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<h2><font size=4><b>EU and US Are Involved in the Torture of
Palestinians</b></font></h2><font size=2>By
<a href="http://palestinethinktank.com/author/kawther-salam/">Kawther
Salam</a> • Mar 14th, 2010<br>
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</a></font><font size=3>Sunday, March 14 2010 – The European Union, US
war criminal General Keith Dayton, the Egyptian and the Jordanian
regimes, are all jointly responsible for the torture of Palestinian
prisoners at the PA jails. Dayton is the de-facto head of the corrupt PA
repression system; his forces taught the PA thugs numerous kinds of
torture and how to violate the rights of political detainees.<br><br>
US agents are complicit together with Palestinian officers at the PA
jails in these criminal activities; also, the EU has trained the corrupt
police forces of the PA on how to arrest and torture political opponents.
Britain, the US and the EU have invested hundreds of millions of pounds,
dollars and Euros, respectively, to support the corrupt regime of the PA
in the occupied West Bank. These funds were used to rebuild the corrupt
PA repression system, not to help the people in any way or fashion.
Recently, over 1200 political prisoners were jailed by the PA. Among them
are teachers, engineers, students and … union leaders, etc. The PA also
recently kicked out over 2000 teachers from the ministry of education in
the West Bank from their jobs; many of them have been jailed,
interrogated and tortured by the Dayton thugs at the PA jails.<br><br>
The Arab Organization for Human Rights (AOHR) in Britain confirmed that
the PA did not stop for one moment in the practice of torture in its
prisons, since it declared a cessation of torture in the beginning of
October 2009. The organization said in a report issued on Tuesday, in
addressing the conduct of security services after the announcement to
stop torture in its prisons, “The Palestinian Authority is using new
methods in the torture which are more severe in addition to the old
methods." And the number of new techniques in the torture report
exhibited greater severity along with the older methods and basic
treatment for many Palestinian victims of this torture.<br><br>
The (AOHR) indicated in its report, that they sent letters to the Prime
Minister of the caretaker government in Ramallah, Salam Fayyad, in order
to allow a delegation from the organization to visit detention centers in
the territory of the Palestinian Authority, but they never received a
response.<br><br>
It is understood concerning the Palestinians in the West Bank under the
occupation, who are protected by the Geneva Conventions and rule of
international law, that any attack on any of their rights and
particularly the right to life, liberty and physical integrity is a
breach of international law.<br><br>
<b><i>The group said that the occupation authorities are guilty, on a
daily basis, of dozens of violations of law against the Palestinian
citizens including: murders, arrests, torture, confiscation of land and
demolition of houses, and the security services of the Palestinian
Authority are complicit with these violations, including: arrest, torture
and abuse of civil institutions and public freedoms, all clearly with the
criminal aim to destroy the morale of the people and its legitimate
resistance undertaken for the sake of freedom and
self-determination.<br><br>
</i></b>They emphasized that the Palestinian Authority security services'
cooperation with the Israeli authorities reached an unimaginable level of
criminality at the expense of the dignity and life and freedom of the
Palestinian citizens, adding that the Palestinian Authority's security
services – led by Dayton and connivance from the European Union and the
CIA – whose agendas and policies were implemented purely for Israeli
motives, transformed the lives of the Palestinian citizens into a
living hell.<br><br>
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<dd>The (AOHR) also confirmed that the West Bank has become a springboard
for the activities of foreign intelligence agencies through which to
provide espionage support and logistical support to security agencies for
the implementation of external operations against Palestinian militants
by unlawful operations outside the occupied territories.<br><br>
</dl>They stressed that the file of human rights violations in the
Palestinian Authority territory are under close scrutiny as also the
response of the decision makers in the European Union, and that this file
will take the direction of more in depth revelation than that of those
responsible for these violations of international justice.<br><br>
The organization pointed out that the Director of General Intelligence,
Major General Majed Faraj and military intelligence official, Brigadier
General Abu Nidal and the head of Preventive Security, General Ziyad Hab
al-Rih, are directly responsible for the arrest of citizens and torture
of Palestinians in centers located outside the control of the law. The
organization considers that every officer or soldier of various ranks
carried out torture or illegal detention and are responsible for their
actions as perpetrators of crimes against humanity. Nor is the top
leadership exempt from this.<br><br>
The organization pointed that President Mahmoud Abbas, as president of
the Authority, is directly responsible for the acts of its employees and
the General Intelligence and Preventive Security is responsible for
serious violations of the law that are committed against Palestinian
civilians.<br><br>
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<dd>The human rights organization pointed out that the Jordanian
Government is also responsible for serious violations committed by the
Palestinian Authority security services, where the government trained
elements of these services in all the tactics and security thereof and
provided the necessary equipment for them. The organization called on the
Jordanian government to immediately stop the training of Palestinian
security services.<br><br>
</dl>The file follows the arrest and torture, movement by movement, in
Palestinian prisons, and demands the Authority Stop the Torture Involved
and the deception carried on to divert the world’s attention from what is
going on in the detention centers.<br><br>
The organization called on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal
Court, Luis Ocampo, to move immediately and prosecute for the aggravated
suffering of the Palestinians under occupation, whether or not in
detention, for torture and humiliation. Also, that these crimes be
declared as crimes against humanity and violations of the Fourth Geneva
Convention and within the jurisdiction of the Court.<br><br>
</i></b>The European Union demanded an end of support for the security
services until it is resolved and consolidation of a police based on the
Palestinian citizens' rights and which do not serve other agendas is
brought about.<br><br>
The organization also called upon the Presidency to set up a committee of
legal experts and specialists in the field of Human Rights to investigate
human rights violations in the territory of the Palestinian Authority and
to work hard to stop Torture and Unlawful Arrests. In addition, the
organization called upon the European Police Mission to withdraw from the
territory of the Palestinian Authority.<br><br>
The organization called on U.S. President Barack Obama to withdraw Gen.
Keith Dayton, and end the mission of American Intelligence in the
territory of the Palestinian Authority, and to bring the perpetrators of
human rights violations to justice.<br><br>
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