Terror, murder, persecution

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On Tuesday, Angela Merkel embarked on her longest foreign trip to date: Until 20. In May, the German chancellor will visit various countries in Latin America, kicking off with a visit to Brazil. Human rights organizations in the country have high hopes for the visit – not least because of the renewed murders of activists and terror against the landless in recent times. There is even a bounty on one bishop's head. –

Amazon bishop Erwin Krautler of Austria, who has a bounty of nearly 400 million dollars on his head.000 euros, and two other bishops threatened with murder, denounce the prevailing lawlessness and impunity before the National Congress in Brasilia and call on the government once again to finally intervene.In the Amazonian state of Rondonia, Archbishop Moacyr Grecchi appeals to the nation to stop accepting "the terror and violence of large landowners, illegal logging companies and their pistoleiros" against small farmers and landless families. The social movements are criminalized, the little people live in constant fear and insecurity, and are victims of a wave of violence. The archbishop stresses that "in the agricultural development model, based on large-scale land ownership and export monocultures such as sugar cane, violence is an important component"."Massacres of landless remain unpunished after a decade – and a big farmer who had been sentenced to 30 years in prison for ordering the murder of jungle missionary Dorothy Stang was suddenly acquitted earlier in the week. Worldwide indignation was the consequence – already the government in Brazil fears possible image loss. According to Paulo Vannuchi, the minister in charge of human rights, the acquittal is a celebration of impunity. Since the world just celebrated the 60. The fact that Brazil is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights is particularly frightening and could damage Brazil's reputation. Who opposes, will be eliminated "Whoever is in the way will be shot – whoever opposes will be eliminated," is how Krautler and the two other threatened bishops react to the scandalous verdict. Krautler, who comes from Austria, instead vehemently demands the punishment of the numerous people behind the Stang murder of 2005, who are still at liberty. A consortium of land speculators and logging companies had planned the crime down to the smallest detail. Because of such statements, death threats and psychological terror against the bishop are increasing; he is guarded by police around the clock."A license to kill, an incentive for further crimes" is what the Episcopal Pastoral Care for the Soil (CPT) calls the acquittal of the big farmer. Now, in the Amazonian state of Para, not a single person responsible for the murder of human rights activists, small farmers or rural union leaders is behind bars."What do I say to Christians in the U.S?", asks David Stang (70) the brother of the murdered missionary, in the courtroom of the Amazonian city of Belem. "The course of the trial is typical of this region – this is how it goes here day after day." According to court experts, very few murders are atoned for. Most of those convicted are released after a relatively short time, often by flight. In April, an environmental activist was shot dead while publicly protesting the destruction of the jungle for soy and sugar cane farms. Shortly before his liquidation, he, like Dorothy Stang, had told the authorities that he was to be murdered – to no avail. Brazil: Great expectations for Merkel's visit Brazilian human rights organizations have high hopes for the upcoming visit of German Chancellor Angela Merkel and her Austrian counterpart Alfred Gusenbauer. "We expect clear words from them on everyday torture, arbitrary detentions, and terror and violence against environmental and human rights activists," the head of Brazil's Episcopal prison chaplaincy, Gunther Zgubic, told the Catholic News Agency (KNA) in Sao Paulo.More than ever, European leaders need to show solidarity with those who are fighting for true democracy in Brazil and risking their lives in the process. Zgubic made special reference to the situation in Amazonia. There, three bishops are currently receiving death threats because of their commitment to civil rights, among them Erwin Krautler, who comes from Austria.Zgubic expressed the expectation that ies of sexual abuse of girls and trafficking in women would also be addressed. At the same time, he strongly opposed the planned signing of a German-Brazilian energy agreement. This would support environmentally harmful energy concepts. The increasing cultivation of sugar cane for the production of ethanol fuel promotes the destruction of virgin forests and is at the expense of food production. Meeting with church officials Zgubic called for negotiating minimum social and environmental standards with Brazil for goods imported by Germany. Merkel, as leader of a Christian party, must speak out for the realization of Christian social values and for a humane market economy, he said.The Chancellor is visiting the Netherlands on her longest trip abroad to date, from 13. to 20. May Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Mexico. Merkel meets with civil society representatives in both Brazil and Colombia. These include culture, the media, science and trade unions, as well as the churches. In addition, according to the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM), a dialogue with cardinals and bishops from Latin America and the Caribbean is planned in Lima on the fringes of the EU-Latin America summit.

Schoolgirl with headscarf © Oliver Berg

In the debate over a headscarf ban for girls under 14, school experts oppose the move in North Rhine-Westphalia. The discussion is not very sensitive or helpful at this point, is one criticism.

This is the opinion of the state chairwoman of the primary school association, Christiane Mika, in an interview with the "Rheinische Post" newspaper. Your association sees no need for action. Mika, who is herself head of an elementary school in Dortmund, added that at her school, 280 of 345 students are Muslim; six girls wear headscarves.

Skeptical expressed themselves in the newspaper also the comprehensive school directors. "Even though the number of children wearing headscarves has increased in comprehensive schools, it is not a relevant phenomenon at the moment," said Mario Vallana, state spokesman for the Comprehensive School Directors Association. "In principle, we don't think much of blanket bans. The goal of comprehensive schools is to integrate as many children as possible. A ban is likely to provoke more problems than it solves."

German teachers' association sees proposal as positive

In contrast, the head of the German Teachers' Association, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, and the chairwoman of the German Philologists' Association, Susanne Lin-Klitzing, assessed the move as rather positive in the "Bild" newspaper at the beginning of the week.

The director of the largest institute of Islamic theology in Germany at the University of Osnabruck, Bulent Ucar, however, does not consider a ban to be "expedient". "Ultimately, you solidify parallel societies because the children may appear differently at school than they do privately in their families," he said in Die Welt.

In addition, the religion teacher trainer referred to a small number of children with headscarves at elementary schools.

Nevertheless, he said, "the state must of course intervene and place the best interests of the child at the center of its actions" if girls are required to wear headscarves against their will. Ucar added: "I see the teachers in the responsibility to observe the children and young people attentively. Where there are questionable developments, you have to talk to the parents – at best also in cooperation with the mosque associations."The school should not shy away from "coercive measures".

Guler: "It's about free development"

Meanwhile, the Secretary of State for Integration of North Rhine-Westphalia, Serap Guler (CDU), once again emphasized the demand for a ban. "It's about the free development of children, not about integration," the Muslim woman told the ZDF morning show. The headscarf is supposed to hide a woman's charms from men, if this happens to girls of elementary school age, she would be "sexualized" by it.

In addition, she contradicted that a ban would also have to question a Christian cross on a necklace. For a girl, she says, it is much easier to take off a chain after puberty because nothing fundamental in her life would change. But a child with a headscarf would not succeed so easily because of his social environment.

Scientists believe a steep increase in uranium concentration in the air in British measuring points to the bombing wave with du-ammunition ended at the end of Marz 2003

Praved uranium (DU), which increases the impact force of ammunition, for example, for the bunkering GBU bombs, has also been used in the invasion of Iraq of American and British troops. How much exactly, is unknown, but it was allowed to have been several hundred tons, possibly up to 2.000 tons, which were mostly thrown over the city. Pressed uranium is massive and falls in the production of focal centers for nuclear power plants. You argue the genes, causes cancer and can cause a whole series of other health damage. However, it has been controversial since the first Iraq war 1991, whether and how much the radioactivity released by du-ammunition is harmful to the people who are exposed to it. Should the report of British scientists be true that radioactive particles that can be absorbed by the lungs can be reached from Iraq to the Gobritain, then the discussion was taken over the risks of du-ammunition a whole new dimension to take into account.

Have the Ultus of the Iraq war also contaminated Europe?

Loading an A-10 with 30mm-du-shot. The on-board cannon can fire between 2000 and 4000 shots per minute. Image: USAF

The Pentagon designates – as well as the Nato – as largely immaisingly and has also refused to decontaminate the bombarded places in Iraq. Former US soldiers who had participated in the first Iraq war made u.a. the radiation from you outstanding for the so-called golf war syndrome responsible. In Iraq, she was responsible for allegedly increased cancer in children and for birth defects. How dangerous you, which is mainly from uranium-238, is actual, is controversial. The half-life is very long with 4.5 billion years.

When impacting a du-projectile, the uranium core explains itself. In this case, part of the you to aerosol, ie too fine dust, which is required by the wind whisker routes and can be absorbed by the breathing. The rest is distributed in the immediate vicinity where people can get into contact with him. Uranium oxide dust reaches the groundwater, also the corrosion of du-ammunition gives the substance. A UNEP study of places in Serbia and Montenegro, which was bombed with du-ammunition, discovered three years after the bombing of du particles in the air. In 2004, a study concluded that the uranium enriched in the urine of civilians and soldiers in Iraq (contaminated!To).

The coarse part of the du ammunition, which are fired on attacks of A10 fighters, penetrate into the ground without burning and releasing uranium oxide dust. Scientist of the Institute for Planter Food and Soil Science of the Federal Research Institute for Agriculture (FAL) in Braunschweig have found that after long-term investigations found that

Uranium introduced into the ground as a uranium oxide by physicochemical and biological excursions and is detachable for plants. After 3 years of whereabouts, up to 40% of the supplied uran’s federated uranium were transferred to mobile connections. Such mobile uranium compounds can be added to either plants, or relocated into soil and waxes. … the uranium concentrations of the plants were already high in the lowest load levels by up to a thousand times than in the controls. The FAL scientists also found that the mobilization of the uranium with decreasing fertility of the soil (lower pH values, lower levels of mineral plant rods, especially phosphorus). Little fertile ground are just typical of crisis areas and the population is dependent on self-catering from their own ground.

The A-10 in action. Image: USAF

The WHO recommends a closer examination of the water and the food for conflicts and recommends decontamination of burdened places.

British scientists have now been discovered that there has been an increase in uranium load in the atmosphere for four times the uranium burden in the atmosphere for four timesings at FUNF measuring points in Aldermaston at Funf Weapons Establishment. The scientists Saoirse Morgan and Chris Busby from the University of Liverpool, expert on the German radioactivity, the land of Green Audit and Advisor to the British Government, have put on the British Ministry of Defense on the New Information Freedom Act, after the publication of the measurement results has been set since 1999. Although they had the data from the years 2000 to 2004, with the exception of the measurement results from the beginning of 2003. But that was just the time when the Iraq war started with the invasion and massive bombing after the motto shock-and-awe. Within 24 hours with 1.500 bombs and rockets also used coarse amounts to destroy buildings and bunkers. Hundreds of thousands of "Silver Bullets", which are covered with you, were fired from the on-board cannons of the A-10 fighter aircraft.

Only after further drilling the hords jerked out the missing data. When the scientists evaluated the measurement results of four stations and quantities in the AWE between 2000 and 2004, they established a significant increase in the radioactivity ended by uranium in the air of the air in the air of Marz 2003, which also alerted the British environmental workforce, even if the values are still Layer within the UP. On average, there is a background radiation of 155 Nano-Becquerel per cubic meter in the measuring range, end Marz until mid-April he rose to 650. There was a less strong peak at the beginning of 2002, in the time so, when Tora Bora was bombarded by the US Air Force. The scientists do not make any more detailed information about the health of health, but ame that the suspension of additional particles can be quite dangerous.

For Busby and Morgan, there is a connection with the bombings with BU ammunition. Both the measured values in the nuclear armor system and outside are the highest bombardment phase, the measured values of the external measuring stations were high, which speaks for busby and Morgan Dafur that no incident in the AWE is responsible. The first peak was on the 27th. Marz, so the aerosols had to start the bombing on 19. Marz disseminates in these from Iraq in the atmosphere and transported with winds to Europe. The weather reports at this time love this as possible appearing, it also reached sand from the Sahara to the Gobritain, which were a high over Europe, a deep on the Atlantic and a constant wind from sadial directions were also at this time. Show the two, the two that "du-weapons contaminate both the people on site as well as hundreds and thousands of miles away".

Busby and Morgan point out that most of the reports such as the Royal Society ame that the radioactive aerosols were distributed only a few meters around the impact. But this contradicts the UNEP examination, which could prove two years later in the air in Montenegro and Bosnia particles. Busby themselves can still determine the uranium degraded for investigations of rainwater supplies in Kosovo for nine months after the use of du-ammunition. Busby leads the rejection of the dissemination of du-aerosols over wide areas to the amption about the rough of the particles back. The Royal Society went from particles in the coarse of 1 to 5 microns, but investigations of the US militar with finer filters from the 80s had shown that almost half of the particles be smaller than 1 micron. Thus, the particles were more likely to behave like gas and could be transported like the radioactive gases after the Chernobyl accident also over rough distances.

The British Ministry of Defense is denied. It is impossible that depressed uranium spread so far spread. The environmental doctors declared that other measuring stations had not shown any comparable increase. Some experts drove this to other environmental sources. Brian Spatt, who led the team for a report of the Royal Society on Du-ammunition, also doubt that the du-ammunition is the cause. Certainly, however, the massive bombing had released the uranium from the ground, he gives concerns. The report of the Royal Society studied the health risk as relatively low, but recommended decontamination of the places concerned and a medical examination of the British soldiers.

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