„Offizielle Bestätigung“ zur Involvierung der irischen Regierung in die IRA-Spaltung 1969/70

Quelle, The Irish Examiner, gefunden dank Cedar Lounge Revolution:

 

Former IRA member reveals ministers’ role in arms plot

By Scott Millar

Monday, August 31, 2009

AN IRA member has broken his silence to confirm that Irish government ministers organised the delivery of large amounts of weaponry to republicans at the outbreak of the Troubles.

Former leading Official IRA member Bobby McKnight, 71, breaks his 40-year silence in a new book on the organisation published today.

Belfast man McKnight, who in 1969 was a member of the IRA command staff, states that along with another man he drove to Dublin Airport in September 1969. There he met then minister for finance Charles Haughey’s brother, Jock, and took delivery of several cases of weaponry, which filled his pickup truck, these were then transported to IRA members in Dublin.

In The Lost Revolution – The Story of the Official IRA and the Workers Party, written by Irish Examiner journalist Scott Millar and historian Brian Hanley, McKnight confirms his role in the arms plot which resulted in the major political crisis of the 1970 Arms Trial.

He is the first person directly involved in the transportation of arms shipments organised by government ministers to the IRA to confirm the existence of the plot.

McKnight confirms there were contacts between the IRA and Fianna Fáil representatives even prior to the outbreak of widescale violence in Northern Ireland in August 1969.

The book also reveals the extent of government fears about a resurgent IRA south of the border and plans to split the organisation along left/right lines, a strategy which aided the creation of the Provisional IRA.

A Department of Justice cabinet memo, dated March 18, 1969, whose contents are revealed for the first time, states: „In different parts of the country units of the IRA (and Sinn Féin) are uneasy about the new left-wing policy of their leadership and about the violent methods that are being adopted in the destruction of private property.

„Their uneasiness needs to be brought to the surface in some way with a consequent fragmentation of the organisation. It is suggested by the Department of Justice that the Government should promote an active political campaign in that regard.“

The memo indicates that Jack Lynch’s cabinet was discussing plans to split the IRA at least five months prior to the outbreak of major violence, and the death of civilians, in the North.

Within nine months the IRA had split into socialist Official and more traditional Provisional factions.

Upali Cooray (1939-2009)

Quelle: ESSF:

Comrade Upali’s Unfinished Task

We mourn the sudden and untimely death of Comrade Upali in the early hours of 21st August 2009, and pay our tribute to his active political life as a champion of the oppressed and the poor of the world. Had he recovered from his sudden illness he would have celebrated his 70th Birthday on 17th September. At this sorrowful occasion we join his wife Sylvia, son Alex and daughters Samantha and Jasmine in sharing their grief over the loss of a dear husband and a father for we have lost a dear friend and a comrade.

Comrade Upali, throughout his active political life, spanning over 50 years, stood at the forefront of struggles of the oppressed people all over the world. He was a socialist intellectual and an internationalist who spearheaded anti-neo-colonialist, anti-capitalist and anti-racist campaigns both in Britain and in Sri Lanka. He fought tirelessly and passionately against the oppression of workers, women and minority nationalities. In Britain he played a key role in the anti-Vietnam War Movement as its secretary. He vehemently opposed the war in Sri Lanka, denounced human rights violations, political assassinations and other atrocities committed by successive regimes and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). However, from 1979 onwards, in the context of anti-Tamil rhetoric and riots and the banning of the Tamil United Liberation Front’s demand for a separate State in the North-East of Sri Lanka, comrade Upali as a founder-member of the Movement for Inter-racial Justice and Equality (MIRJE) played a leading role in formulating and articulating the principle of Tamil people’s right to self-determination. In 1983, during the ‘Black July’ pogrom against the Tamil people in the south comrade Upali physically intervened to protect individual Tamils from attacks by Sinhalese thugs.

Comrade Upali firmly believed in the ability of the oppressed people to change the socio-economic and political conditions of their oppression and make a better world. He never used his intellectual abilities for his personal gain. Motivated by socialist ideals comrade Upali committed all his strengths and abilities for organising, educating and empowering of the oppressed people. He did not merely stand by them, he stood with them and fought with them and sought ways and means of resolving their issues.

It was his unwavering commitment to the cause of the oppressed that led him to join the Lanka Sama Samaja Party’s (LSSP) Youth League. But in the 1960s when the majority leadership of the LSSP joined a coalition government with the Communist Party and the Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) comrade Upali broke away with the minority who opposed the coalition with a capitalist party. In the aftermath of the split within the LSSP he emigrated to Britain and graduated in Economics from the London School of Economics and joined the International Marxist Group (IMG), the British Section of the 4th International. Comrade Upali matured as a militant socialist in the thick of anti-neo-colonialist, anti-war and anti-racist struggles and campaigns in Britain. When the Sri Lankan coalition government of the LSSP, CP and the SLFP crushed the youth rebellion led by the Janata Vimukti Peramuna (JVP) in 1971, and imprisoned a large number of young rebels including their leadership comrade Upali joining with activists of the Ginipupura group campaigned for their release.

Musik zum Sonntag … The Ex

Jackfrost is Innocent

State of Shock

Yassamine Mather zur aktuellen Lage im Iran

Ein lesenswerter Artikel aus dem neuen Weekly Worker:

Misogynist torturers cling to power

Workers are growing in confidence, reports Yassamine Mather

Over the last few weeks, following the show trials of ‘reformist’ personalities and the imposition of even more severe forms of repression in Iran, the nature of protests has changed considerably.

However, demonstrations continue on a daily basis in Tehran and most other Iranian cities, with numbers attending ranging from a few hundred to a few thousand. Reports from the working class neighbourhoods of Tehran, such as Ekbatan, Apadana and Karaj, and from the white-collar suburbs of Tehran Pars, indicate that anti-government demonstrations take place every night and often lead to confrontation between protesters and Bassij militia.

Last week dozens of political prisoners started a hunger strike in Evin prison and on the first day of Ramadan families of those arrested in recent protests gathered outside calling for the immediate release of all political detainees. There are daily protests in factories and workplaces against the political and economic conditions and in some provinces, including Khorassan, there is news of peasants protesting against confiscation of their land by religious authorities. Five hundred peasants from Sarakhss have staged a sit-in for the last week in front of Mashad’s main petrol station, complaining about the use of religious legislation to expropriate their land.

The crisis in the government continues, with clear divisions between the conservative ‘principlists’ and the proposed government. On Thursday August 20 Mahmoud Ahmadinejad unveiled a cabinet boasting 11 new faces, including three women. Loyalty to the president seemed to be the main factor, as ‘conservative’ and ‘reformist’ MPs alike condemned the nominations. Clearly Ahmadinejad will face an uphill struggle getting them passed by the majles (parliament). Even the principlist faction seems to be opposed to most of the nominations, guaranteeing months of uncertainty and the continuation of the political crisis. According to the ILNA news agency, speaker Ali Larijani complained: “The ministry is not a place for apprenticeship; it is a place that requires expertise and experience”.

Iran’s defence minister-designate is on an Interpol ‘wanted’ list over the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina. Interpol put out a ‘red notice’ for Ahmad Vahidi in 2007 over the Buenos Aires attack that killed 85 people. As for the women appointees, they were clearly chosen for their ultra-conservative views on everything – including women’s rights. These comments from Fatemeh Ajorloo, Ahmadinejad’s choice for minister of social services, speak volumes: “… it is men who go for khastegari [the custom of a man asking for a woman’s hand] and they remain responsible for the marriage. This is great: that is how society should operate. Why did the family break down in the west? Because women went to work and men lost their true role.” That was from a speech in defence of quotas for university entrance – the government believes too many women are going into higher education.

Ajorloo is also a defender of new legislation before the majles entitled ‘Efaf’ (chastity). She is in favour of a ‘uniform’ for Iranian women of all ages – a long black chador (a tent-like covering from head to toe, pinned under the chin) and, to be fair, she herself is a walking advertisement for this bizarre attire, as revealed by her official photos.

However, even tame Islamist women like Ajorloo are too much for Iran’s clerics. A number of senior ayatollahs have expressed opposition to Ahmadinejad’s decision to nominate women ministers. On August 22 conservative MPs told the media that leading Iranian clerics – including grand ayatollahs Nasser Makarem Shirazi and Lotfollah Safi Golpayghani – had “doubts about choosing female ministers and want Ahmadinejad to reconsider”, according to the Tehran Emrouz newspaper.

Defending his nominations for ministerial posts, Ahmadinejad managed to offend almost everyone by comparing his outgoing health minister, Kamran Lankarani, to a peach that any man would want to eat! A conservative MP, Ali Ghanbari, said it was beneath the president’s dignity to compare his minister with a fruit. A video of Ahmadinejad’s peach comments has been widely circulated on the internet and posted on blogs and social networking sites.

‘Against torture’

As the protests continue and news of atrocities in prisons and detention centres spreads, the anger against the ineffectiveness of ‘reformist leaders’ – some of whom are clearly involved in behind-the-scene deals with the conservative faction – grows.

Freiheit für Verena Becker!

Gewisse Handlungen der Bundesanwaltschaft kann mensch nur noch als Ausdruck eines kindlichen Rachedenkens sowie als Eingriff in den derzeit laufenden Wahlkampf interpretieren.

Freiheit für Verena Becker! Freiheit für Birgit Hogefeld! Freiheit für alle politischen Gefangenen – in der BRD und weltweit!

Fünftägiger Streik bei Wagon Pars/Arak

Quelle: Révolution en Iran, Wagon Pars ist der grösste Hersteller von Eisenbahnwagen im Nahen Osten, bei einer Protestaktion vor einigen Wochen hatten ArbeiterInnen dort LabourNet zufolge aus Protest gegen die Nichtauszahlung von Löhnen die Firmenkantine zerstört; den jetzigen Streik haben die ArbeiterInnen nach fünf Tagen und der Zusicherung einer Teilauszahlung des ausstehenden Lohnes vorerst abgebrochen.

„Après cinq jours de lutte, les ouvriers de l’usine Wagon Pars (à Arak) ont décidé de reprendre le travail le 25 août (3 shahrivar). Les travailleurs sont entrés en lutte pour exiger le paiement des salaires impayés. Par un sit-in aux portes de l’usine, ils ont empêché les directeurs d’entrer dans l’usine. Les intimidations et menaces de la direction n’ont pas fait céder les travailleurs. Ils ont finalement repris le travail après avoir reçu une petite part de l’argent qui leur est dû.“

P.S.: Wagon Pars hat gerade einen Grossauftrag zur Lieferung von 550 Wagons nach Kuba an Land gezogen … eine gute Gelegenheit für PCC und CTC sich mit den iranischen KollegInnen solidarisch zu zeigen, oder?

Neues aus den Archiven der radikalen Linken

ältere Archiv-Updates und Hinweise zu weiteren linken Archivalien unter Sozialistika“, einen herzlichen Dank und liebe rote Grüsse für die Hilfe bei der Suche an Poumista:

Archive.org:

* Norman Thomas: Democracy and Japanese Americans (1942, pdf-Datei, 1,17 mb)
* Norman Thomas: What’s the matter with New York; a national problem (1932)
* Norman Thomas: Why I am a socialist (1936)

La Bataille Socialiste:

* Socialist Party of the U.S.: Justice triumphs in Spain! A letter about the trial of the POUM (1938)
* Résolution adoptée par le Congrès des minoritaires de la CGT (1921)
* Fernand Loriot: Thèses (1925)
* Marcel Valière: La politique sociale du Front populaire (1962)
* Lettre de Karl Marx à son éditeur (1872)
* Paul Mattick: Interview (1977)
* Socialist Standard: Barcelona! (1909)

Marxists Internet Archive (MIA):

* Rudi Dutschke: Forsøg på at stille Lenin på benene. Om den halvasiatiske og vesteuropæiske vej til socialismen. Lenin, Lukács og tredie internationale (1974)
* Maurice Brinton: For Workers’ Power (1965)
* Maurice Brinton: Review: What is Class Consciousness? (1972)
* Maurice Brinton: Review: Dialectical Materialism and Psychoanalysis (1972)
* Maurice Brinton: The Bolsheviks and Workers’ Control (1970)
* Harriet W. Colenso: Famine Making in Matabele Land (1897)
* H.M. Hyndman: Social Democrat or Socialist (1897)
* H.M. Hyndman: Colonies and dependencies (1904)
* H. Quelch: The Essential Difference between Anarchism and Social Democracy (1897)
* Daniel De Leon: Artikel aus dem Daily People, Februar-Mai 1907 (pdf-Dateien)
** 1907, February 18 – The Inopportune Mallock
** 1907, February 19 – A Rich Men’s Strike for Jobs
** 1907, February 19 – As to Politics
** 1907, February 20 – Romance in Economics
** 1907, February 21 – “The Old Sphynx Question”
** 1907, February 22 – Washington’s Birthday
** 1907, February 23 – The Bed of Procrustes
** 1907, February 24 – What Does This Mean?
** 1907, February 26 – How He Works at His Trade
** 1907, February 27 – Supplementary [As to Politics]
** 1907, February 27 – As to Politics
** 1907, February 28 – James Connolly’s Report to the State Convention of New Jersey
** 1907, March 3 – Rather Warning Than Model
** 1907, March 11 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [1]
** 1907, March 11 – As to James Connolly’s Report
** 1907, March 17 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [2]
** 1907, March 30 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [3]
** 1907, April 2 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [4]
** 1907, April 8 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [5]
** 1907, April 16 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [6]
** 1907, April 25 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [7]
** 1907, May 2 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [8]
** 1907, May 11 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [9]
** 1907, May 20 – Gleanings ‘Long the Road’ [10]
** 1907, May 25 – Hats Off to Finland!
* Rob Lubbersen: De Revolutionair Communistische Partij van 1949 tot 1952 (1983)
* Ernest Mandel: De Duitse sociaaldemocratie is 100 jaar geworden (1964)
* Leo Trotzki: Carta a Albert Goldman (1940)
* Leo Trotzki: Carta a Chris Andrews (1940)
* Ted Grant: Labour must end aircraft deadlock (1965)
* Ted Grant: Rhodesia—let the people decide (1965)

Materialien zur Analyse von Opposition (MAO):

Auswertungen zu folgenden Themen/Gruppen/Orten/Betrieben:

* Duisburg: Zum Tod von Günter Routhier

LibCom:

* David Duncan: Mutiny in the RAF: the air force strikes of 1946 (1999)
* No War But The Class War: Preliminary notes on the situation in Palestine and further abroad (2002)
* No War But The Class War: Against capitalist war, against capitalist ‘peace’ (2001)
* No War But The Class War: Against war and capitalism (2001)
* No War But The Class War: Reduction of fire hazard: in the event of firefighter strike or war against Iraq (2003)
* No War But The Class War: The Fire-fighters (2002)
* No War But The Class War: We won’t go to Kosovo (1999)
* Petar Petrović: Notes from a journey to Sarajevo (1998)
* Wildcat: Yugoslavia: from wage cuts to war (1996)
* Wildcat: The class nature of sanctions (1996)
* Wildcat: Klasna priroda sankcija (1996)
* Wildcat: Jugoslavija: Od smanjenja plata do rata (1996)
* Wildcat: The inhumanity of humanitarian aid (1996)
* BM Combustion: Kamikaze Kapitalism (2002)
* Robert D. Heinl, Jr.: Vietnam: The collapse of the armed forces (1971)
* Communist Program: The agonising transformation of the Palestinian peasants into proletarians (1981)

Collectif Smolny:

* Étincelles de la Gauche marxiste russe : 1881-1923 (2). Deuxième partie – L’épreuve : 1914-1915
* BILAN: La prison de la faim – Une grève de mineurs hongrois (1934)
* BILAN: Les Problèmes de l’Extrême-Orient (1934)
* BILAN: Le Front international de la répression capitaliste (1936)
* Margaret Manale: La constitution du « Marxisme (1976)

Nemesis – Sozialistisches Archiv für Belletristik:

* Sunao Tokunaga: Stille Berge (1948)
* Hans Marchwitza: Schlacht vor Kohle (1931)
* Franz Carl Weiskopf: Umsteigen ins 21. Jahrhundert (1927)

The Cedar Lounge Revolution:

* Sinn Féin: Tasks for the Republican Movement in the 26 Counties, 24 August 1969
* Sinn Féin: National Solidarity Committee, August 1969

Centro de Documentación de los Movimientos Armados (CeDeMA):

* Movimiento Revolucionario Tupac Amaru (MRTA): Mensaje a la Clase Obrera y al Movimiento Popular (1988)
* Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN): Operación „Muerte al Somocismo, Carlos Fonseca Amador“ (1978)
* Movimiento Revolucionario 26 de Julio (M-26-7): Orden Militar (1958)
* Partido Comunista de El Salvador (PCS): Informe del Comité Central al IX Congreso (Extraordinario) (1995)

Dublin Opinion:

* Robert Jackson Alexander: Trotskyism in Ireland, 1935-1985 (1991)

Projekt Gutenberg:

* Alfred Schirokauer: Ferdinand Lassalle. Ein Leben für Freiheit und Liebe (1912)

Kasama:

* Serious About Revolution: An Interview With George Jackson (1971)
* Stephen Duncombe: Politics in an age of fantasy (2007)

Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières (ESSF):

* Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Shirin Ebadi’s Nobel Peace Prize Highlights Tension in Iran (2003)
* Mahsa Shekarloo: Iranian Women Take On the Constitution (2005)
* Iran: International Support for Women’s Campaign (2006)
* Ziba Mir-Hosseini: Is Time on Iranian Women Protesters’ Side? (2006)
* Launching of the One Million Signatures Campaign Demanding Changes to Discriminatory Laws (2006)
* Margot Badran: Islamic Feminism Revisited (2006)

Sanhati:

* Porichoy Patrika, 10-12 1961

Anarkismo

* La Visita de Pietro Gori a Chile (1901)
* Anarchosyndicalists Group, Greece: Revolutionary syndicalism and organization (198?)

Círculo Internacional de Comunistas Antibolcheviques (CICA):

* Paul Mattick: Marx y Keynes. Los límites de la economía mixta (1969, zip-Datei)
* Paul Mattick: Fascismo mundial o Revolución mundial (1934, zip-Datei)
* Paul Mattick: Otto Rühle y el movimiento obrero alemán (1960, zip-Datei)
* Anton Pannekoek: Situación y significación de la obra filosófica de Josef Dietzgen (1902, zip-Datei)
* S. Hawkins/C. Wright: 20 puntos para iniciar una discusión de principios (2002, zip-Datei)
* Diego Guerrero: Trabajo improductivo, crecimiento y terciarización. 30 años después de «Marx y Keynes» (1999, zip-Datei)
* Karl Marx: La Comuna de París y la supresión del Estado. Extractos de los borradores de La Guerra Civil en Francia (1871, zip-Datei)
* Karl Marx: Crítica de «El sistema nacional de economía política» de Friedrich List (1845, zip-Datei)
* Emilio Lamo de Espinosa: Cosificación y psicoanálisis; contra la absolutización de la lógica de la mercancía (1977, zip-Datei)
* Elías Díaz: Fascismo y Estado totalitario (1981, zip-Datei)
* Alexander Mitscherlich: Sobre faltas de libertad establecidas en el pensamiento de la libertad inconsciente (1966, zip-Datei)
* Juan Rof Carballo: Sobre violencia y ternura (1966, zip-Datei)
* Rudolf Arnheim: Contemplación y creatividad (1961, zip-Datei)
* Constantina Safilios-Rothschild: Las diferencias según el sexo en la socialización y la educación infantil y sus consecuencias en la elección de los estudios y sus resultados (1986, zip-Datei)
* Carlos Castilla del Pino: La función de mujer (1971, zip-Datei)
* Carmen de Elejabeitia: La mujer, de mercancía a rebelde + El patriarcado y la producción de la reproducción (1979/80, zip-Datei)
* L. Abba/G. Ferri/G. Lazzaretto/E. Medi/S. Motta: La conciencia de explotada (1976, zip-Datei)
* Paloma Villegas: El feminismo desvastador (1981, zip-Datei)
* Sam Harris: Manifiesto ateo (2005, zip-Datei)

Workers’ Liberty:

* Workers’ Fight: One Year On (1973)

Für das Leben und die Freiheit von Thodoris Iliopoulos!

Ein Statement der OKDE-Spartakos, der griechischen Sektion der IV. Internationalen:

Greek political prisoner nears death on hunger strike

Solidarity with Thodoris Iliopoulos!

OKDE-Spartakos

Thirty-one year old Thodoris Iliopoulos is the last prisoner of the December 2008 Greek revolt. He has been in pre-trial detention for more than eight months after his arrest on December 18th in downtown Athens.

Thodoris has been charged with felonies on the sole basis of witness accounts of the two riot police who arrested him; this is the only ’evidence’. He went on hunger strike on July 10 demanding his immediate release, after the renewal of his detention for another six months.

Today (August 26), he is in the 48th day of hunger strike and irreversible damage or even death are immediate dangers according to his doctors.

The pre-trial detention of Thodoris Iliopoulos is a punishment, an imprisonment without trial. It is an attempt of the Greek government under Karamanlis, already politically responsible for the murder of the 15 years old Alexis Grigoropoulos by a policeman on December 6th, 2008, to bring Iliopoulos to his physical and psychological limits and finding in him a target for its revanchist rage against the December revolt.

It is also an attempt to present the social struggles as criminal behavior and to construct an ever mightier police state as part of their solution to the current capitalist crisis.

In this case of unjustifiable, arbitrary and revanchist detention even after 48 days of hunger strike, it is where our solidarity is needed the most.

- We demand the immediate release of Thodoris Iliopoulos

- We demand the withdrawal of all charges against him

- We demand the withdrawal of all charges against the participants in the December revolt

- We call for actions of solidarity with Thodoris Iliopoulos in Greece and internationally.

OKDE-Spartakos, Greek section of the Fourth International www.okde.org

Wandbild Hafenstrasse 1987

Iran-Update 26.08. 2009 – Marg Bar Jomhuriye Eslami!

Weitere Artikel zum Thema auf dieser Seite unter http://entdinglichung.wordpress.com/category/iran/:

1.) Seiten mit regelmässig aktualisierter Berichterstattung: Revolutionary Road (hier auch ein Update vom gestrigen Tage), News from the struggles in Iran (HOPI), Révolution en Iran, Rise of The Iranian People und LabourStart, gesammelte Videoberichte auf Red Eye.

2.) Drei neue Artikel zur Repression auf dem Blog von Ali Schirasi:

* Wer ist verantwortlich für die Toten, Folterungen und Vergewaltigungen im Iran?:

„Hossein Taeb ist Kommandeur der paramilitärischen Basiji-Milizen. Schon in früheren Jahren arbeitete er für den iranischen Geheimdienst, wurde aber unter Khatami aufgrund von Vergewaltigungsvorwürfen entlassen. Während der ersten Amtszeit von Ahmadinejad bekleidete er wieder Positionen beim Geheimdienst und wurde später Kommandant der Basiji.“

* Leichen im Kühlhaus: Iranische Staatsverbrechen:

„Wie Hanif Mazru‘i schreibt, hat sich eine Mutter an die Zeitung Norooz gewandt. Die Mutter hatte im Ewin-Gefängnis und an anderen Orten erfolglos nach ihrem verschwundenen Sohn gesucht. Aufgrund einflussreicher Kontakte wurde ihr erlaubt, in ein großes Kühlhaus (Sardkhane-ye Shahid Aminzade) im Stadtteil Eslamshahr im Süden Teherans zu gehen und dort nach ihrem Sohn zu suchen. Dieses Kühlhaus dient eigentlich der Lagerung von Fleisch und anderen Nahrungsmitteln. Als die Mutter am 19. Tir (10. Juli 2009) das Kühlhaus betrat, sah sie dort übereinander gestapelte Leichen. Ihren Sohn fand sie nicht darunter, der schaurige Anblick der Leichen ließ sie bewusstlos werden.“

* Sarollah – Die Gewalt hat eine Adresse:

„Der Pasdaran-Stützpunkt Sarollah (Thar-ollah) in Teheran spielt eine Schlüsselrolle für den Einsatz der Pasdaran in den Städten. Seine Aufgabe ist die militärische Kontrolle der Stadt Teheran. Der Befehlshaber dieses Stützpunkts ist de facto der Militärkommandant der Stadt Teheran. In den Pasdaran gibt es drei wichtige Kommandanten: den der Landstreitkräfte, den der Luftstreitkräfte und den der Marine. Einer dieser drei Kommandanten war stets zugleich auch der Kommandant des Stützpunkts Sarollah.“

3.) Révolution en Iran dokumentiert Berichte zu anonymen Gräbern, in welchen die Opfer der Repression der vergangenen Monate verscharrt worden sein sollen

4.) Berichte zur Repression und Widerstand in Minderheitenregionen:

* Continuous Violence in Kurdish Neighborhoods (Human Rights Activists in Iran)

„Following the struggles between military forces and the Kurdish militia, there were casualties from both sides.

On Wednesday 19th of August at 11:00 am in the morning, Tehran time, the revolutionary guards barricaded the Golian district which is in-between the cities of Marivan and Kamyaran, due to presence of the Kurdish opposition party (Koomaleh Zahmatkeshan Kurdistan).

The resulting struggles caused casualties and injuries on both sides, no information about the identities of the dead have been revealed. The military forces used heavy and semi heavy arms with no regard for the presence of civilians in the area, which resulted in injuries of many farmers and cattle owners in the area.

Due to unconfirmed reports, the Kurdish militia corpses have been transferred to city of Sanandaj, government medical facility and bodies identified. Other reports indicated that the corpses were transferred to a military location in the vicinity of city of Sanandaj.“

* The Arrest of Two Political Activists in Ahvaz (Human Rights Activists in Iran)

„Reports indicate that on August 17, 2009, Intelligence Agents detained Pejman Rahimi and Mohammad Esmail Vandi, two political activists in Ahvaz, and transferred them to an undisclosed location.

It is noteworthy that after the arrests, despite diligent follow-up by the families, no further information is available regarding the fate of the two activists.“

* Iranian security service arrested 80 years old Arab Ahwazi man (Iranian Minorities’ Human Rights Organisation)

„80 years old Ahwazi Arab man Saied Jasim Alboshoka alongside his nephew Nasser Alboshoka 57 years old was arrested in city of Ramshir (Khalafia) by security service in south west of Iran in Al-Ahwaz.

This is not a first time Iranian government arresting elderly Ahwazi Arabs.

They released after 15 days on bill. They were arrested in 2005 during intifada demonstration in Ahwaz. They also killed Saied Sultan Alboshoka- grandson of Saied Jasim Alboshoka in 2006.

They threat them that rest of your family in Europe should return back to Iran.“

5.) Revolutionary Road dokumentiert einen Bericht des Sohnes eines 1982 vom Regime ermordeten politischen Gefangenen

6.) Ein Statement des Iranisch-Deutschen Frauenvereins Köln:

In Erinnerung an all Diejenigen, die für eine gleichberechtigte Welt gestorben sind.

In Erinnerung an all Diejenigen, die für eine gleichberechtigte Welt gestorben sind. In Erinnerung an alle Iranerinnen, die hartnäckig geblieben sind, nicht nachgegeben haben, „Nein“ Gesagt und für die Änderung gekämpft haben.

Alle Nachrichten von Iran bezeugen die aktive Beteiligung der Frauen in den ersten Reihen im Kampf für die Gerechtigkeit. So eine Beteiligung von unterschiedlichen Generationen kann nicht in ein paar Wochen zustande gekommen sein, sondern benötigt eine lange Zeit der Vorbereitungen. Diese haben schon nach der Übernahme der Regierung durch die islamischen Fundamentalisten 79/80 begonnen. Die die Revolution 79/80 im Iran verfolgt oder wie wir paar Mitglieder des Iranischen Frauenverein selbst miterlebt haben, wissen das schon die ersten Gesetze die geändert worden waren die Frauen trafen. Und nach und nach mit der Befestigung der neuen Herrschaft ein System der Geschlechtsapartheid gegen die Frauen gebildet wurde. Erste Warnsignale gegen das System wurden daher auch von den Frauen geäußert. Im ersten Monat nach Revolution, am 8.März, war die große Demo der Frauen, die für die Gerechtigkeit auf die Strasse gingen und mit Parolen wie „wir haben nicht revoltiert um zurück zu gehen“ die Gesellschaft gegen die neue fundamentalistische Strömung gewarnt haben. Diese Signale sind in die Sande verlaufen. Die neue unbekannte Macht war mit vielen Versprechungen auf dem Vormarsch und die linken Gegner unterschätzen das Potenzial und die Wichtigkeit der Frauenrechte. Das teilen der Gesellschaft durch eine Mauer der Geschlechtsapartheid, das verwehren der Möglichkeiten und Entwicklungen der Frauen im Gesellschaftlichen System, die Antifrauen Gesetzte auf Grundlage der rückständigsten Ideen der Gesellschaft, Werbung und Verbreitung dieser Ideen und parallele Zerschlagung der Freiheits liebenden Frauen als Kollaborateure des Westens oder kommunistische Atheisten war die Folge. Zwangsverschleierung mit Parolen wie „Verschleierung oder Zerschlagung“, das gießen von Säure auf die Gesichter und das tackern der Kopftücher mit Nadeln auf den Köpfen der sich verweigernden Jungen Frauen sollte die Durchsetzung dieses System ermöglichen. Aber die Frauen im Iran haben gezeigt, dass sie immer noch gegen Diskriminierung und Unterdrückung aufrecht stehen.