投稿者 佐藤雅彦 日時 2001 年 11 月 30 日 09:18:16:
●英国『インデペンデント』紙は、北部同盟兵士たちの“蛮行”
を現地ルポしています。
●戦争の死体から金歯を抜くのに精出す現地人兵士……。
なんだか「ユダヤ人の死体から石鹸を作っているドイツ人」という
“都市伝説”を思い出してしまいます。あえて“都市伝説”と呼ぶのは、
この“戦争犠牲者から脂肪を抽出して石鹸を作る”という話が、
じつは第一次世界大戦の頃から、英国でドイツの国際的評判を
貶めるために流布されたデマだったからです。このあたりの事情
については、第一次大戦直後に英国の貴族出身の政治家が
内部告発した本が出ています。（表題などは忘れてしまいましたが……。）
●我々はもちろん、アフガニスタンのこうした修羅場のようなルポを
読めば、現地兵士に嫌悪感を抱くでしょう。しかし、戦場の絶対状況
のなかで、究極の“貨幣”である黄金を見付けて、死体の口の中を
棒でかきまわしている兵士を、我々は責められるでしょうか？
この状況だけについて言えば、生きている人間の臓器に値段を付けて
売買しているインドその他の“移植医療”や、まだ意識があるとしか
考えられぬ「脳死」患者に――臓器を摘出する際に異常な血圧上昇
が起こるのを止めるため――麻酔をかけて臓器を刈り取っている
日本その他の“先進国”の状況のほうが、よほど残酷だと言えましょう。
それより何より、「ひなぎく狩り」などというフザケた名前がついた「真空
爆弾」などで大量虐殺を行なっている米国などのほうが、格段に残虐
で冷酷無比です。
●ヴェトナム戦争での枯れ葉剤使用といい、湾岸戦争での真空爆弾
や劣化ウラン弾使用といい、人種差別的な人命軽視が根底になければ
実行できない類の大量破壊兵器です。（枯れ葉剤は、人体への毒性が
わかっていたのに使用されたし、劣化ウラン弾は“汚い核兵器”といえる
でしょう。） 今回の戦争もそういう人種差別意識に支えられていること
は、いまさら言うまでもないことです。英国の最近400年ほどの南アジア
に対する外交政策をみれば、人種差別が基調になってきたことは否定
すべくもありません。
●それゆえ、『インデペンデント』紙の今回の“死体の金歯どろぼう”報道
は、今後のアフガニスタン／南アジア対策を見ていくうえで看過できない
問題を抱えています。「北部同盟だって、こういう野蛮な行為をはたらく
“劣等人種”なのだから、やはり我々アングロアメリカン帝国が“属州”
として“保護”していくしかない」――というような世論が作られていく
可能性は大いにあるわけです。
●下記に、この記事を含む英米・北部同盟“連合軍”の戦争犯罪
を告発したデータ類を掲げておきます。
●我々は偽りの“パックス・アングロブリタニカ”の下で「暗黒時代」
に向かおうとしているのかも知れません。ヨーロッパ世界はキリスト
教会の支配のもとで１０００年間の「暗黒時代」を経験し、これは
文明の発展に想像を絶する損害を及ぼしました。これを打破した
人間中心主義は、それを標榜してきた米国の裏切りによって歴史的
停滞に突入しつつあります。
●それにしても、このように無茶苦茶な人種差別・大量虐殺と
あからさまな“帝国主義”擁護の風潮が台頭するなかで、それに
なびいていくしかないなんて……。
日本の50年間は何だったんでしょうか？
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THE INDEPENDENT - London, UK - Thursday, 29 November 2001
Bush-Bliar Agents Steal Gold Teeth From Dead Bodies
Photo: http://www.commondreams.org/headlines01/1129-02.htm
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"Northern alliance fighters try to pull out a golden tooth from
the body of a pro-Taleban fighter in a fortress near
Mazar-e-Sharif, northern Afghanistan, Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001.
Several hundred prisoners, mostly foreign fighters fighting on
the Taleban side captured part of the prison fortress Sunday,
headquarters of Afghan warlord General Dostum, and were killed
during three days of fighting which involved British and U.S.
special forces."--(AP Photo/Darko Bandic).
How Our Afghan Allies Applied The Geneva Convention
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/InfoTimes/message/1202
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/
story.jsp?story=107369
Prisoners massacred, the dead plundered for boots, guns and even
gold teeth
JUSTIN HUGGLER in Mazar-i-Sharif
The bodies of the dead lay everywhere. Some were laid out in
roads to be taken away, others were still lying on the ground
where they died, slowly beginning to decay in the morning sun.
An Afghan soldier leant over a body, his hands working intently
in the dead man's mouth, clutching a long thin instrument. He
was trying to wrench the fillings out of the corpse's teeth even
as the flesh began to rot around them.
The outside world got to see what the war in Afghanistan was
really like yesterday. For the first time reporters were allowed
into Qalai Janghi, the old mud-walled fort outside
Mazar-i-Sharif where hundreds of Taliban prisoners of war had
been killed in a pitched battle with American and British
special forces and Afghan soldiers under command of General
Abdul Rashid Dostum.
Inside the fortress reporters saw a scene of devastation. Rubble
was piled high where buildings had collapsed. The charred
remains of trees had to be cleared away from the entrance before
the bodies could be taken away. The Americans had bombed the
quarters from the air. Yesterday the Afghan soldiers were busily
stripping the bodies of everything they could find. One soldier,
his head wrapped in a white turban stepped over the dead,
swinging the boots he had taken from their feet. Another dressed
in a long blue Afghan shirt carried four machine guns he had
taken.
Several of the bodies were recognisably Arabs and Pakistani. The
foreign Taliban volunteers believed to be loyal to Osama bin
Laden but who surrendered were brought to the fort from the
besieged city of Mazar-i-Sharif..
Amnesty International yesterday demanded a full inquiry into why
hundreds of prisoners of war who should have been protected
under the Geneva Convention were slaughtered .
The Americans insisted they only bombed Qalai Janghi because
their own personnel were under threat. They said the Taliban
prisoners seized weapons and attacked their Afghan captors along
with CIA agents who were interrogating them. Yesterday it was
confirmed a CIA agent named Johnny Michael "Mike" Spann, 32, was
among the fort's dead.
General Dostum striding through the slaughtered yesterday in a
long flowing brown shirt and leather jacket, insisted his
soldiers had treated the prisoners humanely. As he spoke, a
soldier kicked the body of a man who was lying on his side to
make sure he was dead. The body rolled over to reveal that the
man's arms had been tied together behind his back. Several of
the dead men's arms had been tied together above the elbow, some
with their own black turbans. General Dostum publicly denied the
practice but an Afghan soldier under his command admitted he and
his comrades had been tying the prisoner's hands when the
fighting started.
Reporters inside counted 150 bodies yesterday. Between 300 and
400 foreign Taliban volunteers were seen surrendering to General
Dostum's troops. They are all believed to have been brought to
Qalai Janghi, which means more than 150 bodies are missing. Many
of them could have been lying in the rubble in the fortress.
There were few Taliban survivors. General Dostum warned
reporters not to wander the scene of the battle, because he
claimed, two of the foreign Taliban were still alive and could
be hiding in the fortress posing as dead.
At least one Pakistani Taliban was captured alive in
Mazar-i-Sharif apparently after he escaped during the fighting.
He has since disappeared and nobody expects him to be seen alive
again. Olivier Martin of the International Red Cross who was
inside Qalai Janghi when the fighting began yesterday described
how he had to flee the battle. He had gone to the fortress to
ensure they were being looked after in accordance with the
Geneva Convention.
"We heard some shooting start, and then they started firing
rockets,'' Mr Martin said. "We climbed onto the roof where we
had to take shelter beside some of General Dostum's troops who
were firing back at the Taliban.''
By that time he said it was clear that the Taliban prisoners
were heavily armed. Mr Martin said he was not able to see how
the violence started, but General Dostum claimed the revolt had
begun after a grenade attack by Taliban prisoners killed two of
his best generals
Yesterday there was no explanation on how the prisoners managed
to get their hands on the arsenal to enable them to hold out for
three days. The secrets of what and whom really started the
killing, may have died with them.
[c 2001 Independent Digital (UK) Ltd]
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Bush-Bliar Agents Steal Gold Teeth From Dead Bodies
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There is No Excuse for This Savagery
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"QALAI JANGHI FORTRESS, Afghanistan -- Corpses with bound hands,
dust mixed with dried blood, spent mortar rounds littering
fields where horses grazed: No part of this massive fortress was
left unstained by death in one of the most ferocious battles of
the war on the Taliban."
"In a field strewn with about 50 bodies, an Associated Press
photographer Wednesday saw that some corpses had their arms tied
with cloth ? contrary to claims by a key northern alliance
commander that none had been tied up."
U.S. Investigates 'Execution' of 160 Taliban Near Kandahar
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/
story.jsp?story=107385
"The Pentagon is investigating reports of the massacre of about
160 unarmed Taliban prisoners by American and Pakistani-backed
opposition forces who ignored US pleas not to kill them."
"The unarmed Taliban fighters were said to have been lined up
and shot by Northern Alliance soldiers, having been captured
after fighting for the strategic southern town of Takteh Pol,
situated between the Pakistani border and the final remaining
Taliban stronghold of Kandahar. Those Taliban fighters who
surrendered immediately were not killed. An unnamed commander
with the forces of Gul Agha, a former mujahedin governor of
Kandahar, said seven or eight US military personnel who were
filming the battle for the town tried to prevent the executions
but their requests were ignored."
U.S. Locates Possible Weapons Labs
BUT NO EVIDENCE OF CHEMICAL, BIOLOGICAL OR NUCLEAR WEAPONS FOUND
IN AFGHANISTAN
http://www.usatoday.com/news/attack/2001/11/28/pentagon-usat.htm
"More than 40 sites that might have been used to conduct
research on chemical, biological or nuclear weapons have been
identified in Afghanistan, and some are still in Taliban hands,
the top U.S. military commander for the region said Tuesday.
Army Gen. Tommy Franks, head of the U.S. Central Command, said
at a briefing in Tampa where the command is based that no
evidence of such weapons has been found. He denied reports that
samples of sarin, a deadly gas, had been found."
Afghanistan: Mazar-i-Sharif Inquiry Latest
http://www.web.amnesty.org/web/news.nsf/WebAll/
B2428D2A5AC79F0480256B130040E23A?OpenDocument
"Following reports that Amnesty International has been invited,
by the United Front, to investigate the killings of hundreds of
prisoners and others within Qala-i-Jhangi, a fort on the
outskirts of Mazar-i-Sharif, the organization has said that it
is ready to consider sending an observer to monitor an inquiry
and to suggest forensic and other experts for it."
Amnesty International Calls for Urgent Inquiry into Violence in
Qala-i-Jhangi
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2001/afghanistan11272001.html
"Following news reports of hundreds of killings during clashes
within the Qala-i-Jhangi, a fort on the outskirts of
Mazar-i-Sharif, Amnesty International is calling on the United
Front, the United States and the United Kingdom to investigate
these events."
HUMAN RIGHTS FOUNDATION Note: Armed forces of the U.S., UK and
United Front (Northern Alliance) have committed many barbarous
massacres, illegal executions and horrible murders of Afghani
children, women, men, senior citizens and refugees in
Qala-e-Jhangi, Mazar-e-Sharif, Kunduz, Kandahar, Jalalabad,
Kabul and several other parts of Afghanistan, but the Amnesty
International's recent press statements urging the U.S., UK and
United Front to investigate their own crimes against humanity
are an international joke.
Only a Human Rights Solution Will Last
http://www.amnestyusa.org/news/2001/afghanistan11262001.html
Tyrant Musharraf Abuses Human Rights in Pakistan
http://www.hrw.org/campaigns/sasia/pakistan
European Union Should Oppose Human Rights Violations in India
http://www.hrw.org/press/2001/11/euindia1121.htm
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