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Politikblog | 04.10.2017
In the
beginning of July 2017, the escalation of the Syria conflict has
again been narrowly prevented.
This
press declaration is not about assignments of guilt, but about
irresponsible lines of thoughts and of actions and about
identifications with those, and about how just in time an exit of
those has succeeded.
At the
17.06.2017, the human rights activist Sarah Luzia Hassel-Reusing,
Wolfgang Effenberger, and Gabriela-Schimmer-Göresz have filed a
constitutional complaint (file number 2 BvR 1400/17) against the
resolution of the Bundestag (Lower House of the German national
parliament) of the 09.11.2016 on the prolongation and expansion of
the Syria deployment of the Bundeswehr (German army).
Wit
letter of the 03.07.2017, they have vividly just in time explained
further the then acute escalation dangers of the Syria conflict, in
order to point out, that interim injunctions applied for have not
only been urgently necessary because of the unlawfulness of the
German Syria deployment, but also as a decisive signal in order to
just prevent the escalation to thermonuclear war.
The
letter has explained, that the shifting of the Bundeswehr from Turkey
to Jordan is in no way comparable to the interim injunctions applied
for, since the Bundeswehr this way is redeployed closer to the focal
point Al-Tanf.
That
time, the USA and Great Britain, had, together with 4,500 fighters
moderately labelled as „Free Syrian Army“, invaded to Al-Tanf in
the South-East of Syria, have unilaterally proclaimed there in a wide
area around Al-Tanf a „deconfliction zone“, and have at the
18.05.2017, at the 06.06.2017, and at the 08.06.2017, shot at Shiite
militias allied with Syria respectively at the Syrian army. And at
the 20.06.2017, a Syrian drone has been shot down near Al-Tanf. In
the name of the ad hoc alliance „International Alliance in the
Fight against Isis“, to which also Germany and the NATO belong, it
has been announced at the 20.06.2017 regarding those incidents, that,
in view of the recent events, the alliance would not allow any
airforced sided with the Syrian government to get close to the troops
of the alliance or of its partners.
Also in
the province Raqqa, the conflict was threatening to get out of
control. The USA have, at the 18.06.2017, shot down a Syrian fighter
jet, which has been said to have bombarded before troops of the SDF
at the front line between the Kurdish-led SDF and Isis close to the
town Ja'din, whereas according to announcements by the Syrian
government, that fighter jet had bombarded Isis. On that incident, it
has been announced in the name of the „International Alliance in
the Fight against Isis“, that the alliance will defend the SDF.
Ja'din is situated close to the airforce basis of Al-Tabaqa, which
the USA have, in May 2017, rented by the Kurds for 10 years. At the
20.06.2017, Russia has announced, that now any flying objects to the
West of the Euphrates river are taken will be targeted, and Russia
has suspended for circa 3 days the coordination with the USA of their
airforce deployments in Syria intended to prevent direct clashes with
the USA. Also Al-Tanf is situated to the West from the Euphrates.
That the
incidents at Al-Tanf and at Ja'din each have been justified in the
name of even the whole ad hoc alliance „International Alliance in
the Fight against Isis“, shows how close the NATO and also
Deutschland have stood before being drawn into the last escalation.
The
legal document of the 03.07.2017 has, in addition to that, warned,
that His Excellency, the Saudian Defence Minister and Crown Prince,
had, according to media reports of the 23.06.2017 and of the
27.06.2017, announced, that he would set „an ultimatum“ to Russia
because of Russian attacks on the „Free Syrian Army“ (FSA), and
had told, that Saudi-Arabia
had the „military means“, „to destroy the Russian troops in
Syria within three days.“
Saudi-Arabia
is a nuclear power since 2016 (section VII.2.12.2 of the
constitutional complaint).
Furthermore,
at the 27.06.2017, Sean Spicer, the then speaker of the White House,
conjectured, that a further chemical weapon incident might take place
at Syria, and Nikki Haley, Her Excellency, the UN Ambassador of the
USA, has, in addition to that, warned that for any further chemical
weapon attacks against the Syrian civil population would not only
Syria, but also Iran and Russia be made responsible. And Great
Britain announced at that time, that it would join an US attack on
Syria provided that the British parliament would consent. Until the
29.06.2017, the USA had deployed two aircraft carriers in front of
the Syrian coast, in order to attack, in the case of a chemical
weapon incident, the Syrian air force basis Al-Schayrat. Russia and
Syria expected already at the 29.06.2017, that jihadists in the
provinces Idlib or Deraa might use chemical weapons in order to then
attribute that deployment to the Syrian government, and to provoke
this way an attack by the USA. The letter of the 03.07.2017 has, in
addition to that, shown, by means of an article of the newspaper „Die
Welt“ on the US attack of the 07.04.2017, the significant risk that
His Excellency, US President Donald Trump, was threatening to be
emotionally manipulated into the escalation by such an incident
before any orderly investigation of the guilt.
After
the chemical weapon incident at Ghouta of the 21.08.2013, the begin
of the escalation to thermonuclear war has been narrowly prevented at
the 31.08.2013 in the way, that the US government has just in time
cancelled the already prepared US airstrikes, after having got to
know about the the Russian threat to retaliate against Saudi-Arabia
and about the already happened stand-by of the Russian airforce for
that deployment (sections VII.2.16.1 + VII.2.16.2 of the
constitutional complaint).
After
the 03.07.2017, the escalation dangers named in the legal document
have been decisively reduced, whereas before all sign had pointed to
nuclear Armageddon.
It
probably has also been crucial, that the escalation has not taken
place before the first personal meeting of Their Excellencies, the
Presidents of the USA and of Russia, at the 07.07.2017.
At
first, there have been the news at the 06.07.2017, that the US army
has not moved into the airforce basis Al-Tabaqa in order to prevent
clashes with the Syrian army.
The
USA have, until the 23.07.2017, stopped any support by their external
secret service CIA to the FSA.
At
the 18.08.2017, the speaker of the US Foreign Ministry, Heather
Nauert, has denied an announcement by the Syrian Kurds, that the USA
would stay in Syria for decades, and has announced instead, that the
mission of the USA in Syria and Iraq is only t defeat Isis.
In
the beginning of September, US general Raymond Thomas has admitted
that the presence of US troops in Syria violates international law.
And His Excellency, the Russian Foreign Minister Sergej Lawrow, has
hinted that the US troops could stay until the victory against Isis.
Some
groups of the 4,500 FSA fighters, which had invaded into Syria near
Al-Tanf, have, at the 24.07.2017, cancelled their relations to the
„International Alliance in the Fight against Isis“, after it
wanted to prohibit them any attacks against the Syrian army. Other
groups of the above mentioned FSA fighters are meanwhile withdrawing
from Syria, and the British troops have left Syria until the
10.09.2017.
Saudi-Arabia
and Russia are working on a significant improvement of their
relations. Nothing is being heared of any more of the threats of June
2017.
If
a public authority or a court receives pieces of information, which
are important for the inner or the outer security, then it has to
send a copy to the competent authorities respectively ministries.
Reasons for the assumption, that the letter of the 03.07.2017 has
been a cause of the prevention of the escalation to world war, are
the chronology and the targeted reduction of the named escalation
dangers. The legal document has been put online at the 13.07.2017.
The
constitutional complaint has, i. a., applied to oblige the Federal
Government to apply in the UN General Assembly for an advisory
opinion by the International Court of Justice (ICJ), regarding how
the interpretation of the EU norms for „humanitarian
interventions“ all over the world in the name of „values and
interests“ (art. 42 par. 5 TEU) and of „crisis management“
(art. 43 par. 1 TEU) has to be limited in order to make sure, that
the prohibition of aggressive war, the legal rank of the UN Charter
and the prohibition of the abuse of human rights against the UN
Charter, cannot be circumvented by means of these norms:
„How
exactly has the interpretation of the norms of the Treaty on the
European Union
(TEU)
on military interventions for values and interests (art. 42 par. 5
TEU), on military
interventions
for interference into crises (art. 43 par. 1 TEU), and the EU clause
on
mutual
assistance (art. 42 par. 7 TEU), which is still not ratified
according to art. 42 par.
2
subpar. 1 TEU, each to be limited into conformity with the UN Charter
and with the
Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), in order to completely exclude
any
possibility
to violate art. 2 par. 4 UN Charter, art. 103 UN Charter, or art. 29
no. 3 UDHR,
by
means of these norms, and in order to, at the same time, exclude the
risk of
voidness
of the TEU according to art. 53 Vienna Convention on the Law of
Treaties
because
of incompability with the UN Charter and with the UDHR, which belong
to the
'ius
cogens' ?“
This
question can get on the table again with a constitutional complaint
against a further prolongation of the German Syria mandate as well as
by a future government.
The
constitutional plaintiffs of 2 BvR 576/16, 2 BvR 2174/16, and of 2
BvR 1400/17 have contributed more to the preservation of world peace
than all parliamentarians of the Bundestag together. The latter have
even not carefully investigated the legal foundations for combat
deployments of the Bundeswehr and the escalation risks.
The
constitutional complaint of the 17.06.2017 has already been the third
attempt, with partly different plaintiffs, to stop the unlawful Syria
deployment and the escalation risks of the conflict. The
attitude of refusal by specific judges at Karlsruhe has already
become a
safety
risk of its own.
Volker
Reusing and Sarah Luzia Hassel-Reusing have meanwhile, with support
by Wolfgang Effenberger and Dr. Petra Plininger, started the
petition „Stoppt den Grundrechtsboykott“ („Stop the boykott of
the basic rights“) with a draft bill to close the loopholes, which
today still de facto enable the Constitutional Court to avoid the
application of orderly invoked basic rights and human rights.
V.i.S.d.P.:
Sarah
Luzia Hassel-Reusing, Thorner Str. 7, 42283 Wuppertal, 0202/2502621
link
to the constitutional complaint and to legal documents on it
links
regarding the escalation danger at Al-Tanf
links
regarding the Saudian war threats against Russia
links
regarding the escalation danger of chemical weapons incidents
link
on the stop of the CIA support to the FSA
links
on statements by the USA regarding willingness to retreat for the
time after the victory against Isis
links
regarding deescalation between Saudi-Arabia and Russia
petition
„Stoppt den Grundrechtsboykott“ („Stop
the boykott of the basic rights“)
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