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Argentina orders suspects'
release
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Context: Americas - Argentina - Buenos Aires -
Re: Past Rights Abuses by
Military
Summary (HFY): A judge in
Argentina has ordered the release of nearly 40 former military officers who
were detained on an international arrest warrant issued by a Spanish judge,
after Spain backed down on a request for their extradition. Among those due to
be released is a former naval captain, Alfredo Astiz, known as the Blonde Angel
of Death, sentenced by French courts in absentia to life imprisonment in 1990
for in the murder of two French nuns. Spain says it decided not to proceed
because Argentina now has laws in place to try the men in their own
courts.
Comment (HFY): Peru is involved in a similar kind
of probe regarding past rights abuses on the part of the
military.
From a Christian perspective, regarding these
conflicts we get a view of the way carnal or natural man solves problems. The
military is often the only way rebels who use violence to destabilize a country
can be stopped. Sometime the government the rebels want to destabilize is as
corrupt as the rebels. In the middle of this are the civilians. Often the
military is placed in compromising situations where the innocent are often
killed. In Palestine for example, militant Muslim terrorists hide themselves
within the population and homes of Palestinians. Some are even related or work,
live, and play in the same area or business. This makes the job of the military
that must engage and combat these terrorist extremely difficult and
dangerous. Human rights organizations tend to focus only on the violation
of rights affecting the under dog. What everyone forgets is that the military
is a war machine made up of humans trained to kill and utilize various forms of
weaponry for that purpose. War is ugly and if the soldier is distracted from
his purpose he often is the victim. In point of fact, civilians and those that
fight war should not be anywhere near one another. However, the kind of
conflict necessary to involve the military is kill or be killed and those that
don't want to be involved should not be there in the first place or do their
best to get out of the way. War is ugly! For example, the situation in
Palestine is complicated because often the civilians aid the militants to hide
as well as to attack. Civilians often feed, cloth, and shelter and even live
with and next to militants in Palestine. A somewhat similar situation may have
been in place in both Argentina and Peru. Caught up in this mix of civilian and
militant loyalties that may exist between them the military in order to reduce
casualties often takes a heavy hand at the expense of the civilians. Someone is
going to die and both sides of such combats are determined it is not going to
be them. There is also a human element of revenge that settles in on the part
of all combatants even the civilians. Often those in the military form bonds of
affection and loyalty to one another (as is the case in the USA military)
because they are trained as a team and are comrades in arms. So when they start
to lose their comrades and friends to hostile fire there is a temptation to
individually seek opportunities of revenge for they have been hurt and deprived
of these people and want pay back. This is true also of the militants and those
that would care for and shelter them and those that constitute their families.
War of any kind is ugly! Soon this entire situation escalates into acts of
genocide and violent acts resulting in unnecessary killing and slaughter. It is
these extremes the human rights and human watch organizations thrive on. No one
seems to see war for what it is. There are no real rules and those that
practice the rules laid down by International law risk losing the battle if
those they combat have no respect for the rules. Therefore, sooner or later the
war by rules degrades into a war to survive and extend revenge and punishment
on the enemy. War is ugly! One of the reasons why the Americans daily see
casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan is because the USA is conducting war
according to rules that have been abandoned by their enemies. In the end we
have to hope that those that do go on trial in Argentina and Peru and other
places, do so because they very clearly went beyond their responsibilities and
military duties and did practice genocide and hatred for the single reason of
hatred. There can be no justification of taking young men, women, and children
by the hundreds and sometimes thousands and lining them up along a deep trench
and then committing mass murder and burying the evidence. Hatred is the final
enemy that comes alive in people during violent behavior, and kind of violent
behavior. Christians are never to give in to hatred but they may be called to
serve their country and practice acts of violence on others. For many
Christians, including myself, to engage in violence to stop the violent when
there is no other alternative is still most offensive as I can barely
bring myself to kill a bug because of my great respect for life and my
knowledge that all life comes from God. But bugs under certain conditions have
to be killed and I have to do it. One cannot have flies breeding millions of
maggots within the home for if they do the home will soon be filled with
disease and its occupants die. So it is out with the fly spray poison and kill
or be killed, one form of life being exterminated by another. I practice
genocide on these flies when they try to inhabit my household. But I don't go
out into the field looking for flies to kill. I do the same with the garden.
However, humans are not bugs and we should never think of another human
any less than how we think of our selves. Christians - true believers - as
co-workers with Christ are to display the love or caring of God at all times,
on a continuous basis, and that is what makes any kind of violence offensive.
But as far as the Old Testament is concerned war is often required and military
people that go to war to protect their own people are willing to lay down their
lives on behalf of those people. Jesus said, that it was a great thing for some
one to lay down their life for others. He was not telling us to go to war but
he was telling us how valuable a gift human life really is and we should treat
it that way. But the simple fact when it comes to the FARC in Argentina, or the
Shining Light in Peru, or Hamas in Palestine, and others all over the world,
the only language the violent understand is violence. That is why they practice
violence in the first place. It is what they understand. It is a part of them.
There mind has been given over to violence. Also, violence is a language. All
behavior is a language. Language is the act of communicating and persuasion.
And if the language of violence or war must be "spoken" it should always be for
a noble reason because people are not bugs and we must all learn that if the
human species is to survive. On this web site you will frequently find
"Contents of the Defend America Page". This is good reading because it does a
excellent job of describing the essential military part of the human community.
The Defend America page is about the military specialists trained to engage in
violent combat on behalf of the freedoms we daily enjoy and often abuse. As
Christians we have a responsibility not only to God but to these military
specialists that keep peace in the world so that we may evangelize "Christ" by
how we live out our lives in a Christ Like fashion and become transformed in
mind to be Christ Like. We are to be priests and kings to use the figurative
wording in the New Testament. We are to do our priestly duties before God on
behalf of man kind. So we best get with it!
BBC -- Monday, 1 September, 2003,
22:28 GMT 23:28 UK
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Some 80 military officers are
being investigated over past rights abuses |
A judge in Argentina has ordered the release
of nearly 40 former military officers who were detained on an international
arrest warrant issued by a Spanish judge, after Spain backed down on a request
for their extradition.
Among those due to be released is a
former naval captain, Alfredo Astiz, known as the Blonde Angel of Death,
sentenced by French courts in absentia to life imprisonment in 1990 for in the
murder of two French nuns.
Spain says it decided not to proceed
because Argentina now has laws in place to try the men in their own
courts.
Some lawyers believe Spain had no
choice over its decision not to proceed because a previous request to have the
men extradited was refused in 2001, says the BBC's South America correspondent
Elliot Gotkine.
Fresh investigation
"I have placed them at immediate
liberty unless another court orders their detention. The case has been
shelved," Judge Rodolfo Canicoba Corral said in his ruling.
Although he warned that Spain would
not forego its right to request the extraditions at a point in the
future.
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