HRW report on Ethiopia: army attacks on civilians
Human Rights Watch publicou hoxe un informe sobre os ataques contra civís, que constitúen crimes de guerra, perpetrados polo exército de Etiopía. O informe leva por título “Collective Punishment: War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity in the Ogaden area of Ethiopia’s Somali Region”. Copio un extracto da súa introducción:
Tens of thousands of ethnic Somali civilians living in eastern Ethiopia’s Somali Regional State are experiencing serious abuses and a looming humanitarian crisis in the context of a little-known conflict between the Ethiopian government and an Ethiopian Somali rebel movement. The situation is critical. Since mid-2007, thousands of people have fled, seeking refuge in neighboring Somalia and Kenya from widespread Ethiopian military attacks on civilians and villages that amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity.
For those who remain in the war-affected area, continuing abuses by both rebels and Ethiopian troops pose a direct threat to their survival and create a pervasive culture of fear. The Ethiopian military campaign of forced relocations and destruction of villages reduced in early 2008 compared to its peak in mid-2007, but other abuses —including arbitrary detentions, torture, and mistreatment in detention— are continuing. These are combining with severe restrictions on movement and commercial trade, minimal access to independent relief assistance, a worsening drought, and rising food prices to create a highly vulnerable population at risk of humanitarian disaster.
Although the conflict has been simmering for years with intermittent allegations of abuses, it took on dramatic new momentum after the Ogaden National Liberation Front (ONLF) attacked a Chinese-run oil installation in Somali Region in April 2007, killing more than 70 Chinese and Ethiopian civilians. [...]
Ethiopian troops have forcibly displaced entire rural communities, ordering villagers to leave their homes within a few days or witness their houses being burnt down and their possessions destroyed—and risk death. Over the past year, Human Rights Watch has documented the execution of more than 150 individuals [...]
Mass detentions without any judicial oversight are routine. Hundreds —and possibly thousands— of individuals have been arrested and held in military barracks, sometimes multiple times, where they have been tortured, raped, and assaulted. Confiscation of livestock (the main asset among the largely pastoralist population), restrictions on access to water, food, and other essential commodities, and obstruction of commercial traffic and humanitarian assistance have been used as weapons in an economic war aimed at cutting off ONLF supplies and collectively punishing communities that are suspected of supporting the rebels. [...]
Digalego.com temporalmente fóra de servizo
O magnífico “Dicionario de galego” que puxo en liña a editorial Ir Indo está temporalmente fóra de servizo. Máis información na web da Coordinadora de Traballadores de Normalización da Lingua:
- Ir Indo paraliza o seu dicionario na rede Digalego.com e pide rectificacións de Política Lingüística
Eu aínda non entendín o discurso da empresa editora. Oxalá me estea a equivocar, pero a impresión que causa é a dunha chantaxe, de traballaren máis con ansia crematística que cultural: a impresión contraria que me dera o proxecto no seu lanzamento… :-(
P. S. (13 – VI – 2008). Máis información en Vieiros:
Nos meus enlaces xa substituín o de Ir Indo polo Dicionário Electrónico Estraviz (abreviado “Dicionário e-Estraviz”), unha ferramenta moi útil para coñece-los significados das palabras, aínda que a escolla dalgunhas formas e a ortografía son “reintegracionistas”, distintas das oficiais.
Para a escolla e a ortografía oficiais a autoridade máis á man é o Vocabulario Ortográfico da Lingua Galega (abreviado VOLG ou VOLGA).
P. S. (20 – VI – 2008). Parece que o Dicionario de Ir Indo xa está na rede outra vez, do cal me alegro. É un servizo magnífico. Pero, ¿por que volven? ¿Xa lles pasou a perrencha? ¿Déronse conta do ridículo que facían? Prestixio, sona, fama, imaxe pública… cousas que é doado perder, e sempre é incerta a posibilidade de recuperalas.
perrencha
port: perrice cast: rabieta ingl: tantrum
s f Enfado pasaxeiro, con choros e berros, propio dos nenos.
SIN: rabecha.
CFR: cabuxo, entreitiza.
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