Archivo etiqueta «Magnicidio»
By Linda Melvern, an investigative journalist (THE GUARDIAN, 10/01/12):
Few events have been the subject of as many rumours and lies as the assassination on 6 April 1994 of Rwanda’s President Juvénal Habyarimana. We may never know the identity of the assassins who fired the two missiles that blew his jet apart as it came in to land at Kigali International Airport; yet this one key event signalled the targeted elimination of Rwanda’s political opposition, and triggered the genocide of the Tutsi people.
Since that night there has been a ceaseless propaganda war, with each side blaming the other … Seguir leyendo
Por Antonio José Ponte, escritor y vicedirector del Diario de Cuba (EL PAÍS, 05/11/11):
El pasado agosto el Corriere della Sera habló del asesinato de Albert Camus a manos de la KGB. El diario italiano citaba al eslavista Giovanni Catelli, este citaba una entrada de los diarios del checo Jan Zabrana, y Zabrana, su encuentro con alguien próximo a la inteligencia soviética. Según esa versión, lo que fuera considerado en 1960 un accidente mortal de tráfico había sido, en el fondo, un asesinato político. Camus pagaba de ese modo su condena de la invasión soviética a Hungría y el … Seguir leyendo
By Antonio Cassese, president of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon. He previously served as president of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and chairman of the International Commission of Inquiry on Darfur (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13/07/11):
The Lebanese authorities have received indictments and accompanying arrest warrants relating to the murder of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and 21 others in a huge blast in Beirut.
An important milestone in bringing to justice those responsible for the terrible events of Feb. 14, 2005, has been reached. As we wait for the people accused to be arrested let … Seguir leyendo
Por Norman Birnbaum, catedrático emérito en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Georgetown. Traducción de Juan Ramón Azaola (EL PAÍS, 16/01/11):
En una época en que Hitler, Mao y Stalin no quedan tan lejos, no tiene mucho sentido atribuirle a Estados Unidos una propensión exclusiva a la violencia. El empleo de la violencia cruza toda frontera étnica, nacional, racial y religiosa. Hobbes, Dostoievski y Freud siguen siendo nuestros contemporáneos.
En el agitado debate provocado por la masacre de Tucson, tanto quienes se han aprovechado políticamente del odio al presidente como sus aliados han insistido en que no … Seguir leyendo
Por Manuel Castells (LA VANGUARDIA, 15/01/11):
El tiro en la nuca a la congresista demócrata Gabrielle Giffords y la masacre de quienes asistían a su acto político han conmocionado a EE. UU. y al mundo. Entre los muertos, Christina Taylor, una niña de9años interesada en la política. Se veía venir. La elección de Obama desencadenó un huracán de rabia y odio dirigido en particular contra la reforma del seguro de salud, denunciada como “socialista”. El Tea Party, un movimiento populista nacionalista liderado por Sarah Palin, se propagó jaleado por algunos medios de comunicación como la cadena Fox. El éxito republicano … Seguir leyendo
Por Javier Rupérez, embajador de España (ABC, 11/01/11):
Visiblemente alterado por los acontecimientos, el sheriff del condado donde se encuentra Tucson, en el estado de Arizona, al dar cuenta de la terrible matanza que se ha cobrado la vida de seis personas y producido graves heridas a otras dieciocho, y después de confesar que en sus cincuenta años de dedicación profesional no había visto nada parecido en el horror, descargó su iracundo sentimiento contra la atmósfera de intolerancia y odio que medios políticos y de comunicación estaban generalizando en la vida americana y en la cual, cabía deducir, se … Seguir leyendo
Por Joaquín Tamames, economista (EL MUNDO, 11/02/09):
Cuando en la noche del 20 de julio de 1944 Claus von Stauffenberg fue fusilado en el patio del cuartel berlinés de Bendleerstrasse, Alemania perdió su última oportunidad de eliminar a Hitler y de propiciar una rendición pactada con el mando aliado. En los casi cinco años desde el inicio de la II Guerra Mundial, Alemania había sufrido 2,8 millones de muertos, y en los restantes 10 meses de contienda, hasta mayo de 1945, los muertos alemanes fueron 4,8 millones. Stauffenberg estuvo muy cerca de lograr evitar el sufrimiento de millones de … Seguir leyendo
Por Eva Borreguero, directora de Programas Educativos de Casa Asia (EL PAÍS, 19/01/08):
Cada vez que los medios de comunicación nos sobresaltan con noticias como el asesinato de Benazir Bhutto, o con otras menos trágicas pero no de inferior repercusión -léase la proliferación nuclear llevada a cabo por el padre de la bomba nuclear pakistaní, A. Q. Khan, y las posibles implicaciones de elementos estatales-, uno no puede dejar de tener la impresión de que en Pakistán existen dinámicas ocultas terribles dispuestas a actuar entre bastidores e influir sobre el curso político del país.
El magnicidio recurrente no es … Seguir leyendo
By Asif Ali Zardari, a former senator and co-chairman of the Pakistan People’s Party with his son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari (THE WASHINGTON POST, 05/01/08):
Last week the world was shocked, and my life was shattered, by the murder of my beloved wife, Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. Benazir was willing to lay down her life for what she believed in — for the future of a democratic, moderate, progressive Pakistan. She stood up to dictators and fanatics, those who would distort and defy our constitution and those who would defame the Muslim holy book by violence and terrorism. My … Seguir leyendo
By Shashi Tharoor, the author of The Elephant, the Tiger and the Cellphone and a former UN under-secretary general (THE GUARDIAN, 04/01/08):
Benazir Bhutto has never looked so good. This week has seen the international press apotheosising the telegenic Pakistani politician. But the widely expressed view that Bhutto epitomised Pakistan’s hopes for democracy, which have now perished with her, seriously overstates what she represented and the implications of her demise.The principal consequence of Bhutto’s death is the setback it has dealt to the United States-inspired plan to anoint her, after not-quite free-and-fair elections, as the acceptable civilian face of … Seguir leyendo
By William Dalrymple, the author, most recently, of The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 04/01/08):
When, in May 1991, former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of India was killed by a suicide bomber, there was an international outpouring of grief. Recent days have seen the same with the death of Benazir Bhutto: another glamorous, Western-educated scion of a great South Asian political dynasty tragically assassinated at an election rally.
There is, however, an important difference between the two deaths: while Mr. Gandhi was assassinated by Sri Lankan Hindu extremists because of his … Seguir leyendo
By Hassan Abbas (THE GUARDIAN, 01/01/08):
Prospects of democracy in Pakistan were rising when Benazir Bhutto and Nawaz Sharif returned to the country and decided to contest elections. Movement for the rule of law spearheaded by lawyers and civil society actors in response to the unlawful deposition of the chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, since March 2007 was also a healthy development for the country. However, Musharraf started backtracking on the understanding he had developed with Benazir as his political allies were getting uncomfortable with the reception she was getting across the country.
And then came the assassin’s bullet – in … Seguir leyendo
By Muhammad Nawaz Sharif, head of the Pakistan Muslim League and twice elected prime minister of Pakistan (THE WASHINGTON POST, 01/01/08):
There is no law and certainly no order in my country. What happened this past week has shaken every Pakistani. Benazir Bhutto was no ordinary person. She served as prime minister twice and had returned to Pakistan in an effort to restore our country to the path of democracy. With her assassination I have lost a friend and a partner in democracy.
It is too early to blame anybody for her death. One thing, however, is beyond any … Seguir leyendo
Por Michael Portillo, ex ministro de Defensa del Reino Unido durante el Gobierno del conservador John Major (EL MUNDO, 31/12/07):
Una de las peores meteduras de pata a lo largo de mi carrera política fue un intento frustrado de besar a Benazir Bhutto. Habíamos asistido a una reunión y, aunque hasta entonces no habíamos coincidido más que en algunas ocasiones, ella me saludó calurosamente, como si fuéramos viejos amigos, por lo que, cuando llegó el momento de despedirnos, fui a darle unos besos en las mejillas, como habría hecho con la mayor parte de mis colegas del sexo opuesto. … Seguir leyendo
By Robert D. Novak (THE WASHINGTON POST, 31/12/07):
The assassination of Benazir Bhutto followed two months of urgent pleas to the State Department by her representatives for better protection. The U.S. reaction was that she was worried over nothing, expressing assurance that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf would not let anything happen to her.
That attitude led a Bhutto agent to inform a high-ranking State Department official that her camp no longer viewed the backstage U.S. effort to broker a power-sharing agreement between Musharraf and the former prime minister as a good-faith effort toward democracy. It was, according to the written … Seguir leyendo