Showing posts with label war crimes tribunal. Show all posts
Showing posts with label war crimes tribunal. Show all posts

July 04, 2008

Here it is! The amazing speech by Noami Klein which was censored.

Posted by the fantabulously ONEderful Stimulator.

This is the RAW BOLD TRUTH as spoken by Naomi.

I've now invited Stim to be part of the WAR CRIMES conference.

Hip Hip Hooray!

Life is looking up for ALL of us!

(and btw, will be funny to meet Naomi Klein.)

Virginia


Naomi Klein’s controversial speech

Naomi Klein’s speech at the National Conference for Media reform was not included on the conference website. subMedia contacted Free Press, the organizer or the conference, to ask why Klein’s speech could not be found online, and the person explained that Free Press is a non-profit organization and that I should reefer to the disclaimer on their website which reads:

"Despite our best efforts, we feel that some of our speakers encroached on electoral space during their remarks at the National Conference for Media Reform. It is not in our interest to disseminate these recordings. We are reviewing all of our video content and will add that which we determine to be free of electoral statements to this page."

I don’t quite understand how these things work, but whatever. Two sources have told me the reason Free Press did not include the speech was Klein’s criticism of Barack Obama. It would be pretty fuckin lame if it were true.

But fuck it, I got a hold of a copy of the speech and here it is.

Read Klein’s article "Obama’s CHicago Boys" published in "The Nation"

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And hey, fuck, boyz and grrlz, I knew that Conference would be bullshit, so I never posted about it! Imagine! Me who GREW UP there, can't even go there. Ain't that a buncha bs!! )

January 10, 2008

Honduran torture and war crimes to be revisted

Honduras seeks to revive cases from 1980s dirty war



TEGUCIGALPA, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Honduras wants to revive cases accusing officials of murder and torture in a 1980s dirty war against leftists when 184 people disappeared and were presumed dead at the hands of death squads, the president said on Monday.

Human rights groups say death squads with links to police and the military were behind the disappearances as a civilian government launched a crackdown on leftist activists between 1982 and 1990.

"We have to reopen these cases, not to reopen the wounds, but to concentrate on real peace, punishing those responsible for violating human rights in this country," Honduras' left-leaning President Manuel Zelaya said in a speech.

At least 10 cases brought by rights groups have been stalled for years in the courts, and previous governments had little political will to move the cases forward. Activists now want to deepen the probe.

Honduras' repression of the 1980s was part of a wave of so-called "scorched earth" policies carried out by governments in Central America in an effort to wipe our communism, often with the backing of the United States.

One of Honduras' most notorious death squads called "Battalion 316" -- known for its brutal torture techniques -- was allegedly trained by CIA agents, according to declassified U.S. government documents.

Honduras suffered less from the problem than neighboring Guatemala, where close to 250,000 people were killed during its 36-year civil war, and El Salvador, where some 70,000 people died. But Zelaya said the country is still scarred by the violence.

"It is time to set some precedents," he said in a speech to his Liberal Party. "There are hundreds of families who have not forgotten."

(Reporting by Gustavo Palencia)

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