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language. We request for large distribution.
07.09.2015 | Unser Politikblog
07.09.2015 | Unser Politikblog
Sarah Luzia Hassel-Reusing
Thorner
Str. 7
42283
Wuppertal (Germany)
+49/202/2502621
human
rights activist
Dear
ladies and gentlemen,
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| Sarah Luzia Hassel-Reusing The Hague 21.11.2012 |
at
the 05.07.2015, the Greek people has, with a significant majority,
voted „OXI“ against a new memorandum to be imposed
via the EFSF. At the 08.07.2015, the Greek government has applied for
an ESM loan, which will bring even worse
conditions. It seems in this situation, that the Greek population
will get out of the humanitarian crisis only with the
support of the universal criminal law.
The
current development with the ESM has been foreseeable. Thus I have
filed in 2010 and 2012 eight constitutional
complaints
in Germany with together more than 1,000.- pages. And
I have filed, at the 21.11.2012, to the International Criminal Court
(ICC) at The Hague a charge (file number OTPCR345/12)
against unknown for the suspicion of a crime against humanity because
of intentious and, at the same time,
systematic
and large-scale damage to the health of the Greek population (art.7
par. 1 lit. h+k Roman Statute). Everyone
has the human right to the, for the respective person, highest
attainable standard of physical and mental health (art.
12 UN Social Pact). In addition to that, the human right to health is
protected for women by art. 12 of the UN women's
rights convention (CEDAW) and for children by art. 24 UN childrens
rights convention (CRC). Furthermore, children
have to be protected, according to art. 19 CRC, against damages. As a
result from that and from the social
progression
clause (art. 2 UN Social Pact), the human right to health needs to be
less affected by austerity measures than
any other social human right (general comment no. 14 to the UN Social
Pact). That must have been known to those responsible
for the conditions imposed on Greece.
Even
if the situation in the state budget and in the social insurance
might be so serious, that it can only be solved by significant
interventions into the property of the creditors, tax hikes, and
social cuts, there would nevertheless have to be saved,
for all inhabitants of Greece, enough for their medical supply, for
healthy food, and for housing.
According
to an estimation by the former Greek Health Minister, Mr. Adonis
Georgiadis, 700.- million € per year would suffice
for an amount, estimated by him, of 1.9 to 2.4 million people in
Greece without health insurance. Instead, up to 50.-
billion € are spent alone for the financial stability of the Greek
financial sector.Let
me give you an impression, what is coming up to you (and sooner or
later to the inhabitants of all EU member states),
and why it is being done.
As
meanwhile also the Preliminary Report of the 17./18.06.2015 by the
Truth Commission on the Greek Public Debt, which
has been installed by the Greek Parliament, shows, the loans to
Greece via the „Greece Support“ and via the EFSF
mainly aim at the safeguarding of creditor banks, at the
recapitalization of Greek banks, and at privatization. They have
never aimed at the benefit of the Greek population. As
pointed out in the press declaration „UN human rights experts
welcome Greek referendum and call for international solidarity“
of the 30.06.2015 by Victoria Dandan and Alfred de Zayas, the UN
human rights experts on international
solidarity,
and on democratic and equitable order, any treaty or loan agreement,
that force a country to violate the universal
human rights, is „null and void“ according to art. 53 Vienna
Treaty Law Convention. That voidness applies certainly
even more on conditions, which are part of a crime against humanity.
The
Greek government could have averted the subjugation under the ESM by
applying to the UN General Assembly for an
advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice on the
question of the voidness (art. 53 Vienna Treaty Law Convention)
of the memoranda of understanding and / or of the treaties (ESM
Treaty, EFSF Framework Treaty, TFEU), which
demand such a strictness. The former Prime Minister, His Excellency,
Mr. Alexis Tsipras, has, regarding the
voidness
of credit conditions, provenly been informed about that possibility
already in January 2014.
With
Greece now under the ESM, the imposed conditions are going to become
even harder, since the European Council has
explicitely demanded at its Summit at the 24./25.03.2011 that
„measures reducing the net present value of the debt will
be considered only when other options are unlikely to deliver the
expected results“. That means, according to the historical
method of legal interpretation, that the ESM law allows any reduction
of the nominal value of the state debts
only,
after all other measures (including the marginalization of the social
system and the privatization of the public utilities
(art. 14 TFEU) and of the sovereign institutions(art. 2 of prot. 26
to the treaties of the EU), but also smaller debt relief
measures like lowering of interest rates) have not restored the debt
repayment capacity. The „free trade“ treaties TTIP,
CETA, and TISA are the next step to enforce that privatization also
on the non-insolvent member states, and to make
that privatization without precedent irreversible.Why
many conditions imposed by the IMF are so inhuman, has been exposed
by Prof. Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, a former chief
economist of the World Bank in the Guardian already at the
29.04.2001. He has explained referring to the examples
of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Indonesia, that some social cuts have been
deliberately made so hard, that they have
led
to riots, which in turn has reduced the demand and the prices for the
assets to be privatized. According to Prof. Stiglitz,
free trade is the next step after the privatization.
Davison
Budhoo, an economist and former IMF employee, has already exposed in
September 1991, that, according to UNICEF,
conditions imposed by IMF and World Bank have killed up to seven
million children under the age of five years
alone in the time from 1982 to 1991.
For
the shift of money, resources, public utilities, and today even
sovereign institutions, into private hands, in an organized
and criminal way, the health and even the lives of people are being
intentiously destroyed.
The
study „Can banks individually create money out of nothing? - The
theories and the empirical evidence“ (published at
the 18.09.2014 in the International Review on Financial Analysis
(Elsevier publishing house) has empirically proven
the
„credit creation theory“, that giral money (the money on the
banking accounts) is created out of nothing, when a bank
grants a loan; its creation comes provenly neither from the savers
bringing cash to the bank nor from the central
bank.
They book „demand“ (to get the loan back) | „liability“ (to
pay the loan out) for the creation of the loan and so of the
giral money, and do the reverse booking entry, when the loan is paid
back, and so the giral money is deleted. They get
interests for per saldo nothing. Since every bank can create much
more loans (and so giral money) out of nothing,
than
the equity of the respective bank is, every bank is replacable, there
are no systemic „too big to fail“ banks at all.
The
birth and the death of real human beings are different from those of
giral money. Their health and their lives are absolutely
real, are irreplacable, are endlessly more valuable.
I
have consciously directed the charge against unknown, because so many
persons from many countries are involved in the
drafts and in the decisions on the conditions in connection with the
loans of „Greece Support“ and EFSF, in the creation
of the mechanisms for the imposition of those conditions, and in the
obligation of those mechanisms to an
inhuman
strictness like that towards Greece (Preamble EFSF Framework Treaty)
and like that of the „practice“ respectively
„modalities“ of the IMF (conclusions of the Ecofin Council of the
09.05.2010, file number SN 2564/1/10).
Presumably
only he files of the coming into existence of the conditions and
testimonies will bring clearness, which concrete
persons are responsible for those actions, which have led to the
damage of so many inhabitants and citizens of
Greece.
Only the International Criminal Court can cope with a case of such
international dimension. The guilty persons must
be detected and be held accountable, and the damaging of the health
of the Greeks by the austerity measures must be
stopped.
It
is no fate and no natural disaster, if the health of people is
damaged, because one deprives them of medically needed means.
It is a crime against humanity according to art. 7 par. 1 lit. h+k
Roman Statute, if one intentionously, knowing
that
one does it, systematically or large-scale damages the health of a
civil population. It is already a sufficient degree of intention
for this crime, if one imposes conditions, which damage the health,
or goes on imposing them, even though one
knows, that they cause or will cause such a damage, even if one has
not the aim to damage the health, but accepts that
to reach other aims.
I
have, in my charge, shown connections between the conditions and
their results to the hunger and to the damaging of the
health system at Greece. In
order to achieve, that the ICC can start a procedure and find out the
guilty persons, it is not only necessary, to prove the
system and the large-scale at an abstract level, and to prove the
mental element of the crime (knowledge and intention),
but it also needs enough testimonies by people, who have been
damaged, or as far as they already have died, by
their relatives.
As
already explained in my first appeal for testimonies, regarding the
death of unarmed demonstrators at the 28.09.2009 at
Guinea, 150 victims, and regarding presumed war crimes in the years
2003 to 2008 at Iraq, 85 of sampled 400 cases,
have
been enough for the ICC to presume a large scale. At Greece, for many
more than 150 people, necessary medicaments and
medical treatments, or food and housing are not affordable any more,
because of the austerity measures. Since,
at an abstract level, the system and the large-scale are much more
evident than in many other cases, we believe, that
already some more than 85 testimonies of concrete inhabitants of
Greece, whose health has been damaged by the
austerity
measures, will be enough to move the ICC to start a procedure and to
find out the guilty persons. The
point at issue is, that as many victims as possible themselves
testify and so actively engage for justice and for the punishing
of the perpetrators. This is something you can do for justice and to
stop the atrocities without waiting for a government.
Already
many people have made testimonies after our first appeal. We want to
express our respect and our thankfulness to
them. And we are thankful to the former Greek ambassador, Mr.
Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos, and particularly to the voluntary
clinic at Elliniko for their support. We
estimate, that we still need between 40 and 50 more testimonies. It
is certainly positive for the case, if even manymore
testimonies are made, like in the Iraq case. The
point at issue is to prove the damaging of the health by concrete
austerity measures. If you have suffered serious
health
damage, because you as a patient with diabetes, heart problems,
cancer, multiple sclerosis, stroke, kidney failure, or
any other serious bodily disease, have been denied necessary
medicaments or medical treatments, I request you to
support
the charge. Please explain, since which time your health has been
damaged by which measure. This can refer to medicaments
or to health services of physicians, which are not available any more
or only with unaffordable copayments
or
self-payments, or not any more close enough to the place where you
live.If
you or your children are undernourished or malnourished, the point
for your testimony is, since when and because of
which
cuts (e. g. of your pension, of your unemployment benefit, or of your
wage) you have not had any more enough means
for your sufficient nutrition. Also if the loosening of the
protection against unjustified dismissal or the rise of specific
costs of living (e. g. because of the VAT increase on food) are the
cause, your testimony is important.
Please
also testify, if you still have your medical supply or are not
undernourished only because you are supported by a charitable
organization. If
you have become homeless, or if you have to live in an unheated
appartment because of a lack of financial means, please
also explain, since when because of which cuts you have not been able
any more to afford the housing respectively
heating.
If
possible, please attach to your testimony also fotocopies of pieces
of evidence, which show, that with the financial means
available to you, the necessary costs for food, appartment, or health
could not be paid any more. We
explicitely also request the relatives of people, who have died
because of the austerity measures, to testify.
The
voluntary clinic of Elliniko has developed a questionnaire (see at
the end of this video), which helps you to structure
your testimony, and which includes the consent to the use of the
testimony for the charge with file number OTP-CR
345/12. Please send it to the address of Elliniko:
Metroplitan
Community Clinic at Helliniko
Iatrio
Ellinikou
(inside
the old American military base at Elliniko)
Post
Code 16777
Elliniko,
Attiki,
Greece
Every
testimony with evidential pieces of information regarding the
damaging of the health of concrete persons by the conditions
is an important contribution to the solution of the crime against
humanity in Greece. With
friendly greetings,
Sarah
Luzia Hassel-Reusing
Link
to the questionnaire for the testimonies
Contacts
in Germany
Sarah
Luzia Hassel-Reusing
Thorner
Str. 7
42283
Wuppertal (Germany)
+49/202/2502621
human
rights activist
Contacts
in Greece:
(our
contact at Greece for coordination and translation of testimonies)
Metroplitan
Community Clinic at Helliniko
Iatrio
Ellinikou
(inside
the old American military base at Elliniko)
Post
Code 16777
Elliniko,
Attiki,
Greece
Contacts
in Greece:
Mr.
Leonidas Chrysanthopoulos
Sources:
-on
the estimated 700,- million € see the article „Health Insurance a
Victim of Austerity in Greece“ by Greek Reporterof
the 24.04.2014
-on
the example Guinea see the article „Spart sich die Welt ihr
Weltgericht?“ by the taz newspaper of the 15.11.2012
-on
the example Iraq see the article „Systematische Folterung von
Inhaftierten“ by the taz newspaper of the 13.01.2014
-Preliminary
Report of the 17./18.06.2015 by the Truth Commission on the Greek
Public Debt
-study
„Can banks individually create money out of nothing? - The theories
and the empirical evidence“, published at the
18.09.2014 in the International Review on Financial Analysis
(Elsevier publishing house).
-Guardian
article „IMF's four steps to damnation“ of the 29.04.2001, by
Prof. Dr. Joseph Stiglitz
-foreword
by Davison Budhoo on p. 12 of „Genug ist Genug“ (1991, published
via Heinrich-Böll Foundation)
-press
declaration „UN human rights experts welcome Greek referendum and
call for international solidarity“ of the
30.06.2015
by Victoria Dandan and Alfred de Zayas, the UN human rights experts
on international solidarity, and on
democratic
and equitable order
-Conclusions
of the Summit of the European Council of the 24./25.03.2011
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