Détruire des États même lorsqu’ils sont mal famés est stupide, terriblement dangereux et finira peut-être par être compris par les tenants d’une diplomatie dite moderne. Les réflexes moralisants ne sont pas l’alpha et l’omega de la politique internationale. Comme l’a dit Churchill en 1941, « Si le diable me proposait de l’aide contre Hitler, je dirais un mot pour lui aux Communes ».
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Vers un nouveau traité de Westphalie pour déconstruire Daech
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India: After Food, the RSS Assault on Speech
29 July 2017, by siawi3One by one, the most outspoken and critical voices in the media, civil society and defenders of human rights are being attacked. This is the time for resistance and solidarity; it’s time to break the silence.
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Afrique : La brutalisation profonde de la société congolaise
11 octobre 2017, par siawi3Des rebelles se revendiquant de la mouvance « Kamuina Nsapu » ont condamné début avril une femme à se faire violer en public par le fils de sa rivale, avant d’exécuter ce dernier et la condamnée à coups de machette et de mutiler leurs corps. « C’était honteux, macabre, ignoble, ignominieux, je n’ai pas supporté et je suis parti. C’est du jamais vu »
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Syrian government and Daesh both to blame for sarin and sulfur mustard attacks: U.N. report
27 October 2017, by siawi3“Time and again, we see independent confirmation of chemical weapons use by the Assad regime”. The report also said ISIS was to blame for the use of sulfur mustard in the Syrian town of Umm Hawsh on Sept. 15 and 16, 2016.
“The continuing use of chemical weapons, including by non-State actors, is deeply disturbing”. “The Security Council must send a clear message that the use of chemical weapons by anyone will not be tolerated, and must fully support the work of the impartial investigators.” -
India: Alternative to the politics of hatred
2 July 2013, by siawi3A personal reflection on non state actors’ violence.
“I believe — and the experience of human history bears me out — that it is violent movements which are much more likely to fail to achieve their initial stated objectives than non-violent ones. -
Syrie : Contre la géopolitique du sang en Syrie
9 octobre 2013, par siawi3Le terrain syrien est devenu, dit-il, l’arène d’un conflit mondialisé dont l’enjeu est purement économique et énergétique. « L’acheminement du gaz vers l’Europe passe par la Syrie et on veut contrôler ce passage. » « Le rôle de la Russie est, lui aussi, dicté par des intérêts économiques »
Négocier avec qui ? : « Les membres de l’opposition laïque et pacifique ont été ou liquidés, ou jetés en prison, ou forcés à l’exil. » C’est le régime qui a cassé l’opposition « canal historique ». Il y a 120 000 combattants étrangers en Syrie. Ils sont financés par le Qatar et l’Arabie Saoudite. L’urgence est de vider la Syrie de cette « légion étrangère » qui déferle sur le pays avec son arsenal multinational et son agenda néocolonial. -
Myanmar: Massacres of Hindu Rohingya
2 October 2017, by siawi3Among the half million Rohingya refugees who have come to Bangladesh, only a handful of them are Hindus. In their statements to many journalists and authorities, these people have described suffering horrors of slaughter and arson just like their Muslim neighbours. In Fakirabazar, masked assailants clad in black had shot and stabbed people and dumped the bodies in holes in the ground. The Hindus have started to blame “militant Muslims” for attacks on the Hindus. A group of Rohingya women told AFP they were Hindus, brought forcibly to the Kutupalong refugee camp in Bangladesh by a group of men and told to convert to Islam. A woman claimed to have been forced to perform namaz and wear a burqa.
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Philippines: In solidarity with all victims of torture, whether by state or non-state perpretors
27 June 2013, by siawi3The torture, as defined, is regardless of the status of the perpetrator (whether state or non-state), and regardless of any purpose for the torture (such as obtaining information or a confession, or for intimidation or coercion). In the final analysis, it is the victims and their human rights that matter.
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Philippines – The Anti-Torture Law: a good advance but misses out on non-state torture
27 June 2013, by siawi3“Torture is torture, whoever does it.
The same is true of terrorism.” -
Iran, the new target
9 June 2017, by siawi3Into the cauldron of Middle East and Gulf politics, the militant Islamic State group has once again inserted itself with potentially terrifying consequences for a region already mired in tension, conflict and war. The IS, with its explicitly sectarian agenda, appears to have demonstrated that it has the resources to strike in the heart of the most important Shia-majority country in the Muslim world. A metastasising IS is clearly a threat to everyone — a terrorist super-group that threatens all countries but that few states appear to truly understand.