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aaaaaah!
LA France.
mais quel panache !


Le 15 nov. 06, à 09:42, 0f0003 | maschinenkunst a écrit :

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> \\ progress = inevitable -- occident style
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> The question whether European troops on duty abroad must abide by the
> European Convention on Human Rights is being put to the test in 
> Strasbourg.
>
>
> The European Court of Human Rights is holding a hearing in cases 
> brought by
> Kosovo Albanians against France, Germany and Norway.
>
> In one of the cases, a boy died playing with cluster bombs they say 
> French
> troops failed to remove or make safe.
>
> The UK has argued to the court that the troops should not be held 
> responsible.
>
> Boy blinded
>
> The boy's father, Agim Behrami, is travelling to Strasbourg for the 
> hearing.
>
> One of his sons, Gadaf, died in the explosion in March 2000, and 
> another,
> Bekir, was blinded.
>
>
> The cluster bombs had been dropped during the Nato bombardment in 
> 1999, and
> left untouched in an unmarked area in hills near Mitrovica.
>
> Mr Behrami says it was the duty of French K-For forces, operating in 
> the
> Mitrovica area, to mark or defuse the undetonated cluster bombs.
>
> The London-based Advice on Individual Rights in Europe (Aire) centre, 
> which
> is representing him and his blinded son, says the French troops knew 
> the
> bombs were there, but took no steps to inform families of the danger.
>
> "They said it was 'not a priority' for them," the centre said in a 
> press
> release.
>
> The other case is brought by a man, Ruzhdi Saramati, who was detained 
> by
> K-For troops on suspicion of involvement in armed groups operating on 
> the
> Kosovo/Macedonia border.
>
> He accuses Norwegian and French K-For commanders of violating his 
> right to
> liberty by holding him for six months without any legal basis.
>
> 'Impunity'
>
> The UK government has submitted observations to the court regarding 
> both
> cases, arguing that countries should not be accountable for violations 
> by
> their troops of the European Convention on Human Rights, in countries 
> that
> have not signed it.
>
> The UK says the Kosovans were not under the jurisdiction of France, 
> Germany
> or Norway and that the troops were not "required to secure to them the
> rights and freedoms" of the Convention.
>
> It adds: "It would be obviously undesirable and inappropriate for the
> European Convention to be interpreted in a way that discouraged or 
> even put
> at risk participation in such peacekeeping" by states that are 
> signatories
> to the Convention.
>
> Aire staff were among the experts sent in by the Council of Europe to 
> train
> new Kosovo judges and lawyers on the Convention of Human Rights.
>
> "We encountered at first hand the bitterness in Kosovo at being told to
> they had to implement the convention when the United Nations mission 
> and
> K-For troops could disregard it with impunity," said Aire director 
> Nuala
> Mole.
>
> She said it was shocking that the UK was arguing that its troops did 
> not
> have to respect human rights on foreign missions.
>
>
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