Israeli assassinations: crime against humanity?
Aletho / Aletho
24-Feb-2010 (one comment)

A crime against humanity is one that is part of a systematic or
widespread pattern of attacks against a civilian population. In
addition, if an assassination that targeted a particular person was part
of a broader plan to destroy the individual’s entire group, it could be
viewed as genocide. As has been demonstrated, there was a systematic
use of murder and political assassination carried out before and after
the establishment of the state of Israel. Since Israel’s declaration of
independence, the Israeli government has engaged in a systematic and
widespread pattern of attacks on Palestinian civilians. Moreover, it has
engaged in a systematic pattern of assassinations that target
particular persons in a group.

Therefore, Israel has engaged in crimes against humanity and
genocide. Israel has continuously and systematically violated
international law. The British, French, Irish, Austrian and Emirati
governments, as well as the international community, have a duty to do
more than call for an investigation into Israeli action. Condemnation
and sanctions are necessary.

Rachael M. Rudolph, PhD

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The Chain Murders/ assassinations Of Iran

by AsteroidX on Thu Feb 25, 2010 02:50 AM PST

The assassination of the Forouhars is one of the keys to understand the history and the present of the Iranian regime. People involved in the chain murders are actually still holding decision-making positions. Parastou Forouhar declared that Iran urgently needs international support for the process of democracy and the enforcement of human rights.

//www.hudsonny.org/2008/12/the-chain-murders-of-iran.php

 In terms of politically-motivated killing of dissidents, intellectuals and opposition members, 1980-1998 represents the darkest and bloodiest period in the last 150 years of Iran's history. Thousands of political prisoners were executed in that decade, as I described in an earlier article (and will therefore not discuss again here).

The focus of this article is the period 1988-1998, during which dozens of prominent dissidents and intellectuals were secretly or openly murdered. The full extent of these murders is still unknown. Not only do we not know the exact number of people murdered, we do not really know who ordered them, as the killings are still shrouded in secrecy.

It was only during the fall of 1998, during the second year of the first term of Mohammad Khatami's presidency that the serial murders of dissidents and intellectuals of the preceding decade came to light. This was made possible by the "Tehran Spring" (named after the "Prague Spring") of 1998-2000, a brief period when the Iranian press enjoyed relative freedom and began publishing exposes on these events.

In 1998, between late summer and fall, six dissidents and intellectuals were murdered in what came to be known as the "Chain Murders" [ghatl-haye zanjireh-i]. Iranians soon learned, however, that the number of people killed far exceeded that number.

//www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2009/12/the-chain-murders-1988-1998.html


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