[Ppnews] EU and US Are Involved in the Torture of Palestinians

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EU and US Are Involved in the Torture of Palestinians

By 
<http://palestinethinktank.com/author/kawther-salam/>Kawther 
Salam • Mar 14th, 2010
http://palestinethinktank.com/2010/03/14/eu-and-us-are-involved-in-torture-of-palestinians/

Sunday, March 14 2010 – The European Union, US 
war criminal General Keith Dayton, the Egyptian 
and the Jordanian regimes, are all jointly 
responsible for the torture of Palestinian 
prisoners at the PA jails. Dayton is the de-facto 
head of the corrupt PA repression system; his 
forces taught the PA thugs numerous kinds of 
torture and how to violate the rights of political detainees.

US agents are complicit together with Palestinian 
officers at the PA jails in these criminal 
activities; also, the EU has trained the corrupt 
police forces of the PA on how to arrest and 
torture political opponents. Britain, the US and 
the EU have invested hundreds of millions of 
pounds, dollars and Euros, respectively, to 
support the corrupt regime of the PA in the 
occupied West Bank. These funds were used to 
rebuild the corrupt PA repression system, not to 
help the people in any way or fashion. Recently, 
over 1200 political prisoners were jailed by the 
PA. Among them are teachers, engineers, students 
and 
 union leaders, etc. The PA also recently 
kicked out over 2000 teachers from the ministry 
of education in the West Bank from their jobs; 
many of them have been jailed, interrogated and 
tortured by the Dayton thugs at the PA jails.

The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) in 
Britain confirmed that the PA did not stop for 
one moment in the practice of torture in its 
prisons, since it declared a cessation of torture 
in the beginning of October 2009. The 
organization said in a report issued on Tuesday, 
in addressing the conduct of security services 
after the announcement to stop torture in its 
prisons, “The Palestinian Authority is using new 
methods in the torture which are more severe in 
addition to the old methods." And the number of 
new techniques in the torture report exhibited 
greater severity along with the older methods and 
basic treatment for many Palestinian victims of this torture.

The (AOHR) indicated in its report, that they 
sent letters to the Prime Minister of the 
caretaker government in Ramallah, Salam Fayyad, 
in order to allow a delegation from the 
organization to visit detention centers in the 
territory of the Palestinian Authority, but they never received a response.

It is understood concerning the Palestinians in 
the West Bank under the occupation, who are 
protected by the Geneva Conventions and rule of 
international law, that any attack on any of 
their rights and particularly the right to life, 
liberty and physical integrity is a breach of international law.

The group said that the occupation authorities 
are guilty, on a daily basis, of dozens of 
violations of law against the Palestinian 
citizens including: murders, arrests, torture, 
confiscation of land and demolition of houses, 
and the security services of the Palestinian 
Authority are complicit with these violations, 
including: arrest, torture and abuse of civil 
institutions and public freedoms, all clearly 
with the criminal aim to destroy the morale of 
the people and its legitimate resistance 
undertaken for the sake of freedom and self-determination.

They emphasized that the Palestinian Authority 
security services' cooperation with the Israeli 
authorities reached an unimaginable level of 
criminality at the expense of the dignity and 
life and freedom of the Palestinian citizens, 
adding that the Palestinian Authority's security 
services – led by Dayton and connivance from the 
European Union and the CIA – whose agendas and 
policies were implemented purely for Israeli 
motives,  transformed the lives of the Palestinian citizens into a living hell.

The (AOHR) also confirmed that the West Bank has 
become a springboard for the activities of 
foreign intelligence agencies through which to 
provide espionage support and logistical support 
to security agencies for the implementation of 
external operations against Palestinian militants 
by unlawful operations outside the occupied territories.

They stressed that the file of human rights 
violations in the Palestinian Authority territory 
are under close scrutiny as also the response of 
the decision makers in the European Union, and 
that this file will take the direction of more in 
depth revelation than that of those responsible 
for these violations of international justice.

The organization pointed out that the Director of 
General Intelligence, Major General Majed Faraj 
and military intelligence official, Brigadier 
General Abu Nidal and the head of Preventive 
Security, General Ziyad Hab al-Rih, are directly 
responsible for the arrest of citizens and 
torture of Palestinians in centers located 
outside the control of the law. The organization 
considers that every officer or soldier of 
various ranks carried out torture or illegal 
detention and are responsible for their actions 
as perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Nor 
is the top leadership exempt from this.

The organization pointed that President Mahmoud 
Abbas, as president of the Authority, is directly 
responsible for the acts of its employees and the 
General Intelligence and Preventive Security is 
responsible for serious violations of the law 
that are committed against Palestinian civilians.

The human rights organization pointed out that 
the Jordanian Government is also responsible for 
serious violations committed by the Palestinian 
Authority security services, where the government 
trained elements of these services in all the 
tactics and security thereof and provided the 
necessary equipment for them. The organization 
called on the Jordanian government to immediately 
stop the training of Palestinian security services.

The file follows the arrest and torture, movement 
by movement, in Palestinian prisons, and demands 
the Authority Stop the Torture Involved and the 
deception carried on to divert the world’s 
attention from what is going on in the detention centers.

The organization called on the Prosecutor of the 
International Criminal Court, Luis Ocampo, to 
move immediately and prosecute for the aggravated 
suffering of the Palestinians under occupation, 
whether or not in detention, for torture and 
humiliation. Also, that these crimes be declared 
as crimes against humanity and violations of the 
Fourth Geneva Convention and within the jurisdiction of the Court.

The European Union demanded an end of support for 
the security services until it is resolved and 
consolidation of a police based on the 
Palestinian citizens' rights and which do not 
serve other agendas is brought about.

The organization also called upon the Presidency 
to set up a committee of legal experts and 
specialists in the field of Human Rights to 
investigate human rights violations in the 
territory of the Palestinian Authority and to 
work hard to stop Torture and Unlawful Arrests. 
In addition, the organization called upon the 
European Police Mission to withdraw from the 
territory of the Palestinian Authority.

The organization called on U.S. President Barack 
Obama to withdraw Gen. Keith Dayton, and end the 
mission of American Intelligence in the territory 
of the Palestinian Authority, and to bring the 
perpetrators of human rights violations to justice.




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