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May 13, 1993  _Five Russian soldiers sentenced to death in Azerbaijan_   MOSCOW (UPI) -- Five soldiers who served in Russia's 7th army stationed in Armenia were sentenced to death in the Azerbaijani capital Baku Thursday for allegedly "carrying out diversions and killing 30 Azeri soldiers."   A statement released by the news service of Azeri President Abulfaz Elchibey said "the sentence was final and was not subject to protest or appeal," the  Russian state news agency Itar-tass reported.   But the Russian Foreign Ministry issued an appeal for the men to be handed over to the authorities in Moscow for punishment.   "This would accord with modern standards of humanity towards those who have committed crimes," the statement reads.   The five men, together with another soldier who received a 15-year prison sentence, were captured in September 1992 by Azeri police in the Kelbadzhar district of Azerbaijan, between Nagorno-Karabakh and Armenia.   The Supreme Court in Baku said the men had gone through special training in a company of the Russian 7th army in the Armenian capital Yerevan, after which they were sent across the Armenian-Azeri border into Nagorno-Karabakh to  carry out diversions against Azeri troops.   However, the Russian Foreign Ministry statement claimed they had deserted the Russian army and were fighting as mercenaries with Armenian armed forces in the battle zone round Karabakh.   Nagorno-Karabakh is an Armenian-populated enclave within Azerbaijan which for five years has been fighting for independence from Baku in a war that has left many thousands dead and uprooted hundreds of thousands from their homes.   Both Yerevan and Baku have always claimed that Russian servicemen stationed in these Caucasian republics, who were left behind after the break-up of the  Soviet Union, are fighting as mercenaries in the Karabakh war.   The statement from Moscow said the Russian side repeatedly appealed to the Azerbaijani government to show humanity and leniency in their treatment of the six men, and to hand them over to the Russian authorities.   It said that President Boris Yeltsin himself sent a letter with this request  to his Azeri counterpart Elchibey. Itar-tass said that the soldiers' defense attorneys had lodged an appeal for clemency.
In article <1483500348@igc.apc.org> cpr@igc.apc.org (Center for Policy Research) writes: > >From: Center for Policy Research <cpr> > >A unconventional proposal for peace in the Middle-East. >---------------------------------------------------------- by >			  Elias Davidsson  Of all the stupid postings you've brought here recently, it is illuminating that you chose to put your own name on perhaps the stupidest of them.  >The following proposal is based on the following assumptions: > >1.      Fundamental human rights, such as the right to life, to >education, to establish a family and have children, to human >dignity, the right to free movement, to free expression, etc. are >more important to human existence that the rights of states.  Does this mean that you are calling for the dismantling of the Arab states?   >2.      In the event of a conflict between basic human rights and >rights of collectivities, basic human rights should prevail.  Apparently, your answer is yes.  >6.      Attempts to solve the Israeli-Arab conflict by traditional >political means have failed.  Attempts to solve these problem by traditional military means and non-traditional terrorist means has also failed.  But that won't stop them from trying again.  After all, it IS a Holy War, you know....   >7.      As long as the conflict is perceived as that between two >distinct ethnical/religious communities/peoples which claim the >land, there is no just nor peaceful solution possible.  "No just solution possible."  How very encouraging.  >Having stated my assumptions, I will now state my proposal.  You mean that it gets even funnier?  >1.      A Fund should be established which would disburse grants >for each child born to a couple where one partner is Israeli-Jew >and the other Palestinian-Arab. [...] >3.      For the first child, the grant will amount to $18.000. For >the second the third child, $12.000 for each child. For each >subsequent child, the grant will amount to $6.000 for each child. > >4.      The Fund would be financed by a variety of sources which >have shown interest in promoting a peaceful solution to the >Israeli-Arab conflict,   No, the Fund should be financed by the Center for Policy Research.  It IS a major organization, isn't it?  Isn't it?  >5.      The emergence of a considerable number of 'mixed' >marriages in Israel/Palestine, all of whom would have relatives on >'both sides' of the divide, would make the conflict lose its >ethnical and unsoluble core and strengthen the emergence of a >truly civil society.   Yeah, just like marriages among Arabs has strengthened their societies.   >The existence of a strong 'mixed' stock of >people would also help the integration of Israeli society into the >Middle-East in a graceful manner.  The world could do with a bit less Middle Eastern "grace".  >Objections to this proposal will certainly be voiced. I will >attempt to identify some of these:  Boy, you're a one-man band.  Listen, if you'd like to Followup on your own postings and debate with yourself, just tell us and we'll leave you alone.
there you go the greeks have been trying for over a year, even though mr. mitsotakis was threatening the EC that if Macedonia was recognized that the honourable papandreou would be back...   well i guess the europeans pulled the plug eh ..? theis is just one other example about the corruptness and the "perversity" of greek foreign policy objectives...  pity to those who have to live under the greek flag with "these" political decision-makers...  MORE RECOGNITION FOR MACEDONIA.  Belgium, Germany, and Italy joined Denmark on 15 April in recognizing the Republic of Macedonia, AFP reports.  Each is an EC member state. Greece, which has blocked EC recognition of Macedonia, noted that such recognition "does not facilitate" negotiations between Athens and Skopje now underway in New York.  Duncan Perry, RFE/RL, Inc.   the day will come when reuters will write "despite lengthy negotiations and numerous attempts to reunite the island THE TURKISH REPUBLIC OF NORTHERN CYPRUS " was recognized by...
Source: "Adventures in the Near East" by A. Rawlinson, Jonathan Cape,  30 Bedford Square, London, 1934 (First published 1923) (287 pages). (Memoirs of a British officer who witnessed the Armenian genocide of 2.5   million Muslim people)  p. 178 (first paragraph)  "In those Moslem villages in the plain below which had been searched for  arms by the Armenians everything had been taken under the cloak of such  search, and not only had many Moslems been killed, but horrible tortures   had been inflicted in the endeavour to obtain information as to where  valuables had been hidden, of which the Armenians were aware of the   existence, although they had been unable to find them."   Serdar Argic
In article <1993Apr14.125813.21737@ncsu.edu>, hernlem@chess.ncsu.edu (Brad Hernlem) writes: > > Lebanese resistance forces detonated a bomb under an Israeli occupation > patrol in Lebanese territory two days ago. Three soldiers were killed and > two wounded. In "retaliation", Israeli and Israeli-backed forces wounded > 8 civilians by bombarding several Lebanese villages. Ironically, the Israeli > government justifies its occupation in Lebanon by claiming that it is > necessary to prevent such bombardments of Israeli villages!! > > Congratulations to the brave men of the Lebanese resistance! With every > Israeli son that you place in the grave you are underlining the moral > bankruptcy of Israel's occupation and drawing attention to the Israeli > government's policy of reckless disregard for civilian life. > > Brad Hernlem (hernlem@chess.ncsu.EDU)   I'm sure the Federal Bureau of Investigation (fbi.gov on the Internet) is going to *love* reading your incitement to murder.
Attention Israel Line Recipients                       Friday, April 16, 1993     Two Arabs Killed and Eight IDF Soldiers Wounded in West Bank Car Bomb Explosion   Israel Defense Forces Radio, GALEI ZAHAL, reports today that a car bomb explosion in the West Bank today killed two Palestinians and wounded eight IDF soldiers. The blast is believed to be the work of a suicide bomber. Radio reports said a car packed with butane gas exploded between two parked buses, one belonging to the IDF and the other civilian. Both busses went up in flames. The blast killed an Arab man who worked at a nearby snack bar in the Mehola settlement. An Israel Radio report stated that the other man who was killed may have been the one who set off the bomb. According to officials at the Haemek Hospital in Afula, the eight IDF soldiers injured in the blast suffered light to moderate injuries.
In article <1993May12.111030@IASTATE.EDU> jakhan@IASTATE.EDU (Javed Ahmed Khan) writes: >In article <C6x81M.EJF@news.cis.umn.edu>, prabhak@giga.cs.umn.edu (Satya >Prabhakar) writes: >>  >> Actually, this strife in Yugoslavia goes back a long way. Bosinan Muslims, >                                                            ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> in collaboration with the Nazis, did to Serbians after the first world >  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >> war what Serbs are doing to Muslims now. This is not a fresh case of  > >I dont think you're correct here. There have been no reports of the Bosnians >Muslims supporting the Nazis in their genocide against the Serbians. The fact is >that the Croat govt. using their secret police (called the Ustache, I think) >were the prime agents of the Nazis in Yugoslavia against the Serbs. >   Actually, just after the FIRST world war, many Muslims were killed by Serbs. Under Serbian-led regime between the two world wars, many Croats were also killed (especially during the dictatorship introduced on Jan. 6, 1929). Some Croats formed a resistance movement "Ustashas" (Insurgents) and were forced into exile, to fascist Italy, which sheltered them.  In exile, they practiced a terrorist approach to liberating Croatia; while Croats in Croatia followed the approach of peaceful negotiations under the leadership of Vladko Macek.  After the Axis powers took control in the SECOND world war, Vladko Macek refused to collaborate, so Ustashas were brought in  to run the newly formed puppet state.  This state included both Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina, and its ideology saw Muslims as the best Croats ("flowers of Croatian people").  Some Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina therefore joined Ustashas.  However, even more others did not; they joined Tito's Partisans.    The Ustashas membership peaked at  less than 1% of Croat and Muslim population of that area at that time.  After WWII, Muslims were still considered a religious minority descended from Croats or Serbs who converted to Islam centuries ago.  But, in 1968, it was decided that forcing Muslims to declare their nationality as either Serbs or Croats is not a good policy.  Dobrica Cosic, the current president of the rump Yugoslavia, was strongly opposed, and sought to prevent the category "Muslim" (in an ethnic sense) from appearing on the next census.  He was criticized and expelled from the party.  So, since that time, Bosnian Muslims are considered a separate nationality, although some still deny this and insist that they choose either Serb or Croat nationality.
Source: Hassan Arfa, "The Kurds," (London, 1968), pp. 25-26.   "When the Russian armies invaded Turkey after the Sarikamish disaster    of 1914, their columns were preceded by battalions of irregular    Armenian volunteers, both from the Caucasus and from Turkey. One of    these was commanded by a certain Andranik, a blood-thirsty adventurer.   These Armenian volunteers committed all kinds of excesses, more   than six hundred thousand Kurds being killed between 1915 and 1916 in    the eastern vilayets of Turkey."   Serdar Argic
In article <1483500348@igc.apc.org> Center for Policy Research <cpr@igc.apc.org> writes:  >1.      The idea of providing financial incentives to selected >forms of partnership and marriage, is not conventional. However, >it is based on the concept of affirmative action, which is >recognized as a legitimate form of public policy to reverse the >perverse effects of segregation and discrimination.  	Other people have already shown this to be a rediculous proposal.  however, I wanted to point out that there are many people who do not think that affirmative action is a either intelligent or productive.  It is demeaning to those who it supposedly helps and it is discriminatory.  	Any proposal based on it is likely bunk as well.  Adam  Adam Shostack 				       adam@das.harvard.edu
In article <1993May15.020244.9629@news.columbia.edu> pgf5@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Peter Garfiel Freeman) writes: >In article <2BF36F14.21492@news.service.uci.edu> tclock@orion.oac.uci.edu (Tim Clock) writes: >>In article <1993May13.201441.23139@nysernet.org> astein@nysernet.org (Alan Stein) writes: >>>It seems that, to keep the peace talks going, Israel has to keep >>>making goodwill gesture after goodwill gesture, while Palestinian >>>Arabs continue to go around hunting Jews. >> >>You *know* that putting something like this out on the newsgroup is *only* >>going to generate flames, not discussion. Try adding some substance to >>the issue of "gestures" you mentioned. >>What is it you feel that Israel *has* offered as a "gesture"? What would >>you (*realistically*) expect to see presented by the Arabs/Palestinians >>in the way of "gesture"? > >Timbo, Israel has not been recognized as a state by the Arabs, except for >Egypt, of course.  Isn't that  a gesture?  What has Israel offered? >Well, it has been calling for peace talks for 45 years, asked for >economic relations, and asked for diplomatic ties.  What else is there? >Would you have Israel sacrifice its security?  Nay, I think not. > >Peace, >Pete > Yea, I think not also. Israel's #1 issue is "Security" so *any* outcomes of "negotiation" certainly need to address ISREAL'S perception of this issue.  The problem is is defining (by "outsiders", by Israel, and by the Arabs themselves) what is the #1 issue to the Arab side. Is it "Palestinian statehood", is it that Israel as a state should not and must not be allowed to exist, is it that the existence of a self-governing non- muslim "state" in the "Islamic World" is intolerable...what? Just as the dividing line between Israel-fighting-for-security and Israel-fighting- to-expand is often hard to discern by "outsiders" (especially to the Arab  world), so the rationale behind the Arab-struggle-to-undermine-Israel-in- any-way could either be based on visceral rejectionism or a sense of being wronged that still values peace, who knows which.   Anyway, in these talks, what "gestures" would you think would be seen by Israel as "substantial"?
astein@nysernet.org  writes: > Freedom of speech does not mean that others are compelled to give one > the means to speak publicly.  Some systems have regulations > prohibiting the dissemination of racist and bigoted messages from > accounts they issue. >  > Apparently, that's not the case with virginia.edu, since you are still > posting. > --  > Alan H. Stein                     astein@israel.nysernet.org First of all I'm still baffled what you possibly could have found racist in my argument for freedom of speach. I did not mention names, nationalities, countries let alone races.  	You are right in that Virginia.edu does not have a thought police like Israel.nysernet.org seems to. I didn't know that you guys are getting a privelege by the Israelis by getting "the means to speak publicly". Virginia.edu lets EVERY student regardless of their opinion to speak their mind.  	Virginia.edu is true to its founding father, Thomas Jefferson the author of the bill of rights, in allowing freedom of speach. Sorry you guys in israel have a hard time with the concept.
In his neverending effort to make sure that we do not forget               what a moron he is, Brad Hernlem has asked why Israel rarely      abides by UN Security Council resolutions.  Perhaps the list      below might answer the question.          Incident                           Security Council Response      ------------------------------------------------------------                                                 1. Hindu-Moslem clash in INdia, over 2,000 killed, 1990    NONE   2. Gassing to death of over 8,000 Kurds by                 NONE      Iraqi Air Force, 1988-89       3. Saudi security forces slaughter                         NONE      400 pilgrims in Mecca, 1987         4. Killing by Algerian army of 500 demonstrators, 1988     NONE   5. Intrafada (Arabs killing Arabs) -- over 300 killed      NONE   6. 30,000 civilians slaughtered by government              NONE      troops in Hama, Syria, 1982                                   7. Killing of 5,000 Palestinians by Jordanian troops,      NONE      thousands expelled, Sept., 1970                                   8. 87 Moslems killed in Egypt, 1981                        NONE     9. 77 killed in Egyption bread riots, 1977                 NONE  10. 30 border and rocket attacks against Israel by          NONE      the PLO in 1989 alone                       11. Munich, 1972: 11 Israeli athletes slaughtered           NONE  12. Ma'alot, 1974: children killed in PLO attack            NONE  13. Israel Coastal bus attack: 34 dead, 82 wounded          NONE  14. Syria kills 23,000 Palestinians, 1976                   NONE  15. Lebanon: over 150,000 dead since 1975                   NONE  16. Yemen: 13,000 killed in two weeks, 1986                 NONE  17. Sudan: Tens of thousands of Black slaves,               NONE      Civil War toll, 1 million killed, 3 million refugees          18. Tienenman Square massacre 1989                          NONE  19. Rumania, 3,000 killed, 1989                             NONE  20. Pan Am 103 disaster carried out by the P.L.O            NONE  21. Northern Ireland                                        NONE  22. Cambodia                                                NONE  23. Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan                        NONE  24. American riots at Attica, Watts, Newark, Kent State     NONE  25. 1981: Israel destroys Iraqi reractor, Israel         CONDEMNED  26. 1990: Israeli police protect Israeli worshipers      CONDEMNED      against Arab mob, 18 anti-Jewish rioters killed                       27. Syrian soldiers slaughter Christian soldiers            NONE      after they surrender, 1990
I don't know anything about this particular case, but *other* governments have been known to follow events on the Usenet.  For example after Tienanmien Square in Beijing the Chinese government began monitoring cyberspace.  As the former Director of PeaceNet, I am aware of many incidents of local, state, national and international authorities monitoring Usenet and other conferences such as those on the Institute for Global Communications.  But what's the big deal?  You shouldn't advocate illegal acts in this medium in any case.  If you are concerned about being monitored, you should use encyrption software (available in IGC's "micro" conference).  I know for a fact that human rights activists in the Balkan-Mideast area use encryption software to send out their reports to international organizations.  Such message *can* be decoded however by large computers consuming much CPU time, which probably the Turkish government doesn't have access to.
JLE the Great writes:  [JLE] Q: How many occupying israeli soldiers (terrorists) does it [JLE] take to kill a 5 year old native child? [JLE] A: Four [JLE] Two fasten his arms, one shoots in the face, [JLE] and one writes up a false report.  A couple of months ago JLE wrote a terrible C program (it would never have  passed compilation). This is one describes JLE the Great.  ---- 8< Cut Here and save to jle.c ----------- >8 ----------  #include <stdio.h> #include <signal.h>  #define	LOSER		0x01 #define	CHILDISH	0x01 #define	UNHUMORISTIC	0x01 #define VULGAR		0x01 #define MOSSAD_AGENT	0x01  #define J_L_E		LOSER | CHILDISH | UNHUMORISTIC | VULGAR | MOSSAD_AGENT  static void abort() { 	printf("Even if she wanted, JLE's mother couldn't abort this program"); 	printf("\n\n\n\n"); }  void main() { 	signal(SIGINT,abort); 	printf("This program does not help Jewish-Arab relations  :-( \n");  	printf("Hit ^C to abort \n");  /* Infinite loop, JLE never comes out of his world 	*/  	while(J_L_E); }  ---- 8< Cut Here ----------- >8 ----------   To compile this "wonderfool" program on a unix machine try. cc -o jle jle.c or  make jle  then type jle at your prompt.  I tried it, it works great ...   Tsiel
In a previous article, ohayon@jcpltyo.JCPL.CO.JP (Tsiel Ohayon) says:  >I agree with all you write except that Terrorist orgs. were not shelling >Israel from the Golan Heights in 1982, but rather from Lebanon. The Golan >Heights have been held by Israel since 1967, and therefore the PLO could >not have been shelling Israel from there, unless there is something I am >not aware of.  Oops...small mistake.  Thanks for mentioning it.  I just read on the.Israel.line that a village just got shelled by terrorists last week  and some children were killed.  I guess the terrorists must have gotten by the security zone.  Just think at how much more shelling would be  happening if the security zone weren't there. L8r...     Steve --
In article <1993Apr18.022218.17318@thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu>, ahmeda@McRCIM.McGill.EDU (Ahmed Abu-Abed) writes:  >  >But the irony is that the Jewish population has no problem in electing >a leader who has CONFESSED  to having an extra marrital affair. > >This is a first. > >AA.  The American people didn't have any problem with it too (Clinton). Actually I think that it does not make any difference as long as they have the qualifications to become leaders. BTW in my political view I hope  (and should be  the Arab hope too) that Binyamin Netanyahu will not be ellected as prime minister  of Israel.  Naftaly  ----
Andy Beyer has claimed that the Israeli Press is a bit biased. But the fact is that there are events shaping the politics of the mideast that people who do not read the Israeli press simply know nothing about.  Many of these events are not even mentioned here. I read the Israeli press to learn of important events about which you know nothing, because of your total reliance on western media for your information on Israel.  Since I read both American media and Israeli media, I can say with absolute certainty that anybody who reliesx exclusively on the American press for knowledge about Israel does not have a true picture of what is going on.
In article <2BDCCB7D.2715@news.service.uci.edu> tclock@orion.oac.uci.edu (Tim Clock) writes:  >Tell *them* to stay home? :-) Sorry, terrible attempt at homour there. > >Alternative? Hell, I don't know. But...its perfectly possible to have >objections to a particular policy while feeling that there is no  >"alternative choice".  Sealing off the Gaza Strip has the interesting side-effect of demonstrating the non-viability of Gaza as an independent state. Where are all of these people going to go to find work if they are separated from Israel?  If they complain about having to show id cards on the way to work, how will they feel about showing passports on the way to work?