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February 21, 2012
Maine / Quebec: Franco-American families of Canadian ancestry in the Lewiston-Auburn area are being encouraged to test for familial hypercholesterolemia (FH), which the AP report refers to as a "genetic disorder." Dr. Robert Weiss, a cardiologist has found a disproportionate number of cases in the Franco-American community of the region. Some symptoms of the disease are: very high cholesterol levels, hardening of the arteries, heart attacks, at an early age. According to Canadian Press, a Quebec City physician indicates an FH disease rate there, six times the world average. Anglophone CBC headlines FH as a "French Canadian disease." While Franco-Americans are historically oppressed in New England there is no concern expressed for the effects of a working class diet on the entire northeast community. In the U.S. where medical care is a purchased privilege rather than the patient's human right, testing of genetically defined population groups may raise the problem of eugenics. Reliance on pharmaceuticals, surgery and testing for those who can afford medical care ignores those who can't. Note: the AP report twice refers to a Franco-American community in the Lewiston-Auburn area as "French Canadian" which would displace the community to its source 150 years ago. Note: U.S. reporting places Native Americans at equal risk of the disease, while the risk to aboriginal peoples is entirely ignored in the Canadian reports. Partial sources online: "Dangerous disease linked to French-Canadian ancestry," The Canadian Press, Feb. 20, 2012, CTV.ca; "The Franco Factor: A French Canadian genetic disorder can cause killer cholesterol levels in even the healthiest person," Lindsay Tice, Feb. 5, 2012, Sun Journal; "French-Canadian disease prompts U.S. warning," The Canadian Press, Feb. 21, 2012, CBC News; "Heart disorder high among Maine Franco-Americans," AP, Feb. 5, 2012, msnbc.com.
Democratic Republic of the Congo: a genocide of the Congolese continues to the profit of those stripping the DRC's resources. Within a political structure at the service of genocide by foreign interests, democratic elections were held November 28th, praised by some for their Congolese autonomy and broad participation, and found corrupt by others. Over 500 cases of disputed legislative elections are scheduled for hearings. The party of the re-elected presiding President Joseph Kabila gained a clear majority in the legislature. In a country which is 50% Catholic, 35 % Protestant, CENCO - the Catholic Conference of authorities, found the tallying of votes unacceptable. Three nuns and two priests were jailed as a result of protest marches December 16th - government soldiers were reported firing teargas into religious centres to prevent march attendance. The Carter Center (U.S.) has protested both the election results and the violence to Christians. In Toronto and Ottawa expatriate Congolese have protested rigged elections and the blocked media coverage. Official news of conflict areas in the DRC is lacking since the November elections, despite unofficial reports of increasing violence in Kinshasa and North Kivu. On February 12th Kabila's primary advisor Augustin Katumba Mwanke, died in a plane crash which critically injured the Finance Minister as well. Opposition leader, Etienne Tshisekedi representing the country's poor, has ordered his party's legislators not to participate in the Legislature. Neither the United Nations, nor the African Union has mounted effective resistance to genocide in the DRC, as the U.S. continues to pour military assistance into neighbouring countries that destabilize: Uganda, and particularly Rwanda where genocide of the Tutsi (by official account) and allegedly of Hutu (recognition of this is forbidden under Rwandan law) has furthered U.S. / NATO interests. To better understand the Congolese genocide: previous background, and a video. With international law currently unable to effect a mandate beyond corporate self-interest, the Convention on Genocide's power of prevention relies increasingly on the Congolese people as a community historically brutalized and since the death of Lumumba by familiar mechanisms of oppression. In Montreal, the Dawson College Student Union hosts Kambale Musavuli of Friends of the Congo to speak February 29th at 5:00 pm. Partial sources online: "Canadian Screenings of Crisis in the Congo: Uncovering The Truth, Toronto and Montreal" Friends of the Congo. "Protesters clear after tense moments with police," Feb. 16, 2012, CP24 (Toronto); "Kabila aide dies, minister hurt in DRC plane crash," Jonny Hogg, Feb. 12, 2012, Reuters; "Activists say nuns and priests arrested to stop religious protest of Congo elections," AP, Feb. 17, 2012, the Washington Post; Message of the CENCO to the Catholics and to the Congolese People. 'Courage and Truth'.", Jan. 16, 2012, FOTC; "Main Congo opposition calls boycott over violence," Feb. 18, 2012, Thomson Reuters; "Friends of the Congo" at our links page.
From 1965: "Sanctus" [access:< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIxEPYkXkU8 >]
Canada: a Lawyers Against the War press release notes enough evidence submitted to the International Criminal Court to require investigation of Canada's rendering Afghan prisoners to torture. Canadian Vietnam veteran John McNamer has supplied the ICC with more than 120 files affecting the Harper government's complicity in torture. McNamer's "Letter of February 14th to Canadian officials" summarizes evidence that Canadian Forces turned over prisoners to Afghan and U.S. authorities known to practice torture. His request for investigation by higher authority follows Conservative government 'reluctance' to investigate itself. In 2009 the government actively hindered investigations in Canada. Witnesses were discouraged; there were repeated attempts to shut down the Military Police Complaints Commission (MPCC); its chairman Peter Tinsley lost his job. Despite intimidation, public abuse, and attempts to expunge his testimony, Canadian diplomat Richard Colvin testified before the MPCC that Afghani prisoners were knowingly rendered to torture. In December 2009 a Parliamentary Committee Concerned with Torture in Afghanistan also focused national attention on the crime: the Prime Minister closed Parliament (previous 1 and 2). To find the issue "suppressed" is understatement. A responsibility for war crimes by policy makers is currently evaded by Conservative efforts to assert the usefulness of torture: it was recently revealed that the Minister of Public Safety has approved, in "exceptional circumstances", Canadian intelligence agency use of information obtained by torture. The policy attempts to legitimize a war crime. McNamer's letters and evidence submitted to the ICC, Canada's Attorney General and Governor General among other Canadian officials in the past, were not answered despite evidence of torture-until-death by U.S. forces, and evidence of children tortured and sexually abused by the Afghan National Security Directorate (NDS). The criminal policy was not questioned in Canadian courts (Recommended: "Letter of March 8, 2007" & "Letter of Dec.; 21, 2009," Davidson / LAW, Lawyers Against the War Archive). The Government's duty to enforce laws against torture was similarly overlooked at the Sept. 26, 2011 visit to Canada by Richard Cheney and the Oct. 20, 2011 visit by George W. Bush. Torture is a despicable crime, focusing on one victim at a time the overwhelming injustice that accompanies murder of a people and genocide. The neo-conservative agenda ignores its war crimes to further its hold on power. Partial sources online: "International Criminal Court told Canada complicit in torture of Afghan Detainees," Press release, Feb. 15, 2012, Lawyers Against the War; "CSIS may use intelligence derived from torture, Toews says," The Canadian Press, Feb. 7, 2012, CBC News; "Richard Colvin," current, "Peter Tinsley," current, Voices.
Georgia: the Shenandoah River watershed may be lost to the future by the Nuclear Regulatory's approval of two new nuclear plants at the Vogtle facility near Waynesboro (there are already two plants at the site). The new reactors will be the Westinghouse-Toshiba's AP1000 with amended design; The Hindu of India refers to the model as "an electric pressurized-water reactor". The company in charge is Southern Nuclear. The Savannah River empties into the Atlantic at Savannah Georgia. The bill for it all is passed along to customers. The U.S. NRC hasn't approved a new nuclear construction in the U.S. since 1978 due to the near meltdown at Three Mile Island. Strangely unmoved by Fukushima's multiple meltdowns which continue to contaminate Japan, the ocean and atmosphere, only one member of the five person Commission dissented from the vote for approval, Chairman Gregory B. Jaczco who said "“I cannot support issuing this license as if Fukushima had never happened,” (enenews). Commissioners Kristine L. Svinicki, George Apostolakis, William D. Magwood, William C. Ostendorff, approved the project. According to the NRC website [access:< http://www.nrc.gov/ >], "Nothing but the highest possible standards of ethical performance and professionalism should influence regulation." Wikipedia notes that despite the Vermont State Legislature's vote to close the Vermont plant, the NRC granted a twenty year extension to "Vermont Yankee," an overage reactor currently leaking radiation into the Connecticut River. The Fukushima disaster has required increased 'safety standards' for U.S. reactors but as well, higher limits of permissable radiation exposure in water and food. For background on the Savannah River watershed and its historical overexposure to nuclear radiation (nuclear warhead construction) see: "The Savannah River Watershed," of March 4, 2010. Germany is closing down its nuclear plants partly as a result of the Fukushima catastrophe. Since the multiple meltdowns in Japan, U.S. mortality rates have increased, 3.5% on the Western seaboard, 9.1% in the Rocky Mountains region, 3% in New England, etc. (CDC, fukushimafacts.com). See previous. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) is currently in court to encourage the transparency of federal loan-guarantee funding to Southern Nuclear Company: the Department of Energy is withholding information from the public. Friends of the Earth, the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Center for a Sustainable Coast, Citizens Allied for Safe Energy, Georgia Women’s Action for New Directions, North Carolina Waste Awareness and Reduction Network, Nuclear Information and Resource Service and Nuclear Watch South, plan to challenge the Commission's decision at the U.S.Court of Appeals in Washington D.C. Partial sources online: "NRC License for New Vogtle Reactors to be Opposed," Press Update, Feb. 8, 2012, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy [access:< http://www.cleanenergy.org >]; "Plant Vogtle nuclear expansion approved 4-1," Kristi E. Swartz, Feb. 9, 2012, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution / enenews; "Sick children swamp Ottawa children's hospital," Feb. 10, 2012, CBC News; "Nuclear Regulatory Commission," current, Wikipedia; "NRC approves Vogtle reactors," Walter Jones & Rob Pavey, Feb. 9, 2012, The Augusta Chronicle; "Vogtle Loan Guarantee Update: Nuclear Power Secrecy Continues," Sara Barczak, Feb. 2, 2012, cleanenergy.org; "First new U.S. nuclear reactors in decades approved," Ralph Vartabedian & Ian Duncan, Feb. 9, 2012, Los AngelesTimes; "U.S. approves first nuclear plant in decades," PTI, Feb. 10, 2012, The Hindu.
"Tango Apocalypso," Boris Kovac [access:< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g06BtjGvvw >]Spain: Judge Garzon (see previous) was convicted by unanimous decision of Spain's Supreme Court on the first of several charges brought against him. In an attempt to strip him of support from an international community of jurists the first charge involved authorizing the illegal wiretapping of lawyers. Barring Garzon from practice the conviction ends his judicial investigations of crimes against humanity - in particular his attempt to unearth many thousand victims of Franco's slaughters and seems to place both prosecution and Court in complicity. Partial sources online: "Spain Judge Baltasar Garzon vows to fights conviction," Feb. 9, 2012, BBC News.
"A North American Political Prisoners Update." The legal systems of Canada and the U.S. make no separate recognition of "political prisoners." This encourages police malfeasance and a bending of the legal system to cope with political protest in the same manner as crimes of self-interest.... (continue)
"Killing the Blues," - Border Hop Five [access:< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMZUiM8YpWA >]
Brazil: the indigenous peoples are increasingly dispossessed by corporate and private interests. In the Mato Grosso do Sul region Survival: the movement for tribal peoples reports attacks on Guarani Indians. Paralyzed in 2009 during an armed attack on his community, Rosalino Lopes died in December 2011, saying "I am dying for the ancestral land where I was born" (Survival). The government reportedly plans to return land to the Guarani who are living in poverty and intermittently attacked by gunmen working for landholders: the land was cleared by cattle ranchers and plantations of soya and sugar cane as well. A recent report speaks of hit lists targeting Guarani leaders. Marcos Verón, leader of the Guarani-Kaiowá, ejected from his land in 2001 by police and military, was killed in 2003 attempting to return. His son has fled. A chief, Nisio Gomes, was killed in November 2011 by armed men with masks. The Guarani remain without protection. Across the border in Paraguay 95% of the people are considered of Guarani ancestry. A minimal Agence France Press filing notes that Brazilian lawmakers have issued a report claiming "ethnocide" on finding that Indians of Mato Grosso do Sul are being destroyed. In the region of Maranhão, an eight year old Guajajara Indian girl was allegedly burnt alive by loggers with no legal action resulting. The Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) states Indians have no protection against loggers and the basic tension is ongoing (There is an ongoing Genocide warning for Brazil's Indian peoples). Environmentalists protesting destruction of the rainforests recognizing the essential genocide in progress, have been murdered, as have poor farmers protesting illegal logging. These are all without adequate protection by government (Previous & previous). The issue is heavily suppressed by all corporate media as Brazil continues the Belo Monte dam project, expected to displace 16 to 40 thousand people, flooding 40 thousand hectares of rainforest, and holding back 80% of the Xingu (Amazon tributary) river. Brazilian court has discarded native peoples' rights in a ruling that denies a right to prior and informed consultation before the dam is built. Partial sources online: "Masked gunmen attack Brazilian Indian leader in shock execution," Nov. 18, 2011, Survival: the movement for tribal peoples; "Brazilian gunmen brandish tribal hit list in wake of leader’s murder," Dec.1, 2011, Survival; "Guarani man dies of gunshot wound following attack," Dec. 15, 2012, Survival; "Further threats as Guarani Indians remember murdered leader," Jan. 24, 2012, Survival; "Murder of Indigenous child provokes reaction," Raphael Tsavvko Garcia, Global Voices, Jan 10, 2012, The Castlgar Source; "Brazil lawmakers say idigenous group 'massacred'," AFP, Dec. 22, 2011, The Straits Times (Singapore); "Amnesty urges Brazil to probe killing, "Nov. 26, 2011, Sky News (Australia); "Indigenous do not have right to free, prior and informed consultation on Amazon dam, rules Brazilian court," Nov. 9, 2011, mongabay.com.
India: the government has not effectively countered persecution of Christians by Hindu extremists in Orissa, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, where recent incidents include threats, attacks on a pastor's home and family, beatings, accusations of forced conversion, parading a pastor naked through the streets, generally crowd actions against isolated Christians where complaints by victims are answered by the victim's arrest. This problem is ongoing. Previous and previous. A war of attrition against Christians in the region coincides with the government's war on tribalists and a Maoist insurgency. A genocide warning remains in effect with a correlation to corporate expansion. 10 projects funded by the World Bank, Asian Development Bank, Japan International Cooperation Agency, are being implemented in the resource rich state of Orissa. Vedanta Resources of the U.K. has relied on police to evict tribal villagers from their land to be used as a toxic waste dump. Partial sources online: "India Briefs: Recent Incidents of Persecution," current, Compass Direct News,; "Orissa executing 10 EAPs worth Rs 5,900 cr," Kolkata/ Bhubaneswar, Feb 02, 2012, Business Standard; "India land grab: Forced evictions in Orissa," Jason Overdorf, Jan 31, 2012, Globalpost - video.
Sri Lanka: See previous. The government appears to be forcing Tamil people out of the country. In the northeast, Sinhalese peoples (Buddhist) are replacing Tamil (Hindu) in the Tamil homeland as the expense of Sri Lankan Army occupation of the northeast increases poverty in the Sinhalese south. Green Left recognizes a pattern of settlements as ethnocide similar to Israel's settlement of Arab lands. An article attributed to Truthout alleges an unidentified Sri Lankan general corroborates evidence of war crimes revealed in the UN's Report of the Secretary-General's Panel of Experts on Accountability in Sri Lanka of March 31, 2011 (previous), specifically that special force death squads in white vans on government orders picked up, tortured, murdered civilians during the Sri Lankan war. "White van" allegations appear throughout human rights reports. The general also alleges extra judicial killing of surrendering LTTE forces and those taken prisoner. The general's affidavit is reported to trace blame for war crimes directly to current members of the Sri Lankan government. Other generals and witnesses alleging that killing of surrendering LTTE forces was ordered, have fared poorly. With ongoing suppression of war crimes against the LTTE and Tamil population, a genocide warning remains. Partial sources online: “The Conflict Is Still Alive,” Maryam Azwer, current, The Sunday Leader (Sri Lanka - Eng.); "Tamils seek end to occupation," Chris Slee, Jan. 28, 2012, Green Left (Australia); "Sri Lankan General Admits War Crimes; US May Hold Crucial Supporting Evidence," Emanuel Stoakes, Jan.29, 2012, Truthout.
January 31, 2012
U.S.: currently there are no U.S. political prisoners charged with genocide. On the contrary the political prisoners represent communities opposed to genocide or policies which lead to genocide warnings (see political prisoners archive). Current news of U.S. political prisoners: Mumia Abu-Jamal formerly of death row, David Gilbert who has a book out with launchings throughout Canada, Lynne Stewart the attorney imprisoned for representing her client, who is appealing the government's extension of her sentence...(continue)
Spain: the European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) of Berlin and New York's Center for Constitutional Rights have filed a complaint with the United Nations protesting U.S. interference with the Spanish judicial process. Among three instances, there is evidence the U.S. interfered in the action of Judge Balthazar Garzon who was investigating torture in Guantanamo Bay among other U.S. detainment centres when he was removed from the bench (see previous). Partial sources online: "Complaint Filed with U.N. Special Rapporteur Alleges Interference with Spanish Judicial Process," Press release, Jan. 19, 2012, Center for Constitutional Rights
Libya: evidence of severe torture practised by the National Transitional Council against those sympathetic to the former ruler Gaddafi, increases. Medecins sans Frontieres states it is pulling out of Libya to avoid becoming a way station for repairing torture victims for another round of torture. Bani Walid has been re-taken by pro-Gaddafi forces, and throughout Libya the green resistance maintains its presence (previous). Partial sources online: "NATO’s Grisly Crimes in Libya," Farirai Chubvu, Jan. 27, 2012, The Herald (Zim); "Libya militias torturing detainees: Report," AFP, Jan. 26, 2012, The Times of India; "Libyan detainees die after torture, says Amnesty International," Jan. 26, 2012, BBC News; "Violence Rages in Libya," Stephern Lendeman, Jan. 24, 2012, Mathaba; "Gaddafi loyalists take back Bani Walid," Chris Stephen & Luke Harding, Jan. 23, 2012, the guardian.
"Dans Mon Shack" [access:< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZ7CkHc6D78&feature=related >]
Canada: amid wide suppression of the global effects of the Fukushima nuclear tragedy (see previous), The Gazette in Montreal suggests Canada hasn't been announcing excessive levels of radiation when these occur: in Calgary last March monitoring of rainwater read 8.18 bequerels per litre. Canada's 'safety' level for drinking water is 6 bequerels per litre. In comparison, the U.S. State of Virginia publicly reported a rainwater advisory when the radiation level reached 3.4 bequerels. In other reports, in San Francisco cesium in milk is currently reported to exceed Food and Drug Administration levels and rising; USA Today reports an increase in thyroid cancer since Fukushima. Despite the shutdown and reported stabilization of the Fukushima nuclear plants, Tokyo Electric Power Company has announced an increase in local becquerel (radiation) readings by 20% since December. An earthquake (magnitude 6.8) struck the Fukushima and northeast region of Japan on January 1, and another (magnitude 5.3) struck northeast of Tokyo January 23rd causing spikes in radiation readings. North American radiation measurements for food imports are difficult to find and verify. In 2010 Canada imported from Japan 76 million dollars of food. The Gazette`s "After Fukushima, Fish Tales," finds the Canadian radiation limit per kilogram of fish a hundred times more permissive than Japan's. Much of the available information on radiation levels in North America ceases in March and April of 2011. From a grassroots perspective various graphs of radiation monitoring are available at fukushimafacts.com. Increased exposure from precipitation may be of concern in all northern regions where snow accumulates. During 2012 China will place a radiation check on drinking water within 30 kilometers of its own nuclear facilities but publicly disclosed data from Chinese radiation monitoring is generally lacking. Partial sources online: "Radioactive iodine in rainwater: Public was in the dark," Alex Roslin, Jan.14, 2012, The Gazette; "Fukushima fallout hit home," Michael Platt, Jan. 22, 2012, Calgary Sun; "Doctors unsure why thyroid cancer cases on the rise," Shari Rudavsky / The Indianapolis Star, Jan. 15, 2012, USA Today; "California, Finland, Canada, Australia Hit By Radiation," Washington's Blog, Jan. 17, 2012, Global Research; "After Fukushima, Fish Tales," Alex Roslin, Jan. 14, 2012,
; "Nuclear Radiation Levels from Fukushima Are RISING," Washington's Blog, Jan.24, 2012, Global Research; "China to Monitor Radiation in Drinking Water around Nuclear Plants," Xinhua, Jan. 18, 2012, crienglish.com; "Japan hit by force 7 earthquake just hours after celebrating the New Year," Craig Mackenzie, Jan 1, 2012, Mail Online (dailymail.co.uk); "Radiation dose spikes thoughout Tokyo area after yesterday’s quake (CHARTS)," Enenews admin., Jan.24, 2012, Enenews.
Ottawa: French justice is questioned by those concerned with human rights for its ongoing demand to extradite Hassan Diab to face trial on terrorism charges in France. The charges against him rely on accusations believed to have been obtained through torture (previous and previous). The former professor of sociology at the University of Ottawa claims his innocence. The evidence against him made public is so flimsy the case is frightening. Partial sources online: "Diab calls French terror extradition bid a `Kafkaesque nightmare'," Chris Cobb Postmedia News, Jan. 20, 2012, canada.com, Jan. 21,The Ottawa citizen; "Activists denounce move to extradite Canadian citizen to France," Jan. 21, 2012, presstv.ir.
France: with a curious under-estimation of African intelligence and the general public, a report by French judges found Rwanda's current president, Paul Kagame, couldn't have shot down the plane carrying then President Habyarimana and Burundi's president since the missile came from inside territory controlled by Habyarimana's own presidential guard (within an American context this decision would find the J.F.K. assassination accomplished by the U.S. Secret Service). In 2006, a French court attempted to indict Kagame for the crime. The inquiry report by this team of judges coincides with the UN's International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda turning over its cases to Rwandan courts for domestic trials, and with Canada's attempt to deport Léon Mugesera to face trial in Rwanda on charges of genocide, despite the UN Committee on Torture's objections and an appeal to Prime Minister Harper by Paul Rusesabagina (known for saving Tutsi and moderate Hutu during the Rwandan genocide - ref. Hotel Rwanda). Rusesabagina, now declared a "terrorist" by Kagame's government, believes Mugesera has a chance for impartial justice before a Canadian court but not in Rwanda. A decision on Mugesera's deportation is being delayed until Jan. 23rd by a judge in Quebec. In Oklahoma, by granting Kagame immunity as a chief of state, the U.S. Federal Court threw out a lawsuit brought against Kagame by the widows of the two assassinated presidents (previous); substantial unrefuted evidence against Kagame remains, as presented by their lawyer at considerable personal risk, American professor of international law Peter Erlinder (see previous). Erlinder attempted to counsel former Rwandan presidential contender in the recent elections, Victoire Ingabire, but was imprisoned in Rwanda; he was alleged to have attempted "suicide" in custody before being returned to the U.S. on "compassionate" grounds. Ms. Ingabire, is charged with "genocide denial" and additional charges of terrorism in a trial entirely suppressed by international media. Partial sources online: "Mugasera Deportation," As it happens, Jan. 17, 2012, CBC radio; "The Rwanda Documents Project," Peter Erlinder, current [access:< http://www.rwandadocumentsproject.net/gsdl/cgi-bin/library >]; "Rwanda genocide: Kagame 'cleared of Habyarimana crash'," Jan. 10, 2012, BBC News; "Canada to deport alleged Rwandan war criminal despite UN," Jan. 11, 2012, CBC News.
Spain: former Spanish judge Balthazar Garzon who was able to translate international outrage at the crimes of Augusto Pinochet into legal objection, is currently on trial for attempting to dig up and identify the thousands massacred by General Franco (see previous 1, 2, 3, and throughout 2010). N.B.: LAW archive": "Formal Communication for Consideration and Action Re: Judge Baltasar Garzón," from LRWC, ECCHR, ALRC, LWBC, CCR, FIDH, NLG, IADL & OMCT, May 20, 2010, Lawyers' Rights Watch Canada).Update
El Salvador: as the U.S. attempts to expand its use of El Salvador for the "war on drugs" President Carlos Mauricio Funes Cartagena (FMLN party) has apologized deeply for the 1981 massacre of over a thousand civilians at El Mozote by the El Salvadoran military (a 1981 poster). Under the Peace Accords of 1992, perpetrators of the crime were granted amnesty. U.S. training of the Alcatle battalion responsible is discussed in detail by Mark Danner's The New Yorker article of 1993, "The Truth of El Mozote" [access:< http://www.markdanner.com/articles/show/the_truth_of_el_mozote >]. Danner noted that El Salvadoran forces excused a "no prisoners" policy by finding the peoples of contested zones "terrorists". El Salvadoran National Guard roundups for the massacres were accomplished through the use of killing lists supplied the military in the field, a tactic familiar in the shooting lists supplied by the U.S. CIA for the massacres in 1965-66 of a half million 'communists' in Indonesia (ref. "Reigns of Terror," in "Essay on State Terrorism"), and familiar in the Rwandan genocides to those applying killing lists where tribal identification was noted.
A summary of current genocide warnings: the warnings remain generally as noted on these pages January 23, 2004. Over eight years there's an increase in corporate and government funded organizations concerned with prevention of genocide but with selective focus that affirms US / NATO foreign policies. There have been numerous cases of alleged genocide at the International Criminal Court amid evidence that ICC application of the Convention is selective, functioning as a victor's court for the "first" world. With the Convention on Genocide coined to corporate interests indigenous peoples globally lack protection the United Nations Convention assures them. While Canadian law has effective means to counter genocide (the Convention isn't currently appliable within the U.S.), application shows little independence from media / Conservative government foreign policy. Apolitical approaches to preventing genocide remain heavily suppressed. Some warnings for various nations are listed at Genocide Warnings.
"Innu" - Petapan [access:< http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llNY6o8mBnk >]
U.S.: on December 31, 2011, the U.S. President signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act 2012. Amid military authorizations, directives and funding, Section 1021 allows the indefinite detention of anyone in the U.S. or anywhere, who is suspected of complicity in 9/11 or of alliance with "Al-Qaeda, the Taliban, or associated forces." Currently focused on Muslim groups the provision removes a legal safeguard for the prevention of genocide. Just who is accused, by whom, how and why, isn't revealed. The right of habeas corpus is not assured. The provision's application to U.S. citizens claims not to supersede laws already existing for detention of citizens. Section 1022 suggests that while military custody of citizens and "lawful resident aliens" isn't necessarily required, it is for other suspects. So the U.S. Congress has proposed and passed a law that strips anyone of protection against indefinite detention or disappearance, and allows the U.S. military to bear arms against its own people, if accused. The media is proceeding with business as usual. Acceptance of the unacceptable as "normal" was prepared by the administration's claiming the right to kill citizen suspects anywhere in the world (recently, Imam Anwar Aulaqi and his son among other civilians), the creation of Guantanamo Bay, secret prisons worldwide, disappearance of detainees, use of torture overtly condoned by the Bush administration, and wars of aggression. Clear violations of international law are increasingly extended in domestic applications presenting a progression of elitist controls, imposing the threat of totalitarianism to assure its continuation.Historical note"The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it." Article I, Section 9, Constitution.
"No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger..." - from Article V, Bill of Rights.
"Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted." Article VIII, Bill of Rights
"No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws." -from Article XIV, Section 1, Bill of Rights.
A branch that comes from violence will not take root;
for a blighted root is on sheer rock, like reeds by the
banks of a river, which are dried up before any grass; but
kindness, like eternity, will never be cut off, and faithfulness
will be established forever - from Ben Sira
(Dead Sea Scrolls Bible, Abegg et al)
This account is against forgetfulness.
