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Hungering for Justice

Reporter | 20.01.2007 14:01 | Globalisation

This letter was handed to myself on the streets of Dublin.
It concerns the ongoing force-feeding of Juan Inaki de Chaos.
It is transcribed as is:-

Hungering for Justice:- 12 Years for writing two articles.

Mealtimes are frightening times for Basque political prisoner
Inaki De Juan Chaos, they manhandle him onto a table, strap
him down, force his mouth open with clamps, push a tube down
into his stomach, pump liquid food into it.....This is torture:
After Irish hunger striker Michael Gaughan was killed in a british
Jail by force-feeding in the 1970's , the British Medical Association
forbade all its members to take part in this procedure.

Inaki has been on hunger strike since November for his human rights.
He was due for release but was given another 12 year sentence for
writing two articles that the Spanish government dissapproved of
they found him guilty of encouraging terrorism.

The Spanish government has been fighting Basque separatists
since General Franco started the civil war in 1936 and the basques
have always fought for their independence. As a result of their
struggle , 5,000 basques have been imprisoned and sent to jails
spread all over the Spainish territories in order to cause maximum
hardship to their families. arrests of Basque citizens average four
per day.

Spanish Embassy:- tel. 269 1640/2597;283 8827/9000

Fax:- 2691854 ; email:  emb.dublin.inf@mae.es

www.irishbasquecommittees.blogspot.com

Reporter

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Good article.

10.02.2007 10:13

Please do not, by any means, allow the truth about the Basque Country and Spain interfere with your distorted version of reality. Juana de Chaos is a murderer, and a deranged one at that. Someone who rejoices himself on the faces of the victim's relatives at the funerals. One who callously killed indiscriminately, without any kind of regard as to wether "collateral damage" was likely or even possible.

And just for your information, Torture is illegal in Spain, and carries a very severe prison sentence. Unlike some of the "POWs" that De Juana and his cronies kidnapped to obtain money through ransom, or to try and force the government to move their way, prisoners in Spanish Jails are treated with total regard to their human rights, those rights they so happily negated their victims.

Maybe it shouldn't surprise us that Amnesty International has refused to uphold De Juana's complaints about infringment of his human rights.

Maybe AI has actually decided to sell themselves to the fascisto-masonic conspiration promoted by the Spanish State to suffocate well meaning basque patriots. Or maybe AIis simply seeing ETA (in its present reencarnation) for what it really is: A group of mobsters, hiding behind political ideals to justify their crimes.

And as a group of mobsters, their end will come, as it always does. Because thankfully, society as a whole tends to be much stronger than the isolated groups of criminals. Even Italy is in the process of ridding herself of the Camorra and the Mafia. With a bit of luck Euskadi will be next, and then the real political process will begin.

Nico