttered not a word about bringing the tyrant’s accomplices to justice. Why are these accomplices not being charged with aiding and abetting crimes against humanity?

Dans la Ville de Québec, le 9 septembre 2006, Malalai Joya, députée afghane, est venue décrire publiquement les crimes du gouvernement afghan actuel et la complicité du gouvernement étatsunien.

In Quebec City, September 9, 2006, Malalai Joya, Afghan MP, came to publicly denounce the crimes committed by the current Afghan regime and the complicity of the US regime.

Merci – Thank you Collectif Échec à la guerre (Québec) qui l’a partagé à tou-tes / who shared it far and wide.

Le Congrès des É-U s’apprêtent à trahir l’Amérique
et les droits humains, affirme Amnesty International USA

Last Thursday, President Bush and several members of the Senate struck a deal on human rights. In the process, they dealt away America’s commitment to fundamental human rights principles.

Make no mistake about it, this deal is a betrayal of the America we believe in. No human rights activist can remain on the sidelines in the days ahead.(...) We are literally days away from action in Congress on a proposal to:

• Abandon the rule of law and give the President the freedom to interpret the Geneva Conventions any way he sees fit
• Provide immunity to those responsible for past human rights abuses
• Exempt from prosecution those who authorize treatment traditionally considered torture
• Strip detainees of access to US courts

The soul of our nation is in jeopardy. Everything we believe in is on the line. That’s why we’re mobilizing the entire Amnesty community. We’re going into action today and we won’t stop until every last Senator has made it clear whether he or she is willing to stand up for the America we believe in.

Résumé du Siriel-Média :
• L’aviation israélienne a lancé plus de 7 000 attaques aériennes (du 12 juillet au 14 août)
• la marine effectuait 2 500 autres bombardements
• on estime que 1 183 Libanais, dont un tiers d’enfants, ont été tués; 4 054 autres blessés et 970 000 déplacés
• deux hôpitaux publics ont été complètement détruits (Bint Jbeil et de Meiss ej Jebel) et trois autres ont été gravement endommagés.
• 31 « points vitaux » (aéroports, ports, stations hydrauliques et d’épuration, centrales électriques) ont été totalement ou en partie détruits
• de même qu’au moins 80 ponts et 94 routes
• plus de 25 stations-service et environ 900 entreprises ont été touchées
• plus de 30 000 habitations, bureaux et magasins ont été détruits
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Siriel-Media summary :
• Israeli Air Force launched more than 7,000 air attacks (12 July to 14 August)
• Navy conducted an additional 2,500 bombardments
• estimated 1,183 fatalities, one third of whom have been children, 4,054 people injured and 970,000 Lebanese people displaced
• two government hospitals were completely destroyed (in Bint Jbeil and in Meis al-Jebel) and three others were seriously damaged.
• estimated 31 “vital points” (airports, ports, water and sewage treatment plants, electrical facilities) have been completely or partially destroyed
• around 80 bridges and 94 roads
• more than 25 fuel stations and around 900 commercial enterprises were hit
• over 30,000 residential properties, offices and shops completely destroyed.
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An ad hoc group of peace activists in Kamloops, B.C., has started an on-line petition to PM Stephen Harper and members of the government of Canada calling on them to actively work to bring about an immediate end to violence in the Middle East in the following ways…