Archive for March, 2005
Press Release /March 31, 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Press releases on March 31, 2005
PRESS RELEASE
March 31, 2005
Israel / Occupied Palestinian Territories
Increases the environmental emergency in the poisoned fields of shepherds of
a little Palestinian community
At-Tuwani /19-27 March 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Updates from Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories on March 30, 2005
Saturday 19th march
h. 7.30 a.m 12 children walking from Tuba to At-Tuwani patrolled by military jeep. Soldiers walking with the children.
h. 10.00 some settlers threw stones against an old woman grazing sheep near At-Tuwani village.
Press release /March 22, 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Press releases on March 22, 2005
PRESS RELEASE
March 22, 2005
Palestinian Hillside Poisoned, Likely By Maon and Havat Maon Settlers
Early this morning, March 22, 2005, the Palestinian shepherds of At-Tuwani discovered that the hillside next to Havat Maon outpost was covered in tiny green poison pellets, affecting more than 20 dunams of land.
Assalam aleycum
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories on March 22, 2005
Assalam aleykum
We in the Bethlehem community have come to you today with a message on behalf of our people. We represent the family members and friends who are imprisoned by these concrete walls and wire fences that now create the Bethlehem open-air prison. You, like the prison guards, control our freedom and ability to live as human beings with dignity in this holy land.
Press Release /March 19, 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Press releases on March 20, 2005
Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories – March 19, 2005
A hundred of armed settlers dance towards to a Palestinian village, after an aggression against shepherds of the same village.
During the aggression, stones have been thrown against an Italian volunteer.
At around 1:00 p.m., in the nearby of At Tuwani, a Palestinian village of the South Hebron Hills, a hundred of settlers came out of Ma’on settlement and started to dance and sing, few metres from the first house of the village.
The group was composed by women, children and armed men. The procession of settlers verbally attacked Palestinians of the village, and only thanks to the presence of Internationals has been avoided a physical aggression.
At-Tuwani /5th 16th March 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Updates from Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories on March 19, 2005
Saturday 5th March
9:00 am – Shepherds from At-Tuwani and Mfakkara take their sheep to graze near Avigail. Two IDF jeeps and one police jeep arrive and allow the shepherds to stay.
11.00 am – Three settlers come from Avigail outpost and walk toward a sheperd who was grazing his sheep 300 meters from the outpost. One of the settlers came within 10 meters of the shepherd, shouting at him and forcing him to walk back few meters. A miltary vehicle and a police jeep (n. 22-578) were present.
Origins of war in North Uganda
Posted by opcol in North Uganda on March 18, 2005
Origins of the Conflict
The conflict started in 1986 when the current President of the Republic of Uganda, Mr Museveni, came to power by force with the support of the tribes from Southern Uganda.
At that time, the officials who supported Tito Okelo, the former head of state, all came from the Acholi tribe from Northern Uganda. They fled the country and sought refuge in Southern Sudan while waiting for further development of the situation.
In Uganda with Child Soldiers
Posted by opcol in North Uganda on March 18, 2005
An Operation Dove/Operazione Colomba delegation, the civilian non-violent peace force of the association Comunità Papa Giovanni XXIII, visited Northern Uganda hoping to lay the basis for a future presence in this area in which a forgotten conflict has been going on for 18 years.
The war that is being waged involves the Acholi ethnic group and is unfortunately renowned for the issue of abducted children, forced to fight as soldiers.
Press Release /March 15, 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Press releases on March 15, 2005
PRESS RELEASE Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories – March 15, 2005 IDF OFFICER ATTACKS AND STEALS PERSONAL THINGS FROM CATHOLIC INTERNATIONL CITIZENS Today at around 5:00 p.m o’clock, an IDF officer attacked three international citizens in the village of Aboud (Ramallah Area), and stole the key to their home. The internationals are two Italians and one American, [...]
Press Release /March 8, 2005
Posted by opcol in Israel/Occupied Palestinian Territories, Press releases on March 8, 2005
At-Tuwani, 8th March 2005
Yesterday morning, 7th March, six women, two children and an old sheperd were grazing their flock.
They were nearby the main road n.317, on a land property of the old sheperd himself, on the other side of the road in front of Ma’on settlement.
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