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FromSolidarity for Peace and Reunification of Korea;
National Association of Korean Americans; and
Nodutdol for Korean Community Development
Requesting the Revocation of HR 1321
"North Korea Sanctions and Diplomatic Non-recognition Act of 2011" and Urging the Expeditious Resumption of the Six Party Talks
April 13, 2011
Honorable Ileana Ros-Lehtinen,
The North Korea Sanctions and Diplomatic Non-recognition Act of 2011, which proposes to re-designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, was introduced in the U.S. Congress on April 1. This bill is a product of U.S.’s hostile stance towards North Korea, and fails to satisfy the criteria for the designation of a state as a state-sponsor of terrorism, as defined by the United States. Moreover, it is a direct obstacle to the resumption of the six party talks.
1. Revoke HR1321 – product of U.S.’s hostile stance towards North Korea
(1) HR1321 alleges that the supposed assassination attempt of the former DPRK Worker’s Party Secretary Hwang Jang-yop, the sinking of the Cheonan, and the artillery duel near Yeonpyong Islandare acts of international terrorism committed by North Korea, and proposes the Secretary of State re-designate North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism. These incidents, however, either have no relation to terrorism or do not conform to the criteria for designating a state as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Numerous scholars and experts have raised critical questions and presented counter-evidencesthat contradict the allegation that the sinking of the Cheonan was the result of a North Korean attack. But even if the sinking of the Cheonan was the direct result of a North Korean attack, as alleged by the South Korean government, the incident is better characterized as an act of aggression by a state against the military of another state (South Korean navy), not an act of international terrorism. U.S. State Department spokesperson Phillip Crowley has said, "It is our judgment that the sinking of the Cheonan is not an act of international terrorism and by itself would not trigger placing North Korea on the state-sponsored terrorism list." (ARF, June 28, 2010)
The same is true of the artillery duel near Yeonpyeong Island on November 23, 2010. On that day, the South Korean military conducted an artillery drill in a maritime firing zone near the Northern Limit Line. According to South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff, "It is possible that some of the South Korean military’s artillery shells landed on the northern side of the Northern Limit Line." (South Korean National Assembly, National Defense Committee meeting minutes, November 24, 2010, p6) If South Korean artillery shells did indeed land in North Korean territorial waters, the greater responsibility for the Yeongpyeong Island artillery duel lies with South Korea. Furthermore, the area where the artillery duel took place is contested waters and the site of multiple clashes between North and South Korea. Even if we were to put aside the dispute regarding who is responsible for the Yeongpyeong Island artillery drill, the incident arose out of a territorial dispute between two countries, and like the Cheonan incident, can in no way be considered an act of international terrorism.
Regarding the alleged assassination attempt of the former DPRK Worker’s Party Secretary Hwang Jang-yop, countless questions have been raised about the timing of the announcement of the incident as well as the allegation that it was the work of North Korean agents. And as for allegations about North Korea supplying arms to Hamas and Hezbollah, as frequently reported by western media, they are always based on sources that are either unverifiable or whose reliability is questionable. According to US State Department Counter-terrorism Coordinator Daniel Benjamin, there is no evidence to believe that North Korea supported international terrorism since it was taken off the state sponsor of terrorism list in October 2008. (Asia Today, November 18, 2010)
(2) HR1321 proposes to keep North Korea on the state sponsor of terrorism list as long as it fails to meet twelve conditions, including issuing an apology to South Korea for the Cheonan and Yeonpyeong Island incidents, demonstration of proof that it does not proliferate fissile materials or nuclear/missile technology, and admission of Red Cross representatives to inspect North Korean prison camps on a regular basis. But these conditions far exceed the criteria outlined by the United States for removing a state from the state sponsor of terrorism list.
The Cheonan and Yeonpyeong Island incidents were disputes between two countries, not acts of terrorism, and there is no agreement on the question of who is responsible for these incidents. To point to these incidents as reasonsfor re-listing North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism does not conform to criteria and procedures as outlined by the United States for determining a state as a state sponsor of terrorism. Demonstration of proof that it does not proliferate missile and nuclear technology is practically unfeasible. Permitting regular inspections of North Korea’s prison camps by Red Cross representatives is a condition that can be interpreted by North Korea as interfering with its internal affairs. These conditions for being removed from the list of state sponsor of terrorism are selectively applied to North Korea and are unreasonably stricter than what US guidelines specify - "…if thePresident submits at least 45 days before the proposed rescission would take effect, a report justifying the rescission and certifying that the government concerned has not provided any support for international terrorism during the preceding 6-month period; and the government concerned has provided assurances that it will not support acts of international terrorism in the future."
HR 1321 is the product of an extremely hostile anti-North Korea policy, which aims to completely obstruct all means for North Korea to be removed from the state sponsor of terrorism list.
2. HR1321 should be revoked as it violates agreements of the six-party talks
(1) The removal of North Korea from the list of state sponsor of terrorism on October 12, 2008 was based on the September 19, 2005 joint statement of the six party talks, and the direct result of tireless efforts and dialogue for denuclearization of North Korea and normalization of U.S.-North Korea relations. The removal of North Korea from the state sponsor of terrorism list is arguably the most significant step since the Korean War towards ending U.S.’s policy of confrontation towards North Korea and normalizing U.S.-North Korea relations.
(2) According to the U.S. Congressional Research Service, "Adding and removing North Korea to and from the state sponsor of terrorism list were based more on political and diplomatic factors than legal criteria." (CRS Report "North Korea: Back on the Terrorism List?" June 29, 2010) This suggests that U.S.’s confrontational stance towards North Korea may be playing a greater role than the law in considering the re-designation of North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism.
(3) The passage of H.R. 1321, which will re-list North Korea as a state sponsor of terrorism, will roll back all past gains hard-won through dialogue and undermine agreements reached through the six party talks. It is highly possible that North Korea will interpret this action as U.S.’s move towards an all-out confrontational policy, andturn, once again, to hostile counter measures for self-preservation. This will in turn escalate war threats on the Korean peninsula and lead us even further way from resolving the problem of North Korea’s nuclear weapons.
3. We urge you to take steps for the expeditious resumption of the six-party talks.
(1) U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, who initiated H.R. 1321, met with the South Korean National Assembly’s Diplomacy, Commerce, and Unification Committee Chair Nam Kyung-pil on January 4, 2011. She expressed concern that President Lee Myung-bak shared China's position of denuclearizing North Korea through the six party talks, and declared her position that North Korea should be re-added to the list of state sponsorsof terrorism. (RFA, January 4, 2011) What is clear from her statement is that among the intentions behind H.R. 1321 is to block the resumption of the six party talks. Revoking this bill is to eliminate one of the greatest obstacles standing in the way of resuming the six party talks.
(2) U.S.’s policy of confrontation towards North Korea is the direct cause of North Korea's nuclear weapons development. Therefore, halting U.S.’s policy of confrontation towards North Korea is the most effective way to denuclearizing North Korea. As a condition for denuclearization, North Korea demands an end to U.S.’s hostile policy of confrontation, the abolishment of the U.S. nuclear umbrella over South Korea, and the abolishment of the U.S.-South Korea alliance. (February 3-7, 2009) Should North Korea, already inferior in conventional war capability, also give up its nuclear weapons, abolishing the U.S.-South Korea alliance poses no security threat, and this in turn will significantly contribute to reducing U.S. defense expenditures.
As such, we urge the U.S. Congress to cast aside its apprehension and mistrust, and without hesitation, take steps to facilitate the expeditious resumption of the six party talks.
Showing posts with label Human rights. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Human rights. Show all posts
Thursday, April 21, 2011
Friday, March 25, 2011
Text Fwd: U.N. adopts resolution over N. Korea's human rights abuse
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* When not the human rights but the human rights issue is abused like the way below, it is the first step to attack the targeted country. Nuclear weapon (or WMD) and human rights issues are what the United States government has made pretexts to atack Iraq and other third world countries as well
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Yonhap News
U.N. adopts resolution over N. Korea's human rights abuse
SEOUL, March 24 (Yonhap) -- The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Thursday to express concerns about North Korea's grave and extensive violations of human rights, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
The 47-member inter-governmental body passed a resolution with 'yes' votes from 30 member countries, expressing deep concerns over North Korea's "grave, widespread and systematic" violations of human rights.
Three countries, including China and Russia, were against the resolution, which was tabled by the European Union and Japan, while 11 member countries abstained.
The U.N. rights council renewed the mandate of its special rapporteur on North Korean human rights Marzuki Darusman and called for the North to allow him to visit the communist country. The resolution also urged Pyongyang to guarantee access of humanitarian aid.
North Korea has long been accused of human rights abuses, encompassing holding hundreds of thousands of people in political prison camps and conducting torture and public executions.
* When not the human rights but the human rights issue is abused like the way below, it is the first step to attack the targeted country. Nuclear weapon (or WMD) and human rights issues are what the United States government has made pretexts to atack Iraq and other third world countries as well
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Yonhap News
U.N. adopts resolution over N. Korea's human rights abuse
SEOUL, March 24 (Yonhap) -- The U.N. Human Rights Council adopted a resolution on Thursday to express concerns about North Korea's grave and extensive violations of human rights, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
The 47-member inter-governmental body passed a resolution with 'yes' votes from 30 member countries, expressing deep concerns over North Korea's "grave, widespread and systematic" violations of human rights.
Three countries, including China and Russia, were against the resolution, which was tabled by the European Union and Japan, while 11 member countries abstained.
The U.N. rights council renewed the mandate of its special rapporteur on North Korean human rights Marzuki Darusman and called for the North to allow him to visit the communist country. The resolution also urged Pyongyang to guarantee access of humanitarian aid.
North Korea has long been accused of human rights abuses, encompassing holding hundreds of thousands of people in political prison camps and conducting torture and public executions.
Friday, February 25, 2011
[Translation] The U.S. State Department-backed NED supports 450,000 dollar to the three Anti-NK groups in Korea
* 아래는 통일 뉴스 기사를 번역한 것입니다. (클릭)
* The below is an arbitrary translation of an article in a progressive South Korean media, 'Tongil News'
Tongil News
The NED supports 450,000 dollar to the three Anti-NK groups in Korea
Feb, 24, 201
by Kim Chi-Kwan
The National Endowment Democracy (NED) based on the United States has supported $450,000 to the three anti-North Korea media and organizations in South Korea.
On its Feb. 23 report, the Radio Free Asia, Citing Lynn Lee who is in charge of East Asia, NED, said that “[The NED] has supported the ‘Daily NK,’ an internet media specialized in the NK news, ‘Imjingang Publishing Company’ a magazine published by the underground reporters inside North Korea, and ‘Network for North Korean Human Rights and Democracy’ which is for the improvement of human rights in North Korea, through the decision of its board meeting held last January.”
The total cost that the NED has given to the three groups is $450,000 and the cost that each organization has received is $85,000 to $190,000 that is an increment of $10,000, compared to that of last account year.
The Radio Free Asia said that “There are total 14 organizations of the institutes located in the United States & Korea and the groups of the exiled from the NK, which have received support from the NED in last account year. And it is expected that the numbers of the NK-related institutes that would receive fund through additional decisions by its board meeting will be increased in the future. “ It also said that, “As it has decided the support on the research on the ‘Jangmadang’ in the North Korea’ for the first time, especially in last year’s account, the support for the exiled North Korean groups and research institutes for the NK Jangmadang economy, NK study, human rights improvement and information delivery would be continued this year.”
The National Endowment Democracy(NED) whose connection with the CIA has been raised is a non-profit organization having its headquarter in the Washington D.C. and is supporting democracy-related projects, sponsored by about 1,000 civilian groups in 90 countries in the world, receiving fund from the U.S. State Department.
The Radio Free Asia said that the NED selects its business contents and support targets after reviewing business contents and support targets on the improvement of human rights, delivery of information, and improvement of education & ability in the NK and that the US State Dept has allocated 104,000,000 dollar for the NED in its 2012 budget, which is a little reduced amount from 2011.
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Source from National Endowment Democracy
Baekdu-Halla Association
$30,000
To build the capacity of young North Korean defectors in South Korea and to encourage them to become more engaged on issues related to North Korean human rights and democracy. Baekdu-Halla will organize an online democracy education program and offline seminars, and provide young defectors with opportunities to interact and build networks.
Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights
$150,000
To bring international attention to the human rights situation in North Korea. The Citizens’ Alliance will promote awareness among South Koreans about North Korea and test methods of assisting North Koreans living in South Korea to adjust to citizenship in a democratic society.
The Daily NK
$130,000
To disseminate accurate and timely information about North Korea. The Daily NK will produce an online newspaper serving audiences in South Korea and in the international community. The newspaper will include news and information about North Korean human rights issues as well as developments in North Korean politics and economics.
Database Center for North Korean Human Rights
$80,000
To make publicly available well-organized documentation on human rights conditions in North Korea. The database will organize information from interviews as well as published and unpublished written testimonies. The Center will also publish an annual white paper and special thematic reports in Korean and English, and will carry out individualized data searches upon request for researchers, governments, UN bodies and human-rights advocates.
Free North Korea Radio Station
$150,000
To support the free flow of information in North Korea. Free NK will produce and broadcast a daily radio program to increase the news, information, and independent commentary available to North Korean audiences.
Imjingang Publishing Company
$75,000
To provide a platform for North Korean citizens to share information and opinions about North Korean culture, economics, politics, and other developments. Imjingang will produce a Korean-language quarterly magazine using materials gathered by reporters and distribute copies throughout the Korean peninsula and to Korean-speaking experts in the international community.
InterMedia Survey Institute
$50,000
To promote the free flow of information. InterMedia will conduct survey research documenting various dimensions of the listenership response of international broadcasting in North Korea, and provide non-governmental broadcasters with independent, reliable data about audience behaviors and preferences as an aid to making future programming and formatting decisions.
Network for North Korean Human Rights and Democracy
$75,000
To develop democracy education materials suitable for people raised in repressive environments; and to raise awareness of democratic ideas and values. NKnet will work closely with North Korean citizens and experts to develop and test a multimedia curriculum that is user-friendly for those born and raised in North Korea.
Network for North Korean Human Rights and Democracy
$35,000
To provide a forum in Seoul for discussion of the future of North Korea. NKnet will hold strategy sessions to explore effective means of promoting economic and political liberalization in North Korea.
NK Communications
$175,000
To support the free flow of information into North Korea. NK Communications will produce the North Korea Reform Radio program, providing daily broadcasting of news, information, and commentary designed to encourage the development of independent public opinion inside the country.
North Korea Intellectual Solidarity
$70,000
To facilitate the free flow of information. NKIS will produce a digital magazine containing accurate and balanced news and information and diverse views about major issues in South and North Korea and around the world. This project will be a pilot test to assess the potential impact of this approach.
Open North Korea
$150,000
To support the free flow of information in North Korea. Open North Korea will maintain a radio platform that enables organizations and groups in South Korea and elsewhere to broadcast information and feature programs to North Korean audiences.
Radio Free Chosun
$150,000
To support the free flow of information in North Korea. Radio Free Chosun will broadcast its daily program, providing news and features on the Korean peninsula, to the North Korean public via shortwave radio and will maintain a web-based archive of programming for other interested listeners.
Young Defectors’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights
$30,000
To build the capacity of North Korean defector students in South Korea and to encourage them to become more engaged on issues related to North Korean human rights and democracy. YDA will organize its leadership education program to help equip defector students to serve as bridges between South and North Korea and to take an active part in civic life in a future democratic North Korea.
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통일 뉴스(클릭)
NED, 국내 반북단체 3곳 45만 달러 지원 [RFA]
2011년 02월 24일 (목) 14:24:42 김치관 기자
미국 ‘국립민주주의기금(NED)’이 한국의 반북매체.단체 3곳에 45만 달러를 지원했다.
<자유아시아방송(RFA)>는 23일자 보도에서 린 리 NED 동아시아 담당관의 말을 인용, “지난 1월에 열린 이사회의 결정을 통해 북한 뉴스를 전문으로 하는 인터넷 매체 'Daily NK'와 북한 내 지하 기자들이 만드는 잡지 '임진강', 그리고 북한 인권의 개선을 위한 '북한인권시민연합'에 자금을 지원했다”고 전했다.
NED가 이들 3개 단체에 지원한 금액은 총 45만 달러이며, 각 단체가 받은 금액은 8만 5천 달러에서 19만 달러로 지난 회계연도와 비교해 1만 달러가 늘었다는 것.
<자유아시아방송>은 “지난 회계연도에 '국립민주주의기금'의 지원을 받은 미국과 한국 내 기관, 탈북자 단체는 모두 14개로 앞으로도 추가적인 이사회의 결정을 통해 자금을 받는 북한 관련 기관은 더 늘어날 전망”이라며 “특히 지난 회계연도에는 처음으로 북한 장마당에 대한 연구에도 지원을 결정했듯이 올해도 북한의 장마당 경제와 북한 연구, 인권 개선, 정보의 전달 등을 위한 탈북자 단체와 연구 기관에 대한 지원은 계속될 예정”이라고 전했다.
CIA(미 중앙정보국)과의 연루설이 제기돼 온 NED(The National Endowment for Democracy)는 미국 워싱턴에 본부를 둔 미국의 비영리 단체로서 국무부의 자금지원을 받아 전세계 90여개 국에 1,000여 개의 민간단체가 주관하는 민주주의 관련 프로젝트를 지원하고 있다.
<자유아시아방송>은 NED는 1년에 4번의 이사회를 거쳐 북한의 인권개선과 정보의 전달, 교육과 능력 향상 등에 관한 사업 내용과 지원 대상을 검토해 선정하며, 미국 국무부는 최근 발표한 2012년 예산안에서 NED에 관한 항목으로 2011년보다 소폭 감소한 1억 400만 달러를 배정했다고 전했다.
자세한 영문 내역은 기사 참조
* The below is an arbitrary translation of an article in a progressive South Korean media, 'Tongil News'
Tongil News
The NED supports 450,000 dollar to the three Anti-NK groups in Korea
Feb, 24, 201
by Kim Chi-Kwan
The National Endowment Democracy (NED) based on the United States has supported $450,000 to the three anti-North Korea media and organizations in South Korea.
On its Feb. 23 report, the Radio Free Asia, Citing Lynn Lee who is in charge of East Asia, NED, said that “[The NED] has supported the ‘Daily NK,’ an internet media specialized in the NK news, ‘Imjingang Publishing Company’ a magazine published by the underground reporters inside North Korea, and ‘Network for North Korean Human Rights and Democracy’ which is for the improvement of human rights in North Korea, through the decision of its board meeting held last January.”
The total cost that the NED has given to the three groups is $450,000 and the cost that each organization has received is $85,000 to $190,000 that is an increment of $10,000, compared to that of last account year.
The Radio Free Asia said that “There are total 14 organizations of the institutes located in the United States & Korea and the groups of the exiled from the NK, which have received support from the NED in last account year. And it is expected that the numbers of the NK-related institutes that would receive fund through additional decisions by its board meeting will be increased in the future. “ It also said that, “As it has decided the support on the research on the ‘Jangmadang’ in the North Korea’ for the first time, especially in last year’s account, the support for the exiled North Korean groups and research institutes for the NK Jangmadang economy, NK study, human rights improvement and information delivery would be continued this year.”
The National Endowment Democracy(NED) whose connection with the CIA has been raised is a non-profit organization having its headquarter in the Washington D.C. and is supporting democracy-related projects, sponsored by about 1,000 civilian groups in 90 countries in the world, receiving fund from the U.S. State Department.
The Radio Free Asia said that the NED selects its business contents and support targets after reviewing business contents and support targets on the improvement of human rights, delivery of information, and improvement of education & ability in the NK and that the US State Dept has allocated 104,000,000 dollar for the NED in its 2012 budget, which is a little reduced amount from 2011.
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Source from National Endowment Democracy
Baekdu-Halla Association
$30,000
To build the capacity of young North Korean defectors in South Korea and to encourage them to become more engaged on issues related to North Korean human rights and democracy. Baekdu-Halla will organize an online democracy education program and offline seminars, and provide young defectors with opportunities to interact and build networks.
Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights
$150,000
To bring international attention to the human rights situation in North Korea. The Citizens’ Alliance will promote awareness among South Koreans about North Korea and test methods of assisting North Koreans living in South Korea to adjust to citizenship in a democratic society.
The Daily NK
$130,000
To disseminate accurate and timely information about North Korea. The Daily NK will produce an online newspaper serving audiences in South Korea and in the international community. The newspaper will include news and information about North Korean human rights issues as well as developments in North Korean politics and economics.
Database Center for North Korean Human Rights
$80,000
To make publicly available well-organized documentation on human rights conditions in North Korea. The database will organize information from interviews as well as published and unpublished written testimonies. The Center will also publish an annual white paper and special thematic reports in Korean and English, and will carry out individualized data searches upon request for researchers, governments, UN bodies and human-rights advocates.
Free North Korea Radio Station
$150,000
To support the free flow of information in North Korea. Free NK will produce and broadcast a daily radio program to increase the news, information, and independent commentary available to North Korean audiences.
Imjingang Publishing Company
$75,000
To provide a platform for North Korean citizens to share information and opinions about North Korean culture, economics, politics, and other developments. Imjingang will produce a Korean-language quarterly magazine using materials gathered by reporters and distribute copies throughout the Korean peninsula and to Korean-speaking experts in the international community.
InterMedia Survey Institute
$50,000
To promote the free flow of information. InterMedia will conduct survey research documenting various dimensions of the listenership response of international broadcasting in North Korea, and provide non-governmental broadcasters with independent, reliable data about audience behaviors and preferences as an aid to making future programming and formatting decisions.
Network for North Korean Human Rights and Democracy
$75,000
To develop democracy education materials suitable for people raised in repressive environments; and to raise awareness of democratic ideas and values. NKnet will work closely with North Korean citizens and experts to develop and test a multimedia curriculum that is user-friendly for those born and raised in North Korea.
Network for North Korean Human Rights and Democracy
$35,000
To provide a forum in Seoul for discussion of the future of North Korea. NKnet will hold strategy sessions to explore effective means of promoting economic and political liberalization in North Korea.
NK Communications
$175,000
To support the free flow of information into North Korea. NK Communications will produce the North Korea Reform Radio program, providing daily broadcasting of news, information, and commentary designed to encourage the development of independent public opinion inside the country.
North Korea Intellectual Solidarity
$70,000
To facilitate the free flow of information. NKIS will produce a digital magazine containing accurate and balanced news and information and diverse views about major issues in South and North Korea and around the world. This project will be a pilot test to assess the potential impact of this approach.
Open North Korea
$150,000
To support the free flow of information in North Korea. Open North Korea will maintain a radio platform that enables organizations and groups in South Korea and elsewhere to broadcast information and feature programs to North Korean audiences.
Radio Free Chosun
$150,000
To support the free flow of information in North Korea. Radio Free Chosun will broadcast its daily program, providing news and features on the Korean peninsula, to the North Korean public via shortwave radio and will maintain a web-based archive of programming for other interested listeners.
Young Defectors’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights
$30,000
To build the capacity of North Korean defector students in South Korea and to encourage them to become more engaged on issues related to North Korean human rights and democracy. YDA will organize its leadership education program to help equip defector students to serve as bridges between South and North Korea and to take an active part in civic life in a future democratic North Korea.
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통일 뉴스(클릭)
NED, 국내 반북단체 3곳 45만 달러 지원 [RFA]
2011년 02월 24일 (목) 14:24:42 김치관 기자
미국 ‘국립민주주의기금(NED)’이 한국의 반북매체.단체 3곳에 45만 달러를 지원했다.
<자유아시아방송(RFA)>는 23일자 보도에서 린 리 NED 동아시아 담당관의 말을 인용, “지난 1월에 열린 이사회의 결정을 통해 북한 뉴스를 전문으로 하는 인터넷 매체 'Daily NK'와 북한 내 지하 기자들이 만드는 잡지 '임진강', 그리고 북한 인권의 개선을 위한 '북한인권시민연합'에 자금을 지원했다”고 전했다.
NED가 이들 3개 단체에 지원한 금액은 총 45만 달러이며, 각 단체가 받은 금액은 8만 5천 달러에서 19만 달러로 지난 회계연도와 비교해 1만 달러가 늘었다는 것.
<자유아시아방송>은 “지난 회계연도에 '국립민주주의기금'의 지원을 받은 미국과 한국 내 기관, 탈북자 단체는 모두 14개로 앞으로도 추가적인 이사회의 결정을 통해 자금을 받는 북한 관련 기관은 더 늘어날 전망”이라며 “특히 지난 회계연도에는 처음으로 북한 장마당에 대한 연구에도 지원을 결정했듯이 올해도 북한의 장마당 경제와 북한 연구, 인권 개선, 정보의 전달 등을 위한 탈북자 단체와 연구 기관에 대한 지원은 계속될 예정”이라고 전했다.
CIA(미 중앙정보국)과의 연루설이 제기돼 온 NED(The National Endowment for Democracy)는 미국 워싱턴에 본부를 둔 미국의 비영리 단체로서 국무부의 자금지원을 받아 전세계 90여개 국에 1,000여 개의 민간단체가 주관하는 민주주의 관련 프로젝트를 지원하고 있다.
<자유아시아방송>은 NED는 1년에 4번의 이사회를 거쳐 북한의 인권개선과 정보의 전달, 교육과 능력 향상 등에 관한 사업 내용과 지원 대상을 검토해 선정하며, 미국 국무부는 최근 발표한 2012년 예산안에서 NED에 관한 항목으로 2011년보다 소폭 감소한 1억 400만 달러를 배정했다고 전했다.
자세한 영문 내역은 기사 참조
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
[Text Fwd: PSPD] Open letter to Minister Shri. Jairam Ramesh on the POSCO Project
People's Solidarity for Participatory Democracy
Open letter to Minister Shri. Jairam Ramesh on the POSCO Project
To: Dear. Minister Shri. Jairam Ramesh,
The Ministry of Environment and Forests
From: Korean civil society alliance
Greetings and Peace from the Republic of Korea.
Most of all, Korean civil society has had an interest constantly on the Pohang Steel Company (POSCO)'s project launched in Orissa. We, Nongovernmental Organizations(NGOs) of the Republic of Korea, had visited the State of Orissa, India, and completed to conduct the field research in the year of 2008 and 2010, and also had sent the open letter to the Meena Gupta Committee in September 2010. We are fully understanding of the POSCO's project that was given the procedure of decision making on interruption of land purchase by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, on 5 August 2010, and waiting with a close attention on the Minister's final decision that are known as scheduled in the end of this January.
We, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the Republic of Korea, would like to express our special respect on your sincere efforts to protect environment and human rights of natives in the project region to the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The Forest Rights Act had been suggested as the right direction to the global community suffering from making a decision between development and villagers' right to livelihood, and the decision on Vedanta was very courageous. All the companies that are trying to invest in India including Korean corporations should respect and follow the message suggested by the Ministry of Environment, India. It is the trustworthy way that makes the sustainable development possible for all the human beings.
We, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the Republic of Korea, confirmed that the POSCO project is clearly violated by the Forest Rights Act through the two field research as the Saxena Committee Report and the Meena Gupta Committee Majority Report has been pointed out. The development project proceeding without the legally appropriate procedure must be paid huge cost as an inevitable consequence. Regardless of violation on the Forest Right Act, POSCO and the Orissa government has been persuading the villagers who are strongly against the POSCO project for the last five years until now, however it has been failed. The villagers keep objecting to accept the compensation that POSCO has suggested to them and denying to move their residences.
If you, Minister Shri. Jairam Ramesh, approve the POSCO project even though the existing reports pointed the argumentative points of this POSCO project, your decision would not be supported. Most of all, it must make the villagers who has been suffered from the POSCO project for the last five years very disappointed. Korean civil societies also never want for you to proceed the project without any support. Executing of the project which is lack of legitimacy will face the stronger resistance to the POSCO project, and it will bear the serious human rights abuse related to the project, finally it will seriously hurt both POSCO and Korean civil society.
During such a long time, the experts of the Ministry of Environment and Forests have conducted the research over the POSCO project at the same time gone through the careful analysis procedure. As being well aware of the existing problems of the POSCO project, the Forest Advisory Committee and the Infrastructure and Coastal Zone Sub-committee of the Expert Appraisal Committee also have pointed out those problems.
Korean civil society sincerely hope to end the conflict on the POSCO project and to consider the problems on development, environment, and the human rights abuse of the villagers and to find the alternatives to both the Korean and Indian society which will be definitely affected by the decision of the Ministry of Environment, India. Also, POSCO will have the opportunity to be mature in terms of operating the legitimate project through "the right decision" of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India.
Here, "the right decision" means that everyone agrees and respect at the same time, it is the decision should be based on the truth.
We, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the Republic of Korea, believe that you, Minister Shri. Jairam Ramesh, will make the right and rational decision based on the truth and common sense.
28 January 2011
Signed by Korean civil society Alliance, below:
Amnesty International Korea
Catholic Human Rights Committee
Citizen’s Movement for Environmental Justice
Corporate for All
Dasan human rights centre
Korean House for International Solidarity
MINBYUN-Lawyers for a Democratic Society
Network for Glocal Activism
People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy
Sarangbang Group for Human Rights
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openlettertominister.pdf
Open letter to Minister Shri. Jairam Ramesh on the POSCO Project
To: Dear. Minister Shri. Jairam Ramesh,
The Ministry of Environment and Forests
From: Korean civil society alliance
Greetings and Peace from the Republic of Korea.
Most of all, Korean civil society has had an interest constantly on the Pohang Steel Company (POSCO)'s project launched in Orissa. We, Nongovernmental Organizations(NGOs) of the Republic of Korea, had visited the State of Orissa, India, and completed to conduct the field research in the year of 2008 and 2010, and also had sent the open letter to the Meena Gupta Committee in September 2010. We are fully understanding of the POSCO's project that was given the procedure of decision making on interruption of land purchase by the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India, on 5 August 2010, and waiting with a close attention on the Minister's final decision that are known as scheduled in the end of this January.
We, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the Republic of Korea, would like to express our special respect on your sincere efforts to protect environment and human rights of natives in the project region to the Ministry of Environment and Forests. The Forest Rights Act had been suggested as the right direction to the global community suffering from making a decision between development and villagers' right to livelihood, and the decision on Vedanta was very courageous. All the companies that are trying to invest in India including Korean corporations should respect and follow the message suggested by the Ministry of Environment, India. It is the trustworthy way that makes the sustainable development possible for all the human beings.
We, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the Republic of Korea, confirmed that the POSCO project is clearly violated by the Forest Rights Act through the two field research as the Saxena Committee Report and the Meena Gupta Committee Majority Report has been pointed out. The development project proceeding without the legally appropriate procedure must be paid huge cost as an inevitable consequence. Regardless of violation on the Forest Right Act, POSCO and the Orissa government has been persuading the villagers who are strongly against the POSCO project for the last five years until now, however it has been failed. The villagers keep objecting to accept the compensation that POSCO has suggested to them and denying to move their residences.
If you, Minister Shri. Jairam Ramesh, approve the POSCO project even though the existing reports pointed the argumentative points of this POSCO project, your decision would not be supported. Most of all, it must make the villagers who has been suffered from the POSCO project for the last five years very disappointed. Korean civil societies also never want for you to proceed the project without any support. Executing of the project which is lack of legitimacy will face the stronger resistance to the POSCO project, and it will bear the serious human rights abuse related to the project, finally it will seriously hurt both POSCO and Korean civil society.
During such a long time, the experts of the Ministry of Environment and Forests have conducted the research over the POSCO project at the same time gone through the careful analysis procedure. As being well aware of the existing problems of the POSCO project, the Forest Advisory Committee and the Infrastructure and Coastal Zone Sub-committee of the Expert Appraisal Committee also have pointed out those problems.
Korean civil society sincerely hope to end the conflict on the POSCO project and to consider the problems on development, environment, and the human rights abuse of the villagers and to find the alternatives to both the Korean and Indian society which will be definitely affected by the decision of the Ministry of Environment, India. Also, POSCO will have the opportunity to be mature in terms of operating the legitimate project through "the right decision" of the Ministry of Environment and Forests, India.
Here, "the right decision" means that everyone agrees and respect at the same time, it is the decision should be based on the truth.
We, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs) of the Republic of Korea, believe that you, Minister Shri. Jairam Ramesh, will make the right and rational decision based on the truth and common sense.
28 January 2011
Signed by Korean civil society Alliance, below:
Amnesty International Korea
Catholic Human Rights Committee
Citizen’s Movement for Environmental Justice
Corporate for All
Dasan human rights centre
Korean House for International Solidarity
MINBYUN-Lawyers for a Democratic Society
Network for Glocal Activism
People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy
Sarangbang Group for Human Rights
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openlettertominister.pdf
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Text Fwd: [PSSP] From Ratification to Empowerment: Reflections on the 11th International Migrants Day 비준에서 힘강화로: 연간 11번째 국제 이주 노동자의 날을 돌아 보며
People' Solidarity for Social Progress
From Ratification to Empowerment: Reflections on the 11th International Migrants Day
16 December 2010
Wol-san Liem
Research Institute for Alternative Workers Movements
This December 18 with be the 11th International Migrants Day. Founded in December 2000, International Migrants Day marks the anniversary of the General Assembly’s adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of the Families (hereafter, the Convention) on December 18, 1990. Around the world, migrant workers and their supporters will use this day to demand changes in national policies, work conditions and social practices that are discriminatory and oppressive towards non-nationals, and call on governments to ratify the Convention, which sets minimum basic standards states must respect.
In the last several decades, recognition of migration as a global phenomenon and the importance of migrant labor to the global economy has increased significantly. Most governments now at least give lip service to the need to protect migrants’ human rights. Nonetheless, only 43 countries, the majority of which are countries of origin, have ratified the Convention. South Korea is among the countries that has not.
If we look at South Korean policies towards migrant workers, this fact is not surprising. The Convention states that, &Migrant workers and members of their families shall be entitled to effective protection by the State against violence physical injury, threats and intimidation, whether by public officials or by private individuals, groups or institutions& (Article 16, clause 2) and that they &shall not be subjected individually or collectively to arbitrary arrest or detention& (Article 16, clause 4). The South Korean government’s sole method for dealing with undocumented migration, however, is to carry out indiscriminate and often violent immigration raids, detain all of those arrested and deport them with out trial. The tragic death of a migrant workers as a result of these policies last month, shows just how brutal they are. On October 29, immigration officers raided a factory in the Gasan district of Seoul during a concentrated immigration crackdown carried out ahead of the G20 Summit. When Trinh Cong Quan, a 35-year-old Vietnamese worker and the father of a 4-month old daughter, found all exits blocked he tried to escape through a second story window. Quan fell and was severely injured. After lying in a coma for several days, he passed away on November 3. Far from taking responsibility, the Seoul Immigration Service simply claimed it had followed legally prescribed procedures and therefore owed nothing to Quan’s bereaved family.
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From Ratification to Empowerment: Reflections on the 11th International Migrants Day
16 December 2010
Wol-san Liem
Research Institute for Alternative Workers Movements
This December 18 with be the 11th International Migrants Day. Founded in December 2000, International Migrants Day marks the anniversary of the General Assembly’s adoption of the International Convention on the Protection of the Rights of All Migrant Workers and Members of the Families (hereafter, the Convention) on December 18, 1990. Around the world, migrant workers and their supporters will use this day to demand changes in national policies, work conditions and social practices that are discriminatory and oppressive towards non-nationals, and call on governments to ratify the Convention, which sets minimum basic standards states must respect.
In the last several decades, recognition of migration as a global phenomenon and the importance of migrant labor to the global economy has increased significantly. Most governments now at least give lip service to the need to protect migrants’ human rights. Nonetheless, only 43 countries, the majority of which are countries of origin, have ratified the Convention. South Korea is among the countries that has not.
If we look at South Korean policies towards migrant workers, this fact is not surprising. The Convention states that, &Migrant workers and members of their families shall be entitled to effective protection by the State against violence physical injury, threats and intimidation, whether by public officials or by private individuals, groups or institutions& (Article 16, clause 2) and that they &shall not be subjected individually or collectively to arbitrary arrest or detention& (Article 16, clause 4). The South Korean government’s sole method for dealing with undocumented migration, however, is to carry out indiscriminate and often violent immigration raids, detain all of those arrested and deport them with out trial. The tragic death of a migrant workers as a result of these policies last month, shows just how brutal they are. On October 29, immigration officers raided a factory in the Gasan district of Seoul during a concentrated immigration crackdown carried out ahead of the G20 Summit. When Trinh Cong Quan, a 35-year-old Vietnamese worker and the father of a 4-month old daughter, found all exits blocked he tried to escape through a second story window. Quan fell and was severely injured. After lying in a coma for several days, he passed away on November 3. Far from taking responsibility, the Seoul Immigration Service simply claimed it had followed legally prescribed procedures and therefore owed nothing to Quan’s bereaved family.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
[Jeju Update] [Translation] Jeju activists' peace statement on Dec. 4, 2010 제주 평화 활동가들의 2010년 12월 4일 평화 선언문
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* The below is an arbitrary translation of the original Korean statement announced during the Dec. 4 peace culture event lead by the Pan-Island Committee for the Prevention of Militray Base and for the Realization of Island of Peace, Jeju Island. (link is same as the above photo)
*아래는 2010년 12월4일 제주 군사 기지 저지와 평화의 섬 실현을 위한 범도민 대책위가 이끈 평화 문화제 때 발표된 선언문의 자의적 영문 번역입니다. (위 사진과 같은 링크에서 보실 수 있읍니다.)
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Statement for the Peace of the Jeju Island
By the Yeonpyeongdo artillery exchange incident that has occurred last November, precious lives of not only soldiers but also civilians were sacrificed. We expressing our deep condolence to the victimized people by that incident, desperately hope that such things should not be repeated again.
The crisis of the Korean peninsula faced by the Yeonpyeong Island artillery fire incident, make us think about ‘peace’ again.
Many people are heightening their voice saying that we should prepare with more powerful weapons and we need more drastic countermeasures.
However, the Yeonpyeong Island artillery fire this time clearly shows that stronger weapons and more drastic countermeasures cannot but only be returned with more conspicuous threat of peace of other kinds.
It has been more than 20 years that the level of our defense cost passed over the national budget of North Korea and the expense of national defense cost comes around the 10th in the world. Despite that, if the issue of the Korean peninsula is dragged to the logic of military power build-up, it cannot but be said that the Korean peninsula pretenses itself as an explosive warehouse amidst the North East Asia where the cold war order is becoming deepen, to make matters worse.
Therefore, the Lee Myung-Bak government should face to its sincere and cool self-examination on what direction the peace management in the Korean peninsula should be done rather than saying such and such of strong chastisement, along with its change in its hard-line policies against North Korea, taking lesson of incident this time.
Currently, a construction of a large-size military base outfited with high-tech weapon system is being driven. It is the Jeju naval base construction. That will be considered as the representing example of military build up in South Korea in the future. Furthermore in the sense that the naval base in the Jeju Island would be, in fact, the base targeting China, it would only contribute to strengthen the new cold war order in the Northeast Asia where the three countries of ROK-US-Japan and the other three countries of NK-Russia-China are contesting. Especially, concerns are being raised that the military base in the Jeju would be not only a big obstacle for the vision of the jeju Island that dreams to step toward the Island of Peace in the future but also a thing that would clash with the national thesis of establishing the Northeast Asia peace community.
The Korean peninsula crisis by the Yeonpyeong Island artilery fire incident casts us with the question of whether continuos military power build up and military-security-centered nation security logic would be some helpful for the peace in the Korean peninsula. For that reason, the matter of the naval base construction in the Jeju Island should be totally reconsidered in such extended context.
We hope that the Jeju would be the 'peace base' that contributes not to mention to the peace in the Korean peninsula but aslo to the peace in the East Asia. For that, we think that any additional military bases or facilities should not be built.
The Jeju is creating its peaceful tradition taking the memory of sacrifice by national violence called April 3 [1948 massacre & uprising], sublimed with reconciliation and co-living. Based on such spirit, we would resolutely deny any demand of military base and declare that we would practice for the Island of Peace, Jeju, with all the peace-loving Island people, toward the day when the Island of Peace, Jeju is accomplished.
* The below is an arbitrary translation of the original Korean statement announced during the Dec. 4 peace culture event lead by the Pan-Island Committee for the Prevention of Militray Base and for the Realization of Island of Peace, Jeju Island. (link is same as the above photo)
*아래는 2010년 12월4일 제주 군사 기지 저지와 평화의 섬 실현을 위한 범도민 대책위가 이끈 평화 문화제 때 발표된 선언문의 자의적 영문 번역입니다. (위 사진과 같은 링크에서 보실 수 있읍니다.)
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Statement for the Peace of the Jeju Island
By the Yeonpyeongdo artillery exchange incident that has occurred last November, precious lives of not only soldiers but also civilians were sacrificed. We expressing our deep condolence to the victimized people by that incident, desperately hope that such things should not be repeated again.
The crisis of the Korean peninsula faced by the Yeonpyeong Island artillery fire incident, make us think about ‘peace’ again.
Many people are heightening their voice saying that we should prepare with more powerful weapons and we need more drastic countermeasures.
However, the Yeonpyeong Island artillery fire this time clearly shows that stronger weapons and more drastic countermeasures cannot but only be returned with more conspicuous threat of peace of other kinds.
It has been more than 20 years that the level of our defense cost passed over the national budget of North Korea and the expense of national defense cost comes around the 10th in the world. Despite that, if the issue of the Korean peninsula is dragged to the logic of military power build-up, it cannot but be said that the Korean peninsula pretenses itself as an explosive warehouse amidst the North East Asia where the cold war order is becoming deepen, to make matters worse.
Therefore, the Lee Myung-Bak government should face to its sincere and cool self-examination on what direction the peace management in the Korean peninsula should be done rather than saying such and such of strong chastisement, along with its change in its hard-line policies against North Korea, taking lesson of incident this time.
Currently, a construction of a large-size military base outfited with high-tech weapon system is being driven. It is the Jeju naval base construction. That will be considered as the representing example of military build up in South Korea in the future. Furthermore in the sense that the naval base in the Jeju Island would be, in fact, the base targeting China, it would only contribute to strengthen the new cold war order in the Northeast Asia where the three countries of ROK-US-Japan and the other three countries of NK-Russia-China are contesting. Especially, concerns are being raised that the military base in the Jeju would be not only a big obstacle for the vision of the jeju Island that dreams to step toward the Island of Peace in the future but also a thing that would clash with the national thesis of establishing the Northeast Asia peace community.
The Korean peninsula crisis by the Yeonpyeong Island artilery fire incident casts us with the question of whether continuos military power build up and military-security-centered nation security logic would be some helpful for the peace in the Korean peninsula. For that reason, the matter of the naval base construction in the Jeju Island should be totally reconsidered in such extended context.
We hope that the Jeju would be the 'peace base' that contributes not to mention to the peace in the Korean peninsula but aslo to the peace in the East Asia. For that, we think that any additional military bases or facilities should not be built.
The Jeju is creating its peaceful tradition taking the memory of sacrifice by national violence called April 3 [1948 massacre & uprising], sublimed with reconciliation and co-living. Based on such spirit, we would resolutely deny any demand of military base and declare that we would practice for the Island of Peace, Jeju, with all the peace-loving Island people, toward the day when the Island of Peace, Jeju is accomplished.
Friday, December 10, 2010
Text Fwd: [Jeju Human Rights Statement] on the court decision on coming Dec. 15 제주 평화 인권 센터, 12월 15일 있을 법원 판결 관련
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
[Jeju Resource][Translation]: Why the annulment on the cancellation of the absolute preservation area has to be done?
[국문] [제주] 왜 절대 보전 지역 해제를 취소해야 하는가?
[신용인]제주 사법사상 가장 중요한 판결...해군기지 관련 소송의 판결을 기다리며(클릭)또는(여기 클릭)
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* Translation comes later
제주 평화 인권 센터
* 아래는 발제입니다. 전문을 보시려면 위의 링크 클릭
성 명: 세계인권선언 62주년에 즈음하여
'제주해군기지 절대보전지역 변경처분 무효 확인 소송’에 대하여 법리적이고 객관적인 판결을 기대한다.
2010/12/10
이 제 제주해군기지문제를 바라보며 이 시점에 오는 12월 15일 선고 예정인 ‘제주해군기지 절대보전지역 변경처분 무효 확인 소송’에 대하여 법원이 어떤 논리를 가지고 판결할지 많은 도민들이 지켜보고 있다. 그동안 최소한의 민주적 절차조차 담보하지 않은 중앙/지방정부의 국가(적) 폭력에 대하여는 눈을 감고 오히려 마을의 공동체와 후손의 미래를 걱정하는 강정마을 주민들에 대하여는 엄중한 처벌을 내렸다. 그렇다면 용산철거 주민과 같이 강정마을 주민들에게는 국가가 존재하는지 묻지 않을 수 없다.(국가 없음의 상황) 법이 누구를 위해 그 가치가 발휘되어야하는지 이번 판결을 통해 볼 수 있기를 바란다.
더 나아가 이번 판결은 제주 땅에 인권이 살아 숨 쉬고 있는지 그 척도를 알 수 있을 것이다. 그 동안 제주사회는 개발주의와 경제논리로 자행되어 왔다. 따라서 제주 사회의 공동체 파괴와 환경 파괴의 결과를 낳았다. 이제 제주해군기지 문제를 종식시키고 보다나은 미래를 재구성할 수 있는 기회가 되길 바란다. 따라서 62년 전 세계인의 숭고한 약속이 지금 제주에서 지켜지길 기대하면서 제주지방법원의 법리적이고 객관적인 판결을 통하여 ‘국민 기본권의 최후의 보루’로 남길 바란다.
2010.12.10
제주평화인권센터
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Saturday, November 6, 2010
[Jeju Resource][Translation]: Why the annulment on the cancellation of the absolute preservation area has to be done?
[국문] [제주] 왜 절대 보전 지역 해제를 취소해야 하는가?
[신용인]제주 사법사상 가장 중요한 판결...해군기지 관련 소송의 판결을 기다리며(클릭)또는(여기 클릭)
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* Translation comes later
제주 평화 인권 센터
* 아래는 발제입니다. 전문을 보시려면 위의 링크 클릭
성 명: 세계인권선언 62주년에 즈음하여
'제주해군기지 절대보전지역 변경처분 무효 확인 소송’에 대하여 법리적이고 객관적인 판결을 기대한다.
2010/12/10
이 제 제주해군기지문제를 바라보며 이 시점에 오는 12월 15일 선고 예정인 ‘제주해군기지 절대보전지역 변경처분 무효 확인 소송’에 대하여 법원이 어떤 논리를 가지고 판결할지 많은 도민들이 지켜보고 있다. 그동안 최소한의 민주적 절차조차 담보하지 않은 중앙/지방정부의 국가(적) 폭력에 대하여는 눈을 감고 오히려 마을의 공동체와 후손의 미래를 걱정하는 강정마을 주민들에 대하여는 엄중한 처벌을 내렸다. 그렇다면 용산철거 주민과 같이 강정마을 주민들에게는 국가가 존재하는지 묻지 않을 수 없다.(국가 없음의 상황) 법이 누구를 위해 그 가치가 발휘되어야하는지 이번 판결을 통해 볼 수 있기를 바란다.
더 나아가 이번 판결은 제주 땅에 인권이 살아 숨 쉬고 있는지 그 척도를 알 수 있을 것이다. 그 동안 제주사회는 개발주의와 경제논리로 자행되어 왔다. 따라서 제주 사회의 공동체 파괴와 환경 파괴의 결과를 낳았다. 이제 제주해군기지 문제를 종식시키고 보다나은 미래를 재구성할 수 있는 기회가 되길 바란다. 따라서 62년 전 세계인의 숭고한 약속이 지금 제주에서 지켜지길 기대하면서 제주지방법원의 법리적이고 객관적인 판결을 통하여 ‘국민 기본권의 최후의 보루’로 남길 바란다.
2010.12.10
제주평화인권센터
Tuesday, December 7, 2010
Text Fwd: NHRCK disbands protest by activists with disabilities 국가 인권 위원회, 장애 활동가들 시위 해산 시킴
* Image source: same as the link'Police forcefully block human rights activists with disabilities from submitting a petition to National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) Chairperson Hyun Byung-chul calling for his resignation in front of the NHRCK. (Photo by Kim Jin-su)'
Hankyoreh
[News Briefing] NHRCK disbands protest by activists with disabilities
Dec. 7, 2010
South Korea’s human rights watchdog has come under fire again for recently asking police to forcibly quell a sit-in protest by human rights activists with disabilities at its building in Seoul.
It was confirmed that the National Human Rights Commission of Korea (NHRCK) had sent last Friday an official document to call on the police to take necessary measures for dispersing about 160 human rights activists with disabilities who waged on a sit-in protest last Thursday after occupying the NHRCK offices, demanding NHRCK Chairperson Hyun Byung-chul’s resignation.
NHRCK also drew criticism by approving a recommendation for the government to resume anti-North Korea propaganda while tension runs high in the wake of North Korea’s shelling on Yeonpyeong island. NHRCK’s plenary committee Monday adopted the recommendation, including resumption of loudspeaker broadcast and flying leaflets, in a 6-2 vote, saying the government needs to show the reclusive North Koreans the real outside world “through all means possible.”
South Korea’s Defense Ministry said Tuesday it has been sending anti-North Korea leaflets across the border and was ready to resume propaganda broadcasts.
Friday, November 12, 2010
Photos Fwd:[Benjamin Hiller] G20 Seoul: 10.000 rally against G20 Summit. Only minor scuffles. [사진: 벤자민 힐러] 2010년 11월11일 서울 G20 시위: 1만여명 집회. 작은 난투만.
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* Summary of the contents and details of program, anti G20 protest, Nov. 11, 2010
* Yonhap News article after the rally, Nov. 11, 2010
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* Related blogs
[In Update] People’s Response Action against G-20
[엎데이트중] G20대응민중행동
Photos Fwd: Some voices of the G20 protest, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 11, 2010
[사진] 2010년 11월 11일 G20 시위의 어떤 목소리들
Photos Fwd:[Jeffrey Bright] G20 Protests Seoul, Nov. 11, 2010
[사진: 제프리 브라이트] 서울, 2010년 11월11일, G20 시위
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* All the courtesy of image & caption source: Benjamin Hiller in the Demotix
* A marshal law in 2010?
Abolish the G20 security law!
Protect the freedom of the rally!
Headquarter of the Anti-G20 solidarity university students' movement
'Today around 10.000 Demonstrators protested against the G20 Summit held in Seoul.
After international activists and union leaders held speeches at the Seoul Station in the core of the city the demonstrators breached through a police line to start their march. After around one hour the march stopped an an further police barrier.
Their it came again to some minor scuffles and a small fire. The police was with several thousand men in the area present, as well as with heavy gear.'
SEE MORE PHOTOS on the same subject by Benjamin Hiller in the Demotix
* Summary of the contents and details of program, anti G20 protest, Nov. 11, 2010
* Yonhap News article after the rally, Nov. 11, 2010
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* Related blogs
[In Update] People’s Response Action against G-20
[엎데이트중] G20대응민중행동
Photos Fwd: Some voices of the G20 protest, Seoul, Korea, Nov. 11, 2010
[사진] 2010년 11월 11일 G20 시위의 어떤 목소리들
Photos Fwd:[Jeffrey Bright] G20 Protests Seoul, Nov. 11, 2010
[사진: 제프리 브라이트] 서울, 2010년 11월11일, G20 시위
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* All the courtesy of image & caption source: Benjamin Hiller in the Demotix
* A marshal law in 2010?Abolish the G20 security law!
Protect the freedom of the rally!
Headquarter of the Anti-G20 solidarity university students' movement
'Today around 10.000 Demonstrators protested against the G20 Summit held in Seoul.
After international activists and union leaders held speeches at the Seoul Station in the core of the city the demonstrators breached through a police line to start their march. After around one hour the march stopped an an further police barrier.
Their it came again to some minor scuffles and a small fire. The police was with several thousand men in the area present, as well as with heavy gear.'
SEE MORE PHOTOS on the same subject by Benjamin Hiller in the Demotix
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Filipino activists were denied entry to the ROK: Shame, Lee Myung Bak government and G20! 필리핀 활동가들 입국 거부됨! 이명박 정부와 G20 은 수치를 느껴야!
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* Related site
Put People First (Korean's joint response action against G20)
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* Related blogs
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Photos Fwd: [Benjamin Hiller] G20 Protest Seoul, Nov. 7 to 8
젊은 독일 사진가 벤자민 힐러의 G20 리포트, 11월 7일~8일
[In Update] Put People First!: Launch of the “People’s Response Action against the G-20”
G20대응민중행동’
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* Image & caption source: Inquiry, Nov. 6, 2010
Citing the Inquiry, a Philippine media, and AFP, a progressive Korean article, NewsCham (Jung Eun-Hee, Nov. 9, 2010) reports that the Philippine society is strongly criticizing against the Lee Myung Bak government, South Korea, for its unjust sending back of five Filipino activists who had gotten the visa but were denied their entry at the Incheon International airport. For more detail on the content, see HERE. It is known that another seventh Filipino activist became to be also denied entry to South Korea, according to an Inquiry article on Nov. 9. They were to join an alternative anti-G20 civilian forum sponsored by People’s Collective Action, in Seoul on Nov. 8.
According to the AFB on Nov. 8, 2010:
"We condemn this unwarranted hostile act of the South Korean government towards Filipino activists," said Judy Pasimio of the Manila-based Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center.
One of those deported, Maria Lorena Macabuag of the group Migrant Forum Asia, said they were only attending a peaceful parallel forum and had not broken any law.
"We were just informed that we were blacklisted by the South Korean government and that we are not allowed to enter Korea," she said in a statement.
Put People First, a people’s collective action has released some statements on the incident and you can see them HERE and HERE.
Not only that, it is told that 184 foreigners who has intended to enter South Korea to joint people’s action were denied their visa.
The NewsCham delivers the degree of rage of Philippine society, including that of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Philippine. Here are some videos from the site.
* Related site
Put People First (Korean's joint response action against G20)
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* Related blogs
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
Photos Fwd: [Benjamin Hiller] G20 Protest Seoul, Nov. 7 to 8
젊은 독일 사진가 벤자민 힐러의 G20 리포트, 11월 7일~8일
[In Update] Put People First!: Launch of the “People’s Response Action against the G-20”
G20대응민중행동’
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* Image & caption source: Inquiry, Nov. 6, 2010'Joseph Purugganan (L) and Josua Mata (2L), two of six activists deported from Seoul,
talks during a press briefing in Manila. AFP'
talks during a press briefing in Manila. AFP'
Citing the Inquiry, a Philippine media, and AFP, a progressive Korean article, NewsCham (Jung Eun-Hee, Nov. 9, 2010) reports that the Philippine society is strongly criticizing against the Lee Myung Bak government, South Korea, for its unjust sending back of five Filipino activists who had gotten the visa but were denied their entry at the Incheon International airport. For more detail on the content, see HERE. It is known that another seventh Filipino activist became to be also denied entry to South Korea, according to an Inquiry article on Nov. 9. They were to join an alternative anti-G20 civilian forum sponsored by People’s Collective Action, in Seoul on Nov. 8.
According to the AFB on Nov. 8, 2010:
"We condemn this unwarranted hostile act of the South Korean government towards Filipino activists," said Judy Pasimio of the Manila-based Legal Rights and Natural Resources Center.
One of those deported, Maria Lorena Macabuag of the group Migrant Forum Asia, said they were only attending a peaceful parallel forum and had not broken any law.
"We were just informed that we were blacklisted by the South Korean government and that we are not allowed to enter Korea," she said in a statement.
Put People First, a people’s collective action has released some statements on the incident and you can see them HERE and HERE.
Not only that, it is told that 184 foreigners who has intended to enter South Korea to joint people’s action were denied their visa.
The NewsCham delivers the degree of rage of Philippine society, including that of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Philippine. Here are some videos from the site.
▲ 필리핀 활동가들이 마닐라에 위치한 한국대사관 앞에서 시위중이다. [출처: http://english.ntdtv.com]
▲ Filipino activists are protesting in front of the South Korean embassy, Manila, Philippine. [ source: http://english.ntdtv.com]
-8일 필리핀 활동가들의 한국대사관 앞 시위를 보도한 NTD 방송-
- NTD TV reports on the Filipino activists protesting in front of South Korean embassy, Manila, Philippine-
(* Video source: NewsCham, Nov. 9, 2010/ Original source: NTD TV, Nov. 8, 2010)
* Image source: Put People First
▲ Filipino activists are protesting in front of the South Korean embassy, Manila, Philippine. [ source: http://english.ntdtv.com]
-8일 필리핀 활동가들의 한국대사관 앞 시위를 보도한 NTD 방송-
- NTD TV reports on the Filipino activists protesting in front of South Korean embassy, Manila, Philippine-
(* Video source: NewsCham, Nov. 9, 2010/ Original source: NTD TV, Nov. 8, 2010)
The Lee Myung Bak government has also recently attempted to block some Korean activists’ participation in the peaceful international events in another countries. In one case, some of them were even searched of their bodies in the related country’ airport and eventually were sent back to Korea
The tyrannical, racist attitude of the Lee Myung Bak government is noticeable. The no-basis denial of the Filipino activists’ entry to South Korea shows how the Lee government is reactionary and the G20 is the party only for the riches, excluding the real voice of people in the world.
The tyrannical, racist attitude of the Lee Myung Bak government is noticeable. The no-basis denial of the Filipino activists’ entry to South Korea shows how the Lee government is reactionary and the G20 is the party only for the riches, excluding the real voice of people in the world.
* Image source: Put People FirstHere are some excerpts from the Press Release by Put People First on Nov. 8, 2010:
Member of Parliament from Malaysia, Charles Santiago, expressed “While activists, critical to the G20 and neoliberal economic policies have encountered an antagonistic reception by the Korean government, 100 global business executives, gathering for the G20 Business Summit, will be welcomed with a red carpet.”
Deported labour representative from the Philippines Josua Mata added “Nothing demonstrates better the true nature of the G20 than the fact that while it is detaining and deporting activists from the global south, it is busy preparing to have an intimate dialogue with the world’s top corporate leaders. This only confirms what we have been saying all along – the G20 is undemocratic and not interested in improving ordinary people’s lives.”
“The G20 which is a non-elected and non-representative body and excludes majority of developing and poor countries has no legitimacy to be deciding on the economic and political directions of the world.” declared Yoon Geum Soon, representative of the international movement of small farmers La Vía Campesina.
Tyotyo James from the Confederation of South Africa Trade Unions (COSATU) concluded “Since 2008, the G20 has been nothing but a talk show and has failed to deliver any coordinated response to the economic and financial crisis. The future of global economic governance should be discussed, instead, at the United Nations”.
Member of Parliament from Malaysia, Charles Santiago, expressed “While activists, critical to the G20 and neoliberal economic policies have encountered an antagonistic reception by the Korean government, 100 global business executives, gathering for the G20 Business Summit, will be welcomed with a red carpet.”
Deported labour representative from the Philippines Josua Mata added “Nothing demonstrates better the true nature of the G20 than the fact that while it is detaining and deporting activists from the global south, it is busy preparing to have an intimate dialogue with the world’s top corporate leaders. This only confirms what we have been saying all along – the G20 is undemocratic and not interested in improving ordinary people’s lives.”
“The G20 which is a non-elected and non-representative body and excludes majority of developing and poor countries has no legitimacy to be deciding on the economic and political directions of the world.” declared Yoon Geum Soon, representative of the international movement of small farmers La Vía Campesina.
Tyotyo James from the Confederation of South Africa Trade Unions (COSATU) concluded “Since 2008, the G20 has been nothing but a talk show and has failed to deliver any coordinated response to the economic and financial crisis. The future of global economic governance should be discussed, instead, at the United Nations”.
Saturday, October 23, 2010
Text Fwd: 1. A discrepancy between the SK government & AP Command?/ 2. Human rights issue as a weapon? 1. 한국 정부 관리들과 아태 사령부 사이 갭? 2. 무기가 되는 인권 이슈?
* Image source: Asia Pacific Command
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1. An interesting discrepancy between the South Korean government & Asia Pacific Command
(1) The Defense News letter, Oct. 22, 2010, reports from the Canadian press
SKorea denies NKorea preparing nuclear test despite personnel, vehicle activities at test site
Google (Canadian Press)
http://www.google.com/
By Hyung-Jin Kim (CP) , Oct. 20, 2010(?)
Excerpt:
SEOUL, South Korea — South Korean officials said Thursday that there have been continual movements of personnel and vehicles at North Korea's main nuclear test site, but ruled out the possibility that the country is preparing its third atomic bomb test anytime soon.
The assessment came shortly after the mass-circulation Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported Thursday that Pyongyang may be preparing another nuclear test, citing "brisk" activities at its atomic test site in the northeastern county of Kilju.
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South Korean officials, however, denied that the North was preparing a nuclear test soon, saying personnel and vehicle movements have been continuously detected for more than a year at the site, where the North conducted two bomb tests in recent years.
"No concrete evidence that North Korea is preparing a third nuclear test has been found," presidential spokeswoman Kim Hee-jung told reporters, according to her office.
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The U.S. military command in Seoul said Thursday that it could not comment on the Chosun Ilbo report.
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(2) But the Asia Pacific Command site (http://www.pacom.mil/) reports from the Marinecorps Times
http://www.marinecorpstimes.
PACOM chief warns against N. Korea nuke test
By Hyung-Jin Kim - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Oct 22, 2010 14:52:47 EDT
Excerpt:
SEOUL, South Korea — If North Korea carries out a third nuclear test, it would seriously undermine international and regional security, the U.S. Pacific commander warned Friday.
Adm. Robert Willard’s comments were prompted by a South Korean newspaper report that said a U.S. spy satellite detected activity at the North’s main nuclear test site and that a detonation could occur in three months. South Korean officials played down the report, saying the activity didn’t seem unusual.
* Note: The SK newspaper. Chosun Ilbo, is the most conservative right wing newspaper, along with Dong-A, Joongang(Samsung affiliated] in South Korea.
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2. Human Rights issue as a weapon to invade North Korea and Iran, along with the issue of nuclear weapon? Yes. One of the so called non-profit organizations behind that converting works is the National Endowment Democracy(NED), a right wing think tank in the United States. Activists should be careful when the media loudly drums about the democracy issues in the so called rogue stages. Wasn't that’s one of the US pretexts before she attacked Iraq, along with the pretexts of non-existing WMD, in 2003? And now I read a Korean article that the US is threatening Turkey for MD cooperation with the Armenian human rights Issue? Yes, we already know that the US gov. has been entertaining the Tibet democracy issue against China. Boy..
The Stars and Stripes reports from the Reuters
http://www.stripes.com/
http://www.reuters.com/
North Korea says U.N. rights talk is political plot
By Louis Charbonneau
UNITED NATIONS | Fri Oct 22, 2010 7:19pm EDT
Excerpt
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A North Korean envoy lashed out at the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee on Friday, saying criticism of Pyongyang was a plot aimed at overthrowing the country's government.
North Korea's Deputy U.N. Ambassador Pak Tok Hun was responding to U.N. special rapporteur on human rights in North Korea Marzuki Darusman's report to the committee.
In his latest report, Darusman said there was an urgent need for Pyongyang to take "immediate steps to ensure the enjoyment of the right to food, water, sanitation and health, and to allocate greater budgetary resources to that end."
Pak said Darusman's report, like the General Assembly's annual resolutions condemning the human rights situation in North Korea, was "a political plot fabricated by hostile forces in the attempt to isolate and stifle our system."
"The purpose is clear," he said. "The promotion and protection of human rights is only in words but in reality what they try to do is change the ideology and system of our country."
Darusman, an Indonesian, said reports from inside impoverished North Korea "indicate continued suffering of the people ... from chronic food insecurity, high malnutrition rates and spiraling economic problems."
Pak did not touch on the specifics of Darusman's 19-page report but said his country was determined "in future to fully consolidate and develop our socialist system for promotion and protection of human rights in keeping with the aspirations of our people and the reality of our country."
Thursday, August 26, 2010
[국문 번역] Text Fwd: U.S. BASE SAVED FROM PAKISTAN FLOOD BUT NOT THE PEOPLE 미군 기지는 홍수로부터 구해졌으나 사람들은 아님.
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Friday, October 15, 2010
Video Fwd:[Pakistan] IMPACT OF FLOODS NOW TAKE HOLD
[비디오] 파키스탄: 홍수 영향 현재 진행중
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* From Bruce Gagnon blog, August 23, 2010 2010년 8월 23일자 브루스 개그논 블로그
U.S. BASE SAVED FROM PAKISTAN FLOOD BUT NOT THE PEOPLE
미군 기지는 홍수로부터 구해졌으나 사람들은 아님.
August 20, 2010
2010 년 8월 20일
PAKISTAN: Minister tasked with saving US airbase at the cost of the displacement of thousands
파키스탄: 수천명 이동 희생위 미 공군 기지를 구하기 위한 과제에 매달리게 된 장관
The presence of Pakistan army personnel speaks to the fact that the breach of Jamali bypass was intentional and ordered from above.
파키스탄 공군 관계자의 존재는 자말리 우회로 침해가 의도적이며 위로부터의 명령이었다는 사실에 대해 말한다.
It has been reported earlier that the US Air Force has denied the relief agencies use of the Shahbaz airbase for the distribution of aid and assistance. Soldiers of the Pakistan army, a federal minister and the administration of Sindh province are blamed for the incident involving Shahbaz Airbase at Jacobabad district in Sindh province in which it has been reported that flood waters were diverted in order to save the airbase. The diversion of the floodwaters is blamed for inundating hundreds of houses and the displacement of 800,000 people. According to the media reports, the Federal Minister of Sports along with soldiers from the army and a contingent of officials from the Sindh provincial government breached the Jamali Bypass in Jafferabad district of Balochistan province during the night between August 13 and 14 to divert the water entering the airbase which has remained in US Air Force hands since the war on terror started in 2001.
미 공군이 구호 기관들이 원조와 보조의 분배를 위해 샤바즈 공군 기지를 이용하는 것을 거부했다고 일찍 보도된 바 있다. 파키스탄 군대의 군인들, 연방 장관, 그리고 신드 지방 행정부는 신드 지방 자코바바드 지역 샤바즈 공군 기지가 관계된 사건으로 비난받는데 이 사건은 홍수물이 공군 기지를 구하기 위해 우회된 것을 말한다. 홍수물의 우회는 수백채의 가옥들을 물에 잠기게 하고 80만의 사람들이 터를 잃은 것으로 비난받는다. 언론 기사들에 따르면, 연방 체육 장관은 군대의 군인들, 신디 지역 정부의 파견 관리들과 함께 8월 13일과 14일 사이 밤 2001년 테러에 대한 전쟁 이후 미 공군의 손에 있었던 기지에 들어오는 물의 흐름을 바꾸기 위해 바로키스탄 지역 자페라바드 지역 자말리 우회로가 붕괴되게 했다.
* Image source: Google
Mr. Ejaz Jakhrani, the Minister of Sports, while explaining the situation to the media said that if the water was not diverted the Shahbaz Airbase would have been inundated. Mr. Jakhrani himself was present along with the district coordination officer of the Jacobabad district, district police officer and other officials when the breach was made. It is reported in the media that Mr. Jakhrani was assigned to protect the air base by officials at the Pakistan army’s headquarter as he was elected from Jacobabad district.
체육 장관 에자즈 자크라니 씨는 언론에 상황을 설명하면서 물이 우회되지 않았더라면 샤바즈 공군 기지가 물에 잠겼을 거라 말했다. 자크라니 씨 자신이 그 침해가 저질러졌을 때 자코바바드 지역 기획 관리들과 함께 있었다. 자크라니 씨는 자코바바드 지역에서 선거에 뽑힘에 따라 파키스탄 군대 사령부의 관리들로 하여금 공군 기지를 보호하게 하도록 임무를 받았다.
A former prime minister, Mr. Mir Zafar Ullah Khan Jamali said that in order to save Shahbaz Air Base, Jamali bypass was demolished and the town of Dera Allahyar was drowned. Mr. Jamali said that if the airbase was so important, then what priority might be given to the citizens. He blamed minister Jakhrani, DPO and DCO Jacobabad for deliberately diverting the course of the floodwaters towards Balochistan.
전 수상 미르 자파 울라 칸 자말리 씨는 샤바즈 공군 기지를 구하기 위해 자말리 우회로가 헐어졌으며 데라 알라야 마을이 침수되었다고 전했다. 자말리 씨는 공군 기지가 그렇게 중요했다면 어떠한 우선권이 시민들에게 주어지겠냐고 말했다. 그는 바로키스탄으로 향하는 홍수물의 진로를 고의적으로 바꾼 자크라니 장관과 자코바바드 DPO 와 DCO 를 비난했다.
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In the meantime, during the discussion in the standing committee of the Senate the federal secretary of health has revealed that health relief operations are not possible in the flood-affected areas of Jacobabad because the airbase is under the control of the US Air Force. The coordinator of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Centre, Dr Jahanzeb Aurakzai, told the committee that foreign health teams could not start relief operations in remote areas because there are no airstrips close to several areas, including Jacobabad.
그 동안 상원 상임 위원회 토론동안 보건 연방 장관은 자코바바드의 홍수 영향 지역들에서는 공군 기지가 미 공군의 통제 아래에 있기에 건강 구호 작전들이 가능하지 않다고 밝힌 바 있다. 건강 비상 준비 대응 센터의 코디네이터인 자한제브 아우라크자이 박사는 자코바바드를 포함, 몇 지역들 근처에 활주로들이 없었기 때문에 외국 보건 팀들이 먼 지역에서의 구호 작전을 시작힐 수 없었다고 위원회에 말했다.
The electronic media has also reported that since 2001 the government of Pakistan, during the regime of general Musharraf, turned over Shahbaz Airport to US forces fighting against terrorism on a lease so it the responsibility of the government and the Pakistan armed forces to protect the agreement done in favour of US forces. The discussions in the media have also pointed out that the presence of army soldiers during the breach of Jamali bypass is a clear indication that the Pakistan army has been ordered to save the airbase from the floodwaters.
전자 언론은 2001년 이후 파키스탄 정부가 무샤라프 장군 정권 동안, 테러리즘에 맞서 싸우는 미군들에게 샤바츠 공항을 임대로 주었으므로 미군에게 좋게 만들어진 동의안을 보호하기 위한 것이 정부와 파키스탄 군대의 책임이라 말한 바 있다. 언론 토론은 또한 자말리 우회로 침해동안 육군 군인들의 존재는 파키스탄 군대가 홍수물로부터 기지를 구하기 위해 명령 받았음을 알리는 명확한 표시였음을 또한 지적했다.
In the end, after the seven days of controversy surrounding the air base, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said that the Shahbaz Airbase was under the complete operational control of the PAF and brushed aside reports that floodwaters had been diverted to save the base. Air Vice Marshal, Mr. Abdul Quddus, hurriedly arranged a visit of journalists to Shahbaz Airbase and asked them as to whether they could see any Americans? He told journalists that there are no drones and no Americans; seeing, he said, is believing!
결국, 공군 기지를 둘러싼 논쟁의 7일 뒤, 파키스탄 공군 (PAF) 은 샤바츠 공군 기지가 파키스탄 공군의 완전한 통제에 있었으며 홍수가 기지를 구하기 위해 전환되었다는 기사를 가볍게 무시했다. 공군 소장 압둘 쿠다스 씨는 기자들의 샤바츠 공군 기지 방문 일정을 서둘러 잡았으며 그들에게 미국인들을 볼 수 있었느냐 물었다. 그는 기자들에게 무인 비행기도 미국인들도 없다 말했다: 그는 보는 것이 믿는 것이라 말했다!
However, there was no reasonable answer to the question raised that when almost the whole of Jacobabad district of Sindh and its adjoining district of Jafferabad of Balochistan province were under floodwaters why the airbase was not affected. This could only be due to the intentional breach of the Jamali bypass. The media was also very critical of the arrangement of the visit to Shahbaz airbase at a time when much more attention is needed to focus all efforts for the relief of the affected people. The visit by the journalists has been seen as a scripted stage play as when journalists were present a C130 cargo plane landed with 200 tons of relief goods which the people of that particular affected area badly needed. Such a plane has not been seen landing there in recent times so this was too much of a coincidence.
그러나 언제 신디의 자코바바드 지역 전체 대부분과 바로키스탄 지역 자페라베드의 인접한 지역이 홍수물에 잠겼을 때 왜 공군 기지가 영향받지 않았는가에 대한 질문에 대해 합리적인 대답은 없었다. 이는 오직 자말리 우회로의 의도적 침해 때문일 수 있다. 언론은 또한 타격받은 사람들을 구호하는 모든 노력에 주의가 필요했을 때 샤바즈 공군 기지 방문을 잡은 것에 대해 매우 비판적이었다. 기자들의 방문은 특별히 타격받은 지역의 사람들이 몹시 필요로 했던 200톤의 구호 물자등을 실은 C130 화물 비행기가 착륙했을 때 기자들이 있었다는 것으로 볼 때 미리 각본된 연극 대본 처럼 보였다. 그러한 비행기는 최근 그 곳에 착륙하는 것이 보여지지 않았기에 이는 우연이라 하기엔 너무 과했다.
The federal minister and former prime minister have not retracted their statements that the floodwater was intentionally diverted to Dera Allahyar, Balochistan to save the air base.
연방 장관과 전 수상은 공군 기지를 구하기 위해 홍수가 데라 알라야로 고의적으로 바뀌어졌다는 그들의 성명서들을 철회하지 않았다.
There is rough estimation by the media about the displacement of 800,000 people by the divergence of the waters to the poorer areas. Over 150,000 people have been evacuated from Dera Allahyar and other areas. 350,000 people of Jafferabad district have been shifted to Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta, parts of Balochistan, and over 300,000 people had earlier moved to Dera Murad Jamali and Sibi from the Sindh province particularly from Jacobabad.
물의 전환에 의해 더 가난한 지역들로 터를 옮긴 80만 명의 사람들에 대한 언론의 대략 산출이 있다. 15만 명 이상의 사람들이 델라 알라야르와 다른 지역들로 소개되었다. 자페라베드 지역의 35만명들이 바로키스탄의 일부들인 데라 무라드 자말리, 시비, 그리고 퀘타등으로 옮겨졌으며 30만 이상의 사람들이 특별히 자코바바드 의 신디 지방으로부터 데라 무라드 자말리와 시비 지방으로 일찍 옮겨졌었다.
There can be no doubt that the presence of the Pakistan army personnel at the breach of Jamali bypass indicates the fact that this was an intentional breach. This must be investigated along in order to ascertain who gave the orders. Those giving the orders must be prosecuted. The government of Pakistan must also probe the allegations of deliberate breaches; not only in the incident involving Shahbaz airbase but also those reported earlier where the agricultural lands belonging to senior ministers was protected from the floodwaters also by intentional breaches.
파키스탄 군관계자가 자말리 우회로가 침해 되었을 때 있었다는 것이 의심할 여지 없다는 사실은 이것이 고의적인 침해였음을 말한다. 이는 누가 명령을 내렸는가를 규명하기 위해서도 조사되어야 한다. 파키스탄 정부는 또한 고의적인 침해들에 대한 진술을 철저히 조사해야 한다: 샤바츠 공군 기지와 관련된 사건 뿐만이 아니라 고의적 [우회로]침해로 인해 선임 장관들이 소유한 농경지들이 홍수물로부터 보전된 곳들이라고 일찍 기사화된 것역시 말이다.
It is a gross contradiction that the United States of America is now one of the biggest donors of relief to Pakistan and it is therefore unacceptable that they are allegedly refusing permission to use Shahbaz airbase for the distribution of that relief.
미국이 현재 파키스탄에 대한 가장 큰 구호 기부자들의 하나라는것은 터무니없는모순으로 듣는 바에 의하면 그들이 그 구호 분배를 위해 샤바츠 공군 기지를 사용하는 것의 허락을 거절한다는 것은 그러므로 받아들일 수 없다.
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About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation monitoring and lobbying human rights issues in Asia. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984.
AHRC 란: 아시아 인권 위원회 (The Asian Human Rights Commission: AHRC) 는 아시아의 인권 이슈들을 감시하고 압력을 녛는 지역의 비정부 단체이다. 홍콩에 기반한 단체로 1984년 세워졌다.
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* Other reference materials 다른 참고 자료
English(영문)
_ Video: Why Isn't the World Rushing to Rescue Pakistan
왜 세계는 파키스탄을 구하러 달려가지 않는가?
(*From Bruce Gagnon blog on Sunday, August 22, 2010: SLIM SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE IN PAKISTAN)
(* 출처: 브루스 개그논 블로그, 2010년 8월 22일: 파키스탄인들을 위한 너무도 미약한 지지)
_ Floods in Pakistan not ‘natural’: U.S. militarism’s role in the disaster
파키스탄 홍수는 '자연적'인 것이 아니다: 재난에서 '미 군사 주의'의 역활
By Sara Flounders 사라 플라운더
International Action Center 국제 행동 센터
Aug 18, 2010 2010년 8월 18 일
Excerpts 발제
The floods will grow far worse in the coming week as record high waters move further downstream toward larger population centers in south Pakistan.
기록적으로 높은 물이 파키스탄 남부의 인구많은 중심지들쪽으로 옮겨짊에 따라 다가오는 주에 홍수가 월씬 악화될 것으로 보인다.
[...]
U.N. emergency relief coordinator John Holmes said the numbers would reach 40 to 50 million people in need of immediate assistance, out of a population of 170 million.
유엔 비상 구호 코디네이터 존 홀름스는 즉각적인 도움을 필요로 할 이들이 1억 7천만 인구중 4천만에서 5천만 인들이 될 것이라고 말했다.
All the words of concern from humanitarian agencies are starting to pour forth. But so far the amount of aid reaching Pakistan from the U.S., NATO countries and U.N. agencies is among of the smallest ever for disaster relief.
인도주의 기관들로부터 모든 우려의 말들이 나오기 시작했다. 그러나 지금까지 미국이나 북대서양 조약 기구 국가들, 그리고 유엔 기관들로부터 나오는 파키스탄에 도달하는 보조량은 재난 구호를 위해 가장 적은 것중에 속한다.
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Washington has promised $55 million for emergency aid and the use of six helicopters. What an insult! Just this year Congress allocated to the Pentagon more than 1,000 times this paltry amount to continue to fight its wars in the region.
워싱턴은 구호 보조를 위해 5천 5백만 달러와 6개의 헬리콥터 사용을 약속했다. 이 무슨 모욕인가 ! 바로 올 해 미 국회는 이 얼마 되지 않은 양의 천 배 이상을 미 국방부가 이 지역에서의 전쟁들에서 싸우게 하기 위해 할당하지 않았던가?
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The alliance with the U.S. has been of absolutely no help in the country’s hour of greatest need. The corrupt feudal officials and even more corrupt repressive military, all kept in power by enormous amounts of U.S. military aid, have proved totally unable to even notify the millions of people who were clearly at risk or to move into place the most basic emergency equipment.
미국과의 동맹은 이 나라가 가장 필요한 시기에 도움을 결코 주지 못했다. 미국 군대의 엄청난 보조로 권력을 유지했던 부패한 연방 관리들과 한층 더 부패하고 억압된 군대는 명확히 위험에 빠져 있던 수백만의 사람들에게 사전 주의도 못 주었을 뿐만 아니라 가장 기본적인 비상 장비들도 옮겨 놓지 못했을 정도로 완전히 그 무능함이 드러났다.
Washington is more than willing to sell Pakistan F-16 jets, hundreds of surface-to-air missiles and surveillance planes. This is enormously profitable to U.S. military contractors and Pakistan ends up ever further in debt.
워싱턴은 파키스탄에게 F-16 제트기들, 수백개의 공대지 미사일들, 그리고 정찰기들을 파는 것 이상을 기꺼이 하려 한다. 이는 미국 군사 계약업자들에게 거대하게 이윤이며 파키스탄은 훨씬 더 많은 빚으로 끝나고 말 것이다.
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To respond to natural and human-made emergencies, what is needed is the uprooting of this capitalist system of exploitation and national oppression so every country can establish planning to meet its people’s needs.
자연과 인류가 만든 비상 사태에 대응하기 위해 필요한 것은 착취와 국가 억압의 자본주의 시스템을 축출하여 모든 나라가 그 민중들의 필요를 충족하게 하기 위한 계획을 세우게 할 수 있게 하는 것이다.
_ LPP Karachi Statement on Flooding(click)
홍수에 대한 파키스탄 노동당 (카라치) 성명서(클릭)
August 20, 2010 2010년 8월 20일
The Disaster, and the Way Out 재난 및 탈출의 길
Labour Party Pakistan (Karachi), National Trade Union Federation
파키스탄 노동당 (카라치), 전국 연방 노조
(*Informed by the Joan Landy(Campaign for Peace And Democracy) on Aug. 20, 2010
조안 랜디_ 평화와 민주주의를 위한 캠페인으로부터 2010년 8월 20일 제공됨)
Excerpt 발제_ Demand 요구
1. CANCEL THE DEBT
빚을 취소하라
2. CUT DEFENCE EXPENDITURE
국방 지출을 삭감하라
3. INTERNAIONAL ASSISTANCE IN GRANTS, NOT LOANS
국제 보조, 대부아닌 수여로
4. REDIRECT AMERICAN MILITARY SPENDING
미국 군사 지출 방향을 바꾸어라
5. REPARATIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
기후 변화에 대한 보상
6. DEMOCRATIC AND TRANSPARENT RECONSTRUCTION
민주주의적이고 투명한 재건설을
Korean (국문)
파키스탄 홍수 관련 기사들(클릭)
파키스탄 구호 관련 기사들(클릭)
한겨레, 2010년 8월 16일, 조기원 기자
“파키스탄 홍수, 여태껏 본 적 없는 재난”: 반기문, 국제사회 지원 호소
'반기문 유엔 사무총장이 “파키스탄 홍수는 여태껏 본 적 없는 재난”이라며 국제사회의 지원을 촉구하고 나섰다.
반 총장은 아시프 알리 자르다리 파키스탄 대통령과 함께 헬리콥터를 타고 15일 주요 피해현장인 펀자브 지방을 둘러보았다. 반 총장은 “세계 다른 자연재해 피해 현장을 본 적이 있지만 이런 것은 처음 본다”며 “내가 오늘 목격한 파괴와 고통의 현장을 잊을 수 없다. 오늘은 가슴 아픈 날이었다”고 말했다고 <에이피>(AP) 통신은 전했다.
반 총장은 “홍수 물결이 국제사회 지원 물결과 만나야 한다”며 “나는 오늘 세계의 지원을 촉구하기 위해 여기 왔다”고 말했다. 유엔은 초기 구호를 위해서만 4억5900만달러 가량이 필요하다고 밝혔지만, 지금까지 목표액의 20% 정도밖에 모이지 않았다.
파키스탄 홍수 피해 사망자는 약 1600명으로 나르기스(약 13만8000명)나 쓰촨성 지진(약 9만명)에 비해서는 적다. 그러나 홍수 피해 지역이 파키스탄 전체 국토 면적의 4분의 1에 달할 만큼 피해 범위가 광범위하다.'
* Related blog 관련 블로그
Friday, October 15, 2010
Video Fwd:[Pakistan] IMPACT OF FLOODS NOW TAKE HOLD
[비디오] 파키스탄: 홍수 영향 현재 진행중
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* From Bruce Gagnon blog, August 23, 2010 2010년 8월 23일자 브루스 개그논 블로그
U.S. BASE SAVED FROM PAKISTAN FLOOD BUT NOT THE PEOPLE
미군 기지는 홍수로부터 구해졌으나 사람들은 아님.
August 20, 2010
2010 년 8월 20일
PAKISTAN: Minister tasked with saving US airbase at the cost of the displacement of thousands
파키스탄: 수천명 이동 희생위 미 공군 기지를 구하기 위한 과제에 매달리게 된 장관
The presence of Pakistan army personnel speaks to the fact that the breach of Jamali bypass was intentional and ordered from above.
파키스탄 공군 관계자의 존재는 자말리 우회로 침해가 의도적이며 위로부터의 명령이었다는 사실에 대해 말한다.
It has been reported earlier that the US Air Force has denied the relief agencies use of the Shahbaz airbase for the distribution of aid and assistance. Soldiers of the Pakistan army, a federal minister and the administration of Sindh province are blamed for the incident involving Shahbaz Airbase at Jacobabad district in Sindh province in which it has been reported that flood waters were diverted in order to save the airbase. The diversion of the floodwaters is blamed for inundating hundreds of houses and the displacement of 800,000 people. According to the media reports, the Federal Minister of Sports along with soldiers from the army and a contingent of officials from the Sindh provincial government breached the Jamali Bypass in Jafferabad district of Balochistan province during the night between August 13 and 14 to divert the water entering the airbase which has remained in US Air Force hands since the war on terror started in 2001.
미 공군이 구호 기관들이 원조와 보조의 분배를 위해 샤바즈 공군 기지를 이용하는 것을 거부했다고 일찍 보도된 바 있다. 파키스탄 군대의 군인들, 연방 장관, 그리고 신드 지방 행정부는 신드 지방 자코바바드 지역 샤바즈 공군 기지가 관계된 사건으로 비난받는데 이 사건은 홍수물이 공군 기지를 구하기 위해 우회된 것을 말한다. 홍수물의 우회는 수백채의 가옥들을 물에 잠기게 하고 80만의 사람들이 터를 잃은 것으로 비난받는다. 언론 기사들에 따르면, 연방 체육 장관은 군대의 군인들, 신디 지역 정부의 파견 관리들과 함께 8월 13일과 14일 사이 밤 2001년 테러에 대한 전쟁 이후 미 공군의 손에 있었던 기지에 들어오는 물의 흐름을 바꾸기 위해 바로키스탄 지역 자페라바드 지역 자말리 우회로가 붕괴되게 했다.
* Image source: GoogleMr. Ejaz Jakhrani, the Minister of Sports, while explaining the situation to the media said that if the water was not diverted the Shahbaz Airbase would have been inundated. Mr. Jakhrani himself was present along with the district coordination officer of the Jacobabad district, district police officer and other officials when the breach was made. It is reported in the media that Mr. Jakhrani was assigned to protect the air base by officials at the Pakistan army’s headquarter as he was elected from Jacobabad district.
체육 장관 에자즈 자크라니 씨는 언론에 상황을 설명하면서 물이 우회되지 않았더라면 샤바즈 공군 기지가 물에 잠겼을 거라 말했다. 자크라니 씨 자신이 그 침해가 저질러졌을 때 자코바바드 지역 기획 관리들과 함께 있었다. 자크라니 씨는 자코바바드 지역에서 선거에 뽑힘에 따라 파키스탄 군대 사령부의 관리들로 하여금 공군 기지를 보호하게 하도록 임무를 받았다.
A former prime minister, Mr. Mir Zafar Ullah Khan Jamali said that in order to save Shahbaz Air Base, Jamali bypass was demolished and the town of Dera Allahyar was drowned. Mr. Jamali said that if the airbase was so important, then what priority might be given to the citizens. He blamed minister Jakhrani, DPO and DCO Jacobabad for deliberately diverting the course of the floodwaters towards Balochistan.
전 수상 미르 자파 울라 칸 자말리 씨는 샤바즈 공군 기지를 구하기 위해 자말리 우회로가 헐어졌으며 데라 알라야 마을이 침수되었다고 전했다. 자말리 씨는 공군 기지가 그렇게 중요했다면 어떠한 우선권이 시민들에게 주어지겠냐고 말했다. 그는 바로키스탄으로 향하는 홍수물의 진로를 고의적으로 바꾼 자크라니 장관과 자코바바드 DPO 와 DCO 를 비난했다.
* Image Source: GoogleIn the meantime, during the discussion in the standing committee of the Senate the federal secretary of health has revealed that health relief operations are not possible in the flood-affected areas of Jacobabad because the airbase is under the control of the US Air Force. The coordinator of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Centre, Dr Jahanzeb Aurakzai, told the committee that foreign health teams could not start relief operations in remote areas because there are no airstrips close to several areas, including Jacobabad.
그 동안 상원 상임 위원회 토론동안 보건 연방 장관은 자코바바드의 홍수 영향 지역들에서는 공군 기지가 미 공군의 통제 아래에 있기에 건강 구호 작전들이 가능하지 않다고 밝힌 바 있다. 건강 비상 준비 대응 센터의 코디네이터인 자한제브 아우라크자이 박사는 자코바바드를 포함, 몇 지역들 근처에 활주로들이 없었기 때문에 외국 보건 팀들이 먼 지역에서의 구호 작전을 시작힐 수 없었다고 위원회에 말했다.
The electronic media has also reported that since 2001 the government of Pakistan, during the regime of general Musharraf, turned over Shahbaz Airport to US forces fighting against terrorism on a lease so it the responsibility of the government and the Pakistan armed forces to protect the agreement done in favour of US forces. The discussions in the media have also pointed out that the presence of army soldiers during the breach of Jamali bypass is a clear indication that the Pakistan army has been ordered to save the airbase from the floodwaters.
전자 언론은 2001년 이후 파키스탄 정부가 무샤라프 장군 정권 동안, 테러리즘에 맞서 싸우는 미군들에게 샤바츠 공항을 임대로 주었으므로 미군에게 좋게 만들어진 동의안을 보호하기 위한 것이 정부와 파키스탄 군대의 책임이라 말한 바 있다. 언론 토론은 또한 자말리 우회로 침해동안 육군 군인들의 존재는 파키스탄 군대가 홍수물로부터 기지를 구하기 위해 명령 받았음을 알리는 명확한 표시였음을 또한 지적했다.
In the end, after the seven days of controversy surrounding the air base, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) said that the Shahbaz Airbase was under the complete operational control of the PAF and brushed aside reports that floodwaters had been diverted to save the base. Air Vice Marshal, Mr. Abdul Quddus, hurriedly arranged a visit of journalists to Shahbaz Airbase and asked them as to whether they could see any Americans? He told journalists that there are no drones and no Americans; seeing, he said, is believing!
결국, 공군 기지를 둘러싼 논쟁의 7일 뒤, 파키스탄 공군 (PAF) 은 샤바츠 공군 기지가 파키스탄 공군의 완전한 통제에 있었으며 홍수가 기지를 구하기 위해 전환되었다는 기사를 가볍게 무시했다. 공군 소장 압둘 쿠다스 씨는 기자들의 샤바츠 공군 기지 방문 일정을 서둘러 잡았으며 그들에게 미국인들을 볼 수 있었느냐 물었다. 그는 기자들에게 무인 비행기도 미국인들도 없다 말했다: 그는 보는 것이 믿는 것이라 말했다!
However, there was no reasonable answer to the question raised that when almost the whole of Jacobabad district of Sindh and its adjoining district of Jafferabad of Balochistan province were under floodwaters why the airbase was not affected. This could only be due to the intentional breach of the Jamali bypass. The media was also very critical of the arrangement of the visit to Shahbaz airbase at a time when much more attention is needed to focus all efforts for the relief of the affected people. The visit by the journalists has been seen as a scripted stage play as when journalists were present a C130 cargo plane landed with 200 tons of relief goods which the people of that particular affected area badly needed. Such a plane has not been seen landing there in recent times so this was too much of a coincidence.
그러나 언제 신디의 자코바바드 지역 전체 대부분과 바로키스탄 지역 자페라베드의 인접한 지역이 홍수물에 잠겼을 때 왜 공군 기지가 영향받지 않았는가에 대한 질문에 대해 합리적인 대답은 없었다. 이는 오직 자말리 우회로의 의도적 침해 때문일 수 있다. 언론은 또한 타격받은 사람들을 구호하는 모든 노력에 주의가 필요했을 때 샤바즈 공군 기지 방문을 잡은 것에 대해 매우 비판적이었다. 기자들의 방문은 특별히 타격받은 지역의 사람들이 몹시 필요로 했던 200톤의 구호 물자등을 실은 C130 화물 비행기가 착륙했을 때 기자들이 있었다는 것으로 볼 때 미리 각본된 연극 대본 처럼 보였다. 그러한 비행기는 최근 그 곳에 착륙하는 것이 보여지지 않았기에 이는 우연이라 하기엔 너무 과했다.
The federal minister and former prime minister have not retracted their statements that the floodwater was intentionally diverted to Dera Allahyar, Balochistan to save the air base.
연방 장관과 전 수상은 공군 기지를 구하기 위해 홍수가 데라 알라야로 고의적으로 바뀌어졌다는 그들의 성명서들을 철회하지 않았다.
There is rough estimation by the media about the displacement of 800,000 people by the divergence of the waters to the poorer areas. Over 150,000 people have been evacuated from Dera Allahyar and other areas. 350,000 people of Jafferabad district have been shifted to Dera Murad Jamali, Sibi and Quetta, parts of Balochistan, and over 300,000 people had earlier moved to Dera Murad Jamali and Sibi from the Sindh province particularly from Jacobabad.
물의 전환에 의해 더 가난한 지역들로 터를 옮긴 80만 명의 사람들에 대한 언론의 대략 산출이 있다. 15만 명 이상의 사람들이 델라 알라야르와 다른 지역들로 소개되었다. 자페라베드 지역의 35만명들이 바로키스탄의 일부들인 데라 무라드 자말리, 시비, 그리고 퀘타등으로 옮겨졌으며 30만 이상의 사람들이 특별히 자코바바드 의 신디 지방으로부터 데라 무라드 자말리와 시비 지방으로 일찍 옮겨졌었다.
There can be no doubt that the presence of the Pakistan army personnel at the breach of Jamali bypass indicates the fact that this was an intentional breach. This must be investigated along in order to ascertain who gave the orders. Those giving the orders must be prosecuted. The government of Pakistan must also probe the allegations of deliberate breaches; not only in the incident involving Shahbaz airbase but also those reported earlier where the agricultural lands belonging to senior ministers was protected from the floodwaters also by intentional breaches.
파키스탄 군관계자가 자말리 우회로가 침해 되었을 때 있었다는 것이 의심할 여지 없다는 사실은 이것이 고의적인 침해였음을 말한다. 이는 누가 명령을 내렸는가를 규명하기 위해서도 조사되어야 한다. 파키스탄 정부는 또한 고의적인 침해들에 대한 진술을 철저히 조사해야 한다: 샤바츠 공군 기지와 관련된 사건 뿐만이 아니라 고의적 [우회로]침해로 인해 선임 장관들이 소유한 농경지들이 홍수물로부터 보전된 곳들이라고 일찍 기사화된 것역시 말이다.
It is a gross contradiction that the United States of America is now one of the biggest donors of relief to Pakistan and it is therefore unacceptable that they are allegedly refusing permission to use Shahbaz airbase for the distribution of that relief.
미국이 현재 파키스탄에 대한 가장 큰 구호 기부자들의 하나라는것은 터무니없는모순으로 듣는 바에 의하면 그들이 그 구호 분배를 위해 샤바츠 공군 기지를 사용하는 것의 허락을 거절한다는 것은 그러므로 받아들일 수 없다.
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About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regional non-governmental organisation monitoring and lobbying human rights issues in Asia. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984.
AHRC 란: 아시아 인권 위원회 (The Asian Human Rights Commission: AHRC) 는 아시아의 인권 이슈들을 감시하고 압력을 녛는 지역의 비정부 단체이다. 홍콩에 기반한 단체로 1984년 세워졌다.
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* Other reference materials 다른 참고 자료
English(영문)
_ Video: Why Isn't the World Rushing to Rescue Pakistan
왜 세계는 파키스탄을 구하러 달려가지 않는가?
(*From Bruce Gagnon blog on Sunday, August 22, 2010: SLIM SUPPORT FOR PEOPLE IN PAKISTAN)
(* 출처: 브루스 개그논 블로그, 2010년 8월 22일: 파키스탄인들을 위한 너무도 미약한 지지)
_ Floods in Pakistan not ‘natural’: U.S. militarism’s role in the disaster
파키스탄 홍수는 '자연적'인 것이 아니다: 재난에서 '미 군사 주의'의 역활
By Sara Flounders 사라 플라운더
International Action Center 국제 행동 센터
Aug 18, 2010 2010년 8월 18 일
Excerpts 발제
The floods will grow far worse in the coming week as record high waters move further downstream toward larger population centers in south Pakistan.
기록적으로 높은 물이 파키스탄 남부의 인구많은 중심지들쪽으로 옮겨짊에 따라 다가오는 주에 홍수가 월씬 악화될 것으로 보인다.
[...]
U.N. emergency relief coordinator John Holmes said the numbers would reach 40 to 50 million people in need of immediate assistance, out of a population of 170 million.
유엔 비상 구호 코디네이터 존 홀름스는 즉각적인 도움을 필요로 할 이들이 1억 7천만 인구중 4천만에서 5천만 인들이 될 것이라고 말했다.
All the words of concern from humanitarian agencies are starting to pour forth. But so far the amount of aid reaching Pakistan from the U.S., NATO countries and U.N. agencies is among of the smallest ever for disaster relief.
인도주의 기관들로부터 모든 우려의 말들이 나오기 시작했다. 그러나 지금까지 미국이나 북대서양 조약 기구 국가들, 그리고 유엔 기관들로부터 나오는 파키스탄에 도달하는 보조량은 재난 구호를 위해 가장 적은 것중에 속한다.
[..]
Washington has promised $55 million for emergency aid and the use of six helicopters. What an insult! Just this year Congress allocated to the Pentagon more than 1,000 times this paltry amount to continue to fight its wars in the region.
워싱턴은 구호 보조를 위해 5천 5백만 달러와 6개의 헬리콥터 사용을 약속했다. 이 무슨 모욕인가 ! 바로 올 해 미 국회는 이 얼마 되지 않은 양의 천 배 이상을 미 국방부가 이 지역에서의 전쟁들에서 싸우게 하기 위해 할당하지 않았던가?
[...]
The alliance with the U.S. has been of absolutely no help in the country’s hour of greatest need. The corrupt feudal officials and even more corrupt repressive military, all kept in power by enormous amounts of U.S. military aid, have proved totally unable to even notify the millions of people who were clearly at risk or to move into place the most basic emergency equipment.
미국과의 동맹은 이 나라가 가장 필요한 시기에 도움을 결코 주지 못했다. 미국 군대의 엄청난 보조로 권력을 유지했던 부패한 연방 관리들과 한층 더 부패하고 억압된 군대는 명확히 위험에 빠져 있던 수백만의 사람들에게 사전 주의도 못 주었을 뿐만 아니라 가장 기본적인 비상 장비들도 옮겨 놓지 못했을 정도로 완전히 그 무능함이 드러났다.
Washington is more than willing to sell Pakistan F-16 jets, hundreds of surface-to-air missiles and surveillance planes. This is enormously profitable to U.S. military contractors and Pakistan ends up ever further in debt.
워싱턴은 파키스탄에게 F-16 제트기들, 수백개의 공대지 미사일들, 그리고 정찰기들을 파는 것 이상을 기꺼이 하려 한다. 이는 미국 군사 계약업자들에게 거대하게 이윤이며 파키스탄은 훨씬 더 많은 빚으로 끝나고 말 것이다.
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To respond to natural and human-made emergencies, what is needed is the uprooting of this capitalist system of exploitation and national oppression so every country can establish planning to meet its people’s needs.
자연과 인류가 만든 비상 사태에 대응하기 위해 필요한 것은 착취와 국가 억압의 자본주의 시스템을 축출하여 모든 나라가 그 민중들의 필요를 충족하게 하기 위한 계획을 세우게 할 수 있게 하는 것이다.
_ LPP Karachi Statement on Flooding(click)
홍수에 대한 파키스탄 노동당 (카라치) 성명서(클릭)
August 20, 2010 2010년 8월 20일
The Disaster, and the Way Out 재난 및 탈출의 길
Labour Party Pakistan (Karachi), National Trade Union Federation
파키스탄 노동당 (카라치), 전국 연방 노조
(*Informed by the Joan Landy(Campaign for Peace And Democracy) on Aug. 20, 2010
조안 랜디_ 평화와 민주주의를 위한 캠페인으로부터 2010년 8월 20일 제공됨)
Excerpt 발제_ Demand 요구
1. CANCEL THE DEBT
빚을 취소하라
2. CUT DEFENCE EXPENDITURE
국방 지출을 삭감하라
3. INTERNAIONAL ASSISTANCE IN GRANTS, NOT LOANS
국제 보조, 대부아닌 수여로
4. REDIRECT AMERICAN MILITARY SPENDING
미국 군사 지출 방향을 바꾸어라
5. REPARATIONS FOR CLIMATE CHANGE
기후 변화에 대한 보상
6. DEMOCRATIC AND TRANSPARENT RECONSTRUCTION
민주주의적이고 투명한 재건설을
Korean (국문)
파키스탄 홍수 관련 기사들(클릭)
파키스탄 구호 관련 기사들(클릭)
한겨레, 2010년 8월 16일, 조기원 기자
“파키스탄 홍수, 여태껏 본 적 없는 재난”: 반기문, 국제사회 지원 호소
'반기문 유엔 사무총장이 “파키스탄 홍수는 여태껏 본 적 없는 재난”이라며 국제사회의 지원을 촉구하고 나섰다.
반 총장은 아시프 알리 자르다리 파키스탄 대통령과 함께 헬리콥터를 타고 15일 주요 피해현장인 펀자브 지방을 둘러보았다. 반 총장은 “세계 다른 자연재해 피해 현장을 본 적이 있지만 이런 것은 처음 본다”며 “내가 오늘 목격한 파괴와 고통의 현장을 잊을 수 없다. 오늘은 가슴 아픈 날이었다”고 말했다고 <에이피>(AP) 통신은 전했다.
반 총장은 “홍수 물결이 국제사회 지원 물결과 만나야 한다”며 “나는 오늘 세계의 지원을 촉구하기 위해 여기 왔다”고 말했다. 유엔은 초기 구호를 위해서만 4억5900만달러 가량이 필요하다고 밝혔지만, 지금까지 목표액의 20% 정도밖에 모이지 않았다.
파키스탄 홍수 피해 사망자는 약 1600명으로 나르기스(약 13만8000명)나 쓰촨성 지진(약 9만명)에 비해서는 적다. 그러나 홍수 피해 지역이 파키스탄 전체 국토 면적의 4분의 1에 달할 만큼 피해 범위가 광범위하다.'
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