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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 3. Juni 2012 / Time Line June 3, 2012
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Ministry of Defence defies Eastenders and Good Sense
- www.stoptheolympicmissiles.org
The Ministry of Defence has defied local opinion and good sense in deciding to go ahead with the siting of ground to air missiles in residential areas in East London. Most local residents feel having ready-to-fire high explosives in their estates risks terrible accidents and that the actual use of ground to air missiles over the most densely populated areas of London would lead to disaster.
The MoD claim that there is little local opposition only underlines the fact that they have undertaken no serious consultation in the community. They have refused an invitation to come to a local public forum and ignored a 1,000 strong petition and a local demonstration.
The campaign continues. Residents in Leytonstone are going to the High Court to challenge the decision on Monday 9 July. There will be a protest outside the court from 9.30am
06/03/2012
Turkish Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in
Murders on Gaza Flotilla
On the Second Anniversary of the Gaza Freedom Flotilla, Turkish
Court Indicts Senior Israeli Military Officials in Murders of Nine
Passengers
By Ann Wright
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http://warisacrime.org/content/turkish-court-indicts-senior-israeli-military-officials-murders-gaza-flotilla
Two years ago I was a passenger on the first Gaza Freedom Flotilla
which was sailing to break the Israeli naval blockade of Gaza. I
watched from a small boat called the Challenger 1, as a much larger
boat, the Mavi Marmara, with almost 600 passengers, was brutally
attacked by the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) commandos. 30 minutes
later, our boat was attacked.
Using snipers from helicopters Israeli commandos shot many of the
passengers on the exposed top deck of the ship. Other commandos in
boats fired live ammunition, as well as percussion grenades, into
all levels of the ship. As commandos repelled down from helicopters
and boarded the ship, they executed at point blank range 5
passengers, including a 19 year old American citizen Furkan Dogan,
whose body had five bullets including one to the back of his head.
9 persons, 8 Turkish citizens and one American citizen, were
murdered and 50 others were wounded. One severely wounded Turkish
man later died after being in a coma for many months.
Each of the six ships in the flotilla was attacked by IDF
commandos. Passengers on the ships were shot with tasers and beaten
by commandos. Potentially lethal paintballs were shot into the
faces of passengers narrowly missing eyes and soft parts of the
skull.
IDF commandos took the computers, cameras, identification and
credit cards and several hundred thousands of dollars in cash from
the passengers. IDF commandos sold many of the stolen computers.
Very few of the items taken by the IDF have been returned to
passengers.
The Mavi Marmara was returned to Turkey with a new coat of paint to
cover the blood stains of those wounded and killed. The other five
ships are still held by the Israeli government in the port of
Haifa.
Turkish Court Indictment of Senior Israeli Military Officials
On May 28, 2012, almost two years after the Israeli attack, a court
in Istanbul, Turkey, voted unanimously to approve an indictment
against Israel's former military chief Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi, as
well as for Eliezer Marom, Amos Yadlin, and Avishai Levi, the
former heads of the Israeli Navy, Air Force Intelligence, and
Military Intelligence. If convicted, each faces nine consecutive
life terms in prison for "inciting to kill monstrously, and by
torturing.
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http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/turkish-court-charges-senior-idf-officials-over-gaza-flotilla-deaths-1.432983#article_comments
The indictment also charged several unidentified soldiers who shot
passengers. The charges against members of the Israeli military
include commandeering vehicles, voluntary manslaughter, attempted
murder, persecution and causing damage to the ship.
The indictment specifies 490 victims and complainants, among them
189 who were injured during the raid. The indictment rejected
Israeli claims that Israeli commandos who boarded the Mavi Marmara
acted in self-defense, saying that Israeli commandos used
disproportional force by firing with heavy weapons and automatic
rifles on passengers who only carried "plastic flag masts, spoons,
and forks." The indictment stated that some of the victims were
shot dead from close range and from the back.
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