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  • Fallujah was subjected to a genocide war by the American forces
    29 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Report On The current situation in the city of Fallujah
    Presented to the 61st session of the United Nations Commission on Human Rights For the period of 1ST January to 25th March 2005
    Studies Center of Human Rights and Democracy - BRussells Tribunal
    03/28/05 "ICH" - - The city of Fallujah was subjected to a genocide war by the American forces. The military machinery destroyed almost 70 per cent of the city, from civilian houses to medical center and general services facilities (…)

  • Is No One Accountable?
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The Bush administration is desperately trying to keep the full story from emerging. But there is no longer any doubt that prisoners seized by the U.S. in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere have been killed, tortured, sexually humiliated and otherwise grotesquely abused.
    These atrocities have been carried out in an atmosphere in which administration officials have routinely behaved as though they were above the law, and thus accountable to no one. People have been rounded up, stripped, (…)

  • Support Our Oops?
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Fayetteville Ripples Spread Across America
    Bring Them Home Now!
    The more than 3000 veterans, military family members and supporters from around the South and around the country who marched in Fayetteville, North Carolina, last weekend had one simple message: Bring Them Home Now! Now they are taking the message from this inspiring demonstration back home with them. Below are some of the voices who are carrying that message.
    First, the truthout website has posted a live news report from (…)

  • Diving Into falluja: To Hell and Back with S.B. Documentary-Maker Mark Manning
    28 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Diving Into falluja To Hell and Back with S.B. Documentary-Maker Mark Manning story by Nick welsh - images by mark manning
    deep sea diver turned documentary filmmaker Mark Manning asked if I had six minutes to spare - a strange request, considering we’d already spent two hours talking about Manning’s recent trip to Falluja, the heart of Iraqâ??s bloody Sunni triangle. Six minutes more was nothing, so Manning queued up a short video of footage heâ??s shot in Iraq and hit play. (…)

  • Follow The Money: Corruption in Iraq is out of control. Will the U.S. clamp down on it?
    27 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Follow The Money Watchdogs are warning that corruption in Iraq is out of control. But will the United States join efforts to clamp down on it?
    ’Fraud-free zone’: Willis, center, in Iraq with two CPA colleagues, preparing to pay a contractor in 2003
    NewsweekApril 4 issue - By many accounts, Custer Battles was a nightmare contractor in Iraq. The company’s two principals, Mike Battles and Scott Custer, overcharged occupation authorities by millions of dollars, according to a complaint from (…)

  • Prayers for Peace
    27 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Buddhist Prayer for Peace
    May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending one another. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness--- the children, the age, the unprotected— be guarded by beneficial celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood The Prayer of Saint Francis (…)

  • More than enough evidence to send Bush Administration to the Hague
    26 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    The International Criminal Tribunal for Iraq (ICTI) this week found both Bush and Tony Blair guilty of a series of charges, and found they deserve life sentences for war crimes and genocide in Iraq.
    The tribunal found Bush guilty on 13 counts, Blair guilty of eight crimes, Koizumi guilty on four counts and Arroyo guilty of aiding and abetting the other defendants of crimes of aggression and crimes against humanity, Abe said.
    Bush is guilty of genocide for the use of "devastating" (…)

  • War crimes in IRAQ
    26 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    War crimes in IRAQ
    I am writing to you calling for some efforts to stop the war going on in Iraq.
    This war has caused the loss of more than 100,000 Iraqis ( according to a study published by the LANCET medical journal ( www.thelancet.com ) ) and more than 1528 Americans. Large violations of human rights have been committed against civilians in various towns of Iraq,( see for example the report " Beyond Torture ", www.cser.com ) . Those who were the cause for these losses and violations (…)

  • The escalation of Violence In IRAQ
    26 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Does violence bring other than violence
    The escalation of violence in Iraq has resulted in large numbers death among civilians. According to a study, published by the Lancet medical journal, the chance of violent death has increased by 58 folds after the invasion of Iraq in March 2003. The reasons for that escalation can be concluded from the following facts:
    Prior to March 2003, large percentage of the Iraqis started to believe in the promises given by USA and (…)

  • Giuliana Sgrena was shot in the Green Zone, by a tank as they drove away from it!
    25 March 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Three weeks after being shot by US forces in Iraq, veteran Italian war correspondent Giuliana Sgrena is released from a military hospital. New details are emerging about the killing of the Italian agent who saved her life. We speak with independent journalist Naomi Klein, who just returned from meeting with Sgrena in Rome. In Rome, journalist Giuliana Sgrena has been released from a military hospital where she was being treated for a gunshot wound she suffered when US forces shot up the car (…)