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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 31. januar
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30. Januar 2005,
Februar 2005
01/31/2005
Kvindesagsforkæmperen og pacifisten Ellen Hørups
fødselsdag, 1871.
01/31/2005
232 contractors die in Iraq
By Sue Pleming in Washington
From Reuters
AT least 232 civilians have been killed while working on US-funded
contracts in Iraq and the death toll is rising rapidly, according
to a US government audit released today.
The quarterly report sent to Congress by the inspector-general
appointed to audit US-funded work in Iraq said security problems
were the biggest obstacle to Iraq's reconstruction and workers
faced grave risks daily.
More than 1400 US troops have been killed in Iraq, but the US
government does not keep an official tally of the number of
civilians slain while working on US-funded projects there and in
support of US forces...
Mr Bowen cited US Labour Department statistics that showed
companies had filed 232 compensation claims under the Defence Base
Act (DBA) for workers killed there, an increase in the fourth
quarter last year of 93 per cent.
The DBA requires all US government contractors to acquire workers'
compensation insurance for employees working in Iraq.
Not all US employers would have filed DBA claims for workers killed
in Iraq and the death toll was likely to be higher than 232, said
one US official.
In addition, 728 DBA claims were filed for employees who missed
more than four days of work. Several hundred more were reported
from neighbouring Kuwait where companies working in Iraq have
logistics and support operations...
01/31/2005
Darfur killings not genocide, says UN group
By Rupert Cornwell in Washington
©2005 Independent News
A special United Nations commission has decided that two years of
violence in the western Sudan region of Darfur was not genocide but
"crimes against humanity with ethnic dimensions", according to
leaks of the report in the US.
The commission, led by the Italian judge Antonio Cassese, documents
breaches of international human rights law and other war crimes,
and names individuals who may have acted with "genocidal intent".
But it failed to find evidence that the government in Khartoum,
widely accused of backing the militias, had a specific policy of
exterminating a particular ethnic group, the Los Angeles Times
reported.
The report is to be made public this week, after it goes to the
Security Council. But it could set off a new dispute between the US
and its key allies. In September, the State Department said the
murder of tens of thousands of people in Darfur, and the forced
uprooting of 1.8 million more, did constitute genocide. It spoke of
a pattern of targeted violence, co-ordinated by the government and
committed by state-backed militias. Even more problematic however
than semantics could be the report's leaked recommendation that war
crimes and human rights violations should be referred to the
International Criminal Court (ICC), an institution backed by Europe
and most African countries, but strenuously opposed by the
US...
01/31/2005
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