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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 17. Juli 2004 / Time Line July 17, 2004
Version 3.007/17/2004
Den israelske
militærnægter Aleksej Kornev som søger
politisk asyl i
Norge, er blevet udvist, skriver Politiken.
07/17/2004
Allawi shot prisoners in cold blood: witnesses
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http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/07/16/1089694568757.html?oneclick=true
By Paul McGeough in Baghdad
Iyad Allawi, the new Prime Minister of Iraq, pulled a pistol and
executed as many as six suspected insurgents at a Baghdad police
station, just days before Washington handed control of the country
to his interim government, according to two people who allege they
witnessed the killings.
They say the prisoners - handcuffed and blindfolded - were lined up
against a wall in a courtyard adjacent to the maximum-security cell
block in which they were held at the Al-Amariyah security centre,
in the city's south-western suburbs.
They say Dr Allawi told onlookers the victims had each killed as
many as 50 Iraqis and they "deserved worse than death".
07/17/2004
Suicide no.1 cause of death in IDF
43 soldiers committed suicide in 2003, a 30% increase. In
comparison, 30 soldiers were killed during military operations.
By: Amir Rapoport, Maariv International
http://www.maarivintl.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=article&xCache=%7Bts%20%272004%2D07%2D16%2016%3A26%3A18%27%7D&articleID=9796
The greatest fear of a family sending their children to the army
is that they will be killed during a military operation but an
internal report conducted by the security services reveals that
parents should be more concerned about suicide.
According to a report prepared by the Rehabilitation Division in
the Ministry of Defense referring to 2003, the number of soldiers
who committed suicide was significantly higher than the number of
soldiers killed during military action or who died from any other
cause.
The report disclosed that for the first time, suicide became the
leading cause of death in the IDF. Last year, 43 soldiers committed
suicide, in contrast with 30 soldiers who were killed during
military operations, a 30% increase in the number of suicides in
comparison with 2002, when 31 soldiers took their own lives.
Last year, 32 soldiers died of illness, 27 in traffic accidents or
during vacations, and 10 were killed in traffic accidents while on
duty. Nine soldiers were killed during training practice exercises
and four during the course of military operations. Eight soldiers
died due to other reasons.
Ministry of Defense data further revealed that suicide is not a
transient phenomenon. In the first half of 2004 alone, 15
additional soldiers killed themselves.
The rise in the number of suicides in the IDF in 2003, and the fact
that suicide has become the number 1 cause of death, has stunned
the IDF. Senior security sources who received the report requested
that steps be taken in order to fight the phenomenon. Criticism was
heard within the IDF regarding the fact that the army “not
only has not been able to reduce the number of suicides over the
years, but the phenomenon has actually increased”.
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