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Military Resistance 11E18

AFGHANISTAN WAR REPORTS

Foreign Occupation ServicememberKilled Somewhere Or Other In

Afghanistan:

Nationality Not AnnouncedMay 26, 2013 AP

A foreign servicemember died following a direct-fire insurgent attack in easternAfghanistan today.
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Police Officer Brutally Beaten By AfghanArmy Chief Of Staffs Son

27 May 2013 By Sadaf Shinwari, Khaama Press

An Afghan police officer was brutally beaten by Afghan army chief of staff, Lt. Gen. SherMohammad Karimis son in Pul-e-Mohammad Khan area of capital Kabul on Saturdayevening.

The police officer has suffered severe injuries and is currently admitted to a hospital fortreatment.

The victim told reporters, We were instructed today not to allow any vehicle inside thesecurity belt without proper inspection. It was 6pm when Afghan army chief of staff, SherMohammad Karimis son entered the security built with a Toyota Corolla vehicle.

He said, We requested him to stop the vehicle and allow police to inspect his vehiclebut he said that the whole city knows him.
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According to the police officer, Gen. Sher Mohammad Karimis son called the ministry ofdefense following verbal clashes and two army vehicles arrived to the scene to supporthim.

He said around 18 Afghan army officers started beating him and he fell unconscious.

Afghan interior ministry spokesman Sediq Sediqi confirmed the incident and said furtherdetails will be provided to media after investigations are completed.

Attack Injure District Governor InNorthern Afghanistan

27 May 2013 By Meena Haseeb, Khaama Press

According to local authorities in northern J awzjan province of Afghanistan, district

governor for Darzab Rahmatullah Hashar was injured following an attack on Monday.

The incident took place after a bomber detonated his explosives near a funeralceremony attended by Darzad district governor.

Rahmatullah Ashar, Darzad district governor said he was injured along with an Afghancivilian an Afghan police officer following the attack. The main target of the bomber wasRahmatullah Hashar who was due to attend the funeral ceremony.

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Binh base, the entire throng leaped to their feet and held their hands high in the Vsalute of the peace movement.

The Main Activi ties Of Antiwar U.S. Servicepeople In Vietnam Were NotPeaceful Demonstrations .

But the main activities of antiwar U.S. servicepeople in Vietnam were not peacefuldemonstrations.

An ongoing dilemma for the antiwar movement back home was the di ff icul ty offinding ways to move beyond verbal protest and symbolic acts to deeds thatwould actually interfere with the conduct of the war.

The sold iers in Vietnam had no such prob lem.

Individual acts of rebellion, ranging from desertion and sabotage to injuring andeven killing officers who ordered hazardous search-and-destroy missions, merged

into mutinies and large-scale resistance.

As early as the spring of 1967, sporadic small-scale mutinies were being reported in theFrench press but not in the U.S. media except for the movements own press.

The most serious occurred on April 14 at the base of Dau Tieng (east of Tay Ninh,north o f Cu Chi), when a unit of the Third Brigade of the Fourth Infantry Divisiondefied orders to proceed on a search-and-destroy mission near where anotherunit had been badly cut up.

The commanding officer ordered other sold iers to fire on the rebels, who returnedthe fire.

One report indicated dozens of men killed or wounded and three helicoptersdestroyed.

The base was sealed off and no outside personnel were admitted for three days.

Combat refusal and out right mutin ies spread rapidly after the Tet offensive in1968.

But news about this form of growing GI resistance was kept rather efficiently from mostof the American public until August 1969, when correspondents reported firsthand on theunanimous battlefield refusal of a badly mauled infantry company to go back into

combat.

During the next two years, the press published numerous reports of entire units refusingdirect combat orders, and the public actually got to see two incidents of rebellion onnetwork television.


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A Common And Less Conspicuous Method Of Killing Unpopular Officers:Rifle Fire Often In The Midst Of Combat

Resistance took another form so widespread that it brought a new word into the Englishlanguage: fragging.

Originally taking its name from fragmentation grenades but soon applied to any meansof killing commissioned or noncommissioned officers, fragging developed its owngenerally understood customs, usages, and ethos.

Officers who aggressively risked or otherwise offended their men were customarilywarned once or twice by a nonlethal grenade before being attacked with a booby-trapped or hurled grenade.

By mid-1972, the Pentagon was officially acknowledging 551 incidents of fragging withexplosive devices, which had left 86 dead and more than 700 wounded. These figureswere no doubt understated, and they did not include a common and less conspicuousmethod of killing unpopular officers: rifle fire often in the midst of combat.

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ANNIVERSARIES

May 29, 1932:Betrayed Veterans March OnWashington DC

The St. Louis contingent of the Bonus Expeditionary Force is pictured here as it starts forWashington, D.C., in May 1932.

Carl Bunin Peace History May 28-J une 3

In the depths of the Great Depression, the Bonus Expeditionary Force, a groupof 1,000 World War I veterans seeking cash payments for their veterans bonuscertificates, arrived in Washington, D.C.

By mid-J une, they had set up a massive Hooverville, a contemporary term for anencampment of the homeless.

One month later, other veteran groups made their way to the nations capital, swellingthe Bonus Marchers to nearly 20,000 strong, most of them unemployed veterans indifficult financial straits.

In direct violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, they were violently disbanded bythe Army in July.


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May 30, 1937:The Memorial Day Massacre:

Chicago Police Cowards MurderStriking Steel Workers: All But Four Of The Fifty-Four GunshotWounds Were To The Side Or Back And

One Victim Was Shot Four Times

Carl Bunin Peace History May 28-J une 3

1000 striking steel workers (and members of their families), on their way to picket at theRepublic Steel plant in south Chicago where they were organizing a union, were stoppedby the Chicago Police.

In what became known as the Memorial Day Massacre, police shot and killed 10fleeing workers, wounded 30 more, and beat 55 so badly they required hospitalization.

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The Memorial Day Massacre of 1937

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By 3:00 p.m. on May 30, 1937, a crowd of around 1500 strikers had gathered. Itwas a sunny, warm day with the temperature at around 88 degrees.

Many of the union members and supporters had brought along their wives andchild ren to join in this almost festive gathering organized by SWOC leader JoeHunt. Several speakers addressed various labor issues most importantly, the

right to organize and picket.

Some resolutions were approved to send to government officials concerning policeconduct at the Republic plant. It was then moved to march to the plant and establish amass picket.

When this was approved about 1000 people went into formation behind two Americanflags. Instead of marching south down Green Bay Avenue, they turned onto a dirt roadacross an open prairie chanting, CIO, CIO!

When the police, saw this they moved their position from 117th street between GreenBay and Burley Avenue to across the dirt road, just north of 117th on Burley.

The 200 police were in double file and watched the approaching marchers with theirclubs drawn. The Republic mill had armed some of the officers with non-regulation clubsand tear gas.

The marchers met the police line and demanded that their rights to picket be recognizedby the police letting them through.

They were commanded in the name of the law to disperse, but the picketers persisted.This continued for several minutes. While marchers armed themselves with rocks andbranches, foul language was passed between the two parties. Tension was mounting.

Recording all of this was cameraman Orland Lippert. Unfortunately, he was changinglenses at the start of the actual violence. This has caused some dispute as to whichside initiated the fighting. The following account, determined at the hearings underSenator Robert LaFollette, is generally accepted.

Police were trying to prevent marchers from outflanking their line.

As some strikers began to retreat a stick flew from the back of the line towards thepolice. Instantaneously, tear gas bombs were thrown at the marchers.

The next few moments were total chaos.

More objects were thrown at the police by the marchers.

Acting wi thout orders, several policemen in the f ront drew thei r revolvers andfired point blank at the marchers ranks, many of whom were beginning to retreat.

The actual shooting only continued for fifteen seconds, but the violence did notend there.


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OCCUPATION PALESTINE

The Checkpoints:Strangers In Their Own Land:

Eyal Is A Constant Reminder Of TheDegree To Which Every Aspect Of These

Peoples Lives, Work And Travel Is

Dictated By The Relentless IsraeliProject To Make Life As Difficult As

Possible For All Palestinians

Huwwara Checkpoint, one of many Israeli checkpoints and closures that restrict themovement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and have been compared to theapartheid pass system. Photo: whale.to/b/israeli_apartheid.

May 16, 2013 By Sam Gilbert, The Palestine Monitor [Excerpts]

The sun has not yet risen on Eyal checkpoint in the northwestern city of Qalqilya.


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Already hundreds of Palestinians queue up and wait to cross into Israel and begin theworkweek.

In the coming hours, roughly four thousand Palestinians from the Qalqilya region and thenorthern West Bank will pass through the encaged L-shaped corral, through the single

turnstile all destined for work in Israels cities and towns.

Erak

42-year-old Erak is eating his breakfast and drinking his morning coffee, each purchasedfrom one of the many makeshift food vendors that line the road leading up to thecheckpoint. Noticeably tired but relentlessly friendly, Erak describes a routine thatechoes the lives of many of the Palestinians waiting to cross over.

From Sunday through Thursday, Erak arrives at Eyal checkpoint no later than 3am. Theearly arrival is required due to the long waits (up to 3 hours) and subsequent bus ride

which ferries Palestinians to their respective places of employment. Eraks home, wifeand four kids are in J ericho, a two-hour bus drive that compels Erak to stay in Qalqilyadistrict during the week, away from his family.

Each night he returns to Qalqilya at 5pm from his job in Tel Aviv, a fourteen-hourday that begins and ends at the same Israeli checkpoint that so many Palestiniansare required to navigate in order to seek better wages.

This brutal schedule has been created by a situation all too familiar throughout the WestBank, where an elaborate system of physical and administrative obstacles restricts themovement of Palestinians both within and outside of the occupied Palestine territories.

Fawis

It is almost 6 am and Fawis is at the on the edge of a large and increasingly impatientcrowd of Palestinians pushing and sometimes climbing over one another to gain entry tothe turnstile. A private Israeli Security officer remotely controls the passage ofPalestinians through the gate, buzzing each man in one by one.

As the morning progresses the speed in which the workers are allowed through hasslowed considerably. As Fawis talks, an Israeli officer barks instructions over theloudspeaker, denying entrance to those who do not have the proper paperwork.

Fawis is a 61-year-old resident of Qalqilya who works construction in Tel Aviv. Fawisspoke about the frustration and hardship of this life.

Every day at least 13-hours from when I wake up to when I get back home. Sometime Iwait three hours to get into Israel. When you come back to the house you take showerthen go to sleep. Next day its the same thing.

Fawis worked in Qalqilya and Ramallah for years, but as work became harder to find hesought out employment in Israel. When asked about the reason for working in Israel,


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direct control by the Israeli military, can only be accessed through a series of Israelicontrolled agricultural gates and only by those who have a permit to do so.

According to BTselems Arrested Development report on the impact of the separationbarrier, these restrictions on farmers access to their lands has had a dramatic affect onthe economy of the region. Many farmers were forced to abandon high profit crops that

require daily cultivation and the severe restrictions of movement have made access tomarkets for perishable goods increasingly difficult.

Furthermore, the seizure of thousands of acres of land to establish settlements, withoutcompensation to the farmers, has only exacerbated the problem. The cumulative effecthas been that, in Qalqilya district, unemployment in 2009 was at 23.4 percent, thehighest in the West Bank.

Much like Gaza, Qalqilya is under economic siege by the Israeli occupation. Theconstruction of the barrier and placement of the two checkpoints has led to the closing ofsome 622 businesses in Qalqilya city.

By 2006 Israeli restrictions on new construction made the population density in the citythe highest in Palestine, higher even than Gaza city. These conditions have pushedmany Palestinians to work in Israel even as the process of doing so has becomeincreasingly difficult.

7:30 Eyal checkpoin t

Eyal is a wholly different place in the light of day. The throngs of Palestinians havegone, the vendors are packed up; all that is left is the series of fences, gates and towersthat dominate the area.

Walking back through the city you can see the metropolis of Tel Aviv in the distancewhere both Fawis and Erak will be laboring in the months to come.

Unfortunately their plight is not unique, the hardships faced by Palestinians at Eyalcheckpoint and Qalqilya in general are products of a system of Israeli control that is partof so many lives in the occupied territories.

Eyal is a constant reminder of the degree to which every aspect of these peoples lives,work and travel is dictated by the relentless Israeli project to make life as difficult aspossible for all Palestinians.

Yet in the midst of this hardship, I recall what Fawis said at the end of our conversation.

This life is hard, but I am a Palestinian! I would never leave and maybe one day when Iam very old, all this (as he points to the checkpoint) will be gone.

Fawis returns to the restless crowd of Palestinians waiting at the gate.The light on top of the turnstile turns from red to green allowing one more body to passinto Israel.


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DANGER: POLITICIANS AT WORK

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Enemy Occupation Troops BeatWheelchair-Bound Man Waiting

For A Bus: The Officers Maced Him In TheFace And Proceeded To Throw

Him Out Of His Chair While On The Ground, He Was

Kicked, Punched And Kneed ByPolice He Sustained Broken And FracturedRibs, Numbness In His Hands, Neck

Injuries, Internal Injuries And Cuts OnHis Wrists

In a video shot by a young man who witnessed the event, two Rochester policeofficers are shown dragging Warr from his wheelchair and repeatedly kicking andpunching him while he lay on the ground.

To add insu lt to injury, Warr is now being charged with resisting arrest anddisorderly conduct.

May 23, 2013 Socialist Worker. Brian Erway, Anna Grohens, Rochester Indymedia,Ream Kidane and Greg Morin contributed to this article.

MORE THAN 100 neighborhood residents and community allies gathered May 18 at thecorner of Bartlett Street and J efferson Avenue in Rochester, N.Y., to protest the savagepolice beating of wheelchair-bound Benny Warr at that same intersection nearly threeweeks prior.

On May 1, Warr sat in his wheelchair waiting for the bus near his home in apredominantly Black neighborhood on the citys west side when a Rochester policecruiser rolled up to the intersection. The officers exited the car and told Warr, usingexpletives, to move on. Warr responded by saying he was only waiting for the bus.


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The officers then maced him in the face and proceeded to throw him out of his chair,according to Warr. While on the ground, he was kicked, punched and kneed by police.He was then placed in handcuffs and sat for nearly two hours until he eventuallyreceived medical treatment at Strong Memorial Hospital. He sustained broken andfractured ribs, numbness in his hands, neck injuries, internal injuries and cuts on hiswrists.

In a video shot by a young man who witnessed the event, two Rochester policeofficers are shown dragging Warr from his wheelchair and repeatedly kicking andpunching him while he lay on the ground.

To add insu lt to injury, Warr is now being charged with resisting arrest anddisorderly conduct.

According to neighborhood res idents, the Rochester Police Department regular lydoes "clearings" of this busy intersection, telling residents that they are no longerallowed to be in the area.

When asked about the incident during a radio interview, Rochesters Police Chief J amesSheppard responded by saying, "Were doing what they want us to do," referring torequests made by the neighborhood business association.

Residents and community members reject Sheppards justifications.

"Im outraged," said Felicia Abrams, a close friend of the Warr family, of the constantpolice presence.

"I have a son who is 29 and is always getting harassed. He tells me all the time, Theharassment breaks you down. Its all about their power trip."

Bree Ross, Warrs niece, added, "Who do you go to when the pol ice are the onesengaging in disorderly conduct?"

Warrs sister denounced the lack of accountability for police violence. "I took an oath toprotect lives," she said. "Im a nurse. My job is to save peoples lives. They took an oathtoo. The police officers job is to protect us. If I screw up and give the wrong medication,I lose my job. If they beat someone up, kill someone, they keep their jobs as if nothinghappened!"

Kevin Holley, who grew up with Benny, said, "Ive lived here 50 plus years, okay? Wehustlin in other ways, not like they say we are. We clear trash, cutting grass on thecorner and the cops come and harass us for that all the time. Whats up with that?"

There was not a cop in sight during the entire gathering on May 18, which lasted formore than two hours. Several speakers took note of this, enthusiastically embracing avision of what the neighborhood could look like--coming together without the copsmenacing presence, replaced with the solidarity of residents standing together.

Benny has plead not guilty to the charges, and the community will again mobilize whenhe returns to court on May 30.


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