ANL: Stop The NF In Leicester
Advance Notice: = No Nazis in Leicester: Stop the National Front march! Following their humiliation at the Unity Against Prejudice march in Leicester in July, the NF are threatening to march in the city again. The Anti-Nazi League is going to stop them. Saturday 26 August, assemble 12 p.m., The Clock Tower, bottom of Gallowtree Gate, Leicester city centre Supported by Leicester and District Trades Council, MSF Leicestershire East, CWU Leicestershire, UNISON Leicester City, Indian Workers Association. Further details to follow. = ANTI-NAZI LEAGUE PO Box 2566 London N4 1WJ Tel: 020 7924 0333 Fax: 020 7924 0313 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.anl.org.uk = ==email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] phone:020 79240333, fax:020 79240313, ANL PO Box 2566 London N4 1WJ==
Cork Commuters Left Stranded By Picket (Irish Times)
ireland.com - The Irish Times - IRELAND IRELAND Wednesday, August 09, 2000 Wednesday, August 9, 2000 Cork commuters stranded by picket By Barry Roche, in Cork An estimated 20,000 commuters were left stranded in Cork city yesterday morning when members of the Irish Locomotive Drivers Association mounted a picket outside the main Bus Éireann depot in the city which led to the disruption of most city and some country bus services. Approximately 60 bus drivers - members of SIPTU and the NBRU - refused to pass the picket at the Capwell Garage at about 5.30 a.m. by four members of ILDA. The picket remained until 9 a.m. when bus services around the city began to return to normal. According to a Bus Éireann sales executive, Mr Denis Burke, about two-thirds of Bus Éireann's services were affected. Only longdistance country services where drivers were bringing in buses ran according to schedule. "This unofficial picket took us unawares and we want to let the public know that it has nothing to do with Bus Éireann. Some dri vers decided not to pass the pic ket and we regret the inconveni ence it caused." He said the protest hit services at a peak time. According to ILDA sources, yesterday's protest was born out of frustration at the failure of the Government and the Minister for Public Enterprise, Ms O'Rourke, to intervene in the dispute bet ween the association and Iarnród Éireann which has entered its eighth week. ILDA member Mr Tom Loughnane said he had no doubt the dispute would be resolved by now if it had affected Dublin services. "Dublin Bus went on strike on their own problems last week for three hours - they were al lowed to go back on their old rosters and old conditions. "We can't - they won't allow us to do it - just till this thing is sorted out. We'd go back to work right now, this minute, if they would allow us on our old rosters, that's all we're asking until this thing is sorted out, one way or the other. It's not too much to ask for now at this stage, is it?" Cork North Central Fine Gael TD Mr Bernard Allen said he too believed the dispute would have been resolved by now if it was affecting Dublin services. "I think if this was affecting the public in Dublin as seriously as it's affecting people in the provinces, talks would have taken place long before now." There were fears last night that ILDA members might resume their unofficial picket of the Eireann Capwell Depot later this week, although a spokesman for the asso ciation could not be contacted to confirm if the group had further protests planned.
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WW News Service Digest #150 1) Letter from John Does at CFCF by [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) Whiose Streets? Our Streets! by [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Anti-Racist Solidarity in a Philly Jail Cell by [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4) R2K: Capitalist "Democracy" Bares its Teeth by [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5) Philly: Supporters Aid Jailed Activists by [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6) Socialist Candidates: "Organize ...to Free Mumia!" by [EMAIL PROTECTED] 7) Protesters Unmask Democratic Convention by [EMAIL PROTECTED] 8) 86,000 Workers Strike Telecom Giant by [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - VOICES OF RESISITANCE: LETTER FROM JOHN DOES AT CFCF We are 24 male prisoners currently held at Curran-From hold Correctional Facility for our participation or attempted participation in the Aug. 1 non-violent direct actions against the Republican Convention in Philadelphia. The carefully choreographed conventions of both major parties have nothing to do with democracy. They are corporate-sponsored pageants designed to legitimize a system of corporate class rule that crushes the human spirit and that is destroying the planet. The criminal justice system of cops, courts and prisons that targets poor and working-class people in general and people of color in particular is a cornerstone of a system that serves the rich and maintains their rule. Our actions in the streets of Philadelphia were intended to shine a light on the incarceration of 2 million people in the U.S., on the systematic use of police brutality to terrorize whole communities, on the racism and cruelty of the death penalty, on the many political prisoners, including Mumia Abu- Jamal, who are caged for their commitment to social justice. Our actions were aimed at disrupting the Republican Convention to the best of our ability. While we're sorry for any inconvenience we may have caused the people of Philadelphia, we are proud of what we did to expose this rotten system. From the moment of our arrest we have experienced and witnessed the workings of a system designed to dehumanize people. Many of us were brutalized in the course of arrests. Some of us were beaten or pepper sprayed after we were handcuffed. In jail as many as nine people were packed into cells designed for two people. People with dietary restrictions went without food for up to 48 hours. In some cases our hands and feet were cuffed together and some of us had our cuffs so tight that we lost feelings in our hands or bled as a result. We were denied the opportunity to meet with our lawyers prior to arraignment and were arraigned in a courtroom closed to the general public with the exception of select members of the capitalist media. We were arraigned with a court appointed public defender serving as counsel despite our explicitly and repeatedly stated desire to be represented by our own counsel who were denied access to the proceedings. We were charged with a variety of misdemeanors and in a few cases with felonies. Our individual bails have been set at between $10,000 and $1 million. Many if not all of the charges against us are either greatly exaggerated or completely falsified. At Curran-Fromhold Correctional Facility we have been placed in a special pod where we have little contact with other prisoners. While we regard our conditions here as dehumanizing we recognize that we are receiving special treatment such as extra food. So far we have not been beaten or physically hurt by personnel here. Throughout this process we have sought to resist and stand in solidarity with each other to the best of our abilities. Almost all of us have refused to give our names. Many of us have had to be physically dragged through the various stages of this process. We have kept our spirits high through singing and chanting and pounding on our cell walls. We developed systems for communicating with each other and for reaching decisions by consensus. Many of us ripped the bracelets intended to identify us off our wrists. We resisted fingerprinting and attempts to photograph us. Some of us have refused food. In jail we stripped naked to make our processing more difficult. In the course of all this we have discovered strengths we never knew we had and have built a wall of solidarity based on profound love and respect for each other. We have drawn particular strength from the proud defiance of the sisters whose loud voices we have heard and whose acts of resistance we have occasionally been able to witness. While our access to information is restricted we are aware of the efforts of those on the outside to assist us. We love you all. We are in here for you and know that you are out there for us. We believe that our experiences so far strongly vindicate us in our decision to take powerful action to expose the brutality and injustice of the so-called criminal justice system.
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The events in Philadelphia show that capitalist democracy means democracy for the capitalists and repression for those who resist the rule of capital. As of Aug. 9, the R2K Network reported, 323 prisoners of the 456 or more arrested remain in Philadelphia jails. The prisoners are subject to beatings, hog-tying and inhumane crowding; sexual threats and abuse; denial of food, water and medicine; inadequate legal representation, illegal arraignments and incredibly high bails; and numerous other outrages. Many were arrested away from the demonstrations because they had been "profiled" as demonstrators, legal observers or sympathizers. Many were surrounded by police while on the streets, beaten and dragged off to jail. Others were stopped while driving, arbitrarily arrested and had their vehicles confiscated. `CIVIL RIGHTS CATASTROPHE' An Aug. 6 Philadelphia Inquirer article circulated by the New York City Direct Action Network quoted Rita Glazebnik, a 22-year-old protester from Union City, N.J., who was released from jail. "The people that did not comply were tortured," she said. "They were pulled by the hair, they were kicked. A girl that weighed 96 pounds--she was weighed in front of me--was thrown on the ground and they stepped on her head." The Inquirer also interviewed Joseph Rogers, executive director of the National Mental Health Consumers' Self-Help Clearinghouse, who was arrested while trying to stop an illegal arrest. "I was locked up for two nights myself, and at one point I was hog-tied by plastic restraints from my right arm to my left ankle and told to hop back to my cell. "When I told the guard I had a bad knee on which I had had surgery, they made me crawl back to my cell. They did this to me because I raised my voice in protest about another prisoner who was being tortured." Jimmy Graham, an R2K Network legal observer, told the Inquirer that when he was photographing a woman's arrest, "an officer knocked the camera out and stomped on my face, wedged my skull against the sidewalk. . The officer said, `I've been watching you for three days.' " Graham was arrested and suffered abrasions all over his face. According to an Aug. 3 R2K Network report, published on the Internet by the Independent Media Center of Philadelphia, bail for protesters practicing jail solidarity by refusing to give their names was set between $15,000 and $450,000. "To my knowledge, bail has never been set so high for misdemeanor charges in the history of this country," declared Ron McGuire, an R2K legal representative. "I consider this a civil rights catastrophe of the first order," he added. While John Sellers of the Ruckus Society eventually had his bail reduced from $1 million to a "mere" $100,000, Kate Sorensen of ACT UP Philadelphia is still being held on $1 million bail. Sorensen is charged with 10 felonies. There were numerous undercover operations mounted against the demonstrators. An Aug. 4 release by the IMC reported on what happened to a Texas delegation from the Dallas County Green Party and Dallas Progressive Action League. Nineteen people filled their van. They were supposed to meet a group outside the Greyhound bus terminal in Philadelphia and give support to a particular planned activity. The van's owner, Scott (he would not release his last name for obvious reasons), told the IMC that "there were actually three undercover police officers in our affinity group." "One was driving Scott's van," the IMC reported. The driver was supposed to drive a certain route. He passed his turn and "drove right instead into a crowd of 15 Pennsylvania State Police officers." The driver hopped out, got into a police car and drove off. Everyone else was arrested. WAREHOUSE CENTER RAIDED Another IMC dispatch on Aug. 7 reported that Lt. Jeffrey Herold of the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department was "on the scene in the warehouse raid in Philly. He also participated in the April 15 raid on the puppet building, convergence space, the preemptive strike on the World Bank/IMF demonstrators" in Washington. Herold is in charge of Special Operations of the D.C. Metro Police and was part of a disinformation project on April 16. The raid on the warehouse, the arrest of 70 people and the destruction of the large puppet displays exposing the racist and criminal injustice system were key to the government disruption. The warehouse was a vital organizing center for the activity. The shredding of the puppets showed the police fear of the anti-racist political message getting out. Ever since the Seattle demonstrations against the World Trade Organization, the capitalist government has been trying to figure out how to defeat the new movement. Tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets and arrests only spurred the movement on in Seattle. A massive police presence, mass arrests, preventive detention and a media campaign of vilification in Washington on April 16 did not deter the movement from trying to shut down the
Demonstration for the Liberation of Jaime Yovanovic
From: "ILC" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Demonstration for the Liberation of Jaime Yovanovic Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 13:19:12 +0200 10th of August, 10.00, Partisan Square, Perugia, in front of the Prison Tomorrow we will know the date of Jaimes interrogation. If his immediate liberation is not conceded, we plan a hunger strike and a permanent protest assembly in front of the Prison of Perugia. All who support the call for the liberation of Jaime should send their declaration of solidarity today until 24 o clock. The list of supporters is growing constantly. Here only a small selection: · Luigi Manconi, lawyer (Green Party) · Paolo Ferrero (National Secretariat of Rifundfazione Comunista) · Gianni Rognoni (International Foundation Lelio Basso for the Rights and Liberation of the Peoples) · Don Vitaliano Della Sala (Priest of San Angelo a Scala) · Giorgio Nebbia (ex-MP of the Independent Left, docent on the University of Bari) · Dino Frisullo (Kurdistan Azad) The entire list will be published on our web-page: www.antiimperialista.com We call upon all the democrats and comrades who are worried about the destiny of Jaime, as well as all Chilean antifascists to give their support for the campaign to liberate Jaime and participate in the protests: Send your messages of solidarity to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Yesterday in the morning Giulino Pisapia made a parliamentary inquire to the Minister of Justice about the case. Beside the lawyer Fransescato Innamorati (ex-partisan), also the lawyer Simonetta Crisci, who always maintained close relations to the Chilean exile community is engaged in the defense of Jaime. Yesterday several interviews were given to Radio Popolare Milan, Radio Città Aperta Rom, Onda Rossa Rom, Onda dUrto Brescia, Corriere dellUmbria, Metro Rom, Libero Milan. TG1 spoke about the case in their 13.00 news, TG3 Umbria also gave a four minutes report. All the mass media of Umbria published the note of the arrest of Jaime. Tomorrow Il Mainfesto and Republica will publish articles on the case. Political Committee of the Anti-imperialist Camp Assisi 2000 *** International Leninist Current (ILC) Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI) PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria Tel Fax +43 1 504 00 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.comports.com/ilc www.antiimperialista.com __ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe/unsubscribe messages mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___
Korean Central News Agency Aug 9
TODAY'S NEWS (August.09.2000 Juche 89) [CONTENTS] * Kim Jong Il's idea of attaching great importance to youth praised * S. Korean intellectuals refuse to deal with Chosun Ilbo * History calls for national reunification * Sojourn of delegation of S. Korean media organizations * Symposium of social scientists * Japanese figures visit Korean Hall in Japan * Achievements in implementation of three major tasks of technical revolution * South Koreans demand closure of U.S. troops' firing range * Smooth repatriation of unconverted long-term prisoners called for For Spanish-speaking people * permanencia de delegacion de organos de prensa de sudcorea * no se debe impedir camino a norcorea de presos de larga condena no abjurados Kim Jong Il's idea of attaching great importance to youth praised Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- Jerom Thea, chairman of the national council of Guinean Youth, issued a statement on August 1 supporting leader Kim Jong Il's idea of attaching great importance to the youth. Noting that the youth represent the most vital unit in the society, Kim Jong Il has pursued the politics of attaching great importance to the youth to train them as reliable successors to the nation-building, the chairman said, and continued: He, trusting the youth as a steadfast protector, powerful builder and reliable defender of socialism, has shown all his love for them. Thanks to his politics of attaching great importance to the youth the beautiful trait of devoting oneself to the society, collective and comrades is now being fully displayed among the Korean youth. S. Korean intellectuals refuse to deal with Chosun Ilbo Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- At least 120 religious men and intellectuals at a press conference held in the office of the citizens' solidarity for democratic society on August 7 declared that they would refuse to contribute any articles to Chosun Ilbo and to be interviewed by the paper as it vitiates the atmosphere of reconciliation between the south and the north with the cold war theory, according to the Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation in Seoul. They charged that Chosun Ilbo has floated ultra-right cold war theory such as "unification through absorption" and unification by force of arms through its articles and contributed stories since the north-south summit and intends to invite progressive intellectuals to contribute articles to its cultural and social pages in a bid to cover up its conservative colors. They clarified that they would not cooperate with it so that the readers may properly judge it. History calls for national reunification Pyongyang, August 9 (KCNA) -- The reunification of the Korean nation is the call of history, says Rodong Sinmun today in a signed article. National reunification is the greatest desire and supreme task for the Korean nation, the article notes, and goes on: Our nation should achieve national reunification at any cost. National reunification is just the call of the era and history and the unanimous aspiration and demand of all the fellow countrymen. Any Korean who loves the country and the nation and values its noble spirit should respond to national reunification, the call of history. The driving force in the struggle for national reunification is all the Korean people and they have strength enough to achieve the country's reunification. The might of the driving force precisely lies in unity. All the Koreans in the north, south and abroad should firmly unite as one and strengthen the driving force for national reunification through great national unity. Herein lies a sure guarantee for accomplishing the historic cause of national reunification, the cherished desire of the nation. Great national unity should be achieved strictly on the principle of national independence. This alone makes it possible to defend national interests and hew out the destiny of the nation and solve the issue of the country's reunification independently. All the fellow countrymen should closely unite under the banner of patriotism and reunification. patriotism is the ideological and mental basis of great national unity and national reunification is the common cause of the nation. Today there are a number of differences in the north and the south of Korea such as differing ideologies and systems. However, the common desire of the nation to carry forward the national tradition and achieve reconciliation, unity and reunification as a homogenious nation prevails over differences. All the fellow countrymen in the north, south and abroad should firmly unite under the banner of patriotism and national reunification and make a tangible contribution to the country's reunification, the common cause of the nation, by encouraging those who have strength to contribute strength, those with knowledge to devote knowledge and those with money to donate money irrespective of
Yugoslav Daily Survey Aug 9
Yugoslav Daily Survey BELGRADE, 9 August 2000 a.. AMBASSADOR SPADIJER: TRAGIC SITUATION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - EU a.. ILLEGAL EURO-SLOVENIAN "EXPERT" IN MONTENEGRO b.. YUGOSLAV BUSINESSMEN APPEAL AGAINST E.U. SANCTIONS KOSOVO AND METOHIJA - UNMIK a.. UNMIK TARGETS ZVECAN SMELTING WORKS b.. GNJILANE COURT DROPS CHARGES AGAINST SERBS FROM FOREIGN PRESS a.. RUSSIA'S PATRIARCH: CONCERN OVER THE DEMOLITION OF CHRISTIAN ORTHODOX HOLY PLACES * * * ACTIVITIES OF YUGOSLAV DIPLOMATS AMBASSADOR SPADIJER: TRAGIC SITUATION IN KOSOVO AND METOHIJA BUDAPEST, August 9 (Tanjug) - Yugoslav Ambassador in Budapest Balsa Spadijer has said in an interview to the Hungarian paper Szabadsag (Freedom) that the situation in Kosovo and Metohija province - more than a year after the end of the NATO air strikes and the arrival of the international missions KFOR and UNMIK - has dramatically deteriorated. "There is an escalation of terrorism, violence and organized crime in the province, and ethnic cleansing is being practised against Serbs and other non-Albanians in plain view and with the approval of KFOR and UNMIK, with these forces thus acting directly contrary to U.N. Security Council Resolution 1244," Spadijer said in the latest edition of the organ of the Hungarian Workers' Party. Speaking about the results of reconstruction in Yugoslavia, Spadijer said it was proceeding at a stepped-up pace and presented the best answer to the aggressive policy of NATO, actually of the United States. Spadijer said, among other things, that Yugoslavia has done much also to restore free navigation on the Danube. "If everything goes according to plan, the Danube will again be navigable also in its southern part early next summer," he said, indicating that, contrary to such activities, there was no reconstruction at all in Kosovo and Metohija, but in fact the destruction and damaging of cultural monuments, Christian Orthodox churches and monasteries. "The Yugoslav government believes that Kosovo and Metohija should get wide autonomy within Serbia, that the return of Serbs and other non-Albanians should be secured and a multi-ethnic character of the province created, like the one that had existed before the NATO aggression," Spadijer said. "The situation is completely different in the other Serbian province, Vojvodina, where members of over 20 nations live in harmony, and the Hungarian minority is renowned and respected, loyal to the state to which they belong, which they had demonstrated also during the 78 days of air strikes," the ambassador said. Spadijer said he believed the current standstill in Yugoslav-Hungarian relations was a consequence of the participation of official Budapest in the attack on Yugoslavia. "The Hungarian government was very engaged in the so-called Szeged process in the name of a democratization of the region, which we consider direct interference in the internal affairs of Yugoslavia. This is definitely not conducive to the promotion of mutual ties and good-neighbor relations, but, in spite of this, there is cooperation in a series of areas, and I am convinced that it will become more and more important," Spadijer said. F.R. YUGOSLAVIA - EU ILLEGAL EURO-SLOVENIAN "EXPERT" IN MONTENEGRO PODGORICA, August 9 (Tanjug) - Illegally, without any legal basis or approval of the Yugoslav government, the Council of Europe has appointed its "expert" in Podgorica, the capital of the Yugoslav republic of Montenegro, which is, among other things, proof of attempts by certain western countries to treat a Yugoslav republic as a separate state. Slovenian diplomat Eva Tomic has been appointed special representative of the Council of Europe in Podgorica. In the status of expert, she will work within the representative office of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and be in charge of "providing assistance to the Montenegrin authorities in reforming education, local self-administration, the judicial system, and drafting laws." In appointing an "expert" within the OSCE, the Council of Europe gave up its original plan to open its office in Podgorica, which implies that there are inside conflicts and divisions regarding Yugoslavia's stand that the opening of a Council representative office must imply the previous regulation of Yugoslavia's status within the Council of Europe, and that the opening of a representative office is possible only following approval of the Yugoslav government. The appointment of an official at "expert" level also confirms that most
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Press Release The Imperious Attacks of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan Persist and Impact on Women Following the military attack launched by the PUK on the Women Protection Center in Kurdistan and shutting down its residency on 21/7/2000, the dreadful, risky impacts of the arrogance and violations of PUK against the indignant people and women in Kurdistan are being disclosed day by day. It has come to our attention that threats and killing action have been escalated against women after shutting down The Protection Center and Independent Women Organization as follows: 1) 1- Osman Malla Salih killed his sister on 22/7. He stated that the WCPI and Protection Center no longer exist to punish me. 2) 2- On 30-31/7 Nasreen Aziz Rashid was killed by her brother on Zargata area in Sulaiymania City. It was mentioned that this woman had been threatened to be killed a long time ago. She was protected by the Protection Center prior to her murder. 3)3- 12 women and 5 children who were protected by the Center, have been arrested by the PUK and their whereabouts are unknown so far. It is mentioned that the PUK has determined to turn them in to their families through a tribal mediation, which expose their lives to a serious risk. 4)4- Bassouz Abdulla, one of the 12 women, her brother has asked many times for his sister to be turned in. In case of turning her in to her brother, her life will be at risk of murdering. The PUK and Jalal Altalbani are the only responsible of these crimes. We implore all women and international human rights organizations and all freedom loving people to raise their voice in protest against the PUKs crimes and to hasten to take the necessary procedures to save the lives of those women from the risk of killing. We appeal upon you to put pressure on the PUK to stop its arrogance and to reopen the offices of the Worker Communist Party of Iraq and Women Protection Center in Kurdistan for the sake of the human dignity of women in Kurdistan. The Worker Communist Party of Iraq- Organization Abroad August 5, 2000
Fw: [MLL] Weekly News Update on Colombia #549, 8/6/00
- Original Message - From: Pakito Arriaran [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:35 PM Subject: [MLL] Weekly News Update on Colombia #549, 8/6/00 WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE ON THE AMERICAS ISSUE #549, AUGUST 6, 2000 NICARAGUA SOLIDARITY NETWORK OF GREATER NEW YORK 339 LAFAYETTE ST., NEW YORK, NY 10012 (212) 674-9499 [EMAIL PROTECTED] *3. COLOMBIAN STATE WORKERS STRIKE Colombia's 700,000 state employees staged a 24-hour strike on Aug. 3 to protest the government's neoliberal economic policies, which have provoked the country's worst recession in nearly 100 years--the economy shrank 4.48% during 1999--and an urban unemployment rate of 20.4%, the highest in Latin America. "This is a protest strike, it's a political strike, to call the Colombian people's attention to the need to tell the government that we are not inclined to keep carrying the rich people of this country on our shoulders," said Wilson Borja, president of the National Federation of State Service Workers (FENALTRASE). Julio Roberto Gomez, president of the General Confederation of Democratic Workers, said about 80% of state workers participated in the strike. [CNN en Espanol 8/3/00 from Reuters; El Tiempo (Bogota) 8/4/00; El Pais (Cali) 8/4/00] Strikers marched in most of Colombia's cities and set up roadblocks in many areas, causing traffic congestion. In Popayan, demonstrators clashed with police after the mayor barred the marchers from passing through Caldas park. Twenty people were hurt, including 12 riot police agents--one of them injured seriously--and 50 people were arrested. In Cali, Colombia's third biggest city, demonstrators clashed with police during an afternoon march to the center of the city. In Pasto, members of the indigenous, Afro-Colombian and campesino communities staged a march against "Plan Colombia"--the government's US-backed counterinsurgency and drug eradication program--and to demand a serious agrarian reform program and an end to the spraying of herbicides on drug crops. [ET 8/4/00; EP 8/4/00] *4. COLOMBIA: OFFICERS CHARGED IN MASSACRE On July 27, the Colombian Attorney General's Office brought formal charges against three high-level active-duty army officers--two generals and a colonel--and two retired generals for failing to take adequate measures to prevent a May 4, 1998 paramilitary massacre of at least 18 civilians in the village of Puerto Alvira, in Mapiripan municipality, Meta department [see Update #432]. Charges were brought against Gen. Jaime Humberto Cortes Parada, currently the army's inspector general; Gen. Freddy Padilla Leon, commander of the army's 2nd Division; Col. Gustavo Sanchez Gutierrez, deputy director of the army's personnel department; retired brigadier general Jaime Humberto Uscategui Ramirez; and retired major general Agustin Ardila Uribe. Cortes and Ardila commanded the army's 4th Division around the time of the massacre, while Uscategui and Padilla headed the 7th Brigade. Sanchez was commander of the Joaquin Paris Battalion, operating in nearby San Jose del Guaviare, in Guaviare department. [El Tiempo 7/28/00; El Colombiano (Medellin) 7/28/00] During the eight months prior to the massacre, residents of Puerto Alvira repeatedly complained to government officials that paramilitaries were operating in the area and were threatening to kill them. Beginning in October 1997, Defender of the People Jose Fernando Castro Caicedo sent 25 urgent messages to the Armed Forces, based on reports from the Meta regional defender's office, urging the military to protect the residents of Puerto Alvira. The messages were sent to the president, defense minister, commanders of the armed forces and army, as well as to the commanders of the 4th Division, the 7th Brigade, and the Joaquin Paris Battalion. Investigators for the attorney general's office found abundant evidence in daily log books that military commanders in the zone were well aware of the situation. Uscategui says he can't be held responsible, since he left his post as commander of the 7th Brigade at the beginning of 1998, four months before the massacre. Padilla, who replaced him in the post, says he ordered units under his command to take care of the situation. Padilla's immediate superiors, Ardila and Cortes, say the same thing. Investigators found that Ardila did issue an order, with dates and timelines, for an operation to protect Puerto Alvira. But Uscategui ignored the order, they say, and Ardila never followed up on it. [EC 7/31/00] The attorney general's office has also charged six paramilitaries, including United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AUC) commander Carlos Castano Gil, with direct responsibility for the Puerto Alvira massacre. Only one of them, John Tovar Jaramillo, is in custody. [EC 7/31/00] According to Aug. 1 press reports, Uscategui and another officer, Lt. Col. Hernan Orozco Castro, have been ordered arrested by a
Fw: [STOPNATO] 3,000 Guardsmen, Bio-ChemTerrorism Team Deployed For L.A. Protests
- Original Message - From: Rick Rozoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 3:44 PM Subject: [STOPNATO] 3,000 Guardsmen, "Bio-ChemTerrorism" Team Deployed For L.A. Protests STOP NATO: ¡NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.COM National Guard, unions set for LA convention LOS ANGELES, Aug. 8 (UPI) -- The California National Guard has 3,000 troops, including a biological-chemical terrorism response team, ready for riot-control duty in Los Angeles during the Democratic National Convention. The Los Angeles Times said Tuesday that the Guard has three 1,000-man response teams prepared to deploy to Los Angeles and be on the streets within 24 hours should they be needed to help quell any civil disturbance that might be too much for the Los Angeles police to handle alone. "It is felt that they have enough law enforcement personnel available to them to handle any problem," said Maj. Gen. Paul D. Monroe, the Guard's adjutant general. "We would be negligent if we didn't plan for any eventuality." Among the units is a Weapons of Mass Destruction outfit based in nearby Los Alamitos that is trained to respond to terrorist attacks involving chemical and biological weapons. The Guard last saw duty in Los Angeles in 1992 when rioting erupted after a jury acquitted a group of white LAPD officers for the beating of black motorist Rodney King. Police plan a major presence on the streets to keep convention demonstrations under control. There will also be contingents of Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies and California Highway Patrol officers on hand; the county coroner's office has also canceled all leaves during the convention. The Times said the Guard's contingency plan for the convention has warned about the possibility that the hot August weather could lead to a power outage or a heat emergency that could complicate law enforcement efforts. There will apparently be no union trouble to make things more difficult. A deal was signed Monday to ensure that there would be no labor picketing of the Staples Center or the delegate hotels during the Aug. 14-17 convention. Seven unions, including hotel employees and concessions workers at Staples Center, signed the agreement, which convention planners had been seeking for several months. A few Los Angeles unions plan to stage demonstrations, however, either before the convention, or in other parts of town -- including hotel workers in Santa Monica and thousands of city and county teachers who take a strike vote Tuesday at the Olympic Auditorium, not far from the Staples Center. (Reported by Hil Anderson, Los Angeles) __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Start Your Own FREE Email List at http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb
Fw: [Cuba SI] Rob: UK-Billions for bombs. Brazil -Social Forum
- Original Message - From: John Clancy [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 12:23 AM Subject: [Cuba SI] Rob: UK-Billions for bombs. Brazil -Social Forum from: [EMAIL PROTECTED] subject: Rod: UK -Billions for bombs. Brazil -Social Forum Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Undisclosed [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: "robert rodvik" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Fw: "Ethical" UK: $Billions for bombs, little for kids Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2000 -Original Message- From: robert rodvik [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: WINNIPEG FREE PRESS [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VILLAGE VOICE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VIEQUES LIBRE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VANCOUVER SUN [EMAIL PROTECTED]; VANCOUVER PROVINCE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; TORONTO SUN mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; TORONTO STAR [EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE TIMES mailto:comment@the- times.co.uk[EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE TELEGRAPH [EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE ST. JOHN'S TELEGRAM [EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE PRAGUE POST mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE OBSERVER [EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE MOSCOW TIMES mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE MANILA TIMES mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE JAKARTA POST [EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE INDEPENDENT [EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE GUARDIAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]; THE DAILY STAR-BEIRUT [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SYDNEY MORNING HERALD [EMAIL PROTECTED]; STRAIGHT GOODS [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ST. PETERSBURG TIMES [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SRPSKA-MREZA mailto:admin@srpska- mreza.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]; SASKATOON STAR PHOENIX [EMAIL PROTECTED]; REGINA LEADER-POST marlon.marshall@leader- post.sk.ca; REASON ONLINE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; PEOPLE'S VOICE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; PALESTINIAN CHRONICLE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; OTTAWA CITIZEN [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NEW ZEALAND SCOOP [EMAIL PROTECTED]; NEW YORK TIMES mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; NEW STATESMAN [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MONTREAL GAZETTE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; MIAMI HERALD mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; LOS ANGELES TIMES [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LONDON FREE PRESS mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; LETHBRIDGE HERALD [EMAIL PROTECTED]; LA PRESSE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; KITCHENER WATERLOO RECORD [EMAIL PROTECTED]; JORDAN TIMES mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; SEATTLE POST INTELLIGENCER [EMAIL PROTECTED]; INDEPENDENCE AVENUE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Human Rights Watch UK mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; HINDUSTAN TIMES [EMAIL PROTECTED]; HAMILTON SPECTATOR [EMAIL PROTECTED]; HALIFAX HERALD [EMAIL PROTECTED]; HALIFAX DAILY NEWS [EMAIL PROTECTED]; GLOBE AND MAIL [EMAIL PROTECTED]; EDMONTON JOURNAL [EMAIL PROTECTED]; DENVER POST [EMAIL PROTECTED]; DAILY MAIL GUARDIAN mailto:editor@e- mg.co.za[EMAIL PROTECTED]; DAGBLADET [EMAIL PROTECTED]; COASTAL POST mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; CHICAGO TRIBUNE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; CBC-TV mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; CBCNEWS [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CBC VANCOUVER [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CBC THIS MORNING mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; CBC POLITICS [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CBC DAYSIDE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; CBC COUNTERSPIN [EMAIL PROTECTED]; CALGARY SUN mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; BUENOS AIRES HERALD [EMAIL PROTECTED]; BOSTON GLOBE mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; BOLIVIAN TIMES [EMAIL PROTECTED]; BCTV NEWS [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AUGUSTA CHRONICLE [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Kofi Annan - UN Secretary-General [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AL-AHRAM WEEKLY [EMAIL PROTECTED]; AFTENPOSTEN [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jean "Pepper Guy" Chretien, MP mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED][EMAIL PROTECTED]; lLOYD AXWORTHY [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Monday, June 12, 2000 3:30 PM Subject: Fw: "Ethical" UK: $Billions for bombs, little for kids Herein we learn that the UK has the most "shameful" record in Europe, with "almost" one in five British children living in poverty. This while the UK found billions of dollars to bomb babys in the Balkans. Too bad that the newspaper only looked at Britain's pitiful record. Had they looked at Jean Chretien's Canada they would have found that at least one in five Canadian children already live in poverty, with the war criminal Chretien also finding billions to bomb babys in the Balkans. How could it be otherwise with such ignoble fascists as Tony Blair and Jean Chretien as the regional underbosses with little concern over their populations at home. To these two war criminals, the merchants of death are far more important since they actually fund the underbosses. NIL ILLIGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM "Some care about nothing but money." Yul
Fw: [Cuba SI] [WW] Mumia on Cuba's justice system
- Original Message - From: Per Rasmussen [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Cuba SI [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2000 10:03 AM Subject: [Cuba SI] [WW] Mumia on Cuba's justice system --- Yours in solidarity Per Rasmussen Cuba SI! http://w1.1559.telia.com/~u155900388/ Viden er Magt! - Magten til folket! http://w1.1559.telia.com/~u155900373/ -Oprindelig meddelelse- Fra: WW [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sendt: 9. august 2000 00:36 Emne: [WW] Mumia on Cuba's justice system - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 10, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - Mumia Abu-Jamal from death row ON CUBA'S JUSTICE SYSTEM By Mumia Abu-Jamal "The common law of this country remains the same as it was before the Revolution." --Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth (1799), U.S. Supreme Court. United States Supreme Court Chief Justice Ellsworth, speaking just over 20 years after the American Revolution, gave voice to the inherent conservatism of the American judiciary, which sought to protect the interests of the established, by appealing to the laws (and legal precedents) of a nation that was just defeated in battle: England. This same conservative, and indeed repressive, spirit has led the courts into disasters throughout U.S. history, like the 1857 Dred Scott decision (saying slaves brought into free territory remained slaves, and that Blacks were not U.S. citizens), the Plessy v. Ferguson ruling (1896) (which upheld racial segregation as constitutional), and the 1883 Supreme Court holding that invalidated the Civil Rights Act of 1875, which gave Blacks equal rights in public accommodations and jury duty. In these, and literally hundreds of other cases over 200 years, the courts conserved a constricted, repressive status quo, not freedom. Indeed, the struggle for freedom from state repression is ongoing, for the courts have been, and in many ways continue to be, the enemies of freedom and liberty. Let's examine another example of law and revolution. Let's look at a nearby neighbor: Cuba. In October 1999, several leading Cuban jurists came to San Francisco as guests of the National Lawyers Guild national convention. At a public forum called "Crime and Justice in Cuba," hosted by the International Peace for Cuba Appeal, Dr. Ruben Remigio- Ferro, president of the Supreme Court of Cuba (the equivalent of the American Chief Justice) and Dr. Mayda Goite, former assistant attorney general of Santiago province (the island's second largest metropolitan area, located in Cuba's southeast region), held forth on their country's criminal justice system. Speaking just 40 years after Cuba's revolution, the two described a system that sounded far more humanistic than America's. And while Chief Justice Ellsworth noted the continuity of British common law despite the American Revolution, Cuba's president judge of the Supreme Court spoke of the clean break represented by the Cuban Revolution. Dr. Remigio spoke of important structural differences: "There are profound differences between the justice system of Cuba and the judicial system of the United States. In the first place, the origins of each are historically distinct. But the most important differences are based on the perception of how things should be organized in the judicial system. In revolutionary Cuba, justice is administered by the people. This is not just a slogan. "In Cuba, the idea of an impersonal judge doesn't exist. All the courts are composed of professional judges and lay judges. Lay judges are peasants, workers, professionals, housewives, university students, who form the judicial panels along with the professional judges. They have the same rights to make decisions on the cases that are submitted to the courts. "Lay judges are elected by neighbors, trade unions, and other mass organizations. They serve for 30-day terms. Their presence on the court assures that justice is not just administered technically, but that it reflects popular will and sentiment." (Drs. Remigio Goite, "The Cuban Criminal Law System and the Social Role of Cuban Prisons," Guild Practitioner [57:1] Winter 2000, p. 32) Dr. Remigio was himself elected to the Supreme Court by a national constituent assembly. As an Afro-Cuban, the son of peasants from a "humble background," the president judge leads a court that he could not even address before the revolution. When Pope John Paul II recently visited Cuba, President Fidel Castro remarked on his years in law school, before the revolution, when he wondered why there were no Black faces there. In Cuba, the revolution didn't mean continuity, but profound transformation. Dr. Goite spoke on both sexism and racism in pre- revolutionary Cuba, where women were regarded as little more than objects of male pleasure. A free and independent Cuba has led to a state where women now constitute over 60 percent of the labor force in the fields of
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WW News Service Digest #151 1) General strike rocks Colombia by "WW" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2) Fiji resists imperialist sanctions by "WW" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3) Turkey: Prisoners, allies defy torture plan by "WW" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 4) Korean activists visit Vieques by "WW" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 5) Yugoslavia: Youths see war's devatation and people's resistance by "WW" [EMAIL PROTECTED] 6) Is it 'practical' to vote for the Democrats? Marxism vs. pragmatism by "WW" [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - GENERAL STRIKE ROCKS COLOMBIA: "WE WON'T CARRY THE RICH ON OUR SHOULDERS" By Teresa Gutierrez In a tremendous show of strength and growing militancy, 700,000 workers participated in a 24-hour general strike in Colombia on Aug. 3. The very next day, in the belly of the imperialist beast, U.S. President Bill Clinton announced that he would travel to Colombia Aug. 30. Will Clinton visit Colombia to express his concern for Colombian workers, who face one of the highest unemployment rates in Latin America? Of course not. Clinton is making the trip to ensure that U.S. imperialism's war plans are in place. He's going to show support for the Colombian government--the very government that is undermining the living standards of the masses and conducting mass repression and terror. But Washington's plans clearly won't stop the armed revolutionary movement now fermenting in Colombia, including the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia- People's Army (FARC-EP) and the National Liberation Army (ELN). It won't stop the 700,000 workers who took to the streets in militant protest August 3. These workers, many of whom are peasants and Indigenous workers, carried out pitched battles with police and the army. They braved water cannons and tear gas, blocked roads, shut down factories and schools, and disrupted public transportation. The militant strike was initiated by public sector and transport workers unions to protest austerity measures imposed by the International Monetary Fund. The unions are also demanding an end to the privatization of state banks. They want a freeze on oil prices. GOV'T PLANS LAYOFFS This significant show of force by Colombia's workers comes on the heels of a government announcement of even more belt-tightening measures. Juan Manuel Santos, Colombia's new finance minister, recently pledged that the government would impose a budget of and tears" in 2001. The government plans to cut 5,000 more jobs and keep wage increases below the inflation rate. Strike leader Wilson Borja told the media, "This strike is a protest strike and a political act designed to send the message to the government that we're no longer prepared to carry the weight of the rich on our shoulders." It was the sixth major strike against Colombian President Andres Pastrana. With the country's economy shrinking 4.5 percent last year and the official unemployment rate at 20.4 percent, more strikes can be expected. In fact, union leaders called the latest action a warning strike. They plan to meet soon to set a date for an indefinite strike in the near future. The situation in Colombia is becoming ever more critical. Clinton's plan to travel there is yet another ominous sign that predatory, war-mongering imperialism is sharpening its fangs to bite hard. Clinton also signed a directive on Aug. 4 ordering an intensified effort to assist the Colombian government in implementing "Plan Colombia." "The Presidential Decision Directive," stated Clinton, "complements and supports the $1.3 billion assistance package that I requested from Congress." MOVING TOWARDS INTERVENTION The Aug. 4 directive is a full-scale endorsement of "Plan Colombia," a $7.5 billion initiative centered on strengthening Colombian Armed Forces, despite sweeping opposition inside and outside the country. The U.S. government claims the aid is for "fighting drugs." But the real target is the FARC-EP. Washington is moving rapidly towards a full-scale intervention in Colombia. This is what is behind Clinton's trip to Colombia and the directive signed last week. A key aspect of the directive is strengthening police and military forces. U.S. imperialism aims to squash the resistance in Colombia, much like it is attacking the burgeoning movement here. The police and military units the United States is sending money to are the same ones that attacked and beat workers during the general strike. Just like in the United States, money is being allocated for prisons and police, not for drug rehabilitation or jobs or youth services. The International Action Center has called for a united demonstration of progressive and anti-war groups to protest Clinton's visit to Colombia on Aug. 30. For more information, call the IAC at (212) 633-6646 or visit the Web site www.iacenter.org. - END -
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area in his hometown. Two struggles, one enemy! - END - (Copyleft Workers World Service. Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this document, but changing it is not allowed. For more information contact Workers World, 55 W. 17 St., NY, NY 10011; via e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For subscription info send message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.workers.org) Message-ID: 00c501c00321$392b0a60$0a00a8c0@home From: "WW" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [WW] Yugoslavia: Youths see war's devatation and people's resistance Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2000 19:17:58 -0400 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit - Via Workers World News Service Reprinted from the Aug. 17, 2000 issue of Workers World newspaper - YUGOSLAVIA: YOUTHS SEE WAR'S DEVASTATION AND PEOPLE'S RESISTANCE By Josina Dunkel Belgrade, Yugoslavia Youth delegations from over 20 countries around the world came together from July 15 to Aug. 1 for the first annual International Campus of Friendship in Yugoslavia. The gathering was sponsored by the Patriotic Union of Yugoslavia. During those weeks the delegates not only learned about Yugoslavia's complex history and society, but also strengthened international contacts to further the struggle against imperialism. The youth camp was located in the mountains in Sirogojna, the only "living museum" in Yugoslavia. From this center the delegates visited museums, monuments and other sites of political and cultural interest. Camp meetings heard and discussed the economic impact of sanctions on Yugoslavia, the real reasons behind the U.S. and NATO's 78-day bombing assault last year and other topics. In Belgrade and Novi Sad the delegates saw what U.S. bombs destroyed in the northern Serbia. They saw that many of NATO's targets were not military at all but hospitals, schools and electricity-generation plants. The U.S. generals running the bombing tried to destroy Yugoslavia's civilian infrastructure. As political graffiti in Belgrade pointed out, last year's NATO bombs were not the first attempt by imperialists to destroy the spirit of the socialist revolution. Nazi Germany tried 60 years ago. But Yugoslavia didn't surrender to the fascists or to NATO. The young delegates visited Kragujevac, where Nazis executed 7,000 men in one afternoon during World War II. The town had only 30,000 people at the time. The Nazis chose this town because it was the heart of the partisan liberation movement. Last year a bomb that fell nearby damaged the museum dedicated to preserving this part of Yugoslav history. The youth delegation placed a wreath at the town's monument, a stylized bird with a broken wing. The monument was dedicated to the hundreds of students the Nazis marched from their classrooms to murder. IN KOSOVO MITROVICA Today an occupation force patrols and divides the city of Kosovo Mitrovica. A barbaric tangle of barbed wire and a resident force of KFOR soldiers from the United States, Germany, England, France and other countries maintains the separation of Albanians from the rest of this multiethnic city. Last year NATO propagandists falsely accused the Serbs of genocide. Today right-wing Albanians have expelled other ethnic groups from Kosovo. The Albanian section of Kosovo Mitrovica has ejected the ethnically and physically distinct Roma people. The so-called Kosovo Liberation Army burned out a Roma camp on the southern side of the city and forced its inhabitants into tents. The attacks have not ended. During the first week of August a twelve-year old Roma boy was struck by a grenade when the encampment was attacked. In Kosovo Mitrovica only one hospital admits Serbs. While the medical staff tries to perform regular operations, including complex procedures, their efforts are made very difficult by the lack of water, medicine and equipment. The water plant is located in the southern part of the city. The KLA-controlled government allows only a very limited amount to flow for a few hours a day. The same goes for electricity. In this hospital all signs are still in Albanian and Serbian, in that order. Where separatism exists now, there had been integration. Albanian doctors worked with Serbian patients, and vice versa. Now the KLA encourages Albanian patients to use only Albanian hospitals with Albanian doctors. While the bombs have stopped falling, the war is not over. Kosovo, considered by Serbs to be the cradle of their society, is being occupied by foreign troops who drive around in tanks and military vehicles carrying automatic weapons slung across their backs. On this visit to Kosovo, Belgrade law student Ivana Antic told how the local Serb residents sought more aid from the Belgrade government. "There are police and KFOR troops but no security. Albanians can make wild claims and Serbs will be imprisoned," she said. Last year U.S., German and other
Korean Central News Agency Aug 10
TODAY'S NEWS (August.10.2000 Juche 89) [CONTENTS] * Kim Jong Il meets Jong Mong Hon * Jong Mong Hon goes back * DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks to be held * 3rd home visit of Japanese women in Korea to take place * Rakrang tilery commissioned * Tours revolutionary battle sites in Mt. Paektu * Great banner of national unity and reunification * Letter of protest to PM of Japan * 7th Pyongyang Film Festival to be held * Korean national preparatory committee formed * DPRK wrestlers prove successful in wrestling * "International Kim Il Sung Prize" * Chun Doo Hwan military junta's fabrication of fiction of "north's invasion" disclosed * Release of prisoners of conscience urged * KCNA urges Japan not to spread militarist trend For Spanish-speaking people * kim jong il recibe en audiencia a huespedes surcoreanos * septimo festival de cine de pyongyang * constituido comite preparatorio coreano por 15 festival mundial de juventud y estudiantes Kim Jong Il meets Jong Mong Hon Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il on August 9 received chairman Jong Mong Hon of Hyundai Asan board of directors from South Korea, and his party on a visit to Pyongyang. Jong's party included chairman Ri Ik Chi of Hyundai securities, president Kim Yun Gyu of Hyundai Engineering Construction, president Kim Chung Sik of Hyundai Merchant Marine and vice-president Kim Ko Jung of Hyundai Asan. On hand was chairman Kim Yong Sun of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee. Kim Jong Il expressed thanks to chairman Jong Mong Hon and his party for having brought with them a total of 1,500 head of cattle in three batches carrying their sincerity and had a conversation with them in an amicable atmosphere. He gave a luncheon for them and posed for a photograph with them. Jong Mong Hon goes back Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- Jong Mong Hon, chairman of the South Korean Hyundai Asan board of directors, and his party today went back via Panmunjom. They were seen off at Panmunjom by Kang Jong Han, secretary general of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, Jong Un Op, chairman of the National Economic Cooperation Federation, and officials concerned. DPRK-Japan intergovernmental talks to be held Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The tenth round of DPRK-Japan intergovernmental full-dress talks will be held in Tokyo from August 21 to 25. The talks will be attended by the DPRK government delegation headed by Jong Thae Hwa, roving ambassador of the Foreign Ministry, and the Japanese government delegation headed by Kojiro Takano, ambassador of the Foreign Ministry for negotiations for the establishment of Japan-DPRK diplomatic relations. The talks will discuss the issue of Japan's settlement of its past and other issues related to the improvement of the bilateral relations. 3rd home visit of Japanese women in Korea to take place Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The third home visit of Japanese women in Korea will be made from September 12 to 18 according to the agreement between the organs concerned of the DPRK and Japan. The visit will contribute to the promotion of mutual understanding between the two peoples. Rakrang tilery commissioned Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The Rakrang tilery was commissioned in Thongil Street of Pyongyang. The tilery is a contribution from the Hyundai Group of South Korea. A ceremony of commissioning the tilery was held on the spot on August 9. Present at the ceremony were Kang Jong Hun, secretary general of the Korean Asia-Pacific Peace Committee, officials concerned and employees of the tilery. Jong Mong Hon, chairman of Hyundai Asan board of directors, and his party were on hand. Speeches were made there. At the end of the ceremony, its participants looked round the production processes of the tilery. Earlier, chairman Jong Mong Hon and his party went round the construction site of the Pyongyang gymnasium. Tours revolutionary battle sites in Mt. Paektu Pyongyang, August 10 (KCNA) -- The delegation of South Korean media organizations visited the secret camp on Mt. Paektu, a sacred place of revolution, in Ryanggang Province on August 9. They looked round the log cabin which housed the headquarters where the President Kim Il Sung led the Korean revolution and the time-honored native home where General Secretary Kim Jong Il was born. Hearing an explanation about how Kim Jong Il, a peerlessly great man, was born as a great son of guerrillas, they looked round historical relics preserved in the native home with good care. At dawn, they climbed Mt. Paektu and commanded a bird's-eye view of the majestic sunrise over it. They took cable-cars to enjoy a bird's-eye view of Lake Chon before coming down to its shore and spent a pleasant time there. They toured various revolutionary battle sites in the area
Turkey. Struggle Against Torture Through Isolation.
The Commitee for Struggle Against Torture Through Isolation (IKM) fights with problems derived from the isolation and the state of isolation of prisoners. -IKM is not dependent on any political party or organisation. -It helps solving problems the präsoners suffer in Turkish and European prisons. -It fights to secure humane and dignified conditions for prisoners. -It works to establish and maintain the application of the Universal Convention of Human Rights in all the prisons around the world and especially to prevent the practice of isolation in all the countreies of the world. -It works to provide pen friends and visitiong friends for prisoners. -It takes up the task of being a body, which the families of prisoners may apply when facing a problem. -It assumes the role of informing the public. For this purpose opening information stands and reporting conditions and developments to the press and media. -It helps solving prisoners' legal problems. -It fights against prohibition of opinions and prisoners' brains being captivated by means of isolation. -In recent times the Turkish State has added new dimensions to assaults and massacres in prisons. IKM is in the process of preparing a campaign to raise the demand of the right to a life for prisoners in Turkish prisons. A priority is given to this campaign, in order not to become silent spectators in Europe to the practice of prisoners being removed from communal dormitories to isolation cells. The state intends to isolate prisoners in order to strip them from their identities, isolate, torture and massacre them. Having failed to reduce the prisoners to submission, according to the Ministry of Justice announcement, the Turkish State has launched F-Type prisons as a new assault, which dozens of them will be operational from August 2000. Convicts' response to this practice is "You will not be able to put even our dead bodies into cells!" This only indicates that there will be new massacres. The Turkish State, which already has a mass of bad reputation on prisons massacres, is preparing for a largescale massacre. Massacre manoeuvres are already being carried out in some prisons. We, as the democratic minded European and Turkish people living in Europe assume the demands of those prisoners as our own and fight to achieve these demands immediately. Convicts' demands: -Closure of all coffin-cells, -End to torture in prisons, -End to assaults against prisoners' families -Removal of obstacles before prisoners' treatments and right to a defence. -End to the aggression to turn prisoners to confessors, -End to missing persons, massacres, torture and executions.. 1984 Death Strike In 1984 a hunger strike, which turned into a death strike against the decree enforcing 'uniforms' resulted in the martyrdom of Abdullah Meral, Haydar Basbag, Mehmet Fatih Öktülmüs and Hasan Telci. After 75 days, the death strike was ended in a political victory. 21 September 1995 Izmir- Buca Massacre On 21 September 1995, thousands of soldiers and special teams officers attacked with gas bombs, sledgehammers, pressurised water, iron bars, planks of wood and truncheons. After a 4-hour long assault and resistance three prisoners; Turhan Kilic, Yusuf Bag and Ugur Sariaslan were murdered and dozers of prisoners were seriously injured. 4 January 1996 Istanbul-Umraniye Massacre On 4 January 1996, the state attempted another massacre, 4 months after the Buca incident. Whilst 42 prisoners were injured, of which 6 of them were in serious condition, 4 prisoners, including Abdulmecit Seckin, Orhan Özen, Riza Boybas were murdered and dozens of prisoners were injured. Gultekin Beyhan, one of the injured, later died in the hospital. 1996 Death Strike In 1996 hundreds of prisoners started a death hunger strike against the 6 Maz Decree, which ordered isolation cells. During the 69 days death strike; Aygün Ugur, Altan Berdan Kerimgiller, Ilginc Özkeskin, Hüseyin Demircioglu, Ali Ayata, Müjdat Yanat, Ayce Idil Erkmen, Tahsin Yilmaz, Yemliha Kaya, Hicabi Kücük, Osman Akgün and Hayati Can were martyret. The death srtike resulted in victory. 24 September 1996 Diyarbakir Massacre Although the rigts were won the '96 death strike at the cost of 12 human lives, only after a few months, the state caried out a new massacre in Diyarbakir on 24 September, weher 10 prisoners lost theri lives. 26 September 1999 Ulucanlar Massacre On 26 september 1999, the security forces used an excuse concerning a demand to an additional dormitory, and attacked with bombs, sledge hammers, trunchons, the strong acids, which were specifically poured on the faces of prisoners, iron bars, and having not been satisfied with these, deliberately aimed at ptisoners and murdered 12 people with their weapons. In this massacre Abuzer Cat, Ahmet Sarvan, Ismet Kavak- lioglu, Aziz Dönmez, Halil Türker, Mahir Emsalsiz, Nevzat Cifci, Zafer Kirbiyik, On- der Gencaslan and Umit Altintas were martyred. Silent Death Especially after the 12
