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2009-03 "From the testimonies that we've gathered, lots of demolitions - buildings demolished either by bulldozers or explosives - were done after the area was under Israeli control."
-- Yehuda Shaul, member of Breaking the Silence, an Israeli group that gathers and circulates the testimonies of Israeli soldiers, told BBC News
2009-03 Israeli forces engaged in "wanton destruction" of Palestinian homes during the recent conflict in Gaza.
-- According to human rights investigators
2009-03 "Unless those operating on the ground felt not just 100% but 200% secure - that the places were not booby trapped, that they wouldn't come under fire - they could not have got out of the vehicles.
They would not have used that method
[of anti-tank mines. Troops would have had to leave their armoured vehicles to plant them and rig up the detonators].
The use of the method tells us even more that there wasn't the kind of danger that might have made it lawful to destroy some of those properties."
-- Donatella Rovera, the head of the Amnesty International fact-finding mission to southern Israel and Gaza
2009-03 Wanton destruction on a large scale would qualify as a war crime."
-- Donatella Rovera, the head of the Amnesty International fact-finding mission to southern Israel and Gaza
2009-01-23 In Colombia, an entire battalion was dismantled over killings of civilians passed off as guerrilla casualties.
The 15th mobile brigade was completely replaced by a new unit, the 23rd mobile counterinsurgency brigade, whose 1,400 members have reportedly received training on human rights, according to official reports.
2008-12-09 "Preventive action must be taken immediately to offset the persisting and wide-ranging violations of the fundamental human right to life, and in view of the emerging situation that is producing a humanitarian catastrophe that is unfolding day by day.
Israel still maintains its Gaza siege in its full fury, allowing only barely enough food and fuel to enter to stave off mass famine and disease
Such a policy of collective punishment initiated by Israel to punish Gazans for political developments within the Gaza Strip constitutes a continuing flagrant and massive violation of international humanitarian law."
-- Richard Falk, the UN's Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories, in a statement
2008-11-27 “The Indian Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh, has insisted that the terrorists were based outside the country. The Indian media has echoed this line of argument with Pakistan (via the Lashkar-e-Taiba) and al-Qaeda listed as the usual suspects.
But this is a meditated edifice of official India’s political imagination. Its function is to deny that the terrorists could be a homegrown variety, a product of the radicalization of young Indian Muslims who have finally given up on the indigenous political system. To accept this view would imply that the country’s political physicians need to heal themselves.
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Why should it be such a surprise if the perpetrators are themselves Indian Muslims? Its hardly a secret that there has been much anger within the poorest sections of the Muslim community against the systematic discrimination and acts of violence carried out against them of which the 2002 anti-Muslim pogrom in shining Gujarat was only the most blatant and the most investigated episode, supported by the Chief Minister of the State and the local state apparatuses.
Add to this the continuing sore of Kashmir which has for decades been treated as a colony by Indian troops with random arrests, torture and rape of Kashmiris an everyday occurrence. Conditions have been much worse than in Tibet, but have aroused little sympathy in the West where the defense of human rights is heavily instrumentalised.”
-- Tariq Ali, author
2008-06-06 The United States has 2.3 million people behind bars, more than any other country in the world and more than ever before in its history.
-- Human Rights Watch
2008-05-28 Human rights group Amnesty International has said it is extremely alarmed by what it calls a "climate of discrimination" in Italy.
2008-05-06 Ttorture, genocide, slavery, and wars of aggression all fall under jus cogens.
Jus cogens is Latin for "higher law" or "compelling law."
This means that no country can ever pass a law that allows torture. There can be no immunity from criminal liability for violation of a jus cogens prohibition.
-- Marjorie Cohn, Professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, Testimony before the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Civil Liberties House Judiciary Committee












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