>From: "Int'l Leninist Current" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Status: > >Protest against the expulsion of four Japanese anti-imperialists and >political refugees from Lebanon > >******** >We call upon all anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist forces to support this >protest resolution. (Up to now it had only be spred in German language, >therefore the supporters are only from this region.) >******** > >The Committee for Anti-Imperialist Solidarity (KAS, Austria) and the >undersigned organisations express their dismay and their protest >against the expulsion of the four fighters of the Japanese Red Army >(Nihon Sekigun, JRA), Tohira Kazuo, Adachi Masao, Yamamoto Mariko und >Wako Haruo to Jordan, from where they were extradited to Japan, where >they face long gaol sentences or even the death penalty. >This step is even more incomprehensible and appalling, as a Lebanese >court had rejected just a few weeks ago an application from Japan for >extradition of the JRA members. This was owed to the pressure of the >Lebanese population and international solidarity. The Japanese >anti-imperialists enjoy broad sympathy and support in Lebanon and the >Arab countries, because they had risked their lives for the liberation >of the Arab peoples from constant imperialist and Zionist aggression >and occupation, and they had suffered long years of detention and >torture. >In particular in view of the continued Israeli aggression in South >Lebanon, there was broad consent to the demand for political asylum >for the JRA members in Lebanon. Nevertheless the Lebanese government >is partly guilty for the extradition of four out of the five JRA >members to Japan, because of the expulsion of them to Jordan. The >Lebanese government in a most incomprehensible way ignored the >expressions of solidarity in Lebanon and all over the world, and they >ignored their right of political asylum. Only Okamoto Kozo, the only >survivor of the 1972 PLO operation with JRA cooperation against the >Israeli airport Lod, was granted asylum. >Okamoto Kozo was freed after 13 years in inhuman conditions in Israeli >prisons in 1985 in an exchange of prisoners between the PLO and the >Israeli government. He had to undergo therapy for more than one year >to recover from the torture he had suffered. Finally he found refuge >in Lebanon. >But in 1997 Okamoto and the four other JRA members were arrested for >illegal residence in Lebanon and forgery of documents, and they were >sentenced a three-year gaol term. Since then there was a broad >movement in Lebanon and on an international scale demanding to grant >political asylum to the Japanese anti-imperialists in Lebanon. >We - part of the international solidarity movement "Friends of Okamoto >and His Comrades" - had rejoiced as we got the news that the Lebanese >courts had rejected a Japanese demand for extradition of these >anti-imperialists to Japan. We are deeply concerned about their recent >expulsion. >The recent intensification of Israeli attacks against South Lebanon >and the Lebanese civilian population should oblige the government of >Lebanon to show special solidarity with all persecuted international >comrades-in-arms for the liberation of the Arab peoples, and against >the Israeli crimes. The five Japanese anti-imperialists are >outstanding examples in this struggle and have gained high esteem from >all freedom-loving people. >This is why we want to express to the Lebanese authorities our concern >and our protest about these actions. >It is now the duty of all democratic governments, organisations and >individuals, to put pressure on the Japanese government to protect the >lives and the freedom of the JRA anti-imperialists. >We ask the Lebanese authorities that are guilty for the sad fate of >the four fighters at least to join the international declarations of >solidarity for the Japanese anti-imperialists. > >Committee for Anti-Imperialist Solidarity >Vienna, March 21st 2000 > >Movement for Social Liberation / Austria >Casa del Pueblo Latinoamericano / Vienna >International Leninist Current (ILC) >Communist Action (Komak) / Austria >Communist Youth of Austria (KJOe) >Revolutionary Leftist Movement Chile / Austria >Revolutionary Communist League (RKL) / Austria >Revolutionary Communist League (RKL) / Thuringia >Marxist Circle / Hamburg >Autonomous Palestine Group (APG) >Trial Groups to the DHKP-C Trials >Committee for International Solidarity (KL) >Alliance for Peace and Social Justice / Germany >Coordinators of the Alliance of Anti-Imperialists, Communists and >Socialists / Saxonia >Representatives of the "Internationalism" Platform / Saxonia >autonomi-kollektivet / Denmark > >************************************** >International Leninist Current (ILC) >Corriente Leninista Internacional (CLI) >PF 23, A-1040 Wien, Austria >Tel & Fax +43 1 504 00 10 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________ KOMINFORM P.O. 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