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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. februar 2004 / Time Line February 17, 2004
Version 3.516. Februar 2004, 18. Februar 2004
02/17/2004
Interaktivt undervisningsmateriale på dansk
Så kom det - Jan Øbergs interaktive
undervisningsmateriale på dansk.
http://www.transnational.org/forum/meet/2004/undervisn_mat_index.html
Det internationale samfund - familiestrid eller magtpolitik.
Forholdet mellem USA & Europa og mellem dem og resten af
verden. En anderledes verden med fredeligere
konflikthåndtering end i dag. Tanker om fremtiden for os
alle.
Et personligt præget undervisningsmateriale med brede
perspektiver, lænker, diskussiontemaer og litteraturtips for
lærere og elever, der vil se på verden, Europa og USA
på en anden måde - og øve sig i at se ind i
fremtiden.
Jeg håber det kan blive til nytte på mange danske
skoler, gymnasier, efteruddannelser og andre uddannelsessteder - og
måske finde oversættere i Norge og Sverige.
Materialet er udviklet i samarbejde med de danske højskolers
fællesprojekt, Dialog eller Konfrontation. Kulturmøde
og Konfliktløsning. Se mere om dette spændende projekt
her:
http://www.kultur-konflikt.dk/
The five: a bone in the throat of the military prison
By Adam Keller on behalf of the Refusers Parents' Forum.
Early morning at one Tel-Aviv's main arteries. On one side the Twin Towers of the Azrieli Commercial Center. On the other side, a monster of concrete and glass being constructed to house the expanding Ministry of Defence. In between, a group of demonstrators holding up the placards "Release the Prisoners of Conscience". Leaflets were handed out to the big stream of mostly rear-echelon soldiers on their way to the morning shift.
At nine, not far from there - in the courtroom of the Military Appeals Court - a surrealistic scene - the testimony by Colonel Major Ochana, Deputy Commander of the Israeli Military Police Corps. "Ever since these five arrived at Military Prison-6, in January, their presence is completely undermining discipline and good order in the prison. The prison commandant and the entire staff are mainly concerned with them, and have no time and energy left for the rest of the five hundred prisoners. They are political activists with their own agenda, completely unfitting for the conditions of a military prison, governed by military discipline. Therefore, we demand that they be forthwith be transferred to a civilian prison." He was addressing the committee concerned with such prisoner transfers, convened at the Appeals Court hall.
Persistently questioned by advocate Avner Pinchuk appointed by the civil rights association ACRI to defend the five, Colonel Ochana could mention no other example than Shimri Tzameret publishing a prison blog on the internet "in contravention of prison regulations." The military authorities had been quite tardy in stamping upon this dangerous subversive activity which Tzameret maintained with the mediation of his grandmother. It had gone on for nearly a year, and in fact during the five's court martial the prosecutor had extensively quoted from the blog in his speeches. "There is much more, but I can't disclose it right now for fear of compromising intelligence sources" was the Colonel's way of saving his face. In fact, the committee obliged him by holding a session in camera, expelling the five, their lawyer, and the entire audience of supporters and family members. The five, Noam Bahat, Matan Kaminer, Adam Maor, Haggai Matar and Shimri Tzameret, seemed rather amused, as they sat in the sun on the lawn outside the courtroom, surrounded by parents and girl friends. Their good spirits were undampened by their being handcuffed two by two (the sixth one being a non-political transfer case). "The prison intelligence officer does maintain a network of spies and informers, and tries to give the prisoners the impression that he knows everything. But I doubt that they have anything real on us to say in there", said Haggai Matar.
One by one, the five were called back in, to give their own testimony and state their position towards the possibility of going to a civilian prison. Each in turn repeated the position which they had agreed upon: "We consider the intention of transferring us to a civilian prison as part of the campaign of harassment by the military authorities." Colonel Elisha Caspi, presiding judge grew impatient: "Why do you persist in throwing out this abstract principles? Do you have no personal preferences? No practical considerations?" The five did not oblige him. "But why?" exclaimed the military prosecution representative, Lieutenant Colonel Inbar. "You don't want to be soldiers. You don't accept military discipline. Why then are you trying to stick to the military prison? Would you not rather move to a civilian prison where you will not will have to get up at 5am, stand at roll calls the whole day, and address every guard with 'Sir', and where you will have a much better chance to have your term reduced for good behavior?"
"If we are not fitting for a military framework and military discipline, then the army really should send us out of the military prison, not to a civilian prison - but home. After all, our entire court martial turned on the issue whether or not we are to be soldiers, and there the army firmly insisted that we should. The civilian prison is a place for people who have done something wrong in civil society. We have not committed a light traffic offence."
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