SEMASA - Sebuah
mahkamah di Cologne, Jerman, adalah untuk memulakan pendengaran kes lebih 2
Yaman yang dibunuh oleh serangan drone Amerika Syarikat pada tahun 2012.
saudara-mara si mati, yang membawa kes itu ke mahkamah, berkata mangsa adalah
lawan yang kuat daripada Al-Qaeda .
Imam
Salim bin Ali Jaber, dan sepupunya, Abdullah bin Walid Ali Jaber, yang
merupakan seorang anggota polis, terbunuh di perkampungan Khashamir di timur
Yemen apabila 5 peluru berpandu Amerika Syarikat dilancarkan dari letupan pesawat.
Washington
percaya mangsa mempunyai hubungan dengan Al-Qaeda. Sementara itu, ia dikenali
bahawa imam telah menggesa penduduk untuk berdiri kepada pelampau dan tidak
mempunyai hubungan dengan kumpulan pengganas.
Kes ini
telah dibawa oleh 3 saudara-mara si mati: Faisal, Ahmed Saeed dan Walid
Abdullah bin Ali Jaber.
"Ketiga-tiga
pengadu meminta kerajaan Jerman untuk mengutuk penggunaan pangkalan Amerika
Syarikat di Ramstein untuk serangan drone di Yaman," Hakim Raphael
Murmann-Suchan tribunal pentadbiran di Cologne berkata, seperti yang dipetik
oleh DW.
Saudara-mara
mangsa "mendakwa bahawa pangkalan udara di Ramstein sedang digunakan,
dengan cara yang berbeza, untuk serangan drone di Yaman," tambah
Murmann-Suchan.
German
Court hears Case into US Drone killings in YEMEN . . .
A court
in Cologne, Germany, is to start hearing a case over two Yemenis who were
killed by a US drone strike in 2012. The relatives of the deceased, who brought
the case to court, say the victims were strong opponents of Al-Qaeda.
Imam
Salim bin Ali Jaber, and his cousin, Walid Abdullah bin Ali Jaber, who was a
policeman, were killed in the village of Khashamir in eastern Yemen when five
US missiles launched from drones exploded.
Washington
believed the victims had connections with Al-Qaeda. Meanwhile, it is known that
the imam had urged residents to stand-up to the extremists and had no
connections with the terrorist group.
The
case was brought by three relatives of the deceased: Faisal, Ahmed Saeed and
Walid Abdullah bin Ali Jaber.
"The
three complainants are requesting the German government to condemn the use of
the US base in Ramstein for drone attacks in Yemen," Judge Raphael
Murmann-Suchan of the administrative tribunal in Cologne said, as cited by DW.
Pengadu
mendakwa bahawa penganalisis menilai imej kedudukan pesawat di Yaman dan data
untuk mengawal pesawat dan menembak roket dipindahkan dari Ramstein ke Yaman.
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Faisal
bin Ali Jaber, abang ipar dan bapa masing-masing kepada 2 orang terbunuh dalam
serangan itu, berkata dalam aduannya bahawa jika tidak bantuan Jerman dan
Ramstein pangkalan udara, orang-orang "mungkin masih hidup hari ini."
Katanya,
dia inginkan "dari kerajaan Jerman, dan bertanya, bahawa ia berhenti
kerjasama dengan kerajaan Amerika Syarikat mengenai serangan ini."
Keluarga
Faisal bin Ali Jaber sendiri juga terjejas oleh ini 2012 kejadian serangan
drone.
The
complainants claimed that analysts evaluate position images of drones in Yemen
and that data for controlling drones and shooting rockets is transferred from
Ramstein to Yemen.
Faisal
bin Ali Jaber, brother-in-law and uncle respectively to the two men killed in
the attack, said in his complaint that if not the help of Germany and Ramstein
airbase, the men “might still be
alive today.”
He said
he would expect “from the German
government, and ask, that it stops its cooperation with the US government
regarding these strikes.”
Faisal
bin Ali Jaber’s own family was also affected by this 2012 drone strike
incident.
“My daughter was psychologically affected and
could not get up for 20 days. She remains afraid of loud noises and is also
scared of darkness.”
Ramstein Air Base (image from wikipedia.org)
Peguam Bin Ali Jaber itu yang berharap
perbicaraan akan membantu berperang melawan program drone Amerika Syarikat.
"Saya yakin bahawa antara mahkamah dan
rakyat Jerman, [percubaan ini] akan maju perbahasan diharapkan untuk menamatkan
kematian orang-orang seperti [saudara Faisal] Salim dan Walid, yang kita perlu
bekerja dengan, dan bukannya melaksanakan," Kat Craig, seorang peguam
dengan penangguhan, sebuah kumpulan hak asasi manusia antarabangsa pembela hak
asasi manusia, memberitahu Al Jazeera.
Pangkalan Udara Ramstein di
Rhineland-Palatinate, barat daya Jerman berfungsi sebagai ibu pejabat untuk
Angkatan Udara Amerika Syarikat di Eropah. Dibina semula pada tahun 1948, ia
adalah bertanggungjawab untuk sebahagian besar program drone global Amerika
Syarikat.
Pada bulan April 2014, satu testimoni oleh bekas
Tentera Udara Amerika Syarikat perintis drone mendedahkan bahawa Washington
menggunakan asas sebagai pusat saraf untuk melancarkan peperangan berdengung
sangat kontroversi di Afrika, Yaman dan Pakistan.
"Keseluruhan perang drone tentera Amerika
Syarikat itu tidak mungkin dapat dilaksanakan tanpa Jerman," Brandon
Bryant, yang meletak jawatan pada tahun 2011, kepada televisyen NDR dan akhbar
Jerman Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
Amerika Syarikat telah menjalankan 114 serangan drone
di Yaman sejak 2002, menurut statistik daripada laman web berita Perang Long
Journal yang melapor pada Perang ke atas Keganasan. Sekurang-kurangnya 569
militan dan 105 orang awam terbunuh dalam serangan, laman web itu berkata.
The Bin Ali Jaber’s lawyer hopes the trial will
help to battle against US drone program.
“I’m confident that between the court and the
German people, [this trial] will progress the debate hopefully to end the
deaths of people like [Faisal’s relatives] Salim and Walid, who we should be
working with, instead of executing,” Kat Craig, a lawyer with Reprieve, an
international human rights group of human rights defenders, told Al Jazeera.
Ramstein Air Base in Rhineland-Palatinate,
southwestern Germany serves as HQ for the United States Air Forces in Europe.
Built back in 1948, it is responsible for most of the US global Drone program.
In April 2014, a testimony by a former US Air
Force drone pilot revealed that Washington is using the base as its nerve
center to wage highly controversial drone warfare in Africa, Yemen and
Pakistan.
“The entire drone war of the US military
wouldn't be possible without Germany," Brandon Bryant, who resigned in
2011, told NDR television and the German newspaper Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
The US has conducted 114 drone strikes in Yemen
since 2002, according to statistics from the Long War Journal news website
which reports on the War on Terror. At least 569 militants and 105 civilians
have been killed in the attacks, the website says.
