fwd: 3rd CO to be court martialed: preliminary hearing tomorrow 12 ,Yaffo
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Wed Mar 5 22:50:23 IST 2003
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For who can get there:
Being at the Yaffo military court, tomorrow at 12, is a constructive way of
expressing despair. Those young "trouble makers" deserve it.
[] Matan Kaminer 3rd CO to be court martialed
preliminary hearing tomorrow 12 Yaffo
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From: Noam Kaminer <noam.kaminer at exlibris.co.il>
Date sent: Wed, 5 Mar 2003 19:50:59 +0200
Hello All,
Matan will be brought to court martial tomorrow Thursday March 7th at 12:00
(noon). If you can come to support and show solidarity please do so.
The court is in Jaffa: Yefet St. no. 91-93 (on the corner with Shivty
Israel).
BR,
Noam
[The following is from the message of
"Reuven Kaminer" <mssourk at mscc.huji.ac.il>]
Israeli Draft Resisters Fight Draconian Apparatus.
Matan Kaminer Refuses further Disciplinary Proceedings
Matan Kaminer returned to the IDF conscription center yesterday, March
4, 2003, after a two-day furlough. Upon his return, he exercised his right to
refuse to be tried in yet another, fourth disciplinary proceeding. He
understood full well that this would result in his being arraigned for court-
martial along with Yoni Ben Artzi and Hagai Matar. Kaminer explained his
refusal for the following reasons. First, his offences are not of a disciplinary
nature. Second, the officers called on to try him in disciplinary proceedings
have absolutely no knowledge of the case or its background. Third, he is in
the same circumstances as that of his friends, Yoni Ben Artzi and Hagai
Matar, who are waiting for the date of the beginning of their court-martial
proceedings.
Officers in disciplinary proceedings can only impose limited sentences of
up to 35 days, while the military court can impose a three-year sentence for
refusing an order. It is reasonable to assume that Kaminer would have been
sent to a full court proceeding after the fourth or the fifth disciplinary
sentence. Kaminers move is designed to emphasize the common roots
and goals of all the resisters as against what has appeared, formally and on
the surface, to be separate proceedings for unconnected individuals. It is
also intended to show the common goals and interests of all the
refusenicks, despite the various shades of opinion among them.
Kaminer has been remanded for 48 hours, pending his arrangement for
court martial. Ben Artzi and Matar, have already been charged and are in
camp detention until the opening of their trial.
Another six conscriptions refusenicks are currently serving monthly
sentences. It is to be expected, according to the reading of current IDF
policy that all or most of them will eventually be put on military trial.
Tens of thousands of young Israeli men and women, some belonging to
particularly categories such as orthodox seminary students - and others
on an individual basis, are exempted from military service through formal
arrangements or as a result of the army draft classification policy. It
appears that the IDF has decided to single out and persecute the prisoners
of conscience. It is obvious that the IDF prefers that a hundred youngsters
opt for a psychological discharge, instead of recognizing the conscientious
motivations of these speaking in loud and clear voice against the occupation
and the militarization of Israeli society. Incidentally, all the prisoners of
conscience have announced that they are willing to do humanitarian
community service instead of killing and dying for the perpetuation of the
occupation.
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