woensdag 1 juli 2009

Cees Zoon van de Volkskrant 4




Cees nog meer informatie voor je krant. Over deze militairen gaat het:

While President Obama and Secretary of State Hilary Clinton have called for a restoration of the constitutional order in Honduras following the military coup, they have not yet called for the legitimate Honduran President Zelaya to be returned to office. In fact it appears to be that they are attempting to triangulate - where "unnamed senior officials" are saying that they're calling for his return, while in fact officials with first and last names (ie on the record) are saying they recognize Zelaya as president, but also calling for negotiations with the coup plotters to "restore constitutional order" - read: in a way that does not involved an immediate return of Zelaya to office but rather stalls it out until the November elections. (This was in fact confirmed by a source who spoke with someone in the State Department today.)

Graduates Overthrow the Honduran Government in A Military Coup

The democratically elected government was deposed in an illegal military coup by School of the Americas trained militaries. The SOA graduate lead Honduran Army has taken over the country. SOA Watch is in contact with social movement organizers in Honduras. Here are the latest updates that we received: - The people are resisting, beginning to take the streets, block the roads - dozens of buses of people coming to the capital from other parts of the country - over 10,000 people gathered yesterday in the Honduran capital Tegucigalpa to protest the illegal military coup, and they were violently dispersed by the military, using tear gas and guns (not clear if rubber bullets or otherwise). More protests are planned for today. - There are wounded and dead, but numbers are still unclear - our friends in Honduras have been to hospitals and have documented some cases - THE OFFICIAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND THE FISCAL (ATTORNEY GENERAL) ARE REFUSING TO DOCUMENT THE ABUSES, AND ARE SUPPORTING THE COUP GOVERNMENT. COFADEH ASKS THAT WE DENOUNCE THESE OFFICIALS AS NOT FULFILLING THEIR DUTY AS DEFENDERS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. THEY ARE RAMON CUSTODIO, DIRECTOR OF THE NATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS COMMISSION AND SANDRA PONCE, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL. - A new cabinet was named by the coup leaders, and they tried to bring them to be sworn in at the presidential palace, but lights were cut and phone lines downed, and this did not take place. - Two army battalions have declared that they will not be loyal to the coup government - A crew from TELESUR was detained and beaten, but released, after international public pressure - Electricity is constantly being cut off, then comes again - Censorship of the t.v. media, only channels of rightwing media being shown - Coup govenrment is using well-known human rights abusers and their spokespersons - Strike of schools and workers taking place
Lees verder: http://www.soaw.org/

1 opmerking:

Sonja zei

Cees Zoon schreef in Volkskrant over Honduras: "Een legerwoordvoerder ontkende dat er sprake is van een staatsgreep. De soldaten, die onder meer het vliegveld en het presidentiële paleis omsingelden, zouden zijn uitgerukt omdat ‘er geruchten gingen dat aanhangers van de president rellen voorbereidden'" Kennelijk vindt Zoon het belangrijk om de propaganda van coupplegers te verspreiden als 'nieuws', om zijn lezers te 'informeren'. Alsof dat nog niet treurig genoeg is, blijkt dit soort berichtgeving een herhaling van zetten.
 
Ralph McGehee, a senior CIA operations officer in the 1960s, describes the terror of Suharto's takeover in 1965-6 as "the model operation" for the US-backed coup that got rid of Salvador Allende in Chile seven years later. "The CIA forged a document purporting to reveal a leftist plot to murder Chilean military leaders," he wrote, "[just like] what happened in Indonesia in 1965." 

Roland Challis, BBC south-east Asia correspondent at the time, told me how the British government was secretly involved in this [Indonesië] slaughter. "British warships escorted a ship full of Indonesian troops down the Malacca Straits so they could take part in the terrible holocaust," he said. "I and other correspondents were unaware of this at the time ... There was a deal, you see."

The deal was that Indonesia under Suharto would offer up what Richard Nixon had called "the richest hoard of natural resources, the greatest prize in south-east Asia". ('Our model dictator', John Pilger, The Guardian 2008)

Lees weblog VolkskrantWatch Indonesië, Chili, Honduras, en de media
(incl in Nederland niet gepubliceerde video uit Honduras)

Peter Flik en Chuck Berry-Promised Land

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