What is the worst act of the Iranian government towards another nation?

Well you have to admit the possibilities of the US extending its educational opportunities to Iran on how to influence people and win friends are limitless.

 

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There is no such thing as due process in war.

 

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The Nuremberg laws tribunals and the Geneva convention beg to disagree but its okay - only morons continue to abide by international laws.

 

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sam
what was it about that period? newly independent nations throwing of the yoke of colonialism, excited about the prospects rebuilding a new society, looking towards america as a shining example of a just and righteous civilization only to be betrayed and fucked up the ass, treated like pawns in the "great game"?

silly romantic
understand this
never ever turn your back on the white man
y'know, forked tongues and whatnot

/smirk

 

The Geneva conventions allow killing to occur without any due process.

 

sam
these seemingly noble sentiments mask and make a mockery of historical fact
no one gives a shit about the timorese least of all the "peace and freedom loving" aussies

At the time of writing, there are about 40,000 Australian troops in East Timor. They are not there to defend Timorese workers, but to defend Australian business interests and investments, the vast oil fields and reserves under the sea between East and West Timor and northern Australia and, if necessary, to take on the Indonesian armed forces in any future dispute. It should not be forgotten that, in 1964, the government of Prime Minister, Sir Robert Menzies, planned to bomb Indonesia and its capital, Jakarta, if it escalated its confrontation with Malaysia. And, in fact, Australia sent troops as well as the SAS into Indonesian Borneo/Kalimantan. Such are the priorities of capitalism.

http://www.worldsocialism.org/spgb/may00/worldmay.html#SubHead2

One of the themes espoused by leaders of the government for more than two decades was that the fate of the former Portuguese colony was irreversible. It was presented to us ad nauseam, with its it's ‘written in concrete’ gusto. Bob Hawke told us to forget about East Timor. Gareth Evans, Canberra's first serial sophist, wanted us to believe that 'the world is a pretty unfair place'. Massacres were called 'aberrations'. Paul Keating convinced us that his Godfather's soldiers were really decent blokes once you got to know them. Malcolm Fraser still believes that it was an East Timorese activist who stole his pants in the United States: he has not once rescinded the communist label he branded onto all the Timorese. And Gough Whitlam continues to work around the clock trying to justify his contentious role in the long tragedy.

Australian governments all sought to influence the destiny of East Timor. This destiny became one of the longest ongoing acts of genocide since the European Holocaust of the Second World War. I am reminded of the French Vichy Government of that war which supplied and organised the freight train convoys that carried persecuted Jews to the Nazi ovens. Canberra's warts-and-all allegiance with Jakarta; the almost $2 billion in bilateral aid; the million of dollars in military gifts, defence training and defence co-operation; and the political lobbying in the international arena for Jakarta's position, all helped to create a similar cattlewagon, transporting the East Timorese to their diabolical fate.

http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/earlyviva.htm

Hundreds of people rallied in capital cities on October 14-15 to protest against Australian government and business complicity in the 19-year Indonesian occupation of East Timor.

Activists highlighted the fact that Australian-based companies are taking advantage of the Timor Gap Treaty, which contravenes several United Nations resolutions and is likely to be ruled in breach of international law by the International Court or Justice.

The rallies aimed to show the hypocrisy of the Australian government's "quiet diplomacy" approach to human rights in East Timor while it continues to increase economic and military ties with the Indonesian government and military.

http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/earlyviva.htm

The Australian government's support for the 1975 invasion of East Timor; its August, 1983 legal recognition of Indonesia's annexation by force; its policy of continuing joint military exercises and training with the Indonesian occupation forces; its defence of the Suharto dictatorship's atrocious human rights record in numerous international fora; and its complicity in dividing up East Timor's oil with Suharto's oil cronies in the Timor Gap Treaty, make it a willing accomplice in the repression and persecution of the people of East Timor. The moral and political bankruptcy of the federal Labor government is further exposed now when it cannot even bring itself to allow human beings, who try to flee this war, the right to reside in Australia. The government's refusal to consider this most basic humanitarian gesture to the victims of its own foreign policy is evident in its handling of the East Timorese refugees. On October 16, WA Green Senator Christabel Chamarette quizzed immigration minister Nick Bolkus on the government's policy regarding the Portuguese nationality of East Timorese refugees currently seeking to stay in Australia. In his response, Bolkus insisted that, as far as processing the applications of the East Timorese were concerned, "We have not interfered; we will not interfere; and international laws will be applied".

http://www.greenleft.org.au/node/10425

After 400 years of colonization and a quarter-century of military occupation, East Timor became independent in 2002. However, the world’s newest nation has yet to establish boundaries with its neighbors, Indonesia and Australia. Tens of billions of dollars worth of oil and gas lie under the Timor Sea between East Timor and Australia (see map on next page), and resolving that maritime boundary is essential to East Timor’s ability to provide for its people. So far, Australia has been unwilling to negotiate respectfully with East Timor according to international legal principles.

Although it is a sovereign nation, East Timor has limited capability to persuade Australia to negotiate fairly. In fact, Australian officials often try to bully East Timorese negotiators, using their superior size, wealth, experience and options to pressure East Timor to surrender its legal rights. Support from officials and citizens in the United States can make a difference, just as it did in helping to end Indonesia’s 24-year occupation.

http://www.etan.org/issues/tsea/plainfact.htm

The sordid history must be viewed against the background of U.S.-Indonesia relations in the postwar era. The rich resources of the archipelago, and its critical strategic location, guaranteed it the central role in U.S. global planning. These factors lie behind U.S. efforts 40 years ago to dismantle Indonesia, perceived as too independent and too democratic, even permitting participation of the leftist peasant-based PKI. The same factors account for Western support for the regime of killers and torturers who brought about a "favorable orientation" in 1965. Their achievements were, furthermore, understood to be a vindication of Washington's wars in Indochina, motivated in large part by concerns that the "virus" of independent nationalism might "infect" Indonesia, to borrow Kissingerian rhetoric. Support for the invasion of East Timor and subsequent atrocities was reflexive, though a broader analysis should attend to the fact that the collapse of the Portuguese empire had much the same consequences in Africa, where South Africa was the agent of Western-backed terror. Throughout, Cold War pretexts were routinely invoked, serving as a convenient disguise for ugly motives and actions, particularly so in Southeast Asia.

http://members.pcug.org.au/~wildwood/Noam.htm

Introduction Into The Balibo Secret

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I thank you for the information.

Yeeees - assuming that I would believe the uncles and cousins claiming they were handcuffed and then shot?

 

I would say brainwashing and forcing children to run through Iraqi minefields back in the 80's was pretty bad, especially when Iraq had already offered its surrender at that point and Iran insisted the war wouldn't end until the Ayatollah himself ruled over Baghdad. I know this in itself isn't a crime against a foreign country, but sending children to get their legs blown off so troops can swarm through and a shiite theocracy can be established in Iraq, that's pretty sick stuff right there.

 

go for it sam
its not as if james's precious courts are sacred, inviolate and immune to criticism

More than 170 military court decisions are in limbo after the High Court declared the new Australian Military Court (AMC), the centrepiece of military justice reforms, to be unconstitutional.

The decision gave a surprising and far-reaching victory to Brian Lane, a former sailor charged with indecent assault for placing his genitals on a sleeping colleague's forehead - a practice known as "teabagging" - after a drunken night out in 2005.

He denied the charge and fought it all the way to the High Court.

Ruling on Mr Lane's case, judges ruled on Wednesday that the AMC, although expressly not a court according to its legislation, was exercising the judicial power of the Commonwealth and that made it invalid under Chapter Three of the Australian Constitution.
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Military Court sentences in limbo (Wed Aug 26 2009)

Reforms to Australia's military justice system

 

i shall edit your quote

/smile

 

Thats not the point

The point is:

Five children were killed by Australian troops who violated the sanctity of the home of an Afghan. In his own country. That "suspected insurgent" who died along with presumably all of his children has no name. His children, who were murdered in their own homes, have no names. Not a single Australian report has bothered with the victims of this massacre.

This is the more likely scenario. The army is a killing machine and when asked to be judge and jury to itself invariably finds itself free of fault. Note once again, that the "suspected insurgent" and his five children have no names. This is how important the Australian mission in Afghanistan is to Australia

In my opinion, a judicial system where the victims are irrelevant is unlikely to have any credibility

 

From your RAWA link:

And no, not a single Australian report has carried the names of the victims. The RAWA report has the name of the "insurgent" whose crime has never been disclosed even though it was sufficient to warrant his death and the death of his children. You can google his name if you like to discover how irrelevant he is as a victim


And yes, to recap the incident:

 

You never know. There may come a time when the Indian Peacekeeping force will travel halfway around the world to liberate the oppressed Aboriginals and help them to get a separate country.