No seguimento deste post o Rui Carmo: E German ‘licence to kill’ found
Border guards in East Germany during the Cold War were given clear orders to shoot at attempted defectors, including children, a senior official says.
A newly discovered order is the firmest evidence yet that the communist regime gave explicit shoot-to-kill orders, says Germany’s director of Stasi files.
The Stasi was the security ministry of the East German government, which always denied there was such a policy.
The order “is a licence to kill”, said the head of a Stasi victims’ memorial.
Hubertus Knabe called for a criminal investigation and possible murder charges to be brought against whoever drew up the order, saying nearly all the Stasi’s 91,000 former employees had gone “practically unpunished”.
(agradeço a indicação do link ao leitor Infidel)
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Era um regime tão amigo do povo que até o matava quando este, decerto enlouquecido, queria fugir para o inferno do capitalismo. Ai que saudades!
Comentário por Pedro José Félix — Agosto 13, 2007 @ 21:04
“Ai que saudades!”
É verdade: era um regime benemérito e verdadeiramente progressista…
Comentário por André Azevedo Alves — Agosto 13, 2007 @ 22:37
Já agora,
http://www.ejil.org/journal/Vol9/No3/art6-01.html
“In the first of the border guard cases to come before the Bundesgerichtshof6 the defendants, two young soldiers of the GDR Border Guard Troops, shot at a 20 year-old East German trying to escape over the wall to West Berlin during the night of 1 December 1984. When the fugitive climbed the wall on a ladder he had brought with him, one of the defendants shouted at him to freeze and, after firing some warning shots in the air, both of the soldiers fired at him with automatic rifles in order to stop the escape, even at the cost of the fugitive’s life. The man, hit by bullets in his back and knee, fell from the ladder. After some time he was dragged to a watchtower by two other soldiers where, despite his repeated requests for medical treatment, he received no attention. Since the incident had to be kept secret no civilian or other person on emergency duty was allowed to be called. Only after two hours was the fugitive taken to a police hospital, where he died shortly afterwards.”
(via ‘No Pasarán!’).
Comentário por Infidel — Agosto 14, 2007 @ 11:59
Parece-me que os média ‘de referência’ também gostam de descobrir o que toda a gente já sabe há décadas.
Talvez não fosse má idéia desviar a atenção para as actualidades. Mesmo que em jornais que não o Daily Mail.
Comentário por Dorean Paxorales — Agosto 14, 2007 @ 14:18