Who Is Conducting the Investigation?

Published in Jame Jam
(Iran) on 21 January 2011
by Qasim Ghafouri (link to originallink to original)
Translated from by Mehran Zarifi. Edited by Gillian Palmer.
As the occupiers of Iraq and Afghanistan continue stabilizing their hold, two points are prevailing in their actions:

First, countries like the U.S. and Britain have reported the constitution of tribunals for soldiers who have evidently taken part in civilian murders, under which framework some soldiers have been tried.

Second, after the release of disputed documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, these countries and others, like Australia, have made announcements of investigations concerning those documents.

Although the countries are determined to introduce their actions as a sign of prevailing democracy in their societies and have even called for an imitation of the process by other countries, scrutiny of their positions reveals other facts:

1) Because of both public and government demand in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the signed agreements, countries like the U.S. and Britain have to execute evacuation plans and interfere less in the internal affairs of the former two countries. Inspecting their excuses to continue occupation, such actions as holding court tribunals for soldiers and investigating WikiLeaks documents pave the way for continued occupation and, under the pretext of ongoing investigations, interfering in Iraqi affairs. Through these actions, they endeavor to diminish public anger aimed at the atrocities of the occupiers.

2) Another important issue is that by creating internal committees these countries actually stop international organizations and other fact-finding groups from inspecting the record of the crimes committed by these occupiers of Iraq and Afghanistan. Thus, only a small fraction of the crimes and goals of countries like Britain and the U.S. in the target countries is disclosed. In other words, those who occupied Iraq and Afghanistan via the plot of preventive strikes are now exploiting the preventive tribunals to cover up their crimes. Thus, through proclaiming the implementation of human rights and preventing creation of international fact-finding committees, they actually commit widespread violations of human rights.

3) One of the issues raised in the constitution of the so-called military tribunals for the crime-committing soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan is to prevent trials of the higher perpetrators of these crimes, i.e. the American and British leaders and their allies in NATO. These countries know the world is demanding trial of the real warmongers; thus, by creating sham courts and trying a few soldiers, they are preventing the implementation of global demand. The important point is that reports such as WikiLeaks' are of use in the acquittal of the leaders of these countries and conviction of few military officials or low ranking politicians.

Considering the above, it may be concluded that both the creation of fact-finding committees and trial of a few soldiers for crimes in Iraq are the continuation of the game played by the occupiers for presence and intervention in the internal affairs of Iraq and Afghanistan. In addition, it is a cover-up for the main perpetrators of atrocities done in Iraq and Afghanistan — a game that is ongoing under the beautiful banner of attempting to implement human rights.


چه كسي تحقيق مي‌كند؟
جام جم آنلاين: اشغالگران عراق و افغانستان در حالي همچنان به تثبيت اشغالگري‌ خود مي‌پردازند كه در عملكردهاي آنها دو نكته قابل توجه است.

نخست‌آنكه كشورهايي مانند آمريكا و انگليس از تشكيل دادگاههاي براي محاكمه سربازاني كه بر اساس اسناد در كشتار مردم نقش داشته‌اند، خبر داده و در اين چارچوب افرادي نيز محاكمه شده‌اند.

دوم آنكه پس از انتشار اسناد مشكوك از جنگ عراق و افغانستان كشورهاي مذكور در كنار كشورهايي مانند استراليا از تحقيق درباره اين اسناد خبر داده‌اند.

هر چند كه اين كشورها برآنند تا اين اقدامات را نشانه دموكراسي حاكم بر كشورهايشان عنوان و حتي خواستار الگو برداري ساير كشورها از اين روند هستند اما بررسي مواضع آنها برملا كننده حقايقي ديگر است.

1)كشورهايي مانند آمريكا و انگليس بر اساس خواست مردم و دولت عراق و افغانستان و توافقنامه‌هاي امضا شده اجبارا بايد طرح خروج و كاهش مداخله در امور اين كشورها را اجرايي سازند. با توجه به بهانه چيني‌هاي آنها براي ادامه اشغالگري ، اقداماتي نظير برگزاري دادگاه سربازان و نيز تحقيق درباره اسناد ويكي ليكس شرايط را براي ادامه اشغالگري و دخالت در امور عراق به بهانه تحقيقات را فراهم مي‌سازد. آنها با اين اقدامات همچنين تلاش مي‌كنند از ميزان خشم مردمي از جنايات اشغالگران بكاهند.

2)نكته مهم ديگر آنكه اين كشورها با تشكيل كميته‌هاي داخلي عملا سازمان‌هاي بين المللي و ساير گروههاي حقيقت ياب را از بررسي پرونده جنايات اشغالگران عراق و افغانستان بار مي‌دارند. اين امر موجب مي‌شود تا تنها بخش كوچكي از جنايات و اهداف كشورهايي مانند انگليس و آمريكا در كشورهاي هدف افشا گردد. به عبارت ديگر آنها كه در قالب حمله پيش دستانه به اشغال عراق و افغانستان پرداخته‌اند اكنون با دادگاه پيش دستانه به دنبال سرپوش نهادن بر جنايات خود مي‌باشند. به عبارت ديگر آنها با ادعاي اجراي حقوق بشر با مانع تراشي در ايجاد كميته‌هاي حقيقت ياب بين المللي عملا به نقض گسترده حقوق بشر مبادرت مي‌ورزند.

3) از مسائل مطرح در تشكيل دادگاههاي به اصطلاح محاكمه سربازان مجرم در عراق و افغانستان جلوگيري از محاكمه عاملان اصلي اين جنايات يعني سران آمريكا و انگليس و متحدان آنها در ناتو است. اين كشورها مي‌دانند كه جهان خواستار محاكمه عاملان اصلي جنگ مي‌باشند لذا با ايجاد دادگاههاي تشريفاتي و محاكمه چند سرباز مانع از اجراي خواست جهاني مي‌شوند. نكته مهم آنكه گزارش‌هايي مانند ويكي ليكس نيز عاملي براي تبرئه سران اين كشورها و محكوم شدن تعدادي مقام نظامي يا سياستمداراني دون پايه مي‌باشد.

با توجه به آنچه ذكر شد مي‌توان گفت كه تشكيل كميته‌هاي حقيقت ياب و نيز محاكمه چند سرباز به جرم جنايت در عراق ، ادامه بازي اشغالگران عراق و افغانستان براي حضور و مداخله در امور اين كشورها و پنهان سازي عاملان اصلي جنايات صورت گرفته در عراق و افغانستان است كه در لواي نام زيباي تلاش براي اجراي حقوق بشر صورت مي‌گيرد.

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