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kumpulan tentera utama berkaitan, Pegawai Rusia dan IBU Askar (Soldiers’
Mothers), telah ditangani Jawatankuasa Nobel dengan permintaan untuk menilai
kenya-taan tidak berperikemanusiaan yang dibuat oleh Presiden Amerika Syarikat
yang merujuk kepada peperangan Drone.
“Saya
ingin membawa kepada perhatian anda bahawa ahli-ahli organisasi kami terkejut
dan marah dengan kenyataan yang dibuat oleh pemenang Hadiah Nobel dan Presiden
Amerika Syarikat, Barack Obama (the
statement made by the Nobel Prize laureate and US President Barack Obama)
yang dipetik dalam ‘Double Down’ buku oleh Mark Halperin dan John Heilemann,”
kata ketua ‘Pegawai-pegawai Rusia NGO semua – rasmi Rusia, Anton Tsvetkov,
telah menulis dalam surat itu kepada jawatankuasa itu, seperti yang dipetik
oleh laman berita Infox.ru.
“Sementara
membincangkan penggunaan pesawat dalam operasi ‘Counterterrorist’ dalam sidang
tertutup dengan pembantunya, Barack Obama sinis menyatakan bahawa adalah beliau
‘sangat bagus pada membunuh orang” (‘very good at killing people’). Sehubungan
dengan ini kami meminta anda untuk memberi penilaian undang-undang dan moral
rasmi Barack kata-kata Obama berhubung dengan keserasian mereka dengan tajuk
yang tinggi, Hadiah Nobel, Nobel Keamanan,” tambah aktivis Rusia.
Tsvetkov
kepada pemberita pada sidang akhbar di Moscow yang profesional dalam orga-nisasi
tentera beliau adalah kuat terhadap penggunaan pesawat Drone dalam pertem-puran
sebagai senjata ini sering menyebabkan kecederaan di kalangan orang2 awam.
Beliau mendakwa Pegawai Rusia mempunyai maklumat membuktikan bahawa Obama
sendiri membenarkan penggunaan pertempuran Drone semasa misi di Pakistan,
Yaman, Afghanistan, Somalia dan negara-negara lain.
Pengerusi
Jawatankuasa IBU Askar’, Flora Salikhovskaya, berkata kumpulan itu telah
menyokong alamat ini sambil menambah bahawa menyelesaikan semua masalah melalui
kuasa tentera telah menjadi tanda dagangan Barack Obama.
“Sebagai
seorang IBU dan seorang peguam Hak Asasi Manusia, saya tidak dapat mema-hami
memandu beliau. Saya tidak dapat memahami kenyataan oleh Presiden sebuah negara
yang dia boleh membunuh orang. Obama mesti sama ada meminta maaf sebelum semua
orang untuk kenyataan atau memberi [Peace] hadiah kembali (or give the [Peace]
prize back) dan mengakui bahawa dia masih belum berkembang sehingga mempunyai
tajuk yang tinggi,” katanya.
Seorang
ahli yang tinggi diletakkan daripada Pegawai kumpulan Rusia, Aleksandr Mikhailov,
berkata bahawa di Rusia walaupun penembak tepat tentera tidak pernah bercakap
mengenai kemahiran mereka dalam pembunuhan.
“Mereka
biasanya mengatakan bahawa mereka bekerja dengan sasaran. Satu lagi tidak perlu
bercakap megah perkara itu!” Kata Mikhailov sidang akhbar.
Kedua-dua
pemimpin NGO Rusia berkata mereka berharap ahli-ahli Jawatankuasa Nobel akan
mengendahkan surat mereka. Mereka menambah bahawa ramai pakar telah menyatakan
bahawa Hadiah Keamanan diserahkan kepada Obama adalah jenis pendahuluan yang
diberikan sebagai balasan kepada janji-janji dan kenyataan akhbar yang dibuat
semasa kempen pilihan raya sebelumnya. Tetapi dalam realiti perbuatan pemimpin
Amerika Syarikat bercanggah dengan retorik yang lebih awal dan ini bermakna
bahawa ‘terlebih dahulu’ boleh dibatalkan, aktivis mengariskan.
Sejak
mengambil alih jawatan pada tahun 2008, dan memenangi Hadiah Nobel Keamanan
pada tahun 2009, Obama telah meluaskan penggunaan pesawat dan pembunuhan yang
disasarkan di negara-negara asing. Biro Kewartawanan Siasatan di London sebelum
ini melaporkan bahawa pemimpin Amerika Syarikat telah membenarkan 326 serangan
di Pakistan sahaja. Ia juga menganggarkan bahawa , sejak George W. Bush
mengambil alih jawatan bagi penggal ke-2 pada tahun 2004, serangan telah
membunuh mana-mana sahaja di antara 2,500 dan 3,600 individu, dan antara 416
dan 948 daripada individu-individu adalah orang2 awam
White
House mendakwa bilangan orang awam dibunuh oleh pesawat adalah jauh lebih
rendah daripada itu, tetapi ia tidak pernah mengeluarkan angka sendiri. Obama
sendiri wajar program berdengung awal tahun ini, dengan mengatakan bahawa ia
menghalang kematian lebih orang awam di tangan pengganas.
Kedudukan
rasmi pihak Amerika Syarikat adalah bahawa semua ‘lelaki tentera umur’ dalam
zon serangan boleh dianggap pejuang dan dirawat dengan sewajarnya.
‘Retract
Peace Prize’: Russian NGOs blast Obama
over ‘killing people’ confession . . .
Two
major military-related groups, Officers of Russia and Soldiers’ Mothers, have
addressed the Nobel Committee with a request to evaluate the inhumane
statements made by the US president in reference to drone warfare.
“I
would like to bring to your attention that the members of our organization were
surprised and outraged by the
statement made by the Nobel Prize laureate and US President Barack Obama
quoted in the book ‘Double Down’ by Mark Halperin and John Heilemann,” the head
of the all-Russian NGO ‘Officers of Russia’, Anton Tsvetkov, wrote in the
letter to the committee, as quoted by the Infox.ru news site.
“While
discussing the use of drones in counterterrorist operations in a closed
conference with his aides, Barack Obama cynically noted that he was ‘very good
at killing people.’ In connection with this we ask you to give an official
legal and moral assessment of Barack Obama’s words in relation to their
compatibility with the high title of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate,” the
Russian activist added.
Tsvetkov
told reporters at a press conference in Moscow that military professionals in
his organization were strongly against the use of drone aircraft in combat as
this weapon often causes casualties among civilians. He claims the Officers of
Russia possess information proving that Obama personally sanctioned the combat
use of drones during missions in Pakistan, Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia and
other countries.
The
chairwoman of the Soldiers’ Mothers Committee, Flora Salikhovskaya, said that her group was supporting this address
adding that solving all problems through military force has become Barack
Obama’s trademark.
“Being
a mother and a Human Rights advocate, I cannot understand his drive. I cannot
understand the statement by the president of a nation that he can kill people.
Obama must either apologize before everybody for his statement or give the
[Peace] prize back and admit that he has not yet grown up to bear this high
title,” she noted.
A
high placed member of the Officers of Russia group, Aleksandr Mikhailov, noted
that in Russia even military snipers never boasted about their proficiency in
killing.
“They
usually say that they work with targets. One should never brag of such things!”
Mikhailov told a news conference.
Both
Russian NGO leaders said they hope the Nobel Committee members will heed their
letter. They added that many experts had noted that the Peace Prize handed to
Obama was a sort of advance given in return for promises and press statements
made during the previous election campaign. But in reality the deeds of the US
leader contradict his earlier rhetoric and this means that the ‘advance’ can be
rescinded, the activists underlined.
Since
taking office in 2008, and winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, Obama has
greatly expanded the use of drones and targeted killings in foreign nations.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism in London earlier reported that the US
leader had authorized 326 strikes in Pakistan alone. It also estimates that,
since George W. Bush took office for his second term in 2004, the strikes have
killed anywhere between 2,500 and 3,600 individuals, and that between 416 and
948 of those individuals were civilians.
The
White House claims the number of civilians killed by drones is much lower than
that, but it has never released its own figure. Obama himself justified the
drone program earlier this year, saying that it prevented the deaths of even
more civilians at the hands of terrorists.
The
official position of the US side is that all ‘military-age males’ within a
strike zone should be considered combatants and treated accordingly.
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