Turkey: 8am Four Prisoners Martyred
TWO WOMEN PRISONERS OF THE DHKP-C, SEVGI ERDOGAN AND FIDAN KALSEN, ARE CONFIRMED DEAD. GUNFIRE HAS BEEN HEARD INSIDE BAYRAMPASA PRISON, ISTANBUL. _ MURAT OZDEMIR OF THE DHKP-C REPORTED MARTYRED IN BURSA PRISON SO FAR, THERE ARE THREE MARTYRS IN THE ATTACKS KNOWN ABOUT, ALL DHKP-C (DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS PARTISI-CEPHESI, REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION PARTY-FRONT) THE OTHERS ARE THE WOMEN PRISONERS SEVGI ERDOGAN IN USAK PRISON AND FIDAN KALSEN IN CANAKKALE PRISON. THE REVOLUTIONARY MARTYRS ARE IMMORTAL! _ AHMET IBILI (DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS PARTISI-CEPHESI, REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION PARTY-FRONT) CONFIRMED MARTYRED IN UMRANIYE PRISON. FOUR PRISONERS KNOWN TO BE DEAD SO FAR, ALL DHKP-C. _
Call for Jakarta Conference June 7-10, 2001
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 00:35:58 -0500 (EST) From: Socialism From Below [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: ASIET [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ASIET [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Call for Jakarta Conference June 7-10, 2001 ASIA PACIFIC PEOPLESí SOLIDARITY CONFERENCE ìFighting Neo-Liberalism in the Asia-Pacific.î Jakarta, Indonesia 7-10 June, 2001 Come to Jakarta in June 2001! Join the struggle to globalise resistance to the neo-liberal offensive! The conference will be held between June 7-10, 2001 and will be organised by the Indonesian Centre for Reform and Social Emancipation (INCREASE ). The conference will be held in the city of Jakarta. From within Indonesia, the conference will be supported by the affiliates of INCREASE, namely, the National Student League for Democracy (Liga Nasional Mahasiswa untuk Demokrasi, LNMD), the National Peasant Union (Serikat Tani Nasional, STN), the Indonesian National Front for Labour Struggle (Front Nasional Perjuangan Buruh Indonesia, FNPBI), the People's Cultural Network (Jaringan Kerja Kebudayaan Rakyat, JAKKER), the People's Youth Movement (Gerakan Pemuda Kerakyatan, GPK), and the People's Legal Aid Foundation (Lembaga Bantuan Hukum Rakyat, LBHR). Aims of the Conference INCREASE sees the conference as having several complimentary aims. First, INCREASE intends the conference to raise awareness within Indonesia about the nature and role of neo-liberal ecnomic policies, as well as the role of the international financial institutions - such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) - in forcing neo-liberal policies upon the peoples of the Third World in general and Indonesia, in particular. In this context INCREASE hopes the conference will provide a forum whereby Indonesian organisations waging campaigns to improve the welfare and empowerment of the people can come to see their campaigns as linked to the generalised fight against neo-liberalism. Second, INCREASE hopes that the discussion among Indonesian organisations, intellectuals and activists at the conference as well as between the Indonesian participants and overseas participants will help advance the process of the progressive movement in Indonesia being able to develop its own alternatives to the IMF prescribed neoliberal strategy being enforced at the moment. Third, INCREASE wished the conference to also function as a vehicle for deepening the cooperation between progressive forces in the Asia Pacific region. Where feasible we also hope that it can help develop cooperation between the Asia Pacific and other major areas, such as Europe, North America and Latin America. At the moment, we have commitments from partner movements in South Korea, the Philippines, Pakistan, East Timor and Australia that they will attend and speak at the conference. We also have confirmations of attendance from activists in the United States and the Netherlands. We expect further confirmations in the next few months. INCREASE hopes that concrete measures to deepen and concretise cooperation will develop out of the conference. Fourth, INCREASE wishes to introduce the international participants to the struggle for reform and social empowerment, for fundamental social change, in Indonesia. In addition to panels and workshops on a range themes relevant to the general analysis and struggle against neoliberalism, there will also be many panels and workshops that will relate these issues to Indonesia. There will be speakers from all sectors of society and from the progressive political parties and currents in Indonesia. We intend that some of the affiliates sectoral organisations of INCREASE will organise 7-10 exposure programmes in their areas of activity immediately after the conference. Conference themes Some of the specific themes of the conference will include: * The nature of the current crisis in liberalism * Why is neo-liberalism the capitalists current preferred solution * The nature of the international financial institutions * Relations between (a) Europe and Asia-Pacific and (b) the US and Asia-Pacific * The impact of neo-liberalism in developed as well as developing countries * The role of the military in defending neo-liberal regimes * Strategies for fundamental social change: democratic revolution; popular power; socialism etc * How to achieve international collaboration in struggle * The role of feminist struggle * The social economic crisis and the environmental impact * Trade union organising and worker mobilising * Peasant union organising; land issues; and peasant campaigning * Political strategies and mass mobilising * Culture and struggle The conference will be an open, public, live-in conference. The agenda will be decided by the INCREASE conference organising committee, in consultation with partner organisations. INCREASE is, of course, in hearing suggestions for additional themes and topics. There will be a strong cultural component in the conference programme. We
DHKC: URGENT CALL FOR ACTION
- Original Message - From: "DHKC" [EMAIL PROTECTED] URGENT CALL FOR ACTION At all of Turkey's prisons the state stated to massacre by using weapons and bombs. In the all prisons where the Death Fast resistance takes place, this morning an assault by the police and the military has initiated at 4.00 a.m. This inhumane attack in the prisons where the Death Fast has been taking place for 61 days, will cost hundreds of lives. Against the attack all the political prisoners started to resist. Until now the state has only succeeded in Ankara Ulucanlar prison where two political women prisoners were on Death Fast. They were taken to hospital by using excessive force. All the other prisoners in Ulucanlar are transferred to the other prisons. The attack of the state could not succeed so far in the other prisons. After the attack was launched, mainly in the Umraniye prison, the Death Fast resisters started to burn themselves to death. On December 16, they had already announced that if an attack has launched by the state they would burn themselves to death. The bloody face of the fascism in our country is once again revealed clearly with this attack for massacre. Fascism could never have the courage before for such an attack. TO ALL OUR PEOPLE THE STATE IS OPENLY MASSACRING OUR PEOPLE. THE GOVERNMENT OF ECEVIT DECLARED A NEW WAR TARGETING OUR PEOPLE. ALL THOSE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES MUST DO SOMETHING AGAINST THE ATTACK OF THE STATE. All the countries and institutions, which supported and pumped courage to the Turkish state to launch this attack, are responsible of the massacre. Mainly the European Union and European Parliament, which has initiated to welcome Turkey as a candidate member, supported this massacre directly or indirectly. TO ALL EUROPEANS THIS IS THE STATE YOU COLLABORATE WITH. YOU TOO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MASSACRE. AT LEAST NOW SEE THE BLOODY FACE OF THE STATE IN TURKEY AND DO NOT CARRY THE BURDEN OF BEING SILENT AGAINST THIS MASSACRE. YOU HAD EXPERIENCED FASCISM IN YOUR HISTORY, DO NOT BE LATE ONCE AGAIN. We call upon all our people and everyone who considers herself/himself a human beingto condemn the state in Turkey and do whatever they can do. We are on Hunger Strike in many cities of Europe. We had said that these Hunger Strike tents would be converted into funeral houses with the news of each new martyr. NOW WE CALL UPON EVERYONE TO GATHER IN THESE TENTS. In Holland: Eendrachtsplein, Rotterdam. In Belgium: DHKC Brussels Information Bureau In Britain: Manor House, London
TURKEY: STATE LAUNCHES MASSIVE ATTACK ON DEATH FASTERS
From: "dhkcbureau" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [L-I] TURKEY: STATE LAUNCHES MASSIVE ATTACK ON DEATH FASTERS URGENT CALL FOR ACTION At all of Turkey's prisons the state has started to massacre by using weapons and bombs. In all the prisons where the Death Fast resistance is taking place, this morning an assault by the police and the military was started at 4 am. This inhumane attack in the prisons where the Death Fast has been taking place for 61 days will cost hundreds of lives. Against the attack all the political prisoners started to resist. Until now the state has only succeeded in Ankara Ulucanlar Prison where two political women prisoners were on the Death Fast. They were taken to hospital by using excessive force. All the other prisoners in Ulucanlar have been transferred to the other prisons. The attack of the state has not succeeded so far in the other prisons. After the attack was launched, particularly in Umraniye Prison, the Death Fast resisters have started to burn themselves to death. On December 16, they had already announced that if an attack has launched by the state they would burn themselves to death. The bloody face of fascism in our country is once again revealed clearly with this attack aimed at massacre. Fascism could never have the courage before for such an attack. TO ALL OUR PEOPLE THE STATE IS OPENLY MASSACRING OUR PEOPLE. THE GOVERNMENT OF ECEVIT HAS DECLARED A NEW WAR TARGETING OUR PEOPLE.. ALL THOSE WHO CONSIDER THEMSELVES HUMAN MUST DO SOMETHING AGAINST THE ATTACK OF THE STATE. All the countries and institutions which supported and pumped courage into the Turkish state to launch this attack, are responsible of the massacre. The European Union and European Parliament, which have started to welcome Turkey as a candidate member, supported this massacre directly or indirectly. TO ALL EUROPEANS THIS IS THE STATE YOU COLLABORATE WITH. YOU TOO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE MASSACRE. AT LEAST NOW SEE THE BLOODY FACE OF THE STATE IN TURKEY AND DO NOT CARRY THE BURDEN OF BEING SILENT AGAINST THIS MASSACRE. YOU HAD EXPERIENCED FASCISM IN YOUR HISTORY, DO NOT BE LATE ONCE AGAIN. We call upon all our people and everyone who considers herself/himself a human being to condemn the state in Turkey and do whatever they can do. We are on Hunger Strike in many cities of Europe. We had said that these Hunger Strike tents would be converted into funeral parlours with the news of each new martyr. NOW WE CALL UPON EVERYONE TO GATHER IN THESE TENTS. In Holland: Eendrachtsplein, Rotterdam. In Belgium: DHKC Brussels Information Bureau In Britain: Manor House, London ___ Leninist-International mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To change your options or unsubscribe go to: http://lists.wwpublish.com/mailman/listinfo/leninist-international ___ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___
Vietnam News Dec 19
Party leader visits residents in HCM City Party General Secretary Le Kha Phieu yesterday visited residents in quarter 4 in Binh Thach district and Ho Van Hue tenement in Phu Nhuan district, Ho Chi Minh City. This was part of his trip to the city to attend the seventh Congress of the Ho Chi Minh Citys Party Committee. General Secretary Phieu heard reports on achievements recorded by the people of the quarter 4, an outstanding quarter, for the past five years. He also inquired after their heath and livelihood and praised their spirit of mutual assistance. He said he wished that the quarter would obtain sustainable developments towards prosperity and civilisation. Mr Phieu called on and presented gifts to Cham ethnic minority people in the quarter and visited Ho Van Hue tenement. President values Heroic Mothers contributions President Tran Duc Luong expressed profound gratitude of the Party and State to the sacrifices and devotions by Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and families with contributions to the struggle for the national independence. During a meeting with Vietnamese Heroic Mothers and contributors to the country from the Central Highlands province of Dac Lac in Hanoi on December 18, President Luong inquired after their health and living conditions and was happy at the mutual assistance of people of ethnic minority groups in the province, which helped many families to get out of hunger and poverty. The president also asked the provincial authorities to pay more attention to the spiritual as well as material life of the Vietnamese Heroic Mothers, families, and of the war invalids and families of war martyrs. The Heroic Mothers expressed their gratitude to the Party, State and President Luongs attention paid to them. They further affirmed to continue encouraging and educating their offspring to follow the revolutionary tradition, thus making a contribution to the national renovation and building a richer and stronger country. Vietnam treasures co-operation with Iraq, says president President Tran Duc Luong receives Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh. Vietnam always treasures its friendship and co-operation with Iraq, said President Tran Duc Luong while receiving Iraqi Trade Minister Mohammed Mehdi Saleh in Hanoi on December 18. President Luong thanked the Iraqi government and people for their support to Vietnam and expressed the Vietnamese people's solidarity with the Iraqi people in their just struggle for national independence and territorial integrity. He expressed the hope that the Vietnam-Iraq traditional friendship and co-operation would be further developed to their mutual benefit and for peace, stability and development in each region. President Luong asked Minister Saleh to convey his best regards to President Saddam Hussein and expressed his wishes that under the latter's leadership the Iraqi people would continue overcoming every difficulty and obtaining greater achievements in their national defence and construction. Trade Minister Saleh expressed joy at the achievements of the Vietnamese people in the past struggle for national independence and in national construction. He briefed President Luong about Iraq's political and socio-economic situation and affirmed the Iraqi people's determination to continue with their struggle for national independence and territorial integrity while constantly boosting co-operation with Vietnam. (VNA) Cu Chis excellent pupils presented scholarships PM Phan Van Khai presents scholarships to excellent pupils in difficulties. Prime Minister Phan Van Khai participated in a ceremony to present scholarships granted by the Governmental Office, the Ha Tien Cement Company No 1 and others donors to 400 excellent pupils in difficulties of Cu Chi district, Ho Chi Minh City on December 17. The prime minister urged the pupils to learn harder in order to become good citizens, thus making active contributions to national construction, deserving to be children of a locality that has revolutionary traditions and made great achievements during the countrys resistance wars. More than 10,000 martyrs died on the land of Cu Chi so that their children can be able to go to schools, the prime minister stressed. The authorities and people of Cu Chi have always attached importance to education and training work. Since 1996, the district has set up an Education Sponsoring Fund with the participation of 82 donors to help excellent pupils in difficulties. The Vietnam Unilever group has announced a two-year educational sponsoring programme worth over VND 3 billion for the district. The programme includes providing US $50,000 as scholarships to study abroad to Cu Chis young talents in the 2000-2002 period and building a modern kindergarten worth VND 2.5 billion in An Nhon Tay, a poor village of the district. Other units such as Kymdan Company, the Association for Poor Patients also sent gifts to Cu Chis excellent pupils.
France: Modernising French Communist confronts Soviet past - Times
Monday 18 December 2000 Modernising French Communist confronts Soviet past PARIS: French Communist leader Robert Hue gave a landmark speech denouncing his party's Soviet past on Saturday, just before a futuristic rave party intended to enhance the party's appeal to the young on its 80th anniversary. Confronting the French Communists' embarrassing Stalinist history more directly than ever, Hue admitted that the movement had closed its eyes to oppression while toeing the line of the Soviet Communist model. "We know what monstrous blindness to the terrible realities, perfectly antagonistic to the Communist ideal, this conception has brought," Hue said. Hue said the French Communist Party had in the past strayed from its true values by identifying too closely with the Russian experience. There had been "the very heavy consequence, in the context of a terrifying global confrontation between Communism and capitalism, of throwing the parties identifying with the second into obeying Stalinist dogma". "So this imposed a conception of Communist parties, making them instruments of an international Communist movement at the heart of which was the obligation to recognise the Soviet model," he said. "It must be said, the French Communist Party was the not the least zealous in going along with this conception," he said. Party sources said the speech marked a turning point in efforts to exorcise Stalinist ghosts lingering from the decades when the party slavishly supported the former Soviet Union's foreign policy even as other European Communists turned away. Memories persist of the party's support for the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in the "Prague Spring" of 1968. Hue's predecessor, Georges Marchais, went on television to defend the Red Army's invasion of Afghanistan in 1980. Faced with three decades of declining support, Hue fired a "modernise-or-die" warning at his party in March, convincing militants to adopt a plan to refresh its image and seek support from the young, women and immigrants. Crowning the party's anniversary celebrations, activists organised a disco in its imposing Paris headquarters -- once nicknamed "Le Bunker" -- adopting the theme "Marx Attacks" with a flying saucer motif. Hue's modernisation drive has drawn scorn from hardliners who say the party's place in a coalition with the ruling Socialists and Green party has diluted its ideals. Hue said he was committed to transforming the Communist Party into a force that would put power back in the hands of citizens and look further than capitalism. "It is this desire that give sense to our modern Communist ambition of going beyond capitalism -- and not just adapting it -- to set ourselves free," he said. Once a major force in French politics, the Communist Party won one-fourth of votes in the early 1970s but garnered under seven percent in European Parliament elections last year. (Reuters) For reprint rights:Times Syndication Service Copyright © 2000 Times Internet Limited. All rights reserved. Disclaimer
Turkey: Soldiers, prisoners battle in jails; at least 17 dead - AP
- Original Message - From: "Press Agency Ozgurluk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Soldiers, prisoners battle in Turkish prisoners; at least 17 dead By HARMONIE TOROS The Associated Press 12/19/00 3:13 PM ISTANBUL, Turkey (AP) -- Turkey's attempt to regain control of its prisons ended in bloodshed Tuesday, with two soldiers killed while storming the prisons and at least 15 inmates dead -- many from choosing to burn themselves alive rather than surrender. The government, pressing to break up wards controlled by inmates, raided the prisons to prevent more than 200 hunger strikers from starving themselves. Inmates linked to outlawed leftist groups launched the hunger strike more than two months ago to protest government plans to transfer them from their wards to new prisons equipped with small cells, where they fear they will be more vulnerable to abuse by authorities. The government says the only way it can regain control of its prisons -- often rocked by riots and hostage takings -- is by breaking up the large wards, which it says political groups run like indoctrination centers. "From now on the state's sovereignty ... will be realized ... in prisons," Justice Minister Hikmet Sami Turk said. After intense fighting, soldiers forced inmates out of the wards in 18 of the 20 prisons they stormed, and brought 143 hunger strikers to hospitals. Clashes persisted in Istanbul's Umraniye prison and in a prison in the western city of Canakkale. Transfers to the new prisons began after soldiers secured the wards. Across Turkey, hundreds of people were detained for demonstrating against the prison raids. Scores of people were injured in the protests in Istanbul. Turk said the inmates in Istanbul's Bayrampasa prison were armed with AK-47 assault rifles, a claim disputed by Ozgur Tayad, a prisoners' support group. In two prisons, authorities broke holes through the walls of the wards and in at least one case soldiers were dropped onto a prison roof by helicopters. Turk said 15 inmates died Tuesday, most after setting themselves on fire. Ozgur Tayad said at least eight had been killed by soldiers. One soldier was killed in clashes in Umraniye and another in a prison in Canakkale, Turk said. The government gave no details on how the soldiers died. Ozgur Tayad said the soldiers were killed in cross fire. Turkey's independent Human Rights Association disputed Turk's figures, saying that up to 17 inmates had been killed or committed suicide by setting themselves ablaze, with 12 apparently committing suicide in Bayrampasa alone. Ozgur Tayad said 20 were killed. There was no immediate explanation for the discrepancies. The government and radical, armed political groups have long been fighting over control of the wards. Last year, 10 leftist inmates were killed when soldiers stormed an Ankara prison to put an end to a riot. Also in 1999, Islamic militants injured 54 soldiers and took more than 100 prison guards hostage to protest plans to move them from their ward. To political prisoners, remaining in the wards is not only a question of tecting themselves from abuse, some analysts say. Human rights groups say that torture is common in Turkish prisons and that leftists and Kurds are often singled out for abuse. Most senior members of leftist organizations such as the Revolutionary People's Liberation Party-Front -- the group that most of the hunger strikers are linked to -- also are in jail and the wards are one of their main sources of power. Prisoners follow party discipline in the wards, and there are even cases of ward leaders killing followers who are not obedient, according to Human Rights Watch. The People's Liberation Party has more than 1,000 followers in prison, a number that some experts say exceeds their membership outside of prison. Dogu Ergil, political sociology professor at Ankara University and an expert on leftist groups, said the inmates' refusal to surrender could also be seen as an attempt by the group to prove that they are still strong. The battle with the soldiers "is a message to the group that they are very much alive and can continue," said Ergil. "But this is also a sign of desperation because they can do nothing else but annihilate themselves." Turkey has pledged to reform its judicial system, including abolishing numerous freedom-curbing laws, in its effort to join the European Union, which accepted Ankara as a candidate last year. -- Press Agency Ozgurluk In Support of the Revolutionary Peoples Liberation Struggle in Turkey http://www.ozgurluk.org DHKC: http://www.ozgurluk.org/dhkc
Fw: [MLL]DHKC Statement: 134 (resistance to the assault)
From: "STEVE KACZYNSKI" [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Forwarding: the latest information is that prisoners are still holding out in two prisons against attacks by thousands of police and soldiers. I don't know if they can last the night. Turkish TV is full of images of demonstrators being beaten by police.) Date: December 19, 2000 Statement: 134 THE REVOLUTIONARY PRISONERS ARE BEING MASSACRED ATTACKS WITH THE AIM OF COMMITTING A MASSACRE, AND RESISTANCE TO THEM, ARE CONTINUING THOSE WHO SPILL OUR BLOOD WILL PAY A PRICE! This attack is not just against the prisoners, it is directed at the entire people. It is a comprehensive attack. This is an operation to eliminate all forces which are revolutionary, democratic and opposed to the system. This is an operation to confine the opposition to the system in cells. TO OUR PEOPLE AND THE WHOLE WORLD Since the morning of December 19, the images you have seen have been the images of the war the fascist and pro-American authorities have started against the people. Tens of thousands of police and soldiers, special units and Sikorsky helicopters have started open warfare against the prisoners and the people. The attack is being pursued both inside and outside the prisons. While the prisoners are being massacred inside the jails, outside, hundreds of people have been arrested, democratic associations and shantytown districts have been surrounded and in the city squares the police are continuing their savage violence. The attacks are continuing to silence and destroy those who struggle for rights and freedom, both outside and inside the prisons. THE AUTHORITIES CANNOT MANAGE ANYTHING BUT THEY WANT TO STAY ON THEIR FEET BY COMMITTING A SLAUGHTER OF THE PRISONERS They said they wanted to "rescue" them. They rescued them(!) THEY MASSACRED THEM! They are continuing to massacre them. At the moment, the unconfirmed information we have is that 20 to 25 of our captive comrades have been martyred. The resistance is continuing and the number of martyrs will certainly rise. By giving martyrs both inside and outside the prisons, we will make the murderous authorities ashamed. OUR DEATH FAST RESISTANCE IS CONTINUING. Even if the barricades in the prisons are torn down, OUR RESISTANCE WILL CONTINUE, and what will they do then? Neither inside nor outside the prisons will they make us surrender without killing us! THE MHP AND THE FASCIST GOVERNMENT ARE PARTNERS IN COMMITTING MASSACRES This is what democracy in Turkey is. Massacres, executions and torture. It is a tyranny. All the talk of a "social contract" and "postponement" have turned out to be a huge lie. The massacre is to open the 'F' Type prisons. They started to exile some prisoners to Sincan 'F' Type Prison. They admitted that they were preparing for this operation. All their claims have collapsed amid the reality of a massacre. They massacre under the pretext of carrying out a "rescue". They have thrown gas bombs at prisoners who were already on their death-bed. They have shot prisoners even after they had set themselves on fire. THE ASSAULT OPERATION MUST STOP IMMEDIATELY SO LONG AS THE ASSAULT DOES NOT STOP, THE RESISTANCE WILL CARRY ON. Our people, all democratic associations: this is a democratic struggle. This is not the time to be anxious, scared or indulge in daydreams. They cannot make the people silent. They cannot destroy the revolutionaries. This is the time to show that in every form and on every occasion. We call upon all revolutionaries, democratic associations and human rights associations: oppose the massacre. There is a massacre going on very openly before the eyes of the entire world. The fascist authorities are fighting against our people. Nobody should fail to show an attitude. THIS OPERATION IS AIMED AT THOSE WHO THINK DIFFERENTLY FROM THE SYSTEM. THEY ARE SLAUGHTERING THE IDEAS PEOPLE HAVE. The authorities are saying that the "rescue operation is continuing successfully". The words "rescue" and "success" mean a MASSACRE. THE MURDEROUS AUTHORITIES ARE GOING TO BE CRUSHED UNDER THEIR OWN ASSAULT. OUR PRISONERS ARE RESISTING INSIDE AND OUR PEOPLE ARE RESISTING OUTSIDE. THEY CANNOT MAKE OUR PEOPLE SURRENDER! DEVRIMCI HALK KURTULUS CEPHESI (REVOLUTIONARY PEOPLE'S LIBERATION FRONT) _
DEPLOY NOW OR HARDER LATER ON
- Original Message - From: Global Network Against Weapons Nuclear Power in Space [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: mailto:Undisclosed-Recipient:;@mindspring.com Sent: Tuesday, December 19, 2000 8:53 PM Subject: NMD: DEPLOY NOW OR HARDER LATER ON http://washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A20013-2000Dec17?language=printer === + === Washington Post Why Bush's Missile Plan Might Bomb By Robert Kagan Monday, December 18, 2000; Page A27 People who thought a vote for George W. Bush was a vote for rapid deployment of a stronger national missile defense may be disappointed. Missile defense could be the first casualty of the 2000 election fracas. In the effort to reach out to Democrats, Bush's advisers are scouting around for nice little bipartisan policies to push through Congress this year. Missile defense doesn't fit the bill. As with his big tax cut proposal, Bush made missile defense one of the centerpieces of his campaign. He said he favored a more ambitious system than the one proposed by President Clinton, and he promised to deploy his more robust system "at the earliest possible date." But that was then and this is now. Senior Bush advisers are now talking about conducting a thorough "review" of the whole issue. Fair enough, except that the review may prove interminable. Stephen Hadley, slated for one of the top posts in the new administration, has suggested it may take as long as a year. The truth is, there was always reason to wonder whether Bush's tough campaign talk would translate into tough policies. Even if Bush had won the election handily, building domestic support for his more robust missile defense system would have been difficult. For the past few years, Democrats in the House and Senate reluctantly supported President Clinton's missile defense apostasy out of political necessity--to shield Clinton and Gore from Republican attack. But come Jan. 21, 2001, most will flip back to their accustomed roles as crusaders against Republican "Star Wars." Then there is another small problem: the rest of the world. Thanks to the way Clinton mishandled the process of consulting with Europe, even close allies view American plans as harebrained and dangerous. This past year Russia's Vladimir Putin played on those European fears and successfully rebuffed overeager Clinton diplomatists trying to modify the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty to allow Clinton's limited program. Putin will try to play the same game with Bush. The Chinese, meanwhile, may decide to make missile defense the chief obstacle to improved Sino-American relations. They are petrified that a successfully deployed system would undermine their ability to threaten or attack Taiwan. The Chinese have a history of testing U.S. presidents early to see what they're made of. In 1994 they put the heat on Clinton and discovered that his tough 1992 campaign rhetoric about the "butchers of Beijing" was empty. They will put Bush to a similar test, and on what better issue than missile defense, where the rest of the world is already lined up against Washington? So even in the best of circumstances, Bush would have had to spend a lot of political capital at home and abroad. If he stuck by his guns, there was a chance that the allies would eventually come to accept the inevitable. And once the Europeans accepted it, the Russians would be more amenable to cutting a deal on the ABM treaty. The waning opposition in Europe and Moscow would in turn undermine some of the opposition at home. But for this strategy to work, Bush had to be the man of steel. Bush's supporters like to compare him to Ronald Reagan. It was going to take a Reaganesque commitment--and Reagan's devotion to missile defense was almost literally religious--to get a robust system over all the hurdles. This was true even before this past month's electoral fiasco, even before the Democrats picked up seats in the House and pulled even in the Senate. Now the missile defense mountain will be an even steeper climb. Will Bush want to take it on? It is understandable that Bush officials want to wait. The allies do need to be consulted. The Russians ought to get a glimpse at what Bush has to offer. The restive Congress will need massaging. And the new team will need some time to figure out what technologies are actually available, since Clinton long ago killed a number of the most promising missile defense programs. But unfortunately this is one of those times when sweet reason, careful diplomacy, and lengthy deliberation are likely to produce failure. Contrary to what many Bush officials may think, it will be harder, not easier, to gain support for missile defense if Bush waits until 2002. Bush politicos think missile defense is unappetizing this year. But guess what? They won't find it any tastier next year. Meanwhile, once the world figures out that Bush is reluctant to press the issue at home, the aura
INDIA : ML Update, Vol:3; No50; 20 12- 2000. 2/2
From: "cpiml" [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... In US strategy India fits in as a counterveiling force against China. Indian foreign policy response is quite vague on this quuestion. Though, of late, Sino-Indian relations have considerably improved, there is a strong pro-US lobby in India which raises the bogey of China's expansionist designs, makes a hue and cry over the Tibet question, presents China as India's main trade rival etc. We did welcome India's refusal to sign NPT and CTBT because, as a sovereign country, India should have the freedom to decide its course and not succumb to US dictates. But the threat of a nuclear race hotting up in South Asia is looming large before us. Despite the Gujral docrine promising good neighbourly relations and despite making a beginning in talks with Pakistan, nothing concrete is expected to emerge. Outstanding problems between India and Pakistan, including the Kashmir dispute, can only be solved within a broader framework of cooperation that includes developing SAARC as a powerful regional economic bloc and concluding a bilateral NPT with Pakistan. India should also explore the potential of strategic cooperation with China in order to accelerate the process of multi-polarity. But it is highly unlikely that India's present ruling dispensation, attached as it is with numerous overt and covert ties with West, will tread this path. The impact of globalisation is already being felt in Europe where the unemployment rate has gone up to 11% (in absolute tems 20 million persons are without jobs), a figure comparable to that of the pre-Seond World War Great Depression. France, where the unemployment rate has reached 12%, is the worst hit. This coupled with a drastic reduction in social welfare has given rise to waves of protests and strikes. ... The crisis of neo-liberalism is also evident in country after country in Africa, Latin America and Asia. This has given rise to a lot of dissension among the high priests of neo-liberal orthodoxy and Japan has reprotedly begun to quesion the wisdom of the neo-liberal package of macroeconomic stabilisation and structural adjustment. ... Unemployment in the USA remained at the rate of 6% but the proportion of low-wage service sector jobs has increased. Jobs are being created but many are temporary jobs without any security and without a future. Japan which till recently was paraded as a model of economic progress -- and Indian capitalists missed no opportunity to preach to their workers about the cooperative attitude of the Japanese workers that is supposed to have worked wonders in Japan -- has lost much of its shine. The Asian 'tiger' economies, assidously projected as the model for developing countries, are now caught in a web of crises. ... The Tigers have started showing signs of tiredness and in the coming years militant working class actions are bound to intensify. In fact, a run on Third World currencies and sudden flight of capital resulting in a debilitating impact on the economy, first witnessed in a very acute form in the case of Mexican meltdown, is becoming a wider phenomenon rendering many Third World economies highly vulnerable in the era of globalisation. On the whole, in seven years of globalisation the growth record of the world economy has remained lacklusture -- the average growth rate in this period being lower than the rate in the 1970s. !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" HTMLHEAD META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR STYLE/STYLE /HEAD BODY bgColor=#ff DIVFONT size=2nbsp; P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-TOP: 19.85pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"SPAN style="COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Univers Condensed'"ML/SPAN I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"Update/I/BB style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Surya"?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /o:p/o:p/SPAN/B/P P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-TOP: 19.85pt; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Modern"A CPI(ML) Weekly News Magazine/SPAN/BSPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Surya"o:p/o:p/SPAN/P P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Univers Condensed'"Vol.-3; No.-50; 20-12-2000o:p/o:p/SPAN/B/P P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Univers Condensed'"nbsp;o:p/o:p/SPAN/B/P P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Univers Condensed'"Editorial:o:p/o:p/SPAN/B/P P class=MsoNormal style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: 'Univers Condensed'"nbsp;o:p/o:p/SPAN/B/P P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN-BOTTOM: 0.05in; TEXT-ALIGN: justify"B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal"SPAN style="COLOR:
CP of Greece. Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People taken in Athens meeting
Subject: CP of Greece, Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People taken in Athens meeting SolidNet The purpose of the Solid Net ( Solidarity Network ) is to inform on the activities as well as the ideological and political views of different Communist and Workers Parties on National and International issues. All articles in the SolidNet are the responsibility of the authors and in no way commit this Web Site. [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.solidnet.org CP of Greece, Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People taken in Athens meeting - From: Communist Party of Greece http://www.kke.gr, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Solidarity Statement with the Palestinian People taken in Athens meeting We representatives of Communist and Workers Parties of the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean, the Gulf Region and the Red Sea, meeting in Athens on 16th December 2000 at the fringes of the 16th Congress of the Communist Party of Greece, declare our condemnation to the Israeli bloody aggression on the Palestinian people, and confirm our full support with their legitimate just struggle for independence and national sovereignty and the return of the Palestinian refugees according to the resolutions of the international legitimacy and condemn the American policy that take the side of its strategic ally Israel. We salute the just struggle of the Palestinian people and its heroic steadfastness and great sacrifices in facing the Israeli aggression, and we appeal to all peace-loving and freedom forces all over the world to accelerate their solidarity activities with the Palestinian people to: 1. Stop the Israeli aggression and its bloody crimes and lift the Israeli military, economic sanctions imposed on the Palestinian people. 2. Continue the struggle and pressure on all levels to force the Israeli government to abide to the international legitimacy especially resolutions 242,338,194 and implement them to ensure the complete Israeli withdrawal from all Arab territories in Syria and Lebanon occupied since the 5th of June 1967, and demolish all its settlements and establish the Palestinian independent sovereign State with Eastern Jerusalem as its capital. 3. Provide immediate international Protection to the Palestinian People to ensure their security until their independence. 4. Form international investigation commission to investigate the Israeli occupation, and punish the criminals according to the International Law and Geneva agreement. 5. Demand the UN sponsor to the future negotiations to brake the American monopoly in leading the negotiations, due to the American role in taking bluntly the side of Israel in its aggression. Athens, 16th December 2000 Egyptian Communist Party AKEL of Cyprus Communist Party of Greece Tudeh Party of Iran Iraqi Communist Party Communist Party of Kurdistan-Iraq Communist Party of Israel Jordanian Communist Party Lebanese Communist Party Palestinian Peoples Party Communist Party of Sudan Syrian Communist Party Syrian Communist Party -- eGroups Sponsor -~-~ eLerts It's Easy. It's Fun. Best of All, it's Free! http://click.egroups.com/1/9699/0/_/22961/_/977250729/ -_- Knowledge is Power! Elimination of the exploitation of man by man http://www.egroups.com/group/pttp/ POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Change Delivery Options: http://www.egroups.com/mygroups ___ KOMINFORM P.O. Box 66 00841 Helsinki - Finland +358-40-7177941, fax +358-9-7591081 e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.kominf.pp.fi ___ Kominform list for general information. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Anti-Imperialism list for geopolitics. Subscribe/unsubscribe messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___
Iraq brands future US secretary of state as war criminal.
Iraq brands future US secretary of state as `war criminal` BAGHDAD, Dec 18 (AFP) - An Iraqi government newspaper on Monday branded the US secretary of state-designate, retired General Colin Powell, as a "war criminal" and said his nomination was a sign that American diplomacy was in decline. "The choice of Colin Powell, an arrogant military man who understands nothing of how to manage political affairs, ... proves the new US administration has nothing new to offer, except for continued aggression against the will of independent peoples," charged Al-Jumhuriya. It accused Powell of being a "war criminal," apparently for his leading role in the 1991 Gulf conflict which evicted Iraqi occupation forces from Kuwait. "All the indications are that American diplomacy is in a state of decline in the face of the forces defying the agressiveness of the United States," said the Iraqi daily. On Saturday, US President-elect George W. Bush nominated Powell, a Gulf War hero for the United States and former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, as his secretary of state. Powell promptly delivered a blunt warning to Iraq's leadership. "Saddam Hussein is sitting on a failed regime that is not going to be around in a few years' time ... We are in the strong position, he is in the weak position," said Powell. "We will work with our allies to re-energize the sanctions regime," which has been in force since Iraq invaded Kuwait in 1990, he added. An Iraqi information ministry spokesman said Sunday Powell had "ignored the fact that the (US-led Gulf War) coalition has fallen apart" and that only Britain continued to support the hard line against Iraq. "The current international mood is against US policy and maintaining the embargo," he said. -- Iraq shrugs off warning from Colin Powell BAGHDAD, Dec 17 (AFP) - An Iraqi military official on Sunday shrugged off a warning from US secretary of state-designate Colin Powell that President Saddam Hussein's rule was coming to an end. "Powell's threats do not frighten us and they will not make us bow," the commander of Iraq's air defences, General Shahin Mohammad Yassin, said at a news conference in Baghdad. "Let him make threats. Others have done the same before him," Yassin said, referring to the outgoing administration of US President Bill Clinton. Such threats only "make us (Iraq) more determined." On Saturday, president-elect George W. Bush, who is to take office in January, nominated Gulf War hero and former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, retired General Colin Powell, as his secretary of state. Powell, joining a team that also includes vice president-elect Dick Cheney, who was defence secretary during the 1991 war against Iraq, promptly delivered a blunt warning to Iraq's leadership. "Saddam Hussein is sitting on a failed regime that is not going to be around in a few years' time," he said. "The world is going to leave him behind, and that regime behind", Powell added. "I don't know what it will take to bring him (Saddam) to his senses, but we are in the strong position, he is in the weak position," Powell said. __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ To unsubscribe, write to [EMAIL PROTECTED] !doctype html public "-//w3c//dtd html 4.0 transitional//en" htmlSTOP NATO: °NO PASARAN! - HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK P HRCENTERSTRONGListBot Sponsor/STRONG/CENTERHRP b/bnbsp; brbWhich is a totally accurate description of the General who said/b brb"The number of dead (Iraqis) don't interest me."nbsp; This is the sadist/b brbwho proudly buried thousands ofnbsp; Iraqis alive in the desert, and/b brbprevailed over the infamous "Highways of Death."nbsp; It is also/b brban appropriate and accurate definition of our vice president elect,/b brbour current president and his secretary of state, his nationial security/b brbadvisor and the secretary of defense (i.e. secy. of war), just as it is of our/b brbnotorious Mr. Kissinger, all of whom will never see their day/b brbin an international court ofnbsp; justice for their war crimeswhich is/b brbexactly WHY the US will not sign on to the court.nbsp; The Guarantee that our/b brbwar criminals have total immunity is their license to continue killing and/b brbdestroyingnbsp; the powerless and defenseless around the world with/b brb"gung ho" American enthusiam and "pride."/b brbnels/b br--- pFrancisco Javier Bernal wrote: blockquote TYPE=CITESTOP NATO: iexcl;NO PASARAN! - a href="HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK"HTTP://WWW.STOPNATO.ORG.UK/a p=== ListBot Sponsor == brStart Your Own FREE Email List at a href="http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb"http://www.listbot.com/links/joinlb /a
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Radio Havana Cuba - News Update - 18 December 2000
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*FIDEL CASTRO OFFICIALLY INAUGURATES JOINT VENTURE ENERGAS PLANT
*BURUNDI'S MINISTER FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS AND COOPERATION VISITS CUBA
*WORKING COMMISSIONS WIND UP DISCUSSIONS PRIOR TO PARLIAMENTARY
SESSIONS
*WEB SITE ON THE 1961 BAY OF PIGS INVASION
*SUSPICIOUS LEGAL MANEUVERS TO RELEASE TERRORISTS IN PANAMA
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*FIDEL CASTRO OFFICIALLY INAUGURATES JOINT VENTURE ENERGAS PLANT
Matanzas, December 18 (RHC)-- Cuban President Fidel Castro
officially inaugurated the ENERGAS plant and the Cardenas-Matanzas
oil pipelines on Sunday, located in Matanzas province. The Cuban
leader stated that the installations are an example of what is
currently being done to improve the island's economy.
The plant -- which produces electricity, gas, sulfur and solvents --
is a Cuban-Canadian joint venture with high-level technology, all in
compliance with environmental protection.
Speaking to the workers of the ENERGAS plant about the island's
energy situation, the Cuban leader pointed out that the country's oil
production has already reached the figure of three million tons,
adding that next year it will reach four million.
President Fidel Castro added that the Cuban-Canadian plant is of
great importance. He said it shows us the way we should go to
continue producing electricity -- something that is decisive for the
economic and social development of the country.
The Cuban president also inaugurated the Cardenas-Matanzas oil
pipelines -- with an extension of 75 kilometers and a capacity of up
to two and a half million tons of heavy oil a year.
*BURUNDI'S MINISTER FOR FOREIGN RELATIONS AND COOPERATION VISITS
CUBA
Havana, December 18 (RHC)-- Burundi's Minister for Foreign Relations
and Cooperation, Severin Ntahomuvukiye, is currently visiting the
island. On Monday, the Burundi official placed a floral wreath before
the monument of Cuba's National Hero, Jose Marti.Cuban Deputy Foreign
Minister Jose Guerra Menchero accompanied the African nation's
foreign minister.
The Burundi foreign minister arrived in Havana Sunday night. During
his stay, he will meet with Cuban Foreign Minister Felipe Perez Roque
and other government officials.
*WORKING COMMISSIONS WIND UP DISCUSSIONS PRIOR TO PARLIAMENTARY
SESSIONS
Havana, December 18 (RHC)-- Ten working commissions of the Cuban
Parliament will wind up two days of meetings and exchanges prior
opening parliamentary sessions, scheduled to begin on Thursday in the
Cuban capital.
The working sessions included discussions about life on the island,
the Cuban economy, press and communications.
During Thursday's Parliamentary sessions at Havana's
International Convention Center, parliamentarians will discuss and
approve the guidelines for the 2001 economic and social budget.
Cuban Deputy Foreign Minister Jorge Bolanos told reporters on Sunday
that the island has diplomatic relations with 171 countries, with 101
missions abroad.
Speaking before the Cuban Parliament's International Relations
Commission, Bolanos emphasized the importance of the island's
membership in the Africa, Caribbean and Pacific Group, the ACP --
which enjoys a privileged economic relationship with the European
Union.
Bolanos stressed this year's victory at the United Nations General
Assembly when the U.S. blockade against the island was condemned by
157 of its member nations. The Cuban official said that this was a
good example of the international community's condemnation of
Washington's anti-Cuba policies.
*WEB SITE ON THE 1961 BAY OF PIGS INVASION
Havana, December 18 (RHC)-- An interactive Web site on the 1961 Bay
of Pigs invasion has been inaugurated in Havana. The event was part
of activities to commemorate the 40th anniversary of that crucial
episode in the history of relations between the United States and
Cuba.
The Web site includes full information on the mercenary invasion and
Cuba's defense operations, as well as videos, photos and interviews
with some of those involved from both sides. It also includes a call
on experts and officials in the United States and Cuba, who were
involved in the historical circumstances that led to the Bay of Pigs
invasion. They have been invited to participate in a scientific
conference entitled "Giron: 40 Anos Despues" ("Bay of Pigs: 40 Years
Later"), to be held March 20th through the 25th here in Havana. The
Web site address is: www.playagiron.cu.
Jose Ramon Fernandez, President of the Organizing Committee of
Activities on the 40th Anniversary of the Bay of Pigs Invasion,
explained that the interactive Web site is the result of the joint
work of four Cuban institutions: Cuba's History Institute, the Center
for Studies on the United States, the State Security Research Center
and the Center for
Korean Central News Agency Dec 19
TODAY'S NEWS (December.19.2000 Juche 89) [CONTENTS] * Kim Jong Il directs land realignment project in South Hwanghae Province * U.S. Army secretary's remarks flayed * Anniversary of Kim Jong Il's election as Supreme Commander commemorated * Remark of U.S. ambassador to S. Korea * Three principles of Korea's reunification * History of 20th century indicts Japan * DPRK boasts edifices bearing word "youth" * Brilliant life of Kim Jong Suk * WPK praised as ever-victorious party For Spanish-speaking people * kim jong il dirige sobre terreno arreglo de tierra de provincia de hwanghae de sur * historia de siglo 20 acusa a japon Kim Jong Il directs land realignment project in South Hwanghae Province Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- General Secretary Kim Jong Il on Monday gave on-site guidance to the land leveling and realignment project in South Hwanghae Province. He went round Yonan and Chongdan counties and other parts of the province and acquainted himself in detail with the progress of land realignment project. Feasting his eyes on the vast expanse of standardized fields, he was greatly satisfied to note that soldier-builders and people intensely loyal to the party and the revolution have done a lot of work in such a short span of time by fully displaying the revolutionary spirit of fortitude, the revolutionary spirit of soldiers, and highly praised their proud feats. Then he advanced highly important tasks that would serve as a guideline in accelerating the socialist rural construction including land realignment and bringing about a radical turn in agricultural production. Saying that the land leveling and rezoning project started by our party is an important work to obtain new arable land for increased grain output and realize the comprehensive mechanization of agriculture, he stressed the work should be dynamically pushed forward without a let-up through a mass drive. Now that rich experience has been gained through the land realignment projects in Kangwon, north Phyongan and south Hwanghae provinces it is possible to realign the land across the country in a short span of time if the organizational and political work is conducted among the masses in keeping with a high degree of their revolutionary enthusiasm, he said, urging all the provinces, cities and counties to work hard to finish the land realignment by their own efforts. He also set forth tasks to be fulfilled to increase the grain output in the realigned paddy and non-paddy fields. Learning about the specific agricultural situation of the province, he said it is very important to boost agriculture in the province, the largest granary of the country. And he urged industrial establishments and other relevant units to satisfactorily supply necessary farm materials to it in time. The province is favorable for double cropping as its soil is fertile and climate mild, he said, pointing out that no portion of this precious land should remain idle and double cropping should be introduced on a large scale with main stress on grain. Then he put forth tasks to be carried out to build all rural villages well as befitting socialism. Noting that officials and agricultural workers in the province have done a lot of work to implement the "theses on the socialist rural question in our country", he earnestly called for turning all the rural villages into modern socialist villages good to work and live in so as to hand them down to posterity. Accompanying him were secretary Kim Kuk Thae, department director Jong Ha Chol and first deputy department directors Pak Song Bong and Jang Song Thaek of the Worker's Party of Korea Central Committee and generals of the Korean People's Army Hyon Chol Hae and Pak Jae Gyong. On the spot he was received by vice marshal of the KPA Ri Yong Mu, chief secretary of the south Hwanghae provincial committee of the WPK Kim Un Gi, Col. Gen. of the KPA Sim Myong Su, vice-Minister of Agriculture Choe Sang Byok and leading officials of the province and counties. U.S. Army secretary's remarks flayed Pyongyang, December 19 (KCNA) -- The South Korean Measure Committee on the Mass Killings of Civilians in Rogun-ri released a statement on December 15 denouncing U.S. Army secretary Caldera for having denied the shooting orders related to the case, the Seoul-based "Yonhap News" (internet) reported. The statement noted that Caldera made remarks distorting the truth despite evident testimonies of U.S. Korean War veterans. His remarks are intended to evade or downplay the U.S. military and government's responsibility for the massacres and water down and distort the case. They are a sinister behavior to shift the blame onto war veterans, it held. The statement urged the South Korean authorities to announce the results of the investigation into the case at once and take a strong counteraction against the U.S. side seeking
China. People´s Daily Dec 20
Extracts. Tuesday, December 19, 2000, updated at 21:09(GMT+8) China Still Faces Grim Population Situation China can hardly be optimistic about its population situation in the coming five years, with its population increasing by 10 million annually, said Zhang Weiqing, minister in charge of the State Family Planning Commission Tuesday, December 19. Whether the low birth rate can be stabilized is a matter of great importance and it will affect the overall situation, Zhang said at a press conference held by the Information Office of the State Council. Zhang said that the comparatively low education level of the population as a whole can not be changed within a short period of time. With the increasing pressure on employment and an aging population, the contradiction between population, socio-economic development, resource utilization and environmental protection would appear to be an acute one. He said that the society in China is not yet fully aware of the importance of solving the population problem, without a considerable number of people entirely changing their concept of childbearing. The family planning management system, working style, the quality of service delivery as well as the quality of family planning workers cannot fully meet the requirements of the current situation. Therefore, there is an urgent need to speed up the reform and improvement of the program, said Zhang. When explaining China's future population policies, Zhang said that it is essential to stabilize the low birth rate and improve the health of the new born. Policy decisions should be made with the integration of the population and development. Decisions should bring the population and family planning program in line with the overall plan for socio-economic development. In accordance with the main family planning policy, a series of auxiliary policies favorable to the sound implementation of the family planning program have to be formulated, said Zhang. He stressed that legislation is an urgent need for the implementation of the population and family planning program. It is necessary to speed up the formulation of relevant national laws and regulations. Efforts should be made to set up a relatively complete legal system in the population and family planning field in the coming five years, so that the program could be managed in accordance with the law. A breakthrough is to be made in implementing the population and family planning program in west China during the large scale development of the region, said Zhang. In addition, quality services for family planning and reproductive health are to be offered, and activities for promoting new marriage customs are to be further carried out throughout the country. Zhang added that it is necessary to strengthen the control of migratory population with better services and pay more attention to the aging of the population. Wednesday, December 20, 2000, updated at 11:55(GMT+8) "One Country, Two Systems" Be Adhered to as Indivisible Concept: Jiang President Jiang Zemin said December 20 at a meeting marking the first anniversary of Macao's return to China that the "one country, two systems" should continue to be adhered to as a basic principle in handling Macao affairs. "`One country, two systems' is an indivisible concept," he said. The term "one country" means two
