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05.april 2008
Militærnægtelse og
soldaters vilkår i Danmark
Andreas Speck, "War
Resisters International" har 3. april 2008 sendt følgende til
"Aldrig Mere Krig":
I'm trying to update
the information on Denmark, and it seems there have been quite a few changes.
The attached draft report is a mix of my attempted updates and the existing 1998
and 2005 report. I have several questions:
1. It seems the
recruitment procedure changed with the introduction of Danish Defence Days. Is
the description correct?
2. I need more
information on recruitment and status of professional soldiers. Where does
Denmarks military recruit volunteers?
3. I guess the CO law
only applies to conscripts. What exactly are the legal regulations for voluntary
soldiers to leave the military? The Danish Embassy claimed the can leave any
time with 3 months notice (with the restriction mentioned) - but is this a
right, or has it to be approved by the Ministry of Defence? What about times of
war?
4. I guess this one
(https://www.retsinformation.dk/Forms/R0710.aspx?id=6435) might be the military
penal code. But I can't figure out the punishment for being absent without leave
or desertion. Can anyone help?
5. I'm also not sure
about the punishment for refusing substitute service. Can anyone help?
6. What about total
objection? Is the description from the 1998 report still accurate? Are Jehovah's
Witnesses still total objectors?
De der ønsker at besvare spørgsmålene bedes henvende sig direkte Andreas
Speck: andreas@wri-irg.org
WRI's nuværende rapport om dansk
militær kan læses ved at klikke -
her
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03. april 2008
Håndbog i Ikkevold
WRI er ved at udgive
en elektronisk håndbog i ikkevoldelige aktioner og kampagner.
På:
http://wri-irg.org/wiki/index.php/Nonviolence_Handbook kan du følge
redigeringen af håndbogen, og selv komme med emner du synes skal med.
(Kilde: Arne Hansen)
02. april 2008
Massiv
undertrykkelse af ikkevoldelige fredsaktioner under NATO-topmødet i Bukarest.
Undertrykkelse af
menneskerettighederne er desværre ikke kun et kinesisk fænomen. Her beretter
Javier Garate,<javier@wri-irg.org>, en talsmand fra WRI, om omfattende fredelige anti-NATO demonstrationer, og om det rumænske politis brutale undertrykkelse af
demonstrationerne.
Det er de
færreste herhjemme der har noget kendskab til det han fortæller, for
fredsaktivisternes aktioner i Bukarest har ikke fået nogen omtale i de danske
medier:
Massive Repression
during the NATO Summit in Romania: One day before the start of the Nato summit
in Bucharest the situation gets worse. Hourly alternative looking people are
detained by the police for no reason. Afterwards the police construct absurd
offence, for example carrying a pocketknife amounting to
possession a weapon. Every person coming to or leaving the convergence center is
in danger of getting detained (some simply for walking to a nearby shop). The
detained are interrogated, photographed and fingerprinted in police stations,
and held for up to 24 hours.
At the Romanian border
several groups of activists, as well as others, have been denied entry into the
country.
The most involved
Romanian activists around the country have at this point been visited or called
by either the local police or SRI (Romanian information service) to be warned
against participating in any anti-nato protests or to have their families
intimidated.
27000 police
officers, military, snipers and secret police are occupying the city. The
security alert code yellow has been announced, meaning that all demonstrations
are forbidden in the whole city amongst other restrictive laws.
In the face of this
repression the actions of the few activists present are severely limited.
Therefore we urgently need your solidarity. Please make solidarity actions in
your cities.
(Kilde: Arne Hansen)
27. marts 2008
har WRI
udsendt to breve om forfølgelse af samvittighedsnægtere i Columbia og Tyrkiet:
Columbia:
Skriv protest
Emails til myndighederne!
23. februar er
Samvittighedsnægteren Yesid Bosa Rico gået i sultestrejke i protest mod den
behandling og de trusler han har været udsat for under myndighedernes illegale
forsøg på at rekruttere ham til militærtjeneste.
Andreas Speck, WRI,
skriver bl. a.:
Colombian
conscientious objector Diego Yesid Bosa Rico, who has been illegally
recruited on 23
February 2008, began a hunger strike in protest against his recruitment and
treatment on 26 March 2008. He is also refusing to enter the dormitories. In
response, the military offered him to do his military service in an office,
without the need to take up arms. However, on the morning of 27 March 2008, they
threatened him with five soldiers.
Diego Yesid Bosa Rico
was recruited in a 'batida' (raid of military in public places) on 23 February
2008, and initially brought to the Battalion Simon Bolivar in Tunja, about three
hours from Bogota. He was then transferred to the Special Energetical and Road
Batallion No 6 'Jose Maria Carbonell', where he is supposed to serve his
military service as a regular soldier.
The
Colombian military claims that this practice is legal. According to Article
50 of degree 2048, the recruitment authorities have the
right to carry out patrols to find draft evaders and/or persons who did not
define their military situation. While - according to the degree - it might be
legal to check people's papers, what usually follows is certainly illegal, and
does not meet neither Colombian nor international legal standards. According to
the law, those who do not define their military situation in time can be
compelled to do so. However, the practice of taking those
without military ID to the barracks to process them there directly deprives
those youth of their right to a proper legal process, as they have almost no
chance to claim legal exemptions, to submit any prove or other papers supporting
their right to exemption, and so on. That this kind of process is illegal has
also been stressed by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights in a
decision on a case from Guatemala in 1993.
Once recruited, Diego Yesid Bosa Rico maintained his position that he does
not want to be part of any military, based on his conscientious objection and
his belief in nonviolence. In his conscientious objector declaration he said:
"Violence only breeds evil, and therefore I don't want to be involved in
violence of any kind, not as a recruit of any army, legal or illegal, as they
all say they want to achieve peace and justice, but under the crossfire of their
weapons the life of many human beings is taken away and with them there is no
hope for a better future"...........................
The military even claims that Diego Yesid Bosa Rico signed documents stating
that none of the reasons for excemption mentioned in article 28 of the law 48 of
1993. However, Diego Yesid Bosa Rico did refuse to sign any papers, although he
was under pressure to do so.............
On 23 March 2008, Diego Yesid Bosa Rico refused to take a rifle. He also
noted, i.e. from the response to the petition of his mother, that documents he
refused to sign appeared with his signature. In his response to this, he decided to
go on hunger strike.......................
War Resisters' International considers the forced recruitment of Diego Yesid Bosa Rico as arbitrary detention. It constitutes a violation of Colombian law 48/1993, of articles 7, 11, and 22 of the American Convention on Human Rights, and of Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political
Rights.
WRI anmoder om at man sender protest Emails til:
Ministro de Defensa Nacional
Dr Juan Manuel Santos
Avenida El Dorado Carrera 52 OFI.217
Centro Administrativo Nacional (CAN)
Bogota, Colombia
Tel.: +57-1-2660179
Fax: +57-1-266 0351
Email:
despacho@mindefensa.gov.co
A protest Email (in Spanish) can be sent at
http://wri-irg.org/co/alerts/20080327b.html.
Defensoria del pueblo Bogota
Dirección: Calle 55 No. 10 - 46 (Bogotá - Cundinamarca)
Teléfono: +57-1-3147300
Correo electrónico:
bogota@defensoria.org.co
Defensor del pueblo regional: Rubén Darío Montoya Mejía
A protest Email (in Spanish) can be sent at
http://wri-irg.org/co/alerts/20080327c.html.
Tyrkiet
Skriv støttebreve til den fængslede samvittighedsnægter!
Den tyrkiske samvittighedsnægter, Halil Savda, blev igen arresteret 28. marts
2008 under en solidaritetsdemonstration for den fængslede samvittighedsnægter
Ismail Saygi.
Andreas Speck:
Soon after, he was taken into custody by police, because of an outstanding arrest warrant on charges of desertion.
Halil Savda already spent several months in military prison, and has been sentenced repeatedly on charges of "persistent disobedience" or "desertion".
On 12 April 2007, Halil Savda had been sentenced to six month imprisonment on charges of "persistent disobedience" between 25 January and 5 February 2007
(see co-alert from 12 April 2007). On 15 March of the same year, he had already
been sentenced to 15.5 months imprisonment on charges of desertion (see co-alert
from 20 March 2007).
Both sentences constitute a violation of Article 9 of the European Convention
on Human Rights, and Article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (Freedom of thought, conscience, and religion), both of
which Turkey has signed and ratified....................
Videre skriver Andreas Speck:
Halil Savda had been released from prison on 28 July 2007, after serving the
six months prison sentence, as at that time an appeal against the 15.5 months sentence was still pending. However, this appeal had been turned down
recently. In addition, Halil Savda had been ordered to report to 'his' military unit within 48 hours, which he did not do. Following this, an arrest warrant on charges of desertion had been issued.
Following his arrest on 27 March, it is highly likely that Halil Savda will
be brought to 'his' military prison in Corlu, to serve his 15.5 months sentence, and to await trial on new charges of desertion. This means that it is highly likely that after serving his present sentence, he will need to serve a new sentence, and might also be brought back to the military unit, only to be
given - and refuse - new military orders. The vicious circle has again begun.
Yderligere information om Halil Savda og samvittighedsnægtelse i Tyrkiet på:
http://wri-irg.org/co/turkcampaign-en.htm
WRI anmoder om at man allerede nu skriver breve til Halil Savda på hans
formodede adresse i det tyrkiske militærfængsel:
Halil Savda
5. Kolordu Komutanligi,
Askeri Cezaevi
Corlu - Tekirdag
Turkey
WRI anmoder også om protestbreve til de tyrkiske myndigheder:
* General Staff of the Turkish Military: Fax +90-312-4250813
* Presidency of the Turkish Republic: Fax +90-312-4271330, email
cumhurbaskanligi@tccb.gov.tr.
* A protest email to the Turkish President Abdullah Gul can be sent at
http://wri-irg.org/co/alerts/20080328a.html.
Protestbreve kan også sendes til de tyrkiske ambassader.
(Kilde: Arne Hansen)
06.
marts 2008
Amerikanske tropper kan igen
operere i Afghanistan fra baser i Uzbekistan.
Med BBC News som kilde fortæller
Andreas Speck at Uzbekistan igen har tilladt amerikanske tropper at
benytte baser i den sydlige del af landet til operationer ind i Afghanistan.
Tyske tropper har hele tiden kunnet benytte baserne, mens amerikanerne har været
udelukket siden de i 2005 anklagede Uzbekistan for at overtræde
menneskerettigheder i forbindelse med demonstrationer i Adijan city.
Websiden til BBC er:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacifik/7280538.stm
Redaktøren på denne side kunne
ikke åbne den, fordi det krævede en særlig tilladelse, så interesserede henvises
til Andreas Speck's Emailadresse:
andreas@wri-irg.org eller WRI's
hjemmeside.
14. februar 2008
I
anledning af det kommende Sociale Forum i Malmø i efteråret 2008
Nonviolent Action Forum
Coordinating and
strengthening Nonviolent at social forums
War Resisters ' International and many of its affiliates have
been present at many social forums, the meeting place of the so-called "movement
of movements, for quite some years now - from local or regional forums, over
European Social Forums (London 2004 and Athens 2006) to World Social Forums
(Caracas 2006, Nairobi 2007)). While these events provide many opportunities,
WRI often felt a certain unease on several levels:
the
forums are increasingly dominated by rather mainstream development oriented
NGOs on the one hand and traditional Marxist groups in numerous flavours on
the other hand. Independent grassroots activities tend to get more and more
marginalised. Nonviolence, though mentioned in the charta of the WSF, is not
visible as a political approach at these forums. especially the anti-war
forum is dominated by Marxist and Trotskyist organisations around the UK
based Stop the War Coalition and its international allies.
While some of these problems are linked to the much smaller
organising capacity of nonviolent action groups, or their different focus, which
makes social forums a less appealing and important place, we also see a lack of
coordination and cooperation and a tendency towards self-marginalisation at
work.
While some of these problems are linked to the much smaller organising
capacity of nonviolent action groups, or their different focus, which makes
social forums a less appealing and important place, we also see a lack of
coordination and cooperation and a tendency towards self-marginalisation at
work.
To respond to these problems, WRI
made efforts at the European Social Forum in London in 2004 and the World Social
Forum in Nairobi, Kenya in 2007 to coordinate activities with (some) other
nonviolent groups and organisations, and to increase the visibility of
nonviolence at these forums. While this has been somewhat successful, WRI has
gone beyond its limits in doing so, and cannot maintain this level of activity
on its own - a level that in any case is not sufficient.
A Nonviolent Action Forum?
At discussions during the
WRI Council meeting in Israel
in August 2007 arose the idea of a
Nonviolent Action Forum at social forums, which could bring together
these activities and would give them a joint name, place, and thus more
visibility. A Nonviolent Action Forum would provide a joint framework for
workshops and seminars related to nonviolence, and would - via a nonviolent
assembly - feed into the assembly of social movements as the body that passes
the closing statement of a social forum.
More importantly, a Nonviolent Action
Forum would be a visible axis in a social forum programme. and would provide
many opportunities for networking and discussion among nonviolent groups from a
variety of nonviolent perspectives and countries.
ESF Malmo -
first Nonviolent Action Forum?
Presently, WRI is looking into the
feasibility of a first slef-organised Nonviolent Action Forum at the European
Social Forum in Malmo
in September 2008. We are beginning discussions with WRI affiliates and other
nonviolent groups about this idea, and are receiving first positive feedback.
Our vision for Malmo
is as follows:
a joint printed programme of events of all groups participating in the
Nonviolent Action Forum; sharing of ideas and resources for workshops and
seminars at the ESF, including getting speakers onto the larger events of
the ESF; a joint large stall of all participating groups as a meeting place
and networking point.
Building on the work for the ESF, we also aim for a larger cooperation for the
WSF in Amazonia in January 2009, being aware that many groups from Europe will
not be able to be present there, and that this will require other partners from
South and North America.
Please contact the WRI office (either Javier -
javier@wri-irg.org - or Andreas -
andreas@wri-irg.org - in English, Spanish or
German) if you think this idea is a good starting point, and you want to take
part.
Andreas Speck, 14/02/2008
Dr
Stellan Vinthagen, Senior Lecturer
School of Global Studies Peace and
Development Research
Institute Göteborg
University
Box
700, SE 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden
www.globalstudies.gu.se
School of
Global Political Studies
Malmö
University,
SE 205 06 Malmö
www.mah.se
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Network:
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