Actualité - Crimes of Massacres and Torture Organized at the Top - No to U.S. State Terrorism Against Iraqi People
Franc-Parler publie un éditorial de Voice of Revolution sur les crimes contre le peuple irakien dans lesquelles le gouvernement américain et son armée sont impliqués. Le massacre scandaleux d'Haditha dans une réplique du clélèbre massacre de My Lai le démontre très bien. Le peuple irakien comme le peuple vietnamien à l'époque a le droit de résister.
The broad impunity and terrorism of the U.S. state is again being shown with the massacre of 24 civilians — many of them children — in the western Iraqi town of Haditha. Haditha, like Fallujah, is well known as a town of resistance to the U.S. occupation and war against the Iraqi people. The particular massacre referred to took place in November of 2005, but many others have and are taking place all across Iraq.
The evidence of repeated and on-going massacres is clear and abundant. Dr. Salam Ishmael, projects manager with the organization Doctors for Iraq, and former chief of the junior doctors in Baghdad’s Medical City Hospital, emphasized, “There are many, many, many cases like Haditha that are still undercover and need to be highlighted in Iraq.” In Haditha itself, he said, the U.S. military cut electricity and water to the entire city, attacked the hospital, and burned the pharmacy. “The hospital has been attacked three times. In November 2005 the hospital was occupied by the American and Iraqi Army for seven days, which is a severe breach of the Geneva Conventions,” said Dr. Ishmael. The Iraqi Red Crescent reported at the time that nearly 1,000 families had been forced to flee their homes in Haditha following the November attacks by the U.S.
Abdul Salam Al-Kubaissi, spokesperson for the Muslim Clerics Association, speaking recently at a news conference in Baghdad said: “The situation has reached a level when the U.S. soldier becomes a professional killer, who kills with premeditation and deliberation. This should be among war crimes, and the ones who should be put on trial are the U.S. commanders and not the U.S. soldier, because the commanders are the ones who instruct those (soldiers) and justify their acts as it happened in Abu Ghraib’s scandal.”
Consistent with the government’s policy of lying on principle, the Pentagon denies these massacres, usually claiming those killed were terrorists, or that they were killed by bombs planted by those resisting occupation, or were “collateral damage” from the massive U.S. bombing raids, and so forth. When the government can no longer get away with these lies, as occurred with Abu Ghraib and the photographs, and now with Haditha and witness testimony from survivors, then they target individual soldiers who are acting on their own, supposedly “against” government policy.
As President Bush claimed, “I am troubled by the initial news stories. I am mindful there is a thorough investigation going on. If in fact laws were broken there will be punishment.” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld went so far as to say that “U.S. troops respect the rights of Iraqis,” something that is not possible as long as the U.S. is an occupying force.
These lies and complete denial of responsibility from the top are coming in the face of a recent UN report condemning the U.S. for its repeated violations of the Convention on Torture. The UN called for the closing of the Guantánamo concentration camp, and said the U.S. was violating the convention in prisons worldwide and in the U.S. All of these are crimes.
The Convention was signed by the U.S. in 1995 and is law of the land, as well as being international law. To date, none of those responsible for the crimes committed in Iraq, in Afghanistan, at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, and dozens of other concentration camps and prisons in the U.S. and worldwide has been punished. Such punishment would require first of all that Bush and Rumsfeld be tried for war crimes, an action that neither the Pentagon nor Congress will take.
The Pentagon has instead echoed Bush, targeting the soldiers directly involved, not the officers, not the Commander in Chief. An “investigation” is on going. Like Abu Ghraib, it is expected that the “investigation” will confirm that this is an “isolated” incident of a few soldiers, when in fact it is representative of the broad terrorism and impunity of the U.S. state.
The Pentagon is also launching yet another round of “ethical training” for American troops, much as they have “sensitivity training” for police and prison guards notorious for their brutality against the people. The soldiers and guards carry out their impunity in a situation where those in command have systematically organized such impunity and terrorism, beginning with Bush, Rumsfeld, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the top military brass.
Outrage over the massacre of civilians has prompted leaders of the U.S.-installed government to respond to the Haditha massacre. Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki recently condemned the killings in Haditha as an “odious crime” and called for talks “to redefine the obligations of coalition forces.” He said violence against civilians by U.S.-led coalition forces had become a “daily phenomenon.” The American forces, he charged, “do not respect the Iraq people.... They crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on suspicion or a hunch.” On June 1 Iraq said it was launching its own probe into the Haditha killings.
In addition, on June 3 the Iraqi government rejected the findings of a recent U.S. inquiry into the death of 11 civilians in a March 15 U.S. raid in the town of Ishaqi 60 miles north of Baghdad. It said it would conduct its own investigation. The government will demand an apology and compensation, said a government spokesman. These actions are indications of the failure of the U.S. state to install a government in Iraq and suppress the Iraqi people, despite using massive military might and broad impunity to commit war crimes.
The Iraqi people, like the Vietnamese before them, will emerge victorious against the criminal U.S. war and occupation. They are supported by the world’s peoples, with Americans joining to take their stand to reject U.S. state terrorism and aggression, end the war and punish Bush and all those guilty of war crimes.
Reject the Failed U.S. State! Strengthen the Peoples’ Forces!
(Voice of Revolution)
The broad impunity and terrorism of the U.S. state is again being shown with the massacre of 24 civilians — many of them children — in the western Iraqi town of Haditha. Haditha, like Fallujah, is well known as a town of resistance to the U.S. occupation and war against the Iraqi people. The particular massacre referred to took place in November of 2005, but many others have and are taking place all across Iraq.
The evidence of repeated and on-going massacres is clear and abundant. Dr. Salam Ishmael, projects manager with the organization Doctors for Iraq, and former chief of the junior doctors in Baghdad’s Medical City Hospital, emphasized, “There are many, many, many cases like Haditha that are still undercover and need to be highlighted in Iraq.” In Haditha itself, he said, the U.S. military cut electricity and water to the entire city, attacked the hospital, and burned the pharmacy. “The hospital has been attacked three times. In November 2005 the hospital was occupied by the American and Iraqi Army for seven days, which is a severe breach of the Geneva Conventions,” said Dr. Ishmael. The Iraqi Red Crescent reported at the time that nearly 1,000 families had been forced to flee their homes in Haditha following the November attacks by the U.S.
Abdul Salam Al-Kubaissi, spokesperson for the Muslim Clerics Association, speaking recently at a news conference in Baghdad said: “The situation has reached a level when the U.S. soldier becomes a professional killer, who kills with premeditation and deliberation. This should be among war crimes, and the ones who should be put on trial are the U.S. commanders and not the U.S. soldier, because the commanders are the ones who instruct those (soldiers) and justify their acts as it happened in Abu Ghraib’s scandal.”
Consistent with the government’s policy of lying on principle, the Pentagon denies these massacres, usually claiming those killed were terrorists, or that they were killed by bombs planted by those resisting occupation, or were “collateral damage” from the massive U.S. bombing raids, and so forth. When the government can no longer get away with these lies, as occurred with Abu Ghraib and the photographs, and now with Haditha and witness testimony from survivors, then they target individual soldiers who are acting on their own, supposedly “against” government policy.
As President Bush claimed, “I am troubled by the initial news stories. I am mindful there is a thorough investigation going on. If in fact laws were broken there will be punishment.” Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld went so far as to say that “U.S. troops respect the rights of Iraqis,” something that is not possible as long as the U.S. is an occupying force.
These lies and complete denial of responsibility from the top are coming in the face of a recent UN report condemning the U.S. for its repeated violations of the Convention on Torture. The UN called for the closing of the Guantánamo concentration camp, and said the U.S. was violating the convention in prisons worldwide and in the U.S. All of these are crimes.
The Convention was signed by the U.S. in 1995 and is law of the land, as well as being international law. To date, none of those responsible for the crimes committed in Iraq, in Afghanistan, at Abu Ghraib, Guantánamo, and dozens of other concentration camps and prisons in the U.S. and worldwide has been punished. Such punishment would require first of all that Bush and Rumsfeld be tried for war crimes, an action that neither the Pentagon nor Congress will take.
The Pentagon has instead echoed Bush, targeting the soldiers directly involved, not the officers, not the Commander in Chief. An “investigation” is on going. Like Abu Ghraib, it is expected that the “investigation” will confirm that this is an “isolated” incident of a few soldiers, when in fact it is representative of the broad terrorism and impunity of the U.S. state.
The Pentagon is also launching yet another round of “ethical training” for American troops, much as they have “sensitivity training” for police and prison guards notorious for their brutality against the people. The soldiers and guards carry out their impunity in a situation where those in command have systematically organized such impunity and terrorism, beginning with Bush, Rumsfeld, Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the top military brass.
Outrage over the massacre of civilians has prompted leaders of the U.S.-installed government to respond to the Haditha massacre. Iraq’s Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki recently condemned the killings in Haditha as an “odious crime” and called for talks “to redefine the obligations of coalition forces.” He said violence against civilians by U.S.-led coalition forces had become a “daily phenomenon.” The American forces, he charged, “do not respect the Iraq people.... They crush them with their vehicles and kill them just on suspicion or a hunch.” On June 1 Iraq said it was launching its own probe into the Haditha killings.
In addition, on June 3 the Iraqi government rejected the findings of a recent U.S. inquiry into the death of 11 civilians in a March 15 U.S. raid in the town of Ishaqi 60 miles north of Baghdad. It said it would conduct its own investigation. The government will demand an apology and compensation, said a government spokesman. These actions are indications of the failure of the U.S. state to install a government in Iraq and suppress the Iraqi people, despite using massive military might and broad impunity to commit war crimes.
The Iraqi people, like the Vietnamese before them, will emerge victorious against the criminal U.S. war and occupation. They are supported by the world’s peoples, with Americans joining to take their stand to reject U.S. state terrorism and aggression, end the war and punish Bush and all those guilty of war crimes.
Reject the Failed U.S. State! Strengthen the Peoples’ Forces!
(Voice of Revolution)
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