news from the cpi(m)
November 06, 2009
Press Statement
The Polit Bureau of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) has issued
the following statement:
On India's Stand on the Goldstone Report
It is shocking that the Indian delegation has expressed its reservations
on endorsing the findings and recommendations of the Goldstone report at
a special session of the UN General Assembly. B.K. Hariprasad, Member of
Parliament, speaking on behalf of the Indian delegation has reportedly
said, "We have reservations in making unqualified endorsement of the
various recommendations as well as some of the procedures adopted by the
Goldstone report, including the involvement of the International
Criminal Court and that of the Security Council."
The facts are that Judge Richard Goldstone -- a jurist of impeccable
international judicial credentials, and a Jewish South African -- held
both Israel and the Hamas of violations of humanitarian international
law in the three week war in Gaza in his meticulous and detailed report
submitted to the UN. While the Hamas had cooperated fully with Judge
Goldstone, and also agreed to hold enquiry on the instances provided in
the Report, Israel refused to cooperate with this UN Enquiry and also
has categorically refused to conduct any enquiry on the detailed list of
war-crimes in the Goldstone Report that the Israeli forces committed in
the Gaza War. It must be borne in mind that Judge Goldstone did not
investigate whether the Gaza War was legal or not but only whether
Israeli forces violated international law in its conduct of the war.
Israel and the US have been trying to bury the report by first opposing
it in the UN Human Rights Council, where the overwhelming opinion went
against them and now in the General Assembly. Their aim is not to allow
the Report to be referred to the International Criminal Court or be
taken up in the Security Council. The attempt is to pass a weak
resolution in the General Assembly, which will allow Israel to get away
from any future action on its blatant violation of humanitarian law in
the conduct of War.
The Indian action in questioning the "recommendations" and raising
doubts about "procedures" followed by Judge Goldstone is nothing but
colluding with the US and Israel's other allies in getting them off the
charges of war-crimes that Judge Goldstone has shown Israel has
committed.
The Government of India should stand up for Palestinian rights and
reverse the shameful stand it has taken in the UN.
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