Columbia Extradites High Level Drug Traffickers

Amnesty International has reported that high level dealers are being sent to the United States.

The Colombian government's decision to extradite 14 paramilitary leaders wanted in the USA on drugs-trafficking charges should not be used as an excuse to end investigations into the role played by paramilitaries in committing human rights violations against thousands of people, often in collusion with or the acquiescence of the Colombian security forces, Amnesty International said today.

`On taking the decision to extradite them, the government is arguing that these paramilitary leaders have failed to tell the whole truth about the human rights violations they committed, have continued to reoffend while in prison, and have failed to fulfil commitments they had made as part of the demobilization process in terms of reparation to their victims.

"The paramilitary demobilization process -- by which over 31,000 members of paramilitary groups supposedly demobilized -- and the legal framework that has accompanied it, has been a complete sham which has abjectly failed both to dismantle paramilitarism in Colombia and to respect the right of victims to truth, justice and reparation. The Colombian government now appears to share this view, which it had denied for so long," said Amnesty International.

`The organization stated that in extraditing these men on drugs-trafficking charges without reference to human rights violations, there is a real danger that tentative investigations being carried out in Colombia, especially by the Human Rights Unit of the Office of the Attorney General and by the Supreme Court of Justice, will be severely weakened.

"There is now a real danger that the full scale of human rights violations committed over the years by paramilitaries, as well as the key role played by the security forces, state officials and leading political and business figures in these crimes, will remain hidden and, as such, in complete impunity," said Amnesty International.
Amnesty International is also concerned that allegations about the involvement of US agencies in supporting paramilitary groups may not now be fully investigated. Not only has the US provided military assistance to Colombian military units operating closely with paramilitaries, but in the 1990s evidence emerged that the PEPES paramilitary structure - created to hunt down drug-trafficker Pablo Escobar - was possibly operating with the support of US security agencies. "Don Berna" allegedly had close links with the PEPES. The PEPES evolved into the paramilitary Autodefensas Campesinas de Córdoba y Urabá.

"Despite the extraditions, criminal investigations in Colombia into human rights atrocities committed by these paramilitaries, and their links with the security forces and others, must continue, if their countless victims are ever to receive any semblance of justice," said Amnesty International.

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/colombia-extradition-paramilitary-leaders-must-not-lead-closure-investigations-h

Darfur: Sexual Abuse Unchecked

The conditions of terror and intimidation continue with impunity in Darfur. I chose this selection as events of human trafficking, child molestation, and other statutory and non-consesual violations appear not to abate. This trend is alarming and the persons in Darfur are most vulnerable.

David Nollmeyer

HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH

(New York, April 7, 2008) – Five years into the Darfur conflict, women and girls need protection from rape and brutal attacks still being committed by government forces and armed groups throughout Darfur, Human Rights Watch said in a new report released today.Neither government security forces nor international peacekeepers have provided sufficient protection for women and girls, who remain extremely vulnerable to rape and other abuses during large-scale attacks and even in periods of relative calm, Human Rights Watch said. Survivors of sexual violence face numerous obstacles to justice, leaving them without meaningful redress. Where the perpetrators are soldiers or militia, the chances of prosecution are still more remote.

The 44-page report, “Five Years On, No Justice for Sexual Violence in Darfur,” documents the widespread prevalence of sexual violence throughout Darfur, and details incidents of violent rape perpetrated on girls as young as 11 years old. The government of Sudan has failed to rein in the abuse, much of which is carried out by their own soldiers and allied militia. In spite of the presence of international peacekeepers in Darfur, they have to date been under-resourced and unable to protect women and girls from rape and other forms of violence.

“Women and girls in Darfur are still living under the constant threat of rape,” said Georgette Gagnon, Africa director at Human Rights Watch. “The Sudanese government has declared ‘zero-tolerance’ for sexual violence, yet has done almost nothing to protect these victims.”

Human Rights Watch documented numerous incidents of rape and other sexual violence by Sudanese government soldiers, members of government-backed “Janjaweed” militia, rebels, and ex-rebels across Darfur since early 2007. These cases represent a small fraction of the sexual violence incidents as the vast majority of them are unreported.

Women and girls continue to suffer rape and other forms of sexual violence in the context of large-scale attacks. In February 2008, at least 10 women and girls were raped when government forces and allied militia carried out a massive air and ground attack on the villages of Sirba, Silea, and Abu Suruj in West Darfur, according to local residents.

Soldiers, militia, rebels, and ex-rebels also rape women and girls outside displaced persons camps and in rural areas. A 12-year-old girl described how an armed Arab man in uniform lured her and her younger sister into a secluded area by pretending to help them find their lost donkey. “He said if we went with him he would show us. He grabbed me and took off my clothes to do bad things to me. My younger sister ran back to the camp.”

The government of Sudan has repeatedly and publicly denied that sexual violence takes place in Darfur, but has taken some small steps to address the problem. The government has appointed a handful of additional police and prosecutors, and established committees to combat violence against women in each of the three Darfur states. However, these steps have not reduced attacks on women or girls or increased their access to justice.

“The victims of these horrific attacks have little or no hope of redress in Darfur’s current climate of impunity,” said Gagnon. “By failing to prosecute the perpetrators, the government is giving them a license to rape.”

In addition, police and judicial authorities are unwilling or unable to prosecute most crimes committed by soldiers or militia. For example, during a large-scale attack on the village of Abu Sakin, North Darfur in late 2006, government soldiers and Janjaweed militia abducted eight women and girls, brutally raped at least three, and forced them to walk back to their village naked. The suspects were identified by the victims, but to date the military has refused to hand them over to the prosecutor. In other cases, police openly admit that they cannot take action if the case involves the military. Human Rights Watch called on the government of Sudan to:

Issue a presidential decree that rape and other forms of sexual violence by government forces and government-backed militia will be promptly investigated and prosecuted, and ensure that such a decree is enforced;

Bolster the justice sector’s capacity to respond to crimes of sexual violence;

Train police and prosecutors in victim-sensitive approaches to handling criminal investigations, and ensure that properly trained female police investigators are deployed to police stations in Darfur;

Revise criminal laws on sexual violence to provide for attempted rape, and ensure rape victims are not exposed to prosecution for adultery.

Rebel forces, former rebel groups, and other non-state armed groups should issue clear, public instructions to group members that rape and other forms of sexual violence will be fully investigated and prosecuted, and perpetrators held accountable.

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European Court Reaffirms Ban on Torture

European Court reaffirms ban on torture

Every Nation-state should strive to adopt verifiable universal standards on torture. The power game continues to dominate with the interests of the state trumping preserving human dignity and deferring violence to a competent court under an adversial setting where witnesses and evidence may be equally presented and challenged.
David Nollmeyer

28 February 2008
The European Court of Human Rights has re-affirmed the absolute prohibition of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment. In the court's ruling in the case of Saadi v Italy on Thursday, it found "substantial grounds had been shown for believing that there is a real risk" that Nassim Saadi would be subjected to torture or other ill-treatment if he were deported, relying heavily on reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch.

The Italian authorities sought to deport Mr Saadi to Tunisia under the "Pisanu Law" that was originally adopted in 2005 as "an urgent measure to combat terrorism". The Italian authorities argued that he posed a security risk to Italy.

The Court deemed the reports by Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to be credible, consistent and corroborated by numerous other sources. Amnesty International's research indicates that torture and other ill-treatment by the security forces in Tunisia are widespread.

The practices reported, including against people charged with terrorism-related offences, include hanging from the ceiling, threats of rape, administration of electric shocks, immersion of the head in water, beatings and cigarette burns. Allegations of torture and ill-treatment in police custody are not investigated by the relevant Tunisian authorities.

"Confessions" extracted under torture may be used as the principal evidence in trials that result in long prison sentences or the death penalty. Consequently, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that sending Nassim Saadi back to Tunisia would violate the Italian government’s obligations under the European Convention on Human Rights.

"This judgment should serve as a reminder to all states: not only they are not allowed to commit torture themselves, but they are forbidden from sending anyone to countries where they would be at risk of torture or other ill-treatment," said Ian Seiderman, Amnesty International’s Senior Legal Adviser.

The case took on additional significance when the United Kingdom intervened in an attempt to persuade the European Court to change its long-established case-law in a way that would have significantly weakened the absolute prohibition on torture and other ill-treatment. The Court rejected as "misconceived" the arguments advanced by the UK, with which the Italian government had agreed.

While the Court acknowledged the immense difficulty states face in protecting their communities from terrorist violence, it affirmed that the danger of terrorism "must not however call into question the absolute nature of [the prohibition of torture and other inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment]."

http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/news/european-court-reaffirms-ban-torture-20080228

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Serbia Does Not Recognise Devotee

Serbia accused of inaction over religious attacks Friday, 8th February 2008. 12:03pmBy: Nick Mackenzie.SERBIA has been accused of doing little to prevent attacks on religious minorities in the country.

The claim comes from the Norwegian-based human rights monitor Forum 18 News Service. They cite the case of a Hare Krishna devotee who has been the subject of repeated knife attacks, but the Serbian authorities have been accused of doing nothing to help.Zivota Milanovic, the only Hare Krishna devotee in Jagodina, has suffered the attack from 2001, but Forum 18 say that the District Prosecutor’s Office has not taken any effective action in any of the cases.Because of the official inaction, he told Forum 18 that "I believe that I will be attacked again."

A lawyer familiar with the case commented to Forum 18 that "any other attack with more than three stabbings is treated as 'attempted murder'." Faced with the authorities' lack of interest in investigating and stopping these violent crimes, Milanovic has filed a case with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg. The ECHR has not yet decided whether the case is admissible.

Forum 18 comment that violent attacks such as these are not common, and usually happen against property rather than people. But they add that the number of attacks in recent years has increased and members of religious minorities are especially likely to be attacked.

http://www.religiousintelligence.co.uk/news/?NewsID=1593

Democracy Attacked by Irrationalism

The United States 2008 Presidential Elections are an in continuo example of the degradation of the Rights of Man under Irrationalism and Totalitarianism. The population clamors for an elected dictator who promises to provide a benefit versus a cost.

In reality this country is being marginalized by fraud in a Bacchanalian pursuit of pleasure. The media is a willing handmaiden in the destruction as is the internet. The lack of intervention by preaching missions of all faiths and human rights groups as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch provides the present and future with a measure of how through the defection and corruption is.

Genetic man and his adaptive socialized behavior and learning are easily co-opted for his own elimination. Any alignment to the United States and the United Kingdom exposes one to this virus. The are no other real credible choices.

Has genetic humankind chosen completely to pick one’s own poison to destruction?
Democracy is collapsed here to a plutocracy/kleptocracy. Anything that was ill gained is chemically destroyed under the sanitization of freedom.

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Human Rights Versus Single Issue Terror

The purpose of this blog is to advocate Human Rights which predicates that there should be a legal positive primary right that has jurisdcition in a legitmate court of venue. This is in contrast to mob rule or corrupt de facto structures of militias and secret police activities.

Terrorists are defined from Rebels in that Terrorists attack civilians. Rebels take their fight against military installations and uniformed security forces.

Hence Rebels are in limbo as to whether they will be recognised as a fighting force or as Terrorist, read Criminals.

Presently, I am in Cambria California. The chemical assault against the United States is lead by a Single Issue Terror Cell(s) of LAPD.

They are a LGBT Gay Militia.

I clearly am a United States Citizen and a Calfiornia Resident writing directly from here.

I clearly will and am making a strong definitive historical and legal record that will define my activites here.

I TOTALLY DENOUNCE THIS GROUP AND THEIR INFORMANT ACCOMPLICES.

I HAVE A WEALTH OF SWORN STATEMENTS TO SWORN OFFICALS FROM THIS JURISDICTION.

IT IS DISINGENOUS FOR THE TERRORIST TO HOSTAGE A VICTIM AND PRESENT HIM AS A MEMBER OF YOUR CORRUPT AND DE FACTO OPERATION.

IN DEGREE I AM STRONG PRACTICING GAUDIYA VAISHNAVA - A RITVIK PRABHUPADANUGA IN THE BHAJANA OF SRILA A.C. BHAKTIVEDANTA SWAMI PRBHUPADA.

I DO NOT USE DRUGS OR ALCOHOL. I FOLLOW THE FOUR REGULATIVE PRINCIPLES AND WAS CHANTING 16 ROUNDS BEFORE I WAS THROWN OF BALANCE BY THE RECENT ESCALATION OF THE CHEMCIAL ASSAULT.

HERE ARE SOME RESCOURCES OF SINGLE ISSUE TERROR.

Single Issue Terror
http://www.fas.org/irp/threat/com74e.htm
Smith
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/maps/savannah2005/papers/Smith.ppt
Carrol Payne
http://www.globalterrorism101.com/articleOrginsofTerrorism.html
www.biosecurity.sandia.gov/subpages/papersBriefings/2003/terrorist-biological-weapons.pdf

I do not advocate violence by any means.

I do denounce the adminstration of President George W. Bush.
This goes as well for all 2008 Presidential Candidates.

LAPD is Democratic and desires for Hillary Clinton to win the election. They will attempt to create a Strawman argument that I support the Democratic Party Platform which is false.

Thank you for your consideration.
David Nollmeyer

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Cambridge Law School UK: Authorship

Cambria CA
Dateline 11-29-2007

The ongoing chemical assault defies moral comprehension or recognition. Here the authorship is exposed.

The origination and authorship of this attack has now come to the forefront. One of the myths of due process or efficient prosecution is dispelled. I am contacting the FBI, state attorney generals, federal and state officials to prosecute this event. LAPD who are also a gay militia are stating that I am secular and promoting a LGBT platform when at 46 years of age I am maturing spiritually and am socially conservative.

The ruse is that I will condone drug dealers or Gay Militants. Where are any of the code enforcement now?

Descending from the point of origin, which is alleged to be a system of lawyers from Cambridge Law School UK would give and define the entire conspiracy with closure if accurate. This would involve complex jurisdiction. The United States Federal Court is corrupt and one would give grounds for a sua ponte dismissal.

So here on internet I will state that I will gather all my data on this authorship and create a separate website for this exposition. Since I am physically in Cambria, California for the winter I attempt to confront local, state, and federal officials who are in personemm.

It is winter and I am using mobile technology now for the most part. Look for this site up in the next six months.

The Criminal Knows His Own Crime. The strongest evidence is a genuine legally binding confession from the authorship. Here we can see that Homeland Security are accomplices and the presidency and as well as all the pretenders to the office are mutual corrupt and inadequate to efficiently prosecute the law.

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