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Hired Guns - nad zakonom
| 21. september 2007 | Svet | Jure
Znano je, da je Busheva administracija izvajanje “vojne proti terorizmu” v Iraku na terenu prepustila v roke zasebnim izvajalcem, množici varnostnih podjetij, ki naj bi skrbela za red in mir. Manj znani so pogoji, v katerih delujejo te zasebne vojske.
Imuniteta pred pregonom:
Active duty soldiers who commit crimes or acts of misconduct are prosecuted under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, the court martial system. There have been scores of prosecutions of soldiers– some 64 courts martial on murder-related charges in Iraq alone. That has not been the case with these private forces. Despite many reports–some from US military commanders–of private contractors firing indiscriminately at Iraqis and vehicles and killing civilians, not a single armed contractor has been charged with any crime. They have not been prosecuted under US civilian law; US military law and the Bush administration banned the Iraqi government from prosecuting them in Iraqi courts beginning with the passage of Coalition Provisional Authority Order 17 in 2004. The message this sends to the Iraqi people is that these hired guns are above any law.
Brez odgovornosti za dejanja:
And there has been absolutely no prosecution of its forces for any crimes committed against Iraqis. If indeed Iraqi civilians were killed by Blackwater USA last Sunday, as appears to be the case, culpability for these actions does not only lie with the individuals who committed the killings or with Blackwater as a company, but also with the entity that hired them and allowed them to operate heavily-armed inside Iraq–in this case, the US State Department.
Modus operandi:
They have acted like cowboys, running Iraqis off the road, firing indiscriminately at vehicles and, in some cases, private forces have appeared on tape seemingly using Iraqis for target practice. They have shown little regard for Iraqi lives and have fueled the violence in that country, not just against the people of Iraq but also against the official soldiers of the United States military in the form of blowback and revenge attacks stemming from contractor misconduct. These private forces have operated in a climate where impunity and immunity have gone hand in hand.
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Na eni strani imamo redno vojsko, ki vsaj občasno žrtvuje kakšnega vojaka in ga postavi pred vojaško sodišče, na drugi strani pa zasebno vojsko, ki ni pod nobeno jurisdikcijo in tako lahko deluje na nikogaršnjem ozemlju. Kajti to je zanje Irak, območje v katerem jih nič ne omejuje. Vsaj pravo nima moči nad njimi.
Na drugi strani imamo zapornike v Guantanamu, kjer tudi ni prava nad njimi. Le groba vojaška sila jih je tja zvekla in nadzoruje njihova gola življenja. Gola pa zato, ker dejansko nimajo nobenih pravic. Z njimi lahko naredijo kar hočejo.
In tako lahko sklenemo krog. Irak za zasebno vojsko, Guantanamo za redno vojsko.
nov twist:
“Federal prosecutors are investigating whether employees of the private security firm Blackwater USA illegally smuggled into Iraq weapons that may have been sold on the black market and ended up in the hands of a U.S.-designated terrorist organization, officials said Friday.”
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070922/ap_on_go_co/us_blackwater_probe