投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 11 月 30 日 16:04:50:
●英国『インデペンデント』紙のロバート・フィスク記者が、上記
のような表題の記事を発表しました。
●日本の新聞は、偽善的なポーズでけっきょく戦争翼賛報道に
性を出していますが、もうちょっと人間の心を持った報道をして
みろ、と言いたいですね。読売新聞などは、戦争に批判的だったり
疑問視したりする依頼原稿をボツにしたので、それが別ルート
で発表されて、卑劣な検閲の実態が露呈していますが、他の
新聞・雑誌・放送メディアはどうなのでしょうか？ 似たような
ものなのかな？
●湾岸戦争のときと比べれば、我々一般人が入手できる情報
ソースは（インターネットのおかげで）格段に増えているわけで、
既成メディアの虚報や自主検閲は、比較的容易に見破ること
ができるようになりました。 とりあえず我々にできることは
メディアの虚報・世論誘導・屁たれ自主検閲をきびしく監視していく
ことです。 できることからやりましょう。 そして続けていきましょう。
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THE INDEPENDENT - London, UK
http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=107292
Thursday, November 29, 2001
We are the war criminals now
'Everything we have believed in since the Second World War goes
by the board as we pursue our own exclusive war'
by ROBERT FISK
We are becoming war criminals in Afghanistan. The U.S. Air Force
bombs Mazar-i-Sharif for the Northern Alliance, and our heroic
Afghan allies -- who slaughtered 50,000 people in Kabul between
1992 and 1996 -- move into the city and execute up to 300
Taliban fighters. The report is a footnote on the television
satellite channels, a "nib" in journalistic parlance. Perfectly
normal, it seems. The Afghans have a "tradition" of revenge. So,
with the strategic assistance of the USAF, a war crime is
committed.
Now we have the Mazar-i-Sharif prison "revolt", in which Taliban
inmates opened fire on their Alliance jailers. U.S. Special
Forces -- and, it has emerged, British troops -- helped the
Alliance to overcome the uprising and, sure enough, CNN tells us
some prisoners were "executed" trying to escape. It is an
atrocity. British troops are now stained with war crimes. Within
days, The Independent's Justin Huggler has found more executed
Taliban members in Kunduz.
The Americans have even less excuse for this massacre. For the
U.S. Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, stated quite
specifically during the siege of the city that U.S. air raids on
the Taliban defenders would stop "if the Northern Alliance
requested it". Leaving aside the revelation that the thugs and
murderers of the Northern Alliance were now acting as air
controllers to the USAF in its battle with the thugs and
murderers of the Taliban, Mr. Rumsfeld's incriminating remark
places Washington in the witness box of any war-crimes trial
over Kunduz. The U.S. were acting in full military co-operation
with the Northern Alliance militia.
Most television journalists, to their shame, have shown little
or no interest in these disgraceful crimes. Cosying up to the
Northern Alliance, chatting to the American troops, most have
done little more than mention the war crimes against prisoners
in the midst of their reports. What on earth has gone wrong with
our moral compass since 11 September?
Perhaps I can suggest an answer. After both the First and Second
World Wars, we -- the "West" -- grew a forest of legislation to
prevent further war crimes. The very first Anglo-French-Russian
attempt to formulate such laws was provoked by the Armenian
Holocaust at the hands of the Turks in 1915; The Entente said it
would hold personally responsible "all members of the (Turkish)
Ottoman government and those of their agents who are implicated
in such massacres". After the Jewish Holocaust and the collapse
of Germany in 1945, article 6 (C) of the Nuremberg Charter and
the Preamble of the UN Convention on genocide referred to
"crimes against humanity". Each new post-1945 war produced a
raft of legislation and the creation of evermore human rights
groups to lobby the world on liberal, humanistic Western values.
Over the past 50 years, we sat on our moral pedestal and
lectured the Chinese and the Soviets, the Arabs and the
Africans, about human rights. We pronounced on the human-rights
crimes of Bosnians and Croatians and Serbs. We put many of them
in the dock, just as we did the Nazis at Nuremberg. Thousands of
dossiers were produced, describing -- in nauseous detail -- the
secret courts and death squads and torture and extra judicial
executions carried out by rogue states and pathological
dictators. Quite right too.
Yet suddenly, after 11 September, we went mad. We bombed Afghan
villages into rubble, along with their inhabitants -- blaming
the insane Taliban and Osama bin Laden for our slaughter -- and
now we have allowed our gruesome militia allies to execute their
prisoners. President George Bush has signed into law a set of
secret military courts to try and then liquidate anyone believed
to be a "terrorist murderer" in the eyes of America's awesomely
inefficient intelligence services. And make no mistake about it,
we are talking here about legally sanctioned American government
death squads. They have been created, of course, so that Osama
bin Laden and his men should they be caught rather than killed,
will have no public defense; just a pseudo trial and a firing
squad.
It's quite clear what has happened. When people with yellow or
black or brownish skin, with Communist or Islamic or Nationalist
credentials, murder their prisoners or carpet bomb villages to
kill their enemies or set up death squad courts, they must be
condemned by the United States, the European Union, the United
Nations and the "civilized" world. We are the masters of human
rights, the Liberals, the great and good who can preach to the
impoverished masses. But when our people are murdered -- when
our glittering buildings are destroyed -- then we tear up every
piece of human rights legislation, send off the B-52s in the
direction of the impoverished masses and set out to murder our
enemies.
Winston Churchill took the Bush view of his enemies. In 1945, he
preferred the straightforward execution of the Nazi leadership.
Yet despite the fact that Hitler's monsters were responsible for
at least 50 million deaths -- 10,000 times greater than the
victims of 11 September -- the Nazi murderers were given a trial
at Nuremberg because U.S. President Truman made a remarkable
decision. "Undiscriminating executions or punishments," he said,
"without definite findings of guilt fairly arrived at, would not
fit easily on the American conscience or be remembered by our
children with pride."
No one should be surprised that Mr. Bush -- a small-time Texas
Governor-Executioner -- should fail to understand the morality
of a statesman in the White House What is so shocking is that
the Blairs, Schroders, Chiracs and all the television boys
should have remained so gutlessly silent in the face of the
Afghan executions and East European-style legislation sanctified
since 11 September.
There are ghostly shadows around to remind us of the
consequences of state murder. In France, a general goes on trial
after admitting to torture and murder in the 1954-62 Algerian
war, because he referred to his deeds as "justifiable acts of
duty performed without pleasure or remorse". And in Brussels, a
judge will decide if the Israeli Prime Minister, Arial Sharon,
can be prosecuted for his "personal responsibility" for the 1982
massacre in Sabra and Chatila.
Yes, I know the Taliban were a cruel bunch of bastards. They
committed most of their massacres outside Mazar-i-Sharif in the
late 1990s. They executed women in the Kabul football stadium.
And yes, lets remember that 11 September was a crime against
humanity.
But I have a problem with all this. George Bush says that "you
are either for us or against us" in the war for civilization
against evil. Well, I'm sure not for bin Laden. But I'm not for
Bush. I'm actively against the brutal, cynical, lying "war of
civilization" that he has begun so mendaciously in our name and
which has now cost as many lives as the World Trade Center mass
murder.
At this moment, I can't help remembering my dad. He was old
enough to have fought in the First World War. In the third
Battle of Arras. And as great age overwhelmed him near the end
of the century, he raged against the waste and murder of the
1914-1918 war. When he died in 1992, I inherited the campaign
medal of which he was once so proud, proof that he had survived
a war he had come to hate and loathe and despise. On the back,
it says: "The Great War for Civilization". Maybe I should send
it to George Bush.
[c 2001 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd]
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WE ARE THE WAR CRIMINALS NOW
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1129-05.htm
PROSECUTE BUSH, RUMSFELD AND BLIAR FOR WAR CRIMES
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http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/
story.jsp?story=107292
People of Afghanistan say that Northern Alliance (United Front)
consists of "Thieves, Rapists, Killers" and Criminals.
http://www.afghancriminals.com/members.htm
http://www.afghancriminals.com
There is No Excuse for This Savagery
We Too Are Responsible for the Massacre at Qala-i-Jhangi Fort
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1129-02.htm
How Our Afghan Allies Applied The Geneva Convention
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1202
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/
story.jsp?story=107369
Prisoners massacred, the dead plundered for boots, guns and even
gold teeth
Bush-Bliar Agents Steal Gold Teeth From Dead Bodies
Photo: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1129-02.htm
Photo: http://www.antiwar.com
Playing the Great Game
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1128-02.htm
As the Afghan War Reaches a Climax, Questions About the
Slaughter of Prisoners Cannot Be Brushed Aside
The Siege of Kunduz is a Defining Moment For Us All
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1124-01.htm
'From my own experience of siege conditions, I can testify that
the atmosphere will be thick with panic'
Afghan Uprising Raises Questions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/
A30297-2001Nov28.html
Crisis at Kunduz
The Coalition Must Make It Clear That Surrendering Troops Will
Be Treated Humanely
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1124-04.htm
U.S. Investigates 'Execution' of 160 Taliban Near Kandahar
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/
story.jsp?story=107385
This War is Not Just
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1127-01.htm
Common Dreams: Views - Opinions - Ideas
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/views.htm
Common Dreams: News - Info
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/headlines.htm
New Evidence Indicates Palestinians Died Hours After Surviving
Camp Massacres
by Robert Fisk, Middle East Correspondent
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1128-02.htm
Blood, Tears, Terror and Tragedy Behind the Lines
by Robert Fisk, the only Western journalist in Taliban-held
Kandahar province
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1126-02.htm
http://www.zmag.org/fisk26.htm
Our friends in the North are just as treacherous and murderous
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1119-02.htm
'When our Northern Alliance boys go on a killing spree, we have
to take responsibility'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/story.jsp?story=1
05560
When Journalists Forget That Murder Is Murder
http://www.zmag.org/meastwatch/fiskmurd.htm
'It's not the words Israelis and Palestinians use about each
other that concern me. It's our submission to them'
Forget the cliches, there is no easy way for the West to sort
this out
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1117-03.htm
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/
story.jsp?story=105385
Should the West take this new policy seriously?
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/
story.jsp?story=105214
What will the Northern Alliance do in our name now? I dread to
think...
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1114-01.htm
http://www.zmag.org/fiskna.cfm
'Why do we always have this ambiguous, dangerous relationship
with our allies?'
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/
story.jsp?story=104799
No surprise at rumours of new atrocities by our 'foot-soldiers'
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1113-03.htm
http://argument.independent.co.uk/commentators/
story.jsp?story=104632
Hypocrisy, Hatred and the War on Terror
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1108-08.htm
http://www.zmag.org/fiskhypoc.htm
Colours of the cornered chameleon are changing rapidly, Taliban
style
Robert Fisk
in Chaman, on the Afghan border
http://www.zmag.org/fisk27.htm
Bombs as Self-Defense?
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1124-02.htm
The War for Oil Subtext in Afghanistan
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1125-06.htm
Good vs. Evil vs. Greed
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1125-03.htm
What's Left? A New Life for Progressivism
http://www.commondreams.org/views01/1125-01.htm
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