Two Swedish journalists
we document an indictment of two Swedish journalists: Asa Linder Borg is a historian and writer, Erik Wijk is a journalist, both are the peace movement close. They complain Swedish arms industrialists and the Swedish government, with their aid to the Iraq war against the Swedish Constitution to have. The text was published at the end of September in the major daily newspaper Aftonbladet. ” The German translation worried Renate Kirstein, Hamburg. The Swedish original follows below. Almost simultaneously filed a similar civil action in Denmark against the Danish Prime Minister, see Iraq war: The Danish prime minister for breach of the Constitution accused.Asa Linder Borg and Erik Wijk show five directors from the arms industry and Directors General of terrorism crimes to the police and the judicial ombudsman - and calling the Reichstag, Goran Person, Ulrica Messing and Gunnar Lund before the Constitutional Committee to cite. We accuse the government of terrorism in connection with the war of aggression against Iraq and its still ongoing occupation. We urge the members of the Reichstag, the responsible government councils in the Constitutional Committee. We now also show the directors of the arms industry and the Directors General of the “inspection for strategic products”, which are likely complicit in this terrorist crime, and to the police or the judicial ombudsman. We act as citizens, deeply concerned about the Swedish support for terrorism as well as on the application of new terror law. In a rule of law, all crimes be prosecuted no matter who is suspected. That is why we want a clean legal review of the actions of those responsible. The law on penalties for terrorist crimes (SFS 2003:148), Thomas Bodstrom 2003 as the implementation of a framework decision within the EU under a roof collapse contains a relatively clear definition of a terrorist crime. It is about murder, manslaughter, grievous mistreatment, kidnapping, unlawful restraint, arson, destruction gemeingefahrliche, sabotage, kidnapping, the spread of poison and diseases, illegal production of chemical weapons, explosives or radioactive substances, weapons crimes and unlawful threat so. If one or more of these deeds executed to “serious fear in a population or a population trigger” or an authority to force a certain action to take, or “fundamental political, constitutional, economic or social structures to destabilize or destroy” and Indeed, the truly “a State or an intergovernmental organization seriously harm” - then think of terrorist crimes. The two Iraq Sweden in the spring of 2005 by the Stockholm District Court to 6 or 7 years in prison for offences against the law condemns terror have none of the above-mentioned crimes. They were convicted because they transferred money to individuals, who may have terrorist acts, and could therefore only be condemned because of preparation. Let’s explore the chain of evidence. The terrorist crime, which was executed, the war of aggression against Iraq, in March 2003, and the occupation of the country, which still persists. Of all the alternative facts, enumerating the law, not just a few of the attackers and the occupants are met - and this applies to a large extent. It does not matter whether you follow the scientific estimate of the British medical journal The Lancet considers the restrained census of independent human rights organization Iraq Body Counts, based on data on victims in the media is based, or in the various reports of the UN - it is clear that the number of deaths, Gefolterten and abused in hundreds of thousands to be expected, of which the very most to the assessment of these organizations are civilians. The intention behind these acts seem all alternative to meet individual situations (even if one is sufficient for a conviction): einzujagen fear is clear Iraqi public institutions to force to take action consistent with the wishes of the occupants in line. There are countless examples. When it comes to basic structures to seriously destabilize or destroy, it should be rich stated that the US-led attackers all government buildings except the Olministerium could destroy, and that homes, hospitals, schools and other infrastructure bombed. The crime has the Iraqi government highly damaging. In addition, the acts described in the form of murder, mistreatment, sabotage, devastation, unlawful armed attack and threat continue to this day without an end in sight. The Torrorverbrechen itself - primarily carried out by the governments of the U.S. and Britain with the participation of all allied governments - is a thousand times proved. Just as the terrorism law is written, it contains a broad definition of “terrorism”. It does not even between those of individuals or organizations (conventional terrorism), and, by governments or Militarpakten (state terrorism). That was perhaps not the intention of the legislature - can these important matters already resolved viewed - but it is fact that the outcome of this legislation for a radical change in the view of the terrorism. Otherwise, it is normal in the political debate - regardless of whether they are journalists, professionals or politicians involved - that the state terrorism as the nakedness of the emperor is treated: it is highly visible to all, but nobody talks about them, because it would be the emperor cause embarrassment. With the new law can be a serious and impartial court the emperor really embarrassed. This possibility must be tested. What is actually preparing the Swedish government, business and concerned authorities to the comprehensive terrorist crimes against Iraq and its people? In contrast to the vague financial links of the convicted terrorist to Iraq Sweden is the Swedish contribution to the terrorist crimes against Iraq very evident. Swedish players have the perpetrators throughout the lengthy Grant we fern with terrorist actions, tracked vehicles, Tarnanzugen, missile defense, etc. Feuerleitsystemen supplies. In the U.S., Swedish companies in the two-year period that preceded the war, war material worth 894 million Swedish crowns (about 100 million euros, note trams.) exported. Instead, to reduce or terminate increased the value of exports in the first two war years (2003-2004) to 1,395 million Swedish crowns (about 160 million euros). That means an increase of 56 percent. The export value for the second major player, Great Britain, rose in the corresponding period of SEK 167 million (18.5 million euros) to SEK 948 million (105 million euros), an increase of 468 percent. The exporting companies, etc. Saab Bofors Dynamics, Saab Tech, Alvis Hagglungs (including a large order for the coalition partner Italy), Saab Barracuda and Ericsson Microwave System. The basic rule has long been that Sweden does not export weapons. Exceptions are allowed only if it is “security or defense reasons and it is not against Sweden’s foreign policy is.” In fact, the government has announced that this attitude by law for an almost unbridled arms exports to be replaced, in which the interests of the economy must be taken. Still, however, the supposedly restrictive line. In the general guidelines of the government for war material export, there is the well-known passage that the permit be issued, “if it is a State, which deals with another state in an armed conflict there.” But there is also the gewissensentlastende rule on “the need for material for the Swedish defense” to which politicians invoke if they opt for controversial arms exports. We are not that the government for violating the arms export law condemning - this issue was already a good reason of Svenska Freds (Swedish Peace Movement) and Vansterparti (Left Party, former communists, note transl.) raised. Contrary to the laws else has to the U.S. and Britain with their terrorist actions help, is in this matter, we are now ahead of secondary interest. But the Waffen export best impugn highlight the issue of responsibility. In 1996, the ISP, which “inspection for strategic products,” including on the approval to export war material to decide. In this way, the government has the responsibility for the individual cases of pushed away. The law on war material, however, says that the ISP cases of fundamental importance and emphasis to the government parties. Formally, the ISP is not just the responsibility for decisions on the approval, but also to the decisions about which cases the government to decide. How can the government in the crime, which is at stake? Yes, the government and its closest colleagues came to these arms supplies and defended it repeatedly through various statements. In the month of March 2003 expressed State Minister Goran Persson, Finance Minister Bosse Ringholm and party secretary Lars Stjernkvist and publicly supported export. Party your girlfriend in the export control committee, Majlene Westerlund Panke, was the first such permit after the beginning of the aggression war in retrospect good. What the Director General of the ISP, Lars-Hjalmar Wide so commented: “So are we addressing the issue just continue what we started.” In a written response to questions defended the minister responsible for arms export issues, Gunnar Lund, the continued permits in the Reichstag on 27 March 2003 that “the risk of stocks that an export stop long-term defense or security consequences for Sweden could have.” We believe that the real government a clear and formal responsibility for the arms deliveries, those in 2003 and since then the United States, Britain and other countries have gone in the Iraq conflict have participated. These supplies were and are obvious cases where the ISP for reasons of principle and because the criterion warfare, the government must decide. With its many statements to support the continued exports, the government of this approach as aware superfluous. ISP would have no clearer instructions and comments from a meeting of the government, as those who are members of the government already in the public debate had expressed. The government also used the right not to it the arms export law, “further requirements for transfer of cases to the government to adopt”. That summed up the government decision on the overall supply of these weapons, which openly in the comprehensive terrorist crimes are used, of which we are discussing. Of course, there are many who think that if the Swedish government under the new law of a terrorist crime guilty of something in the law wrong. One might of the government Persson, what you want, but yes, they are terrorists in any case. So you can think. But both the history and the present show us that terrorism, murder and other serious crimes broadly under special circumstances of whoever committed - individuals, groups, organizations and states. Often, the perpetrators his action as justified, or as serving a good cause. How to Act on the criminality of terrorist crimes also turn, is nothing more to see than that in this case. The new law may have a vague origin, but in its letter it takes the equality before the law seriously. This is his great merit. It is the government’s chief aburteilen well as the perpetrators of violence on the street, it makes no difference between conventional terrorism and state terrorism. But the danger is great that it formalistic (where arbitrary UN lists decide who is guilty) or with a one-eyed perspective, fawning on the great power schielend is applied. The law must therefore quickly, before a practice established at all for all crimes suspects be tested to which the legal framework applicable. Companies, government agencies and state councils have a different legal status, therefore, we are with our charges in three different institutions. With a display at the police, we demand that the Empire State prosecutor reviewed the Swedish company, the weapons for the war of aggression against Iraq and its occupation have delivered and, where appropriate charges under the anti-terrorism law to collect. We can not investigate for the prosecutor and satisfied us, in the display some of the suspects noted: Tomas Samuelsson, CEO of Saab Bofors Dynamics; Sven Kagevall, managing director at Alvis Hagglunds; Bjoern Erman, CEO of Saab Tech; Erik lion Adler, CEO of Ericsson Microwave System; Mats Warstedt, CEO of Saab Barracuda. At the same time we show the leaders of the “inspection for strategic products” at the Justice Ombudsman for preparation of the same terrorist crime, both the former Director General of the ISP, Lars-Hjalmar Wide, such as the newly appointed Andreas Ekman. Finally, we call Reichstag members with a sense of justice to the Constitutional Committee to carry out the responsibility of the government for the terrorist crimes, especially those of the heads of government Göran Persson, the time for responsible arms export Minister Gunnar Lund, who is now responsible Ulrica Messing. Since the law until mid-year change in 2003 in force, the parts of the deeds that were previously done, instead, as preparation to be gemeingefahrlicher devastation - just as in the case of Iraq Sweden. The crime is evidence the weapons were delivered, and it is no secret that the purpose of the weapons was and is a crime. The investigations, please!
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