Archivo etiqueta «Crímenes de guerra o contra la Humanidad»
Por Ilan Pappe, profesor del Instituto de Estudios Árabes e Islámicos de la Universidad de Exeter, director del Centro Europeo de Estudios Palestinos y codirector del Centro de Estudios Etno-Políticos (Exeter). Out of Frame (2010) es su biografía intelectual, y este texto es una síntesis de dos de sus capítulos. Traducción de Pilar Salamanca (EL PAÍS, 06/02/12):
A finales de 1980 decidí dar un curso sobre el conflicto israelo-palestino en la Universidad de Haifa. Al finalizar, y de acuerdo con sus preferencias, los estudiantes presentaron sus conclusiones en forma de proyectos o trabajos de investigación. Algún tiempo después, uno … Seguir leyendo
Por Isaac Querub, presidente de la Federación de Comunidades Judías de España, y de la Asociación de Amigos Yad Vashem-España, y Álvaro Albacete, embajador de España para las relaciones con la comunidad judía y director general de Sefarad-Israel (EL PAÍS, 27/01/12):
El 27 de enero es el día establecido por Naciones Unidas para la conmemoración anual en memoria de las víctimas del Holocausto. En esa fecha, en 1945, el Ejército soviético liberó el mayor campo de exterminio nazi, Auschwitz-Birkenau.
Este campo representa hoy una metáfora del mal inconcebible y monstruoso. Allí, a partir de septiembre de 1941, el … Seguir leyendo
By Timothy Garton Ash, a contributing editor to Opinion, a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University and professor of European studies at Oxford University. His most recent book is Facts are Subversive: Political Writing from a Decade Without a Name (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 19/01/12):
On Monday, the French Senate is scheduled to debate and possibly vote on a bill that would criminalize denial of the Armenian genocide of 1915, along with any other events recognized as genocide in French law. The bill has passed the lower house of Parliament. The Senate should reject it, in the … Seguir leyendo
By Leonard Pitts, a syndicated columnist based in Washington (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 19/01/12):
Nearly 30 years ago, Greg told me how it was, cutting the ears off dead men.
I had sought out Vietnam veterans to interview for a story about a pop song that was inspired by the war, “19″ by Paul Hardcastle. Greg gave me an earful.
He explained how it is when the skin rots right off your foot. How it is when children are rigged to explode, so your first instinct is to shoot them when they come running up to you. How it is when … Seguir leyendo
Par Benjamin Abtan, secrétaire général du European Grassroots Antiracist Movement – EGAM (LE MONDE, 18/01/12):
Le rapport des juges Trévidic et Poux sur l’attentat du 6 avril 1994 contre l’avion du président rwandais Habyarimana, qui a été l’élément déclencheur du génocide des Tutsis, est formel : contrairement à ce qu’avait affirmé le juge Bruguière, ce ne sont pas les Tutsis du Front patriotique rwandais (FPR) qui en sont les auteurs.
Dès lors, la question se pose : qui sont les responsables de l’attentat ? Si le rapport n’en apporte pas la preuve matérielle, il désigne implacablement les extrémistes du “Hutu Power”. … Seguir leyendo
Por Lydia Vicente, Alicia Moreno y Javier Chinchón, expertos en derecho internacional y miembros de Rights International Spain (EL PAÍS, 17/01/12):
El 24 de enero comienza el juicio contra el juez Garzón por su actuación jurisdiccional tras recibir múltiples denuncias sobre crímenes cometidos durante la Guerra Civil y el franquismo. Lo expresamos así porque conviene recordar que el impulso lo dieron víctimas individuales y asociaciones memorialistas que acudieron a la Audiencia Nacional exigiendo no solo reparación sino también verdad y justicia; o, por utilizar sus propias palabras, que acudieron a la Audiencia Nacional para pedir el “auxilio de la … Seguir leyendo
By Kurt Sanger, a major in the Marine Corps, a judge advocate and a law instructor at Marine Corps University. He deployed in 2009 as the senior legal adviser to the Afghan National Army (CHICAGO TRIBUNE, 17/01/12):
The video showing Marines urinating on dead enemy bodies in Afghanistan has refocused America’s attention on the behavior of service members. We have been painfully aware of the strategic implications of this kind of action since we saw the photos from Abu Ghraib. How could something like this happen now? Something is broken.
We remember with sorrow the U.S. service members and … Seguir leyendo
By Nick Broomfield, a British film-maker best known for his iconoclastic, award-winning documentaries (THE GUARDIAN, 13/01/12):
It was more than six years ago, but the massacre that took place at Haditha, western Iraq, in November 2005, still resonates in the Middle East. The now notorious war crime, which left 24 Iraqis dead, became one of the defining atrocities of the war, and the taste remains all the more bitter for survivors – some of whom are children who lost parents in the attack – with the knowledge that not a single US marine has been brought to justice.… Seguir leyendo
By Timothy Kudo, a Marine captain who served in Iraq and Afghanistan from 2009 to 2011 and a senior membership associate with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/01/12):
In March I returned from Afghanistan’s Helmand province after handing about 12 square miles of villages and farmlands to the 3rd Battalion, 2nd Marines, the unit that is allegedly responsible for recording a video of Marines urinating on the corpses of Taliban insurgents. The actions of these few Marines have rightfully garnered widespread disdain, but for me the affront is personal. In a 42-second video, these … Seguir leyendo
By Sebastian Junger, a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, the author of War and the director of the 2010 film Restrepo, both of which chronicle the experiences of U.S. troops fighting the war in Afghanistan (THE WASHINGTON POST, 13/01/12):
The video that emerged in recent days appearing to show four U.S. Marines urinating on several dead Taliban fighters has outraged many people in this country. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta have condemned the act, the military has promised an inquiry, and some experts are even suggesting that the act could qualify … Seguir leyendo
By Rafael Medoff, director of the David S. Wyman Institute for Holocaust Studies in Washington (THE WASHINGTON TIMES, 05/01/12):
England’s former secretary of education, Kenneth Baker, ignited a controversy last month by proposing that the Holocaust be removed from school curricula, lest it cause students to think badly of modern-day Germany.
Ironically, during the Holocaust itself, British and American officials likewise worried that too much focus on the mass murder of the Jews would cause political or other problems.
For example, officials of the British Foreign Office in August 1942 prevented a member of Parliament from transmitting … Seguir leyendo
By Timothy W. Ryback, author of The Last Survivor: Legacies of Dachau and Hitler’s Private Library: The Books That Shaped His Life (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 04/01/12):
On the brisk winter Tuesday of Jan. 20, 1942, 15 Nazi officials assembled at a lakeside villa on the Wannsee near Berlin to deliberate on the “final solution.” This month, the world marks the 70th anniversary of the Wannsee Conference, one of the pivotal moments in Holocaust history. It provides an appropriate occasion not only for reflecting on the origins and implications of this horrific event, but also on one particular moment … Seguir leyendo
By Eva Weisel, who lives in Los Angeles and she is retired from the banking industry (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28/12/11):
In December 1942, when I was 13 years old, German troops occupied my hometown. Within days, our house was commandeered as an officers’ mess hall. I soon had a yellow star on my dress, setting me apart from many of my childhood friends. The men of our family were ordered into forced labor. My happy life had vanished.
Luckily, an influential local man knew of our difficult straits and generously offered his protection. One night, he ferried the … Seguir leyendo
By Benjamin Barber, a senior fellow at the US public policy research thinktank Demos, the author of Strong Democracy; Jihad vs McWorld; and Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults and Swallow Citizens Whole. He resigned from the governing board of the Gaddafi Foundation in February 2011 (THE GUARDIAN, 04/12/11):
Fair trials rarely emerge from the fog of war. The victors not only tell the tale but render judgment on it. That is why I would prefer a truth and reconciliation commission to Libyan trials of Saif Gaddafi; or for Lord Woolf, whose report on … Seguir leyendo
By John B. Belinger III, a partner with Arnold & Porter LLP and an adjunct senior fellow in international and national security law at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the State Department’s legal adviser from 2005 to 2009 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 23/11/11):
The weekend capture of Moammar Gaddafi’s son Saif al-Islam and Gaddafi’s former intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi, has precipitated a debate between Libya’s new government, the National Transitional Council, and international human rights groups over whether the two should be prosecuted by a Libyan court or turned over to the International Criminal Court in The … Seguir leyendo