(conclusions from the previous chapter - and new materials)
From the first chapter of this part ("Israeli Medical Terrorism") of our
work we can see that the medicine and medical help, medical institutions
and medical personnel are used by the Israeli regime as tools for killing
and discriminate people. Medicine is used by Israeli government for humiliation,
racism purposes, and artificial augmentation of mortality rate within particular
ethnic groups (Jewish and non-Jewish immigrants from ex-USSR in particular).
International community, United Nations, Amnesty International kept silence
about "medical" violations, committed by Israeli government against Russian-speaking
immigrants in Israel. They did not want "to intervene in a conflict between
Jews - and Jews" (as one of AI employee told me in 1996). This is why all
further horrible events happened. If the state of Israel was made accountable
for the "small Russian genocide" and crimes against new Russian-speaking
immigrants, it could prevent the beginning of Israeli worldwide tyranny.
Israelis will be known forever for their exceptional cruelty. Using medical
help as an arm to kill people Israelis has removed the last barrier between
human behavior - and behavior of wild savage beasts.
Let's systermaticize (classify) the most astonishing crimes, in which medicine
is used by Israelis as a tool to intimidate and torture people.
1. Denial of medical help: in both Russian and Palestinian cases.
2. Participation of Israeli medical practitioners in tortures and inhuman
treatment of detainees.
Explanation: according to Israeli Landau law, which made tortures legal in
Israeli and occupied territories, a medical doctor must examine a prisoner
- and give permission for tortures. We have innumerous examples, when Israeli
medical practitioners have participated in tortures and inhuman treatment.
In the case of Russian women, kidnapped or taken to Israel by deception,
and then turned to sex slaves (the case was described by Amnesty International
- and can be found in this work) - we have an example of inhuman treatment
of unlawfully detained women by Israeli prison medical staff. A wide database
on crimes against humanity, committed by Israeli medical staff in Israeli
prisons.
3. Humiliation and mockery on new immigrants, foreign workers, Arabs (Palestinians),
tourists, and other categories of patients-non-Israelis.
4. Denial of medical attestation (evaluation) for foreign workers, Arabs
(Palestinians), and new Russian Immigrants, injured at work.
5. Participation of Israelis with medical diplomas in murdering people for
organ transplants or / and in taking out organs from the dead bodies without
authorization in victim's testament or victim's family's authorization.
6. Participation in inhuman exploitation of Arabs / Palestinians, new immigrants
from ex-USSR and Ethiopia, children, women (sex-slaves), and foreign workers.
7. Exploitation of medicine for persecution of dissidents in Israel
and world-wide.
Let's concentrate on the last point.
Israeli government - and its affiliative Jewish organizations all over the
world - are using Israeli-Jewish influence in many countries, Israeli embassies,
and global Israeli terrorist infrastructure to target dissidents by medical
means.
This policy first of all has reflected in Israeli war on "fugitive" Russian
slaves: Russian-speaking refugees from Israel, who became refugee claimants
in Europe and Canada. The level of Russian-speaking new immigrants' exodus
from Israel (hundreds of thousands) and diplomatic-ideological repercussions,
underlining that Israel is the most brutal racist state, - have provoked
Israeli government to undertake whatever was possible to punish Russian refugee
claimants, and prevent their admission by host countries. For this purpose
Israel has placed Israeli or Jewish origins on top positions in Immigration
Ministries of several countries, where most of Russian-speaking refugees
from Israel went. For example, in Canada Israelis put two "their own" federal
Ministers of Immigration - Lucienne Robillard and Elinor Kaplan, - immigration
(refugee) judges (like J. LaSalle, Dorion, B. Berger, etc.), immigration
officers (J. Malka, S. Kaplan, etc.): to organize mass rejection of the refugee
claims and - consequently - mass deportation back to Israel.
For some reasons it did not work as Israelis have planned. Israelis never
expected that Russian speaking refugees from Israel would rather die then
go back to "Zionist heaven". Suicides (or attempts to kill themselves) of
Russian-speaking refugees from Israel, their desperate appeals to the Federal
Court, their interviews for newspapers and the media involvement in general,
and other similar actions have put the state of Israel - and her racist practices
- into the spotlight more then if all refugee claimants from Israel would
be quietly admitted.
More and more refugee claimants from Israel were admitted in Europe and Canada
(if not as refugees - then under humanitarian and compassionate grounds,
etc.).
This triggered a shift in Israeli methods. While still maintaining the pressure
to stop admission of refugee claimants from Israel, and lobbying anti-refugees'
laws and policy in Canadian and other parliaments, Israelis had concentrated
more on medical departments of Immigration - and their power to make independent
immigrants and refugees from Israel inadmissible. Starting from 1996-97 literary
all of refugee claimants from Israel were "accused" of having tuberculosis,
and other infectious diseases. Hundreds and thousands of former Russian speaking
new immigrants from Israel had began to receive Immigration's orders to undergo
a compulsive medical treatment "from tuberculosis" or a skin test (or were
considered as inadmissible). In the most of such cases a flurography or an
x-ray results were deliberately wrongly interpreted - or (in some other cases)
false x-ray results were fabricated.
Boris K. - a hokey player and businessman, a former refugee claimant - was
"diagnosed" as "infected by tuberculosis" by Immigration Canada, and was
ordered to appear at the clinics of infectious diseases "for treatment".
Prior to this (weeks before) he did x-rays in Moscow and Minsk - for his
independent immigration file, and there were no signs of any suspicious abnormalities.
He immediately did another x-ray at a private clinics - which has shown no
abnormalities. However, it was still very hard, and took him unbelievably
intensive efforts to reject Immigration's "diagnosis".
Victor G. - a technician, a former refugee claimant. Was "diagnosed" by Immigration
in 1996. Did 3 independent x-rays, which totally rejected Immigration's "diagnosis".
However, Immigration did not want to take additional tests (and non-Immigration
MDs opinions) into consideration, and ordered Victor to departure from Canada.
Since 1997 he stays in a limbo.
Georgy H. - an engineer, a refugee claimant. His refugee claim was rejected
under the most outraged and unfair excuses. He was very smart and well-informed,
and did an x-ray test day before - and day after an x-ray for Immigration
(it wasn't too good for his health, but the responsibility for this is a
burden on Immigration Canada - and the Canadian Jewish Congress). As he expected,
Immigration told that he has a tuberculosis, and (in spite of the clear evidences
that Immigration's diagnosis was a false one) Immigration's medical department
still insisted that he must undergo a compulsory treatment.
Fima G. - a famous jazz musician, who lived more in Europe, then in Israel,
before coming to Canada as a refugee claimant. His fluorography, and then
an x-ray - were falsified by Immigration. He immediately (following my own
recommendation) did another x-ray at a regular laboratory, and then did a
copy of this last x-ray at the Jewish General Hospital. This last ("non-immigration")
x-ray did not show any abnormalities. However, due to his grave depression
he could not conclude his struggle with Immigration's medical department,
and has obeyed Immigration's order to undergo a compulsive medical treatment.
Dima V. - a computer engineer from Moscow (and a former refugee claimant
from Israel), one of the most healthy people, who ever existed, an athlete.
Never had any lung problems. By coincident, he was x-rayed the same day (his
work required this), when he went also to Montreal Chest Institute - and
had a flurography there (for Immigration). His flurography for Immigration
was evidently fabricated or deliberately misinterpreted, and he still had
to hire an immigration lawyer to prove it!
However, the most outraged and wild was my own case.
My own case:
In 1991 I was deported from my native Belarus to Warsaw (with my family).
In Warsaw we were surrounded by Israelis - and taken to Israel against our
will, by force.
After 3,5 years of persecution and nightmare in Israel we have managed (with
Amnesty International's indirect help) to arrive to Canada as refugee claimants.
After 3 hearings our refugee claim was dismissed (March, 1997; Immigration's
refugee board has concluded that people from Russia (ex-USSR) were taken
to Israel for Jewish-Israeli money - and therefore have no rights to claim
a refugee status; that Russians in Israel are property of Israeli government;
that we provoked persecution by our refusal to change our views: which irritated
Israelis!..... and so on). Israeli embassy has directly intervened in our
refugee case. Our appeal to the Federal court was at first considered as
justified, and later - after Israeli embassy and Jewish lobby's intervention
- was just stopped (October 1998), almost administratively, with no real
decision. We then appealed for humanitarian and compassionate grounds.
Israeli consulate has intervened not only into our refugee procedure, but
also into the procedure of granting us the permanent residents' status. In
their letter to Immigration Canada, Israeli consulate's representatives had
insisted that in order to receive all required by immigration procedure documents,
we must to go to Israel. For me - a cancellation of my Israeli citizenship
was a matter of principles. My first request to terminate my Israeli citizenship
(which I was forced to except in 1991) was submitted to Israeli Foreign Affairs
and Interior in 1994, back in Israel. In 1996 I have submitted the same request
to Israeli Foreign Affairs - and Israeli embassy. They have responded by
explaining the Israeli law. I found out (from this explanation) that the
Israeli citizenship virtually could not be cancelled at all - which is a
violation of all international judicial norms and human rights. To be in
accordance with the immigration procedure requirements, we had to obtain
a confirmation of our Israeli citizenship termination, - or extend our Israeli
passports (expired by then).
The most intensive correspondence took place between me - from one side,
and the Israeli consulate - from the other side - in summer, 1998. This time
Israeli embassy fully cooperated in finalising my immigration case - and
eventual termination of my Israeli citizenship. They confirmed that our Israeli
passports could not be extended, which was enough to please Canadian Immigration.
However, on the other hand, Jewish extremists in Israel and in Canada had
intensified their pressure on me (and my family), including accusation, threats,
and other terrorist methods.
There were no doubts at all that assigned to our case IRB (Immigration and
Refugee board) and the Immigration officer were hired by Israeli government,
maintained close contacts with the Israeli embassy, and in their judgement
expressed Israeli extremists' attitude towards me and my ideological views.
IRB's Conclusive Decision was not a document of a definition of justification
of our refugee claim, but a political verdict, issued by the state of Israel
(through manipulated by Israelis Canadian institutions - like IRB). By tone
and content it was not a humanitarian-related issue, but a conviction of
a political opponent, which style reminds open political processes in fascist
Germany and stalinist Russia: "In result we were convinced that the demanders
are [dangerous for their state] exaggerators who painted a picture of their
state as a state of slavery, injustice, where Russians are bitten if they
do not work quickly enough, where Russian children are victims of mockery
committing by theirs classmates and teachers, and where Russian women are
victims of sexual harassment. And that all is going on without any possibility
to obtain a protection from the state."
It was clear that our case was viewed not through an independent, and not
even through a Canadian body's perspective, but was openly "evaluated" from
Israeli extremists' point of view.
In one of her letters, composed for the humanitarian immigration officer,
one of my representatives, Mrs. A. -M. Augestad, wrote:
"In her speech in the Federal Court (1998), Mrs. Murphy, the Minister's of
Immigration legal representative, confirmed the IRB members' negative attitude
towards human rights, and also widened personal accusations against Mr. Lev
GUNIN, turning the question of GUNINS refugee status into the question of
his "inadmissible" (by whom?) ideological views. As IRB did before, Mrs.
Murphy refused even to mention members of Lev's family: his wife, Alla Gunin,
his mother, Elisabeth Epstein (Gunin), and the children.
The Federal Judge, Mr. Dube, just copied Mrs. Murphy's and the IRB statements,
refusing to evaluate arguments of the TWO sides. (.....) Actually family
Gunin's case in the Federal Court was "stopped" (closed) not by Mr. Dube,
but by an intervention of Mr. Rosenberg, a famous Zionist and curator of
the Federal Court. The closure the case was more an administrative, then
a judicial measure. (......) Someone, whose name was also Dube, was involved
(by time of Gunins' refugee hearings - 1996-97) into negotiations between
the immigration officer, Mrs. Malka, and the General Consul of Israel, in
Gunins' case. We could not find this person among IRB headquarters' staff,
or among other immigration divisions.
All (above mentioned) faxes were submitted to Israeli consulate from (and
by) Mrs. Malka, without mentioning any other name (s). However, all responses
from the consulate were submitted directly to Mr. Dube. We feel that this
mysterious Mr. Dube has something to do with the Federal Judge Mr. Dube.
IRB and Mrs. Murphy's accusations against family Gunin - were such, which
are a prerogative of the criminal court. They accused Gunins so sharply as
if Gunins were murderers or terrorists. In reality they are innocent people,
never accused in a criminal offence, defamation, or fraud. In the same time,
the way their accusers acted - might be easily considered as a criminal offence."
This tone of an aggressive accusation, which sounded in IRB's and the Federal
Court's premises, was a predicate for a severe punishment. However, a decision
to punish us was probably taken years ago in Israel - and was already in
motion since our arrival to Montreal. First of all, the punishment was delivered
by medical tools.
Back in 1994 (we have learned this later, only in 2001), Immigration's medical
department (Immigration Medical Services, or IMS) made a brief medical conclusion:
tuberculosis. There were no indication in my immigration case - on what ground
this conclusion was made, or why. Just so. It reflects pro-Israeli people's
in Immigration tactical plan to backup their efforts to ruin my life in case
if another party in Immigration will say "yes" to our humanitarian case.
Writing: "tuberculosis" - in my immigration case, Immigration's medical division
did not inform me about this (in writing or through their Immigration MD,
Wanda Brzezinska, who was my family doctor till 1999). They kept their "diagnosis"
in secret.
However, it was used later as an excuse to deny employment (and student -
for children) authorisations for me, as well as for my family members. Immigration
was justifying decisions to refuse us employment authorisation by the "medical
concerns". Each refusal was actually a fine: because we had to pay for each
application, and the fee was never reimbursed to us. For us it was a considerable
amount of money.
Years later, when I spoke with one of my legal advisers - someone with good
connections in Immigration, he told me that probably my suspicion about "Zionist
connection" in my mother's, and mine, "medical case" are applicable. He told
me that a special "personal curator" had a controlling authority over my
(my mother's) medical case in IMS, and others have subordinated her. He told
me that her name was Elinor Morgan. "But who is Elinor Morgan?" - I asked
him.
- You don't know? - he said in response.
- No.
- Her relative, Mr. Morgan, is the most important figure in Ontario's Jewish
Zionist Administration.
- You mean - JIAS, Jewish Congress?
- You'll know less - you'll sleep better.
- Why then you said "A"? Well, but tell me - what relative: a husband? a
brother?
- If you'll not have a complete information, you'll speak less.
I did not know by then that after 8-10 months I could see Elinor Morgan's
name in writing, in the crucial documents in my mother's Immigration file.
Mr. Chiu, an immigration officer, assigned to my mother's file in 2000, has
wrote in one of his aggressive letters that my mother poses a threat to Canadian
public security!
Administrative repression, involving medical issues (false health concerns),
have been practising against us since March 1998: which corresponds to the
Federal Court's case's termination.
When a final procedure to grant us permanent resident's status was initiated
by Immigration's humanitarian officer, Immigration's medical department has
begun to sabotage this procedure. To ruin our financial and social situation,
and to sabotage our permanent resident's papers issuing, the pro-Israeli
staff in Immigration Canada did the next. Application forms for immigration
medical exams were submitted to us from Immigration Canada not all in the
same time, but for each family member separately, with a gap of more then
6 months. When the next family member would then undergo the medical exams,
the validity of the previously done medical exams would expire. Using this
trick, Immigration could keep us in a limbo forever. Only an intervention
from Prime Minister's office has stopped this tactics.
I personally and my legal representatives - we have described these events
in a letter to Prime Minister of Canada, Honourable Jean Chretien, and in
letters to human rights organizations:
"1. (...) In spite of the human approach of Quebec's Immigration (Gunins
were already given Quebec's Certificat de selection du Quebec) Federal Immigration
didn't stop humiliations yet. On April 19 2001 Leo GUNIN called Federal Immigration
because the Immigration has never transferred the amount of money, which
GUNINS ordered for the landed immigrants' status.
He was told that the procedure of the landed immigrants status for GUNINS
was frozen and in doubt because of Leo GUNIN's mother's situation. It was
clear now that Leo's suggestions about Immigration's attempts to destroy
his old mother's health and - probably - life - were correct (see the page
about this and other outraged developments on Internet:
They developments were obviously generated to punishment him. In reality
his mother's immigration file (she's a spouse of a Canadian citizen - and
she was also granted a landed immigrant status and was already given the
Certificat de selection du Quebec) has nothing to do with Leo and his family's
file; they were granted the status in humanitarian appeal. The pretended
dependence between Elisabeth Epstein's (her maiden name) - and Leon Gunin's
- files could sound as an April's joke: if a joke could be compatible with
the gravity of Immigration's actions. In reality the duty immigration officer
was given (on the phone) the number of only Leo's file; and if through his
file he could access his mother's situation - it means that the two files
were really combined together. If so, this is a violation of the procedural,
juridical, immigration and human rights laws and regulation. In Gunins case
Immigration already violated all the most basic Canadian and international
rules. Their whole immigration history sounds as an Israeli and Jewish-Canadian
(Federal Immigration's) official's vendetta. But even on top of all: THESE
violations and persecutions - this sabotage of their landed immigrants status
through medical tools (even after they were given a green light to receive
the status in Canada) look more sinister and outraged. To know what views
and opinions Lev GUNIN is suffering for, go to
http://www.total.net/~leog/ - and there choose Human Rights.
2. The devastating and tragic impact of Immigration's persecution on family's
social, financial, health, and legal situation.
Content in brief:
A. Artificial obstacles - to prevent employment. Social and professional
tragedy
B. Financial disaster
C. Health declining
D. Children's suffering
A. There are both objective and subjective reasons why both Leo Gunin and
his wife are employed in minimum wages works with no perspective and no chances
to recover from their poverty.
(.........)
Subjective reasons are: 1) Some suggestions could tell that Immigration intervenes
in Leo's attempts to find a better work, not recommending his potential employers
to hire him 2) Without the status Leo can not get the license to teach music,
can not run his small busyness, can not be employed in his profession 3)
When he once received a request to compose music for a performance - and
did it, - he was then rejected because "it was not possible to have the name
of somebody who's not accepted by the state on public place" 4) He once was
admitted to a Jewish choral, but was immediately refused "because if he could
be a claimant of a refugee status from Israel, then he's an enemy of Israel"!
5) When Russian school "Fillipok" (now renamed and called "Gramota") was
in a desperate need of a Russian speaking music teacher - even then Leo was
refused on political ground 6) Russian newspapers in Montreal refuse to publish
not just his articles but even his adds; for example, Info-Bulletin's editor/publisher
told him that she lived many years in Israel, and Leo's articles published
in ex-USSR and in Israel with the criticism of Israeli human rights situation
abused her patriotism: that's why she refused to place his adds! 7) All potential
employers, who could hire him as a musician, used to say that they knew or
heard about his "anarchism" - and did not want to employ him because of that.
When he responded that he's not an anarchist or terrorist but a human rights
activist they said that for them it sounds the same 8) Leo (Lev) are refused
even a voluntary performances, even without being paid. Rozhinsky, an organiser
of the "Russian Winter" musical festival, is permanently restricting Leo
from the festival because of the political reasons 9) Leo completed a course
of security agents but was refused a license because of his immigration situation
10) Lev was many times refused employment in computer technology, HTML programming,
computer networks or computer rooms maintenance, programs installation or
software testing because he's "a kind of a hacker or terrorist". Nobody ever
told him where he or she obtained that referral (from who). Even such enterprises
as Copie Express refused to employ him! 11) Leo did thousands attempts to
find a full time and above minimum wage work - and was never hired. When
he appealed to company "Berlitz" for translator's position, he was openly
told that they will never hire him "because having such controversial political
views" – he could not translate objectively. When Lev asked, how they found
out, what are his "views", they told that "occasionally" found his "Anti-Semite"
site on Internet. An employment company "Quantum" used to send Leo to various
places, but when he came to work his first working day – he was suddenly
told to go home. He believes that all such persecutions are somehow conducted
from Immigration and from Jewish environment 12) From all newspapers, where
Leo turned to as a journalist (such as Globe and Mail - for example), he
never received any answer or opinion about submitted by him articles; they
just ignored him! Even when he tried to reach a newspaper by telephone, he
used to be disconnected! 13) Leo is one of the most important Russian vanguard
poets. However, an attempt to publish his book (for his own money!) of poetry
was turned away by a Russian publishing house. In the same time the above
mentioned Rozhinsky, who's not even a poet, rather an amateur on a primitively
and law scale, published a book of his "poetry" without any problem!"
(When a Russian person, Tatiana, became a principal of Russian school "Gramota",
she has employed me. In summer, 2001, I worked at this school, teaching music
very successfully. However, after Tatiana was replaced by another person,
a Jewish origin, my contract was cancelled. I was told by someone from the
school's managing board that "JIAS" ("Jewish Congress) has sent another teacher
instead of me. Indeed, a woman, who came to my place, was teaching music
at the local Jewish center.)
Confronting my employment efforts, Jewish extremists have shown (indirectly)
again - who was eventually standing behind the medical repression.
My legal advisers were also writing about the health declining: both mine
and members' of my family. Our heath situation was definitely damaged by
Immigration's actions. The most damaging impact on our health Immigration
has provoked by causing depression in my wife, my mother, and me.
However, soon the manipulated by Israelis Immigration has started direct
medical repression. Medical terrorist methods were well described in the
next letter to Human rights organizations (copy - to Federal Immigration):
To Human Rights Organizations
(AI, HRW, UNHRC, etc.)
December, 2000. Montreal, QUEBEC
(copy - to Canadian Federal Immigration -
Citizenship and Immigration Canada
Citoyennete et Immigration Canada
CIC - DDN (RNH)/ CIC - RSM (RNH)
JETS-14th. FL/TJES-14e365 Lurier Ave. West (quest)
Ottawa, Ontario
K1A 1L1
)
The most unpleasant thing is that in a country where they're no concentration
camps and common tortures nobody believes you. Nobody believes that what
happens to you – sometimes happens. That's why it's even harder to stand
our troubles.
1.Let me mention briefly the source of our problems: I was a human-rights
activist, former Soviet dissident (which led to deportation from my native
Belarus to Poland). From there my family and I were taken against our will
to Israel. In Canada we filed a refugee claim.
Since 1994 we do not have normal life. We have problems. Usage (against us)
of contrived medical data to manipulate and prolong our vulnerable situation
is one of them. Theoretically falsification and manipulation of medical data
can lead to a forcible treatment from diseases, which we do not have (it
could be lethal).
2.Now we are more then 6 years in a limbo, administrative mayhem and ultra-vulnerable
state.
However, in spite of human rights deniers in IRB and other departments, in
spite of the pro-Israeli lobby's (with their people in Immigration) outrage,
in spite of personal contribution of Immigration officer Mrs. Udith Malka
in damaging our situation, we received a positive decision. (In response
to our humanitarian appeal 1+ (one+) year ago). Since then opponents to this
decision made many attempts to reverse it and make our life unbearable. We
are still without any status, facing excessive hardship.
(a). We are a target of mockery, stalling tactics and humiliation even at
routine immigration procedures (see Document 8).
(b). Unnecessary (personal) expensive medical exams and blatant manipulation
of medical data (Doc. 1-23), delays in issuing and short terms of validity
of employment and student authorisations, punitive and threatening anonymous
calls and letters (Doc. 1-6, specifically - 16). Excessive "totalitarian"
secrecy and anonymity when Immigration is dealing with us (Doc. 10a, 13a,
1, 14, 15, etc.)
(c). After two (2) years we have no clear answer about our police certificate
clearance in spite of confirmation from the Israeli Consulate.
(d). More than half a year ago IMS officials refused us ruling and forms
for medical examination for all family members assuring us that only my wife
must do them. Now in contradiction they ordered them for my younger daughter
and me (omitting my older daughter). When the last medical exams must finish,
the validity of my wife's exams will expire (Doc. 2, 19, 20). Also my mother's
file was illegally attached to ours to put us in dependence of her situation
(Doc. 1, 4, 6).
(e). My mother's case. 1994: W. Brzezinska, M.D. for Immigration, makes an
incorrect report (Doc. 7a, 4b, 7b) about my mother's health (eventual (!)
development of cardiac and kidney insufficiency). (My mother told her that
she was born with heart augmentation). Nov. 1999: an immigration officer
(M-me Roy), not a M.D. illegally intervenes in evaluation of the medical
matters, makes a decision based on it (Doc. 7a,7b). However, she quickly
replaces that decision – recognising my mother's marriage. In violation of
the marriage interview stage requirements IMS releases a negative decision
before med. exams (Doc. 7a). 2000: an entire year of mockery, ungrounded
orders for innumerable additional tests and exams, punitive threatening letters
and calls. Goals: a) to damage my mother's heath, b) clear dr. Brzezinska
and M-me Roy (Doc. 14 -17).
For two months after her "medical saga's" short time-out Immigration is refusing
to give any answer/ explanation. Now (Dec.) IMS made a final negative ruling,
based on Mrs. Bezezinska's insinuation: in spite of all new contradicting
to it results and medical opinions (anatomy, not pathology). (Also dr. Brzezinska
never in 5 years sent my mother for cardiac or kidney tests, or to cardiologist/
urologist, and never prescribed her any medication for heart/ kidney problems).
It is outraged that the whole entire year IMS was evaluating not actual but
eventual health problems – and confirmed initial inhuman decision! (Doc.
25). If the horrible diagnosis (Doc. 25a), with which they crucified my mother,
were correct, how could she live a normal life all 6 years without medications
and cardiologist?
If my mother's heath declined after one year of humiliations – Immigration
officials must be fully responsible for that. This is what they did to punish
me!
Actions to influence or even administratively invade medical institutions
and personnel for extorting false medical reports, creation of false medical
documents were committed in both my mother's and my cases. Tricks with my
x-ray, delivery of receipts or calls for tests I've never done, other manipulations
are a threat to my own heath or even life! (Doc. 1-7, 9-25). Our children
are tremendously suffering from that situation as well as from artificial
delays in extension of their student authorisations and other essential papers.
My wife and my mother became almost suicidal, nervous and suffering from
depression.
I never received any answer to my letter to the Minister of Immigration (Nov.
1-6 2000) and to Immigration Complain Board (Nov. 30).
4. (........) We hope that this unacceptable situation will find a human
solution.
Yours truly,
Lev GUNIN
December 8 2000 (Montreal, Quebec)
- DOCUMENT NUMBER FOUR-B -
From Lev GUNIN
Full immigration story: {www.total.net/~leog/Righs/LevGunin/indexX.htm}
former refugee claimant
December 02 - 2000
1. Let's get it straight: the source of my (my family's) problems were my
human rights' activism (.....)
[Here I wrote about my mother's relative's (who was in my age) involvement
in actions against me, committed by the local communist authorities in Bobruisk,
and her links with criminal circles, as well as with the Jewish pro-Israeli
Mafia, when I was in conflict with the pro-Israeli activists' leadership]
2. In Israel she contacted my wife – and took advantage of my wife's sincerity,
openness and good soul. She started to manipulate her in damaging my life
direction. My wife did not believe anything that I told her about my relative.
She did everything my relative has suggested.
There were whispers that my relative was an informant for Israeli authorities.
In Montreal my wife continued to be completely under my relative's control.
In spite of my protests she turned with our refugee claim to my relative's
lawyer, M-e Le Brune, and took us all – my mother included – to her medical
doctor, Mrs. Wanda BRZEZINSKA, Immigration M.D. I could do nothing – because
did not want to break my family.
3. My relative's closest friend and M-e Le BRUNE's secretary-translator,
Mrs. Eleonor BRODER, an Israeli citizen, actually sabotaged our refugee case
on purpose or because of her stupidity (in her translation trying to modify
our testimony so that all unpleasant for Israeli government details would
disappear). You can read more on Internet (see the address at the top of
the page) - or in my file handed over to Mrs. Mancini a couple of years ago).
Mrs. BRODER had "exterior contacts" with IRB's commissioners and with Mrs.
Malka, and partially the demolition of our refugee claim was besed on what
Mrs. BRODER did.
4. Mrs. Brzezinska's direct or indirect involvement in Immigration's games
with our medical data has started since our first visit to her back in 1994.
According Immigration's file, she made in 1994 a devastative for my mom rapport
to Immigration, and also did everything to cause speculations that my wife
and me might be infected by TB. Reporting to Immigration, she in the same
time said nothing to my mother, my wife, and me. When – for example – she
reported to Immigration that my mother has a grave kidney problem, she said
nothing to my mom and never sent her to any urologist, never prescribed her
any medication for kidney stabilisation. She might be afraid that a specialist
could reject her insinuations. The same applies for Mrs. Brzezinska's insinuations
about my mother's cardiac problems. When she sent me to do an x-ray for Immigration,
she used to send an additional note to radiologist like "check the recent
pulmonary infiltrate". No infiltrate was found - but - in response to Mrs.
Brzezinska's note - the answer was "no recent infiltrate". It was double-meaning.
One could ask: then what about non-recent infiltrate? In 1999 Mrs. Brzezinska
(according to Madame Roy's writing) made another false report to Immigration
against my mother, and me. This will help to understand better the mechanism
behind the outraged assault on us by the Federal Immigration. One will ask:
"Why then you did not quit Brzezinska and went to another physician?" Yes,
I could suspect that she might be a medical provocateur and also an informant
for Immigration. When I used to come, she spoke with me for 30-40 minutes
not about my health but about my affairs. And I have used her for sending
through her misinformation for some people at Immigration, who wanted to
do damage to my situation, and me. However, we will never find out the truth
about Brzezinska's real role (contribution) in our "medical case" - and about
the level of her guilt. She was definitely a part of the "medical conspiracy"
by her position already, and by keeping from us Immigration's illegal plan
in secret, she was already involved.
5. Political forces from two countries might be well behind all these events:
the forces of Lukashenko's and Israeli regimes. [ (.........) ]
6. From mid-1970-s governments started - instead of putting dissidents into
prisons and concentration camps - practising other methods: devastation of
victim's financial and social situation, ostracism and isolation, batteries,
dirty rumours, administrative pressure through ordinary governmental institutions
(tax agency, telecom, post, etc.). They also began practising deportation
and persecutions of their victims by other governments' hands, as well as
assassination, disappearances, short arrests with police brutality, insinuated
criminal cases. That's why an old classical model of a prisoner of conscience
as a detained person - and humanitarian help to get him out of a prison -
does not work for approximately 80% of victims. The modern classical "prisoner
of conscience" in many cases is a person without any passport, a refugee
claimant or a refugee without any status. Thousands and thousands of not
just political but other dissidents are persecuted because of their dispute
with employer, landlord, corporate world, school, police, vendor, etc. More
and more often contrived medical diagnosis and falsified medical data are
used against them. As a rule, it is always very difficult to prove something,
so delicately everything is made up. My case is one of these unique cases
when evidences are so manifestly. It is a rare opportunity to show what is
really going on in the modern world.
7. If people like me will not be defended – then comes mayhem and dictatorship.
Legislation to give access to personal medical files to all governmental
institutions and even (!) employers have already been prepared in a number
of countries, including Canadian province Ontario.
Manipulation of medical data for political
persecutions is the end of the civilised society
- December 2000 -
C O N T E N T
1. http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/update3.htm#1 -
List of documents
2. http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/update3.htm#2
Complaint on Immigration actions and decisions
3. http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/update3.htm#3
Complaint against refusal to allow medical examinations.
4. http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/update3.htm#4
Disagreement with the decision of Imm.Med.Serv. from November 23, 2000.
5. http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/update3.htm#5
Copy of a complaint made to Montreal Chest Institute.
6. http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/update2.htm#1
Short descriptions of events - end of 1999 - beginning of 2000
7. http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/update2.htm#2
Lev GUNIN - "The Source Of Our Problems"
8. http://www.interlog.com/~syedma/dstand/leo201127.html
Wider detailed description of events before December (Sept. - Nov. 2000)
9. http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/update3.htm#5
Resume of the visit to MCI December 4 2000.
10. http://www.total.net/~leog/Rights/LevGunin/appealX.htm
The whole immigration story
11. http://www.total.net/~leog/Righs/LevGunin/update2.htm#3
Other English publications on Internet about persecution of family GUNIN
To Human Rights Organizations
(AI, HRW, UNHRC, etc.)
December 2000. Montreal, QUEBEC
- Introductory Document -
From Lev GUNIN Full immigration story:
{www.total.net/~leog/Righs/LevGunin/indexX.htm}
former refugee claimant
(tel. ) December 2 2000
Introductory Note
1. Because violations and injustice are so outraged and unbelievable that
it is difficult to speak about them without emotions, I decided not to write
a special description of events. Instead I am handing you over a number of
documents, which will speak for themselves.
2. Below I am listing these documents with comments and explanations about
each. Manipulation and falsification of medical data is the most dangerous
and tremendous violation of human rights. Most letters from Immigration were
anonymous, but only few marked here on that regard as examples.
Complaint on Immigration actions and decisions submitted to Immigration Complain
Board (like attempts to cause damage to victim's heath).
Theoretically falsification and blatant manipulation of medical data can
lead to a forcible treatment from diseases, which one do not have (it could
be lethal).
A wider description of events, with more astonishing and outraged details.
This document is not enclosed but available on Internet:
www.interlog.com/~syedma/dstand/leo201127.html}
Document 7a, 7b, 7c, 7d:
M-me Roy's rulings: illegal intervention into medical matters by non-medic,
violation of the procedural requirements of the marriage interview stage,
prejudicial ruling of IMS before my mother's medical exams for the landed
immigrant status.
Document 8:
Complaint to Immigration about extension's of employment authorisation sabotage
from May 15 2000.
An anonymous letter from MCI mentioned in Documents 1, 3, 4, 5, and 6.
Document 10-b: another letter (one page) demanding a donation
to the Royal Victoria Hospital was included in the same envelope as the "TB
letter".
Document 11
An order-receipt (payment) to pay for the blood test for syphilis, which
was never done. Another document (Document 12) shows that dr. Giannalis uses
this laboratory to evaluate test samples, taken at his office. The blood
test for syphilis was not required by Immigration in my case. It was also
mentioned that a patient must only appear for this test in the CDL Laboratories,
in other words samples taken outside CDL Lab are not admitting for evaluation
for syphilis.
Document 12
Strum creatinine test's form from CDL Lab form for my mother. The test was
ordered by dr. Giannakis on Immigration's request and the result was: in
norm.
Document 13-a
Front page of the IMS ruling from November 23 letter (received on November
28). Corresponds to Document 3. Also was mentioned in Documents 1, 4, 6.
Document 13-b is the text of the internal part of the same ruling, addressing
to dr. Giannakis.
Document 14-a
Ruling from IMS to my mother, Elisabetha Epstein from January 17 2000. This
document is anonymous, no names, telephone numbers.
Document 14-b is the text of the internal part of the
same ruling, addressing to dr. Giannakis.
Document 15-a
Ruling from IMS to my mother, Elisabetha Epstein from June 30 2000. This
document is anonymous, no names, telephone numbers.
Document 15-b is the text of the internal part of the
same ruling, addressing to dr. Giannakis.
Document 15 plus
September 2000 - letter from IMS ordering another urine test and then a visit
to an urologist.
Document 16
An offensive letter from my mother's new immigration officer from September
18 2000.
Document 17
My mother's, Elisabetha Epstein, response (September 20 2000) to an offensive
letter from Immigration (see Document 16).
Document 18
Copy of the positive response to our humanitarian appeal
Document 19
An order from January 11 2000 to my wife, Alla, to undergo the medical examination.
Only my wife's name mentioned in this letter. This letter is a proof that
refusing to include all family members Immigration stalling the completion
of our file almost one year now.
Document 20
An order from October 26 2000 to me and my daughter Marta to undergo medical
examination. Was submitted in contradiction with the previous Immigration's
assurance that only my wife has to undergo medical examination.
Document 21-a
X-ray result from Le Centre Radiologique Clarke from November 14 2000, which
tremendously contradict the Immigration's x-ray from November 01 2000 evaluation.
In response to TB double-check request (see Document 21-b) it said "NIL ACTIVE".
The film was evaluated by 3 medical doctors, which came to the same "nil
active" conclusion. I was seen and evaluated by 2 medical doctors since October
29, who found the TB suspicion ridiculous.
Document 22
X-ray result from November 22 1994 from the Centre Hospitalier Reddy Memorial.
On request of W. Brzezinska, M.D. if there is recent pulmonary infiltrate
it said "no recent pulmonary infiltrate shown".
Document 23
Mr. Z. JAST's certificate for Immigration in relation to the x-ray dispute.
Document 24
Internet-links to two publications, which might accelerate persecutions.
Document 25-a,b
IMS final decision in my mother's case from Dec. 5 2000.
Document 26
Document 27
List of "civil" events. Relates to our will to contribute to the society.
Lev GUNIN
December 2 2000 Montreal
COPY
- DOCUMENT NUMBER ONE -
To Immigration's Canada Complaint Board
(faxes: (780) 632-8101 (514) 283-8237) November 30 2000
From Lev GUNIN (514-499-1294)
This is the complaint on actions and decisions, which my advisers and I found
inadmissible, like attempts to cause damage to my mother's and my heath.
Theoretically falsification and blatant manipulation of medical data can
lead to a forcible treatment from diseases, which one do not have (it could
be lethal).
I submit you 5 documents. The First is this one. Second is a complaint against
refusal to allow all my family members medical examinations half a year ago.
Third is my disagreement with the decision of Immigration Health Services
from November 23, 2000. Fourth is a shortened description of events, which
manifested abuse of power, ungrounded secrecy, misconduct and criminal manipulation
of medical data. Fifth is a copy of a complaint made to Montreal Chest Institute.
Sixth is a wider description of events, with more astonishing and outraged
details. However, because of the length of the Sixth document its submission
by fax could be found offensive, so, please, tell me where to send it by
post or e-mail.
I would like to know:
A) Who made all mentioned in six documents unjust decisions (names, position,
what their role in my file).
B) On what ground (law, paragraph, circumstances).
C) Who made a decision, based on a single x-ray: to consider me a potential
TB carrier and submitted it not to Mr. Giannakis, M.D. but to the Royal Victoria
Hospital, depriving me and doctor Giannakis of a minimal choice to choose
where to turn for further evaluation. Is the MCI radiology unit a part of
IMS (ImmMedSrv)?
D) If the x-ray film (made at MCI) could be obtained for copying. My legal
advisers and me – we want to ask you to show it to us at 1010 St Antoine,
Montreal. We want to check:
E) If a) there is any technical defect or underwear shadow, which was offensively
interpreted as "TB" b) this x-ray matches my body constitution
c) an obviously normal result was blatantly interpreted as "abnormal".
We would like to be given a permission to take this film or its copy to medical
specialists to determine it.
F) How all contradictions, deceptions, violations can be explained (each
event).
G) Examples: a) Half a year ago IMS officials refused to submit us ruling
and forms for medical examination for all family members assuring us that
only my wife has to go through them. Now in contradiction with what was said
before they ordered my younger daughter and me (now omitting my older daughter)
to do examinations. B) Why my mother's file was illegally attached to mine.
c) How could so many ungrounded medical tests be ruled for my mother, keeping
her more then one year (!) in limbo, etc.
H) How all such decisions might be appealed?
I) Has my mother and me same IMS agents or agents of the same unit? Who are
supervisors of all agents, attached to our files (including Immigration Medical
Services - IMS).
J) How to reach them?
K) If Immigration's agents (IMS included) are subjects of Criminal Code -
or they are completely uncontrolled and impunitive. .
L) If they are not (impunitive) what is the way to complain about
1. Deliberate damage of my (my family's) financial, social, and psychological
situation.
2. Criminal manipulation of the medical data
M) How could I know if W. Brzezinska's M.D. rapport with a "concern" about
my health presents not only in my mother's but in my file as well?
N) Why my file is proceeding not on Montreal – as normally – but in Ottawa?
I must warn you that I will contact police or RCMP in case of any further
anonymous calls ("private call" indication) from Immigration and will disregard
any letters, until they will not be signed and carry the name and phone number
of the person who is responsible for the decision. All anonymous telephone
calls, which accuse me of concealing a number of infectious diseases, must
be stopped. Anonymous letters from hospitals on behalf of Immigration with
same insinuations are unacceptable as well. I have also received a receipt
for a blood test for syphilis, which I never did, from a Lab, where I never
went. I was also called by two other laboratories, which pretend that I did
tests for infectious diseases, and this is not true. All such provocation
must be stopped immediately!
All 5 (or 6) documents must be evaluated to consider and answer my complaint.
Please, answer all questions, which arise from the documents.
I ask you to respond to this complaint in writing. However, another solution
is just to consider my case as "finished" with no further demands. Will appreciate
your cooperation.
Yours,
Lev GUNIN
November 30 2000
Chronology
in GUNINS' case
November 1994 – refugee claim
March 1997 – refugee claim rejected.
January - February 1998 – Federal Court closing the case on a ridiculous
ground of Immigration's "no minimal confidence" ruling.
January 2000 – positive decision in response to our humanitarian appeal.
March 2000 – an interview lead to the Certificat de selectione du Quebec
issuing by Quebec's Immigration
March 2000 – bureaucratic humiliation and blatant manipulation of medical
data by Federal Immigration starts to torpid the completion of the case
Chronology in
Elisabetha GUNIN (Epstein's) case:
1994 – refugee claim + Wanda Brzezinska, M.D. makes a false report
(see Doc. 4b, 7a, 7b).
March 1997 – refugee claim rejected.
January 1998 – Federal Court closing our case on a ridiculous ground of Immigration's
"no minimal confidence" ruling.
November 1998 – marriages a Canadian citizen
November 22 1999 - the marriage interview at Immigration.
Nov. 23 - Madame Helene ROY replaces the initiative negative decision, based
on "medical concerns" (dr. Brzezinska's rapport), by a positive one.
January 2000 - Certificat de selectione du Quebec was issued for my mother.
January 2000, a ruling from IMS ordering my mother additional tests: strum
creatinine (blood test) and echocardiogram.
June 30, 2000 – IMS ridiculous demand of a resume from "the last visit to
cardiologist".
July 27 2000 – rapport of Dr. Gordon Creenstein (anatomy, not pathology)
was submitted to Immigration.
September 2000 - another letter from IMS ordering another urine test and
then a visit to an urologist.
September 19 2000 – an offensive letter from Immigration officer.
December 2000 – IMS final negative decision confirming the illegal prejudicial
decision from Nov. 99.
- DOCUMENT NUMBER TWO -
To Immigration's Canada Complaint Board
(faxes: (780) 632-8101 (514) 283-8237)
From Lev GUNIN (514-499-1294)
A COPY OF DOCUMENT SUBMITTED TO IMMIGRATION ON MAY 15 2000
By this letter we ask Immigration's agent assigned to my file to make a special
ruling to order medical examinations for all members of our family, not only
for Alla GUNIN, my wife. As we know from our legal advisers, this procedure
is required for all family members for the landed immigrant's status. If
you insist that only my wife has to do the medical examination, please, send
us a written warrant. We have a well-grounded suspicion that
somebody might use the delay in ordering the medical examination for all
members of our family for artificial sabotage of issuing us the landed immigrant's
status. We will appreciate your cooperation.
YOURS TRULY
Lev GUNIN
in name
of family GUNIN
The 15 of May 2000
COPY
- DOCUMENT NUMBER THREE -
To Immigration's Complaints Board
(faxes: (780) 632-8101 (514) 283-8237) December 1 2000
From Lev GUNIN (514-499-1294)
I disagree with the Immigration Medical Services decision "ev 7001-850497Z"
(with date mentioned: November 23, 2000) from Ottawa, received by me on November
29, 2000 (anonymous – no name or signature). The goal of this ruling is not
to establish the medical truth but to put a hardship on my family (and me).
My arguments.
(See the decision's text - as it was red to me by dr. Giannakis – in Document
N4: on the bottom)
1. The decision ruled that Mr. Giannakis's respond should be submitted before
November 30, 2000. Why then the letter arrived only on November 29? Does
it mean that the date in the letter - "November 23" - was incorrect?
Or – may be - the letter has not been sent in 2-3 days? Or – if it is known
that a letter from Ottawa to Montreal goes 5-6 days – why then I was not
given more time? I ask you to submit me an explanation what November 30 means
and why not December 10 or January 15? I want to know how the agent justified
that particular date. Was that small misconduct planned in advance?
2. A suggestion that somebody else went and did the x-ray instead of me was
another serious assault. That suggestion was made in ignorance of the fact
that on Clark Lab's official (original!) paper IMS's (Immigration Medical
Service) officer could clearly see my name, date of birth, telephone number,
name of the ordering physician, and the number of my medical card (which
– everybody knows – has the holder's photo on it). Besides, it mentioned:
"MILD ECTUS EXCAVATUM", a cosmetic defect, which I have since birth. Besides,
it is known that the film itself has an image (a negative) of the whole ID
data!
Then - this ungrounded abuse was based on nothing and went far beyond any
medical or even legal matter.
3. The demand to send an original film from the November 14's x-ray in the
light of two above disputed demands might be ungrounded. This x-ray film
was already seen by 3 medical doctors: the radiologist at the Clark Lab,
dr. Jast (who referred me and evaluated the film), and dr. Giannakis.
All three came to a conclusion that there is NOTHING abnormal, not a slightest
possibility. Both dr. Jast and Giannakis also examined me. The official conclusion
is NIL ACTIVE. Besides, it was informally evaluated by a chest specialist:
with the same conclusion. What else the IMS's agent needs? I have a well-grounded
concern that 1) he/ she will find a black spot even on the whitest paper
– because he/ she is determined to; and 2) after he/ she will find "a black
spot" this film will also vanish (but not the IMS's "evaluation").
Immigration pretended already too many times (dates, documents might be provided)
that lost our applications, medical data, etc.
4. It was an abuse to mention that "After overview if necessary applicant
may have to be referred to the chest specialist." It is a prejudgment and
prejudice. "...if necessary", "may" are just a form. It was a very clear
message that he/ she will not let me alone! Why to speak about next medical
procedure before seeing the x-ray?
Lev GUNIN Dec. 01 2000
Copy
- DOCUMENT NUMBER FIVE -
From Lev GUNIN ( 514-499-1294)
Document 5
LETTER TO MONTREAL CHEST INSTITUTE
- A Copy -
(The letter was submitted on November 09 in respond to an anonymous letter
from the Montreal Chest Institute received on November 6 2000; below you
can find a modified version (November 12-14), which was submitted to the
same destination on November 15).
Lev GUNIN
address
telephone
From Lev GUNIN to anonymous person, author of the letter (the copy of the
letter is enclosed).
Montreal Chest Institute
3666 St-Urbain
Montreal, QUEBEC H2X 2P4
Sir or Lady! Please, forward this letter to an appropriate Immigration department,
which you mentioned on page 1 of your letter.
First of all, any suggestions that I could be infected by tuberculosis must
be MEDICALLY and PROCEDURALLY supported (justified), and based not on pure
insinuation. Otherwise they are ridiculous.
There are might be innumerous suggestions of what might happen with my flurograph
and its evaluation. I had some of my own suggestions, but a medical doctor
I spoke to – as well as my legal advisers – told me that the only answer
of what happened is that Immigration might just make a false report on my
x-ray (actually a flurograph, which is even less representative as a medical
evidence, but let's call it x-ray). Besides, a x-ray could not determine
whether or not any of an eventual abnormal shadow means tuberculosis, or
simply any kind of pneumonia, bronchitis, or a combination (see medical books).
Any conclusions based on only one x-ray are ridiculous, partial, and prejudicial.
In modern time – when there are so many flu infections accompanied by pneumonic
complications (side effects) – such conclusions are a complete nonsense.
It is obvious that your decision to attach me to the Infectious Disease Unit
(IDU) before you have a 100 percent proof of any tuberculosis infection and
initiate an appropriate legal procedure was a drastic misconduct. The only
admissible way to handle the situation was (before sending me to the Infectious
Disease Unit) to
1) request a second opinion about existing x-ray
2) send me a letter for my physician for another x-ray.
On November 14 I did another x-ray. It revealed that there is no any suspicious
shadow, no abnormalities – and (as my medical advisers told) could not be
2 weeks before (especially tuberculosis-like shadows). Was my x-ray photo
(a negative) replaced by somebody else's or IMS (Immigration Med. Services)
just falsified the reading of my x-rays, - I do not know.
That all is a subject of a criminal investigation.
Because I am depressed, I did not notice that the Montreal Chest Institute
(MCI) belongs to Royal Victoria Hospital, an institution I had several formal
misunderstandings with. Somebody from the hospital's administration used
to submit me an offensive number of requests for donation to the hospital:
even after I have sent a note that by then I was on welfare. Hospital's administration
also did an attempt to extort money from me for services, which were covered
by Medicare. In this hospital I heard several times that people like me are
"illegal in Canada and should not be given medical care "for the cost of
Canadians". Then I was treated by negligence at the emergency room, then
– it was a medical misconduct over my CSST claim.
Dr. Evenson's M.D. (Royal Victoria) secretary played games with me, actually
denying an appointment from May - till November 2000. A number of legal and
medical violations used to take place there. And in all such minor incidents
immigration matters or even Immigration itself were involved. One of immigration
specialists advised me not to turn to Royal Victoria because that hospital
is "enormously influenced by Immigration".
The fact that a page with a request for a donation to the Royal Victoria
Hospital was included into your letter - was another outraged abuse.
Another question is why I was sent particularly to the MCI, and not to another
medical facility. Dr. Giannalis has told me, when sending me there, that
"now this is a law" (to be tested in one of x-ray centres, contracted by
Immigration, and not in a regular clinic). I doubt it. By now I did not find
any confirmation of this law. My legal advisors, however, told me that such
a law does not exist.
Eventually it is possible that doctor Giannakis had sent me for x-ray not
to "La Cite" – as my mom and my wife, - or another medical institution, but
to Montreal Chest Institute: because he received an order (not a request
- but an order, which he could not disobey as an Immigration representative).
By this letter I declare that I am considering your way of handling the situation
dangerously offensive and depriving me of my constitutional rights: because
of the above mentioned as well as the next reasons:
FIRST, I will DISREGARD any anonymous letters like your present one until
a letter from you would be signed, addressed from a real person with his/her
clear name and telephone number.
SECOND, you have no legal rights to treat me as a contagious carrier until
an undeniable medical proof is established.
THIRD, by sending me to the IDU you may expose me to contacts with the real
infected carriers.
FOURTH, you are not police, Immigration, secret police or death squads
a) to act secretly-anonymously refusing to sign your letter,
b) to write me anything like "by Immigration law, you are requested (...)".
Since you are not immigration layers or Immigration's officials, you are
forbidden to speak in the name of Immigration, and to judge, what Immigration
law requires. Such a statement must be submitted only directly from Immigration.
If you are part of Immigration (officially) – then my rights were violated
when I wasn't informed about that before doing the x-ray at your unit. If
you're a part of Immigration (Immigration Med. Services) – then there is
a clear conflict of interests and an obvious violation of my constitutional
rights.
FIFTH, my legal advisors, and me, we are confident that you have no legal
rights to deprive me of choosing between medical institutions for medical
tests or evaluation (it correspond to your letter, in which you wrote that
I must appear at IDU unit at YOUR MCI). You can not bring me to do a test
or an evaluation exclusively in your institution by a forceful order. This
will violate my basic human rights. Even KGB had no official rights to oblige
anybody, who was not an imprisoned suspect or convinced criminal to do a
medical evaluation without some sort of choice.
SIXTH, I would ask Immigration to allow me do another x-ray before doing
anything else.
SEVENTH, evaluating my case, some human rights activists think that somebody
at Immigration is so angry about me that Immigration is eventually ready
to do any damage to my health through blood, e-ray tests or sadistic bureaucratic
humiliations.
EIGHTH, I think that the most realistic explanations of an eventual abnormality,
which could be seen on the x-ray picture, were:
(........)
4) reading of a normal x-ray (with no abnormalities) was deliberately falsified
by IMS
NINTH, before doing the e-ray I received a strange call from Immigration,
through which I was accused of refusing a "medical treatment".
TENTH, your medical ethics should not allow you to send me to the IDU before
making your own medical conclusions (decision) based not on Immigration's
rapport but of your own evaluation of my x-ray test result.
ELEVENTH, my legal advisors have told me that I have rights to ask for a
possibility to discuss my x-ray result with any of your medical institution
specialists dedicated to such evaluations before going further. It is you
(on behalf of Immigration or not – it is does not matter) who are sending
me to Infectious Disease Unit. Because you are sending me to such a unit,
you can not deny me such a discussion. I would like to see the x-ray original,
which was made in your institution on November 1 2000 – and also show Document
it to my medical advisors.
TWELVETH, I prefer not to go through further tests or evaluations in immigration
matters (for medical purposes - it's different) at your institution.
Yours truly,
Lev GUNIN
November 2000 Montreal
- Document Number Nine -
RESUME of my visit to Montreal Chest Institute on December
2 2000
OBJECT OF THE VISIT:
1) to receive an official result (medical resume-evaluation) of my x-ray
test done on November 1 2000
2) find out where is the original film and try to obtain it for making a
copy
REASONS:
November 23 2000. I have managed to find out who sent me the anonymous letter
(described in Documents 5, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6) from Montreal Chest Institute (MCI).
It was M-me Lucy Gefroy (Jefroi or Joyfroid?). According to the same sources:
she's never seen that x-ray. I left her my message on 849-5211 (ex 2166).
She called me at 2.15 p.m. anonymously ("private call" indication) – and
asked me what I want. She confessed that she is M-me Lucy only when I told
her that recognized her voice comparing it to her answering machine message.
That enough to tell us about her insincerity and guilt.
I spoke with her in French, but when I did not know some medical terminology
in French, and used English terms, she pretended that does not speak or understand
English at all. However, when I switched to French again, she started to
speak bad English, which I could not understand. It was difficult to get
along with her, but finally I convinced her to speak French again – and asked
her a couple of questions.
Here they are:
- Did you see the x-ray?
- Yes, I did.
- What kind of a shadow did you see, mild? bright? what its form? On the
right or left side?
- I can not tell you.
- Where is this x-ray film now?
- I can not tell you.
- Is it at MCI?
- Immigration took it from us, and, I think, it was lost.
- What do you mean – lost?
- Vanished somewhere at Immigration.
- Can I obtain the result?
- Listen, your case here is closed. You don't have to come here. Not any
more. We disabled our previous letter's order. Bye.
She's disconnected.
RESULTS of the visit.
At MCI's medical archive employers could not find any records about
my x-ray in the computer. They told me that a mistake might occur – because
if even I did the x-ray for Immigration, its data (result, date, etc.) -
since November 1 - had to be entered into the registry.
Before I could enter room number 28 a small blond man appeared and
approached me as in espionage novels (how could he react so quickly? who
warned him while I was descending from the second to the first floor?) "You
will receive nothing here. And you will be prosecuted for refusing to see
the doctor, - he shouted to me. - "I was told that my
x-ray has vanished, and came to check, and also to obtain the result".
He became almost pale – so visually he was frightened, as if he lost a million
of dollars. He quickly disappeared behind a gray door and soon came out with
an envelope (my name and photo on it) and with signs of a deep relief. "Here
it is, - he told. – You must visit a doctor because you have tuberculosis".
- "Are you confident about TB you mentioned?" – "Yes, I am". – "I was told
that my case here is cancelled – and I don't have to appear". – "Nobody could
tell you that. You will be prosecuted for your refusal!" – "Your conclusions
about the x-ray was a mistake, Sir, and the film also might reveal a technical
defect or a shadow of underwear, which I did not remove. Take a look – and
let me see". – "It is possible. But the law says that you must see a doctor
anyway, if even this is our mistake". – "What law, what paragraph? And how
it corresponds to my case?.. ... I see – you don't know. Then – I have a
constitutional right to choose another institution, not yours, to pay such
a visit". Then he started screaming on me: "You don't want to pay, ah? You
don't want to donate to our hospital? You came to Canada and want to enjoy
our good life without giving anything back? If you don't pay by your fucken
money – you'll pay by your fucken ass!" – I tried to say: "This is not only
because of money, this is because I can not trust you!" - but he kept screaming
on me – and I left him. Before I left the hospital I could find out that
there is no official result in my case. No paper, no evaluation. Only a checkpoint
on the envelope, in category "4". What if somebody just made a wrong hand
movement – and checked a wrong place?
I did not go to MCI any more.
Later I discovered through other ways that the category 4 means "pulmonary
noodles", which was completely inapplicable to me!
RESUME: Anyone can see that a drastic misconduct in my case (or in general),
and hatred towards me (or towards all immigration-seekers in general?) could
explain what's going on in that institution and what could happen around
my x-ray.
REMARK: This is not a documentary story. To show the emotional impression
I have accented some small details. However, it is precise in revealing what
we are dealing with. Also words of Madam Lucy and Mister Doctor were cited
with a precise accuracy.
Yours truly,
Lev GUNIN
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FOR QUEBEC's OMBUDSMAN ==== POUR
LE OMBUDSMAN DU QUEBEC
(Protecteur des cytoienes)
(A Mme. Frances Hudon Szigeti - le copy)
1. English
2. French
1.
Dear Sir! Lady!
I am an innocent person, who lived an honest, lawful and honorable life.
I've always maintained my word and my professional, social and family duties.
Now I am an old person, I've lost my property, my younger son, and almost
all my relatives. I have survived an escape from the German occupation, persecutions
in the Stalin's era, and other persecutions, which I would like my judges,
who turned down my refugee claim, to experience...
I should be left in peace, without pressure. I suffered enough in my life.
However, somebody in Immigration thinks, that my extremely tragic life should
be adjusted by a final misery, a limbo situation – and again persecutions.
They decided to punish me for my refugee claim.
When my refugee claim was refused, I appealed for humanitarian reasons, and
soon met a person, whom I was glad to call my husband. He's a rare, intelligent,
delightful person, who did my life a bit brighter.
However, during a marriage interview, an immigration agent, assigned to my
file, did everything to ruin my health and by vicious illegal tricks took
away years of my life. She – not a medical doctor – intervened into pure
medical matters, and decided not to recognize my marriage "because of medical
concerns". A false report of immigration MD about my health was used. Later
the initial "decision" was replaced by a doubtful counter-decision, and since
then (more then 3 years!) I am kept in a limbo, targeted by humiliation and
abuse. In spite of clear evidences that Immigration's "medical concerns"
were unjustified and of alternative medical opinions, they keeping me in
a limbo, accompanied by forced "punitive" immigration procedures. Hundreds
of people, who were in contact with my case, believed that my case is unusual,
unfair and astonishing.
A usage of medical matters for persecutions is one of the most amoral things.
The same dirty methods were used against my son, a human rights activist
and author of few "unwelcome" books.
Some time ago I've turned to the Minister of Immigration. However, a response
from the Minister was build on a persistent denial of my marital status,
in many accents interpreting me as a humanitarian claimant, but not a wife
of a Canadian citizen! Cynically a "ministerial permit" option was presented
as a "solution of my problem". Because after 70 years old age (time) is a
factor, I suggest that in next 5, 10 or 20 years of
waiting (no decision in my case) they could receive a proof that I am "sick"
and even that I am mortal!
I think the reason, why it all happens to me, was expressed by deputy Mr.
Cotler's (a famous Zionist) secretary. She told my son that claiming a refugee
status from Israel was "against Canada" (because Israel = Canada?), and that
a disagreement with Immigration means an "anti-Canadian position".
It is also unacceptable that all lawyers, to whom I've turned, refused to
take my case: "a "mandamus" option + an Israel-related case is a bad case".
Because no other lawyer took my case, I'm turning to you, Sir or Lady, to
enable my rights for a legal defense. Otherwise it'll be an ex-USSR's situation
with no rights for legal defense.
(a copy of the letter to the Minister of Immigration)
2
Les gens, qui йtaient en rapport avec le cas de ma mиre, le considйraient
comme une des plus terribles violations des droits de l'homme. Il est significatif
que les mкmes mйthodes d'exploiter des problиmes mйdicaux pour des persйcutions
politiques vicieuses et sauvages йtaient employйes par l'Immigration dans
mon propre cas. Les forces, responsables des persйcutions politiques contre
ma mиre, veulent maintenant poser la responsabilitй sur les йpaules du gouvernement
du Quйbec. Selon mes sources d'information, l'Immigration Fйdйrale veut initier
une revendication au gouvernement du Quйbec а dйcider du destin de ma mиre.
Autrement dit, а mettre pression sur le gouvernement du Quйbec а ne pas accepter
ma mиre. En rйalitй, c`est l'Immigration Fйdйrale et son dйpartement des
Services Mйdicaux d'Immigration sont pleinement responsables des crimes si
sйvиres comme la destruction consciente de la santй de ma mиre, la gardant
dans un limbo, exploitant des problиmes mйdicaux pour des persйcutions politiques.
Vous pourriez dйcouvrir presque tous les derniers dйveloppements dans la
lettre de ma mиre au Premier ministre du Canada, que nous entourons.
1. 1991. Deportation of my son and his family from our native Belarus.
2. 1991. Warsaw. Here we were kidnapped by Israelis – and taken to Israel
by force (instead of going to Germany – as we planned).
3. 1991 – 1994. Persecutions, batteries, discrimination in Israel.
4. 1994. Coming to Canada (Quebec): applying for a refugee status.
3. 1997. Refugee status denied. An intervention of Israeli embassy – and
the Jewish organizations took place.
4. 1998. A primary decision of the Federal court in our case was abolished
after an intervention of the Jewish organizations and (personally) Mr. Rosenberg.
5. 1998. My humanitarian appeal.
6. 1998. I was married a Canadian citizen.
7. 1999. My humanitarian appeal was cancelled by Immigration without my participation
"because of my marriage".
8. 1999. Marriage interview: my marriage was not recognized "because of the
medical concerns". However, this decision was later replaced by another –
unclear – document, which made impossible to appeal to the Federal court.
9. 2000 – 2001. Immigration's "medical attack" against my son: medical data
was falsified, attempts to treat my son from sickness he did not have.
10. 2000 – 2001. The same "medical attack" against me. I think that the real
reasons behind it was my son's criticism of the human rights'
violations in Israel [http://www.total.net/~leog/Library/essays.htm] – and
my former refugee claim against Israel. The usage of medical matters for
political persecutions is the most tremendous outrage in the human rights
field. I believe that Immigration's Medical Services and other divisions
were systematically damaging my health and my social / mental state on purpose.
I suggest that I personally – and the Quebec as a province, where it took
place – should be compensated for the damage it caused.
11. Immigration's refusal to produce any decision in my case since the marriage
interview in 1999. An open statement by Mr. Chiu, Immigration officer, that
there will be no decision.
12. Minister's of Immigration office (where I've appealed) was avoiding to
treat me as a wife of a Canadian citizen. They suggested that I should go
on Ministerial Permit, which is impossible because of my financial situation,
and in principle.
13. Mr. Cotler's (Federal deputy) secretary opinion that I "should be punish
more" for my refugee claim against Israel.
14. Since 1994 I am still in a limbo. Help me!
P.S. In some letters from the Ministry of Immigration was mentioned indirectly
that I was finally considered as "medically ineligible". However, I never
received an official and direct decision. Labeling me as "medically ineligible"
was a criminal misconduct, and included falsification and misinterpretation
of the medical data, deception and administrative mischief. For more details
read Document 4.
Yours truly,
Elisabetha GUNIN
Next Document is a LIST of DOCUMENTS
(presented documents with brief comments)
DOCUMENT # 2
LIST OF DOCUMENTS
Remark: not all documents listed here were submitted. However, it is
important to know what documents are available. If any of documents from
the list is needed, it could be sent at any time.
1-5: Letter from Mrs. E. Epstein (GUNIN) to the Minister of Immigration
5-a: Letter from Mrs. GUNIN's husband, Mr. I. Chmiel, to the Minister
6. Letter from Mrs. GUNIN to Mr. Chiu, Immigration Cansellor
6-a: Letter from Immigration with information about my file (spouse
of a Canadian citizen) transfer to Montreal
(November, 1998)
7-a, 7-b, 7-c, 7-d: Decisions of Madame Roy:
7-a – November 11 1999, copy - to W. Brzezinska, M.D.
Mrs. Roy decided after interview not to grant Mrs. Epstein (GUNIN)
(me) a landed immigrant status, not to allow me required by after-interview
stage medical exams because I have already "passed them in November 1994"
by MD Mrs. Brzezinska.
7-b – marked by the same date; modification of the document 7-a; still
no sign of recognition of the marriage; said that Mrs. Roy and IMS department
already made a preliminary decision based on exclusively Mrs. Brzezinska's
medical testimony, without giving me any chance to present an alternative
medical opinion (s)
7-c – marked by the same date but issued later: authorization to pass
post-interview medical tests
7-d – marked by the same date but issues later: an "accepted" decision
8. A letter from the Medical Insurance: part of proof of the hardships,
caused by inhuman approach to my case
8-b. Marriage Certificate
9-a, 9-b:
9-a: Illegal demand (in response to forwarded by me Immigration Canada's
demand) from Israeli consulate, which violates international norms
9-b: A certificate from the Consulate General of Israel in confirmation
that I have been voluntary submitted them my Israeli passport without demanding
another Israeli passport; it proves that I have no passport or a travel
document at the present moment. My son, and his family, and me – we asked
to cancel our Israeli citizenship.
10, 10-a, 10-b, 10-c, 10-d, 10-e: documents, which show that absolutely
medical tools were also used by Immigration against my son. His x-ray was
falsified, modified or replaced (etc.), and ungrounded diagnosis "tuberculosis"
was issued based on this single x-ray. However, other exams and another
x-ray (document # 23), made at an independent from Immigration laboratory,
completely excluded that.
11. A receipt for a blood test, which my son never done, was issued
to him in connection with immigration matters (other receipts for tests,
which he never done, used to arrive as well)
12, 13: dangerous threatening games around my son's medical exams for
Immigration
14. Letter from Immigration from January 12 2000. In this letter was
written that the results of the medical exams made by Dr. Giannakis were
received in Immigration. However, IMS Immigration Department pretended
that required additional information (tests). This was because the results
of Dr. Giannakis's medical resume about my health contradicted Mrs. Brzezinska's
insinuations.
15. Letter from IMS from June 30 2000. The content of the letter is
similar to the previous letter (doc. 14)
15-b. Letter from IMS dated August 22 2000. The content of the letter
is similar to the two previous letters (documents 14 and 15).
16. Letter from Immigration officer to my immigration MD (Dr. Giannakis)
pretended that I refused to pass additional tests, which were demanded
by Immigration, when in reality I already passed them by then, and the
results were submitted
16-a. Letter from the same Immigration officer (see doc. 16) to me
pretended that I refused to pass additional tests, which were demanded
by Immigration, when in reality I already passed them by then, and the
results were submitted. Comparing to the text of the similar letter to
my immigration doctor (compare with the document 16) this letter was written
in harsh words with affectation, which is a proof of a psychological pressure
tactics
17. My response (dated September 20 2000) to the letter 16-a
18, 19, 20 – documents, which reveal IMS illegal methods to keep Mrs.
GUNIN's (my) son and his family in a limbo forever – as I am kept now (During
one year ruling and forms for medical exams were refused for my son's family
members (he was told: only his wife must do them). Then in contradiction
exams were ordered for his younger daughter and him (omitting his older
daughter). When the last medical exams should supposed to be finished,
the validity of his wife's exams should expire (Doc. X2, 19, 20).
Such illegal tricks could keep them in a limbo forever. My file was
illegally attached to his to put us in dependence of each other's situation
(Doc. X1, 4). The same Mrs. W. Brzezinska made false reports about my son
as well (tuberculosis, etc.)
21 – 25. Other document related to my son's case to show similarity
in our immigration cases
26. Letter from Immigration Counsellor Mr. Chiu dated December 04 2000,
which said that I was found a danger to the Canadian public health system
and that my application for permanent residence might be refused. The letter
was advising me to send additional alternative opinions before February
04 2001
26-b. Another letter (called by Mr. Chiu "amended") from Immigration
Counsellor Mr. Chiu dated February 26 2001, which was a copy of the previous
(doc. 26) letter and advised me to obtain other medical opinions as if
I never sent two alternative medical opinions to Immigration already by
January 2001. (My response to Mr. Chiu is marked as document 6.)
26-c and 26-d. Letters from two medical doctors with strong disagreement
with IMS' conclusions
26-e. Two post receipts in confirmation that the above mentioned two
letters (documents 26-c and 26-d) were submitted to IMS in January 2001.
(Also a header from the fax to Mr. Giannakis of the same two letters submission
might be presented on demand)
26-f. A certificate from the English course, which I am attending:
in confirmation that I live a socially active life
27. Call-in notice from Immigration Counsellor Mr. Chiu dated March
26 2001, which relates to my husband's and my disagreement with the tactics
of unnecessary calls to Immigration (see documents 1-5-a)
28. Letter from the Minister's of Immigration office. A response from
the Minister was build on a persistent denial of Mrs. GUNIN's marital status,
in many accents interpreting her as a humanitarian claimant, not a wife
of a Canadian citizen! Cynically a "ministerial permit" option was presented
as a "solution of her problem"
29. Termination of the humanitarian program
30 (a,b,c,e). Documents related to medical insurance extension hardship
for me
31. List of documents (the present document)
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NEW UPDATE - END OF 2001 - BEGINNING OF 2002
From December to February, 2001 – 2002, next events happened.
In November and December, 2002, Immigration has submitted a new demand to
find and submit them another alternative medical opinion. It was as if several
medical letters (opinions) have never reached them! We have already obtained
alternative opinions of Dr. Creelensten, Dr. Kesner (cardiologists),
Dr. Giannakis (Immigration's assigned wide-profile medical doctor), Dr. Jast
(my mother's second family doctor), and Dr. Yvan Rohan (her main "family
doctor"). All of them considered my mother's heart problems as minor and
not demanding excessive medical care.
I went with her to Dr. Hyman Reisler, who examined her - and did not find
any major heart problem. However, when my mother gave him the echocardiogram'
result, he became thoughtful. My mother motivated the reason of her visit
as next: Immigration claims that she has a grave heart problem, and, because
she is hypochondriac, she can not live in peace until she'll find out, what
is truly with her. Dr. Reisler was the first MD, who began to doubt the result
of the echocardiogram, which Immigration ordered and my mother did at the
New Brunswick Medical Center. He told us that the echocardiogram looks very
suspicious.
Besides the medical data, there were mistakes in the echocardiogram. My mother's
address was incorrect, the name of the doctor, who was doing the echocardiogram,
was incorrect, and the name of the MD, who sent my mother to do the test,
was incorrect. A name of a non-existing Peter Rohan was written instead,
when in reality my mother was referred by Dr. Giannakis, and even Dr. Yvon
Rohan (with the same connotation in his name) wasn't by then her family doctor
(so that the name "Rohan" appeared absolutely accidentally)!
However, we decided not to redo the echocardiogram yet: who knows, what it
could show after this turmoil with Immigration, my mother's suffering, and
her depression, caused by offensive Immigration's attitude.
No one can really understand what my mother was going through. All inconveniences,
the hardship and offensive, intimidating behaviour of Immigration officials
- was only a half of the problem.
One of the most difficult psychologically tasks - was the knowledge that
an organization - a group of people - was constantly waiting for my mother's
health deterioration. If somebody is constantly looking into your mouth while
you eat – you then can not eat. If someone is permanently waiting for you
to develop a disease, to become sick, you really begin feeling sick. I remember
that this kind of a psychological torture was mentioned in one of Eastern
medieval tractates, I just don't remember its title. It was considered as
one of the most vicious tortures.
Quebec Ombudsman was already involved in my mother's case, and it already
attracted attention of many lawyers and public figures. When Dr. Kostiuk,
whose opinion we decided to obtain, issued my mother another echocardiogram,
we decided to go through it to see what was wrong with my mother's heart.
This new echocardiogram was done at Montreal General Hospital, and we were
told that the decoding will take from one to two weeks. I was astonished:
because at New Brunswick Medical Center we obtained it (they handed it over
to us) right away, immediately after doing the procedure. Next day I've picked
up the phone and called New Brunswick Med Center. I was lucky that the secretary
has agreed to call the echocardiogram personnel.
Speaking by a tone of a mighty business person or somebody powerful, I've
claimed that I'm intended to go through an echocardiogram test, but I need
to know how long the decoding will last. They told me that it normally takes
from 5 to 7 days to proceed the decoding. I pretended to be surprised - and
claimed that one of my friends has this test done - and received the result
immediately, waiting less then 10 minutes. However, it was around one year
ago. They told me that one year ago or more, - it does not matter. It is
impossible now, and it WAS impossible. Well, maybe in some cases it could
take from 2 to 3 days, but IT IS ABSOLUTELY IMPOSSIBLE to decode an echocardiogram
having a result right away. So, I've understood that my mother's echocardiogram
at New Brunswick Med Center WAS PREPARED in advance. Probably, on illegal
Immigration's request.
Now, when I knew that Immigration have purposefully distorted results
of two medical tests - my fluorography (x-ray), and my mother's echocardiogram
- I've understood an obvious danger, which any visit to any medical doctor
or med. laboratory, or another med. facility, can pose. Now I was aware that
the authorities in Canada, whether acting on their own or on the Zionist
extremists' behalf - could theoretically kill a dissident through a medical
tool.
Personal information, including the medical data, becomes more and more transparent
for various governmental organizations, and not only. Banks, employers –
and many others – were given an exclusive right to violate citizens' privacy,
and – in the same time – their own (governmental and corporate) domain becomes
more and more secret, and any information on you, accumulated by them – harder
and harder to obtain.
I have tried many times to receive my mother's full immigration case (file),
and have submitted a proper request from my mother's name. However, we were
refused - with no explanations, why. Then we have turned to a public organization
"Hirondelle", which takes care of some legal matters for people, who have
no money to pay the lawyer. An employee of that body, Mrs. Lolita Kiselev,
has submitted a proper request to Immigration asking to send my mother's
complete immigration file. She was refused as well. Then the Quebec Ombudsman's
lawyer, Madame Maitre Scighetti, has submitted the same request, authorised
by my mom. She wasn't refused, but the Immigration was delaying the submission
of the file. 2 months have past since her request - and the file was never
sent.
We then decided to hire an experienced lawyer, Maitre Doyon, and she has
sent a similar request to Immigration. And again - Immigration was postponing
the submission of my mother's file.
However, Madame Doyon was more persistent. From some indirect sources (she
never told it herself) I found out that she has turned to some important
people stressing her astonishment about Immigration's unwill to send an ordinary
immigration file of an ordinary old age person. It is possible that some
deputies were involved. More and more people were involved in this dispute
little by little. And a possibility that it can be transferred to a higher
level has arisen. We also could go to the Federal Court - with all related
repercussions. Only then Immigration has submitted the file.
However, it wasn't complete. Everything related to the medical concerns was
confiscated from the file. It meant that Maitre Doyon could not defend my
mother: since the whole case was based on the medical issues.
Only after another round of a severe struggle we managed to receive my mother's
immigration file. However, even by then it wasn't complete. The most important
(from my point of view) documents were still missing. First of all, a rapport
of the medical exam done by MD Mrs. Wanda BRZEZINSKA (an MD assigned for
Immigration) in November, 1994, was still missing. Doctor BRZEZINSKA has
examined my mother for Immigration and on Immigration's behalf. It was a
routine exam, issued by the existing regulation for all refugee claimants
arriving to Canada. Then a suggestion that it was Doctor Brzezinska's initial
rapport, which generated a medical ground for Immigration's mockery on my
mom, could find its proof or denial. However, there were several indirect
documentary leads to the missing Brzezinska's rapport, which might be insufficient
for an eventual lawsuit against Mrs. Brzezinska, but were completely meaningful
in term to conclude that she was responsible for a false medical claim that
a) my mother had a kidney abnormality, and b) that my mother had a grave
heart disease, which will obviously lead to a heart surgery. Reporting to
Immigration about my mother's "illnesses", she told nothing to my mother
or me, her son, and never sent my mother to a cardiologist or neurologist;
she never sent my mother to undergo a cardiogram or an echocardiogram, never
sent my mother for a strum creatinine blood test to check her kidney function,
etc. By that Mrs. Brzezinska has purposely did a serious damage to my mother's
health, social, administrative, financial, and psychological situation. She
was deliberately avoiding sending my mother to medical specialists - because
in favour of Immigration she was making Immigration's medical inadmissibility
claim unexpected for us - and therefore - prevented us from taking any legal
and medical steps. Besides, other medical opinions could disagree with Mrs.
Brzezinska - and with Immigration's evaluation (diagnosis).
Brzezinska's report on my mother's health was evaluated by two immigration
medical doctors in Ottawa, at Immigration Medical Services department.
Here is what known from the file.
Immigration File Number - 7001-836625
CIC file number - 9518-3082-7317
Vegreville
Epstein Elisabeta
Date of Exam 1017 - 06 Dec. 1999
(I omit the diagnosis and formulas)
THE APPLICANT IS DEEMED MEDICALLY INADMISSIBLE
UNDER SUBPARAGRAPH 19 (1) (a) (li) of the Immigration Act
26 Sept. 2000
J. Saint-Germain, MD
W. A. Waddell, FRCSC
On 05 / 13 / 2000 an Immigration officer in Montreal, Vivian Kirimkiroglou,
sends an e-mail to Ann Hislop in Ottawa, to find out about the reasons
behind the postponing of my mother's landing immigrant procedure by Ottawa.
He's writing that my mother "was assessed M5 in 1995, and as
of 29 - 12 - 99 registers that she has been
furthered".
Anna Hislop responded that in spite that the applicant did "a new
medical in December 1999", they have requested additional
medical tests (based on their former approach towards the applicant).
No comments needed.....
Indirectly another person, Elenor Morgan, was involved in my mother's case.
It seems that it was she behind the whole affair; it was probably her, who
pushed the trigger of my mother's persecutions. She was presented indirectly
in a number of documents. Main of these documents are: doctor Giannakis'
(whose role in my mother's case is still blurry: some documents of his reports
about my mother's health situation are missed in the file; however, his initial
medical rapport from December, 1999, was favourable to my mother) rapport
to Mrs. Morgan (09 / 26 / 2000), to fax number 613-946-0948 (which is in
Ottawa), and Mr. St-Germain's rapport to the same Elinor Morgan, to the same
fax.
Another strange document in the file is a rapport of a consultant, who was
probably invited by Immigration to judge in my mother's case. This medical
consultant's rapport was based not on my mother's real exam (the consultant
never examined my mother), but on the medical documentation
on my mom, provided by Immigration. There is only a non-readable signature;
no name or academic rang of the consultant. So, he's fully anonymous (as
the GESTAPO murderers). The consultation is dated by Aug. 4 2000 and marked
as for EPSE 2553 2113
A radiologist, MD Francis M. Boston, at La Cite Medical Center at Leo Pariseau,
has intervened in the process of the medical tests, and (it wasn't required
by the "regalement") wrote a statement about my mother's "serious cardiac
condition", based on the x-ray done at La Cite. This comment was a pure voluntarily
initiative, which looks as conspiracy between Immigration - and this MD.
Another document is the Immigration Medical Services' in Ottawa conclusion,
based on an exam of my mother, done by Wanda Brzezinska. This document says
the following:
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"HEMATURIA - HYPERTENSION - CARDIOMEGALY
This 69 year old refugee claimant was noted on examination to have
cardiovascular and renal abnormalities.
The findings are such that a serious disorder which may be expected
to cause excessive demand cannot be excluded at this time as the
applicant has only been assessed under the medical provisions of
Section 19 (1) (a) (f) of the Act (public health and safety).
Due to the presence of these abnormalities, the applicant should be
informed to seen medical follow-up. A new medical is required if the
Immigration status changed.
Entered in FOSS
Feb 10 1995
Ottawa
Doctors
S. Bertrand, MD
J. Beltran, MD, FRCPC"
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There are well-grounded suspicions that the both names were anonymous.
In the same time doctor Brzezinska never sent my mother to an cardiogram
or a renal tests. If not from doctor Brzezinska, then how and where "Bertrand"
and "Beltran" obtained the medical data and based their sinister "conclusion"?
However, an x-ray done at the Reddy Memorial Hospital for the same medical
exam (Nov. 18 1994) - ordered by doctor Brzezinska, - said that "The cardiopericardial
silhouette within normal limits... - Dr. Armanious".
Therefore, in 1994 Immigration had nothing in particular to support
their claim about my mother's "medical inadmissibility". She had by then
a chronic hypertension, and a moderate atherosclerosis.
She had no kidney abnormalities at all, and a specific heart augmentation
was not a sign of a disease, but a non-pathological natural individual difference,
which she had from birth. However, she had a cataract and glaucoma, but this
could not become a bias for Immigration's medical assault. So, in 1994 she
was relatively a healthy person for her age. Two things were needed to support
her health: an honest medical assistance and non-stressful life. These
were two things Immigration decided to deprive my mother from: as they wanted
to torpid her landed immigrant claim, they have
decided to achieve it by destroying her life and health....
Indeed, the "medical case" was invented by Immigration in 1994, when the
law about medical inadmissibility was not yet in motion!
They needed it to backup their offence against our refugee claim!
They wanted to secure their position in case if my mother will marry a Canadian
citizen, or receive a positive response to her humanitarian appeal. In violation
of the law, a claim about my mother's medical inadmissibility was missing
in the file. It wasn't among documents, which were in disposition of our
lawyers Maitre Le Brune and Maitre Beauchemin. Both of the lawyers gave me
a full access to the immigration file: and I was carefully looking over Immigration
medical records. The reason was that Immigration claimed that my wife Alla,
and me - we both had tuberculosis! We were denied an employment authorisation
under a "medical excuse"; it was done to put more pressure on us - and topple
our eventual future humanitarian case (which required an employment situation
(to be more precise – was favourable to people who are employed). Dr. Wanda
Brzezinska claimed that she was "defending" us from Immigration; only in
2000 I have found records pointed at her as an initiator of this matter (if
to believe these records). That's why I was searching for my mother's immigration
medical records. I felt that they might do something against my mother, my
intuition was just crying about that. However, I found nothing - because
the February 1995 S. Bertrand's and J. Beltran's insinuation was missing
in the file!
In the same time doctor Brzezinska also said nothing about my mother's "heart
and kidney abnormalities", while Immigration MS have non-doubtfully based
this "diagnosis" on Brzezinska's "conclusions".
In violation of the law, in violation of my mother's human rights, they kept
their medical insinuation in secret from us, and our lawyers!
However, the whole sequence of events shows that the Immigration and her
medical doctors were deliberately destroying my mother's health, in other
words, they were gradually killing her - to refuse her the landed immigrant
status by any means!
First of all, doctor Brzezinska gave no medical treatment to my mother. At
Immigration they wrote by big letters
HEMATURIA - HYPERTENSION - CARDIOMEGALY -
but Wanda did not provide my mother by any treatment for exception of the
blood pressure controlling pills. My mother was systematically asking Wanda
Brzezinska to send her to a cardiologist (to find a proper treatment for
her atherosclerosis) and neurologist (to see, what could be the best treatment
for her hypertension and prevention of an eventual stroke (a risk, which
any one with hypertension has). And Wanda was constantly denying her a reference
to specialists. She was denying it because of two reasons: 1) a conclusion
of a cardiologist or / and neurologist could confront doctor Brzezinska's
and the medical doctors' in Ottawa medical insinuations, and
2) she and her superiors in Ottawa have decided to destroy my mother's health
by any means....
If my mother was by then treated at least by aspirin, or by some other medication,
was advised a proper diet, and a proper kind of exercises, etc. - was sent
to a cardiologist and neurologist - it could prevent some deterioration
in her health in 1995 - 1999. Wanda has also denied my mother an anti-flu
vaccine, which could prevent her exposure to viruses with all the consequences
(complications) for my mother's health.
However, Wanda's real goal might be to destroy my mother's health as much
as possible.
A sinister personality of my mother's cousin (her mother's brother's daughter),
Sonia (Sony) K. (Sony's daughter Lucy was also involved) was also behind
this sequence of tragic events. Sony was a "brain center" behind innumerous
scam and cheating affairs. She was connected with many godfathers of Russian
and international Mafia, and her brain was always playing a number of criminal,
financial, and "political" combinations. A daughter of a big-scale combinator,
vice-commissioner of the intendment material part of the Leningrad front,
connected with Mafia, and a wife of another big-scale combinator, Leonid
F., one of the most successful underground enterprisers in ex-USSR, who was
always thinking about deals, combinations, and cheating. And
she hated us: my grandmother, her husband, my mother, and me.
Wanda Brzezinska was not just her family doctor, but her close friend. And
it was Sony and Lucy, who referred us to doctor Brzezinska. (Attempts to
destroy our refugee case by Lucy and her friend - by then a translator for
Maitre Le Brune, - were already described in other chapters of our immigration
drama).
Another method to damage my mother's health was to keep her constantly under
a stress. Madame Roy, Mr. Chiu, and other Immigration officers, who were
assigned to my mother's file, systematically assaulted her, shouted on her,
submitted aggressive, intimidating letters, committed unlawful, outraged
acts to irritate us and to cause damage to my mother's health.
This all already was described in different chapters of our immigration drama.
Immigration's tactics was to waste time "infinity" – until my mother will
develop any illness because of her old age. (Nobody lives more then 80 -
90 years). I believe that they could sabotage my mother's landed immigration
procedure for another 10 years, if we would not hire such a good lawyer as
Maitre Doyon! Like vultures, like carnage creatures they were waiting for
my mother's death. My mother could not be indifferent towards this cruel
watch of Immigration officials, she always felt that they were monitoring
time of her life, she always was under the pressure.
Methods and tricks, employed by Immigration against my mother, fully correspond
and match methods, which they used against me: falsifying my x-ray result,
sending me to a compulsory anti-tuberculosis treatment without any proof
that this diagnosis corresponds to me, etc.
Soon after my mother did a new echocardiogram, and its result has confronted
the result of the previous one, it became clear that Immigration somehow
used a fake echocardiogram to assume a false result. After new conclusions
of medical doctors, cardiologists - Dr. Kostiuk, Dr. Creelensten, Dr. Reisler,
and Dr. Kesner, as well as new statements of Dr. Jast, Dr. Rohan and Dr.
Giannakis (all contradicted the "conclusions" of Immigration), and after
our new lawyer's, Madame Doyon, sharp declaration – an Immigration officer,
Madame Cauchesne, called Mrs. Doyon. She told her that there is no need to
go public (this is what Madame Doyon was planning) or to appeal to the Federal
Court (another option) because Immigration's claim of my mother's medical
inadmissibility was withdrawn now.
However, it was just a verbal declaration....
Me, and Maitre Doyon - we demanded a confirmation (in writing) that my mother's
"medical case" is closed. Mrs. Doyon received such a document only in February,
2002, and warned me that now Immigration can stalk the proceeding of my mother's
papers under various excuses for many months - until finally her landed immigrant
papers would be issued. She sent the above mentioned letter to us, but we
never received it.
However, we have received another letter from Immigration, saying that my
mother's file have benn finalised...
Our final victory however did not mean that Immigration and the powerful
people who stand behind it, just gave up, and now will undertake no steps
to kill my mother and me. A number of strange events followed this new immigration
development – as if they were waiting for this time.
In January, 2002, my mother's purse with all her documents and with 200 dollars
inside was stolen in the bus number 165. My wife and my daughters were in
the bus with my mother, and they all were absolutely sure that the purse
was stolen by a small young man, who looked and behave as an Israeli. I see
here a connection with the finalising of my mother's immigration case. In
police, when we told that the eventual thief was looking as an Israeli, the
policeman wrote "Arab" instead!
Of course, my mother was distressed by this event; nothing like that ever
happened to her. We had to appeal for a new social security number for her,
a new medical card, etc.
In February my mother's health has suddenly worsen.
Her high blood pressure (hypertension) was sometimes out of control, reaching
180 or 190; her insomnia has deepened, and her legs became more painful because
of the problem with the blood vessel system (circulation). In the same time
she's lost contact with both doctor Jast and doctor Yvon Rohan, her family
doctors. She felt like they stopped to respond to her medical complains and
symptoms. She was expecting that Dr. Rohan should send her to a neurologist
and cardiologist, but he told her to wait a bit - because he was already
sending her to so many specialists in connection with her immigration case,
and now he can not.
In January, 2002, strange e-mails began to arrive to me from Israel. Their
context was always the same:
if social
hardship does not warn you microbiology will be next
------------------------------
I've received around 6 of such e-mails, with confused dates (August, January,
September, etc.)
In February Israeli most extremist right-wing party "Moledet" has criticised
my essays on Israel, and the journalist of their official press organ - "Moledet"
- wrote in his article on me that "if we were MOSSAD, we would put
attention towards Lev Gunin's activity long before". Something like this.
Computer viruses attacks on my computer from Israel became almost an everyday
picture. My friends' e-mail boxes were also used to attack my computer: like
this one -
Subject:
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Re: более полный вариант повести
Date:
Tue, 11
Dec 2001 11:33:52 +0300
From:
"Faray
Leonidov" <_faray@mail.ru>
To:
leog@total.net
Part 1.2
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In the end of December my wife has became sick after a New Year party at
her work. She has suffered two days from a strange asymptotic illness.
Then I've become sick. The virus has manifested itself only in sniffing,
but it was tormenting and painful. Then I have developed a migraine, then
- began to urinate every hour or a half.
Then pain in the kidney area appeared. There were other symptoms, which forced
me to turn to a specialist.
I went to an urologist, at St-Luc hospital.
A urine test and a microbiological test were done.
However, nothing was found. It was amazing! Later I had pains in the kidney.
By then I've already started to treat myself, and it helped. However, I didn't
know, what it was. And this was frightening....
A bit later, January 21 2002, another strange event has happened. I've sprained
my finger. I was just standing in my kitchen, when I felt a sudden pain,
and understood that something went wrong with my finger. When I came to doctor
Jast, he told me that this is like somebody has twisted my finger. I had
pain in my finger 2 weeks, and till now I don't know, what happened.
Exactly when I had this sprain, a suspicious ad about post-traumatic services
to treat bones and ligaments, came to me via e-mail.
In February strange red marks appeared on my mother's skin around her neck.
They became extremely big and looked like chancres. She went to Dr. Jast
and Dr. Rohan, but they did not arranged a consultation with a dermatologist
or an allergologist. She also had tremendous pains in her eyes, and felt
like her eyes are burning. She even went to emergency, but there was advised
to visit her ophthalmologist. She went to two ophthalmologists, but we had
an impression that they did not have a serious attitude to her complains.
Her eye drops have been changed giving no relief.
From September to December Simcha, my mother's husband, fell two times in
the street, and was injured.
The second time he broke his nose. The nature of his injuries was like he
did not fell but was beaten up. However, the way it looks may always mislead
you. Since then he became more and more aggressive, and his aggressiveness
often broke against my mother. He shouted on her, made aggressive gestures,
even tumbled chairs.
In the same time another problem - with my mother's new social insurance
number - took place. They had to submit her a new one in 3 weeks, but more
then a month has passed, and they didn't. I began to call them, and received
a respond that they can not tell me, why a new SIN wasn't sent yet, but I
have to call Immigration - "because they know". I called Immigration on February
25, at 10.00, and spoke with an ordinary employer-operator. She told me that
does not see in my mother's file that anything has changed in her situation,
and that a mark of her inadmissibility is still there. Then another person,
an aggressive male, took over. He started to shout on me and to accuse me.
In an offensive tone he claimed that the landed immigrant papers will be
never issued for my mother "until she's alive", and that we (my mother and
me) are responsible for it.
My first intention was not to tell anything to my mother. Unfortunately,
when she came to us on Sunday, Feb. 27, she began to provoke me to tell her.
She accused me saying that I am not calling Immigration, ans so on.
This day I felt a strange pity to my mother, like if I'm seeing her the last
time. I felt something: some fear, which I could not associate with anything
in particular.
So, when I was providing my mother to the bus, I've told her about my conversation
with Immigration. She became very worried; I don't remember her in such an
irritated, distressed state. In the same moment the wind has turned her umbrella
inside out, and she was very frightened. I was more worried, and wanted to
accompany her to her home, but could not.
My neighbour and friend, Errol, has asked me to help him to fix his computer,
and it was urgent. I have a lot of sympathy to him, and also I owe him a
lot. In all cases of emergencies like illness, my computer problems, moving
furniture, etc. - he was trouble-free - and always helped and offered his
car to give us a lift in cases of any trouble. I also like to speak to him
and enjoy his company. So, I've returned home and went to Errol's apartment.
By Errol I've quickly found out that the CD drive, which he bought, was detective.
However, he did not trust completely my expertise, and we ran new and new
tests one after another one.
My mother called my family, and told that she came home. I did not speak
to her - because I was by Errol.
At night I've seen a nightmare, which involved a "science fiction movie"
about persecution of a dissident (me?). He (or me?) was hiding within something
that probably was a sort of a transportation station. Then he was hiding
among strange cisterns and other things. However, t h e y used a smart
navigation device - and managed to kill him (me?). In the same moment a strange
replacement occurred. The dissident was again alive, but his mother was ill
(or dead), lying on the floor instead of him.
Then a telephone call has wakened me up. It was Errol, who asked me to go
with him to the store to replace the CD drive. Because he was in a hurry,
I had no time to call my mother. They gave us a computer, a mouse, a keyboard
- everything, and told to test the drive. It was really defective. Then I
found a professional and super good computer monitor for Errol , which he
managed to buy for only 80 dollars. He was happy when we came home.
When I have entered my apartment, Marta told me that the grandmother has
called and asked me to call her. I've immediately dialed my mother, and she
told me that she has a paresis on her face. I took my daughters - and we
left instantly.
We found out that on Sunday, when my mother has returned home after visiting
us, Simcha made a scene. He shouted on my mother, threatened her, and demanded,
why she was absent so long.... The same evening my mother felt unusual. When
she was brushing and washing her teeth, she felt like her left eye is squeezing.
She felt also like pricking.
However, she did not understand, what happens to her - and did not alarm.
At night she felt some dizziness, but it might be a kind of dizziness, which
she often has "because of her insomnia". Only in the morning, when she looked
at herself in the mirror, she noticed that one half of her face has been
asymmetrically de-placed. However, she thought that this might be an inflammation
of the facial nerve.
Even when we came, Simcha was aggressive, and tried to object our arrival
saying "why did you have to come? What happened?" - and later said that there
is no need to go to the hospital; we have to book an appointment with a family
doctor. Well, he's not educated - and non-educated people have a tendency
to think that they know everything better then all others, and to reject
complicated for them schemas as "fantasies".
In last 2 months I heard from many anti-Zionist dissidents about accidents
with their close relatives. One of them even told me (after listening to
my story) that my mother became sick actually now, in the time of Israeli
major offence against Palestinian people and against freedom-minded people
around the globe, not occasionally..... He was also suspicious about the
fact that my mother's illness coincided with this interview in Immigration,
and happened just 2 weeks before it.
I've begged my mother not to go to the Jewish General Hospital. I was intended
to transport her to the Montreal General Hospital. Unfortunately, she was
stubborn in her decision to go to the Jewish General. What could I do?
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE JEWISH GENERAL HOSPITAL
1. TRYING TO BACKUP IMMIGRATION'S MEDICAL DECEPTION
From the very first minute Jewish hospital's medical staff was evidently
insisting that my mother had a stroke. Immigration itself had to be indifferent
now, after finalizing my mother's immigration case - but not people, who
stood behind IMS's actions. During my mother's treatment at the Jewish General
hospital it was so clear, so obvious - that left no doubts: Jewish General
hospital was much closer to somebody, who initiated medical repression against
me and my family, then Canadian Federal Immigration.
Most of the symptoms, which my mother had, did not match the stroke; I was
strongly insisting that this is not a stroke - and demanded a second opinion.
I just did not know that my suggestion was called in English "bell's pulsy".
My mother was treated from a stroke, she was diagnosed with a stroke, and
her pain was considered as a "post-stroke" pain, and was treated correspondingly.
However, the Jewish General hospital had plans, which went beyond just moral
support of inhuman IMS's actions. They did everything they could to prevent
my mother from appearing at Immigration for receiving her landed immigrant's
papers, and by this (or / and based on it) to raise a question of her "medical
inadmissibility" again (or - at least - to provoke a situation, when Immigration
could postpone this procedure for an infinity, and justify it). The whole
story can be found on Internet as an essay "Jewish Hospital's GESTASPO Methods"
(the same site as "Israeli Terrorism"). All Jewish General's medical doctors,
including my mother's doctor in charge, Mrs. Janis Cohen, have insisted on
diagnosis "stroke" in a very mean, vicious manner. Because of my verbal and
written complains, in which I've explained that I disagree with their diagnosis,
they had sent my mother to MRI test.
It was a frightening cooperation and coordination between somebody in Immigration
(or someone who has pretended that was calling on behalf of Immigration)
- and doctor Cohen, and the hospital's administration. Every word of doctor
Cohen was a lie. For me - she represented people, who were behind the judgement
of my mother's "inadmissibility", or - may be - even one of them.
2. TORTURING THE PATIENT
My mother was suffering from tremendous pain in her left cheek. Mrs. Janis
Cohen, who represented the Jewish General's staff's opinion, has insisted
that this was a "post-stroke" pain. In my disagreement with her I have insisted
that this was mostly a pain, coming from one of my mother's teeth. I have
also suggested that whatever happened to my mom, was related to an infection
in her mouth, and to inflammation of a nerve in connection with an oral infection.
Promised by doctor Cohen consultation with a dentist was actually a deception.
Doctor Cohen never filed a demand for such a consultation, and was lying
to us, when said that did it. I have managed to organize such a consultation
not through her, and it took place ONLY after ombudsman's intervention.
I believe that 2-3 days after my mother's arrival at the hospital doctor
Cohen and other medical staff at the Jewish General already knew that my
mother had no stroke. I believe that they were deliberately insisting on
the wrong diagnosis because of the two reasons: 1) to punish me through making
my mother suffering more, and 2) to cover up Immigration's medical misconduct.
By refusing my mother consultation with a dentist and by denying the real
source of her pain, they have exposed her to tremendous, unbearable torments,
treating her from pain by just Tylenol. One of the nurses, when she was duty,
has always "forgotten" to bring her Tylenol, and my mother was suffering
even more.
A dentist (when the consultation took place) could reduce her pain almost
to "0" (comparing to the pain she suffered from before) in just 5 minutes.
3. ADMINISTRATIVE PRESSURE
Telephone beside my mother's bed in the post stroke unit at the Jewish General
was disconnected, when she just arrived. However, hospital's administration
was sending bills for the telephone - as if my mother was using it.
People from administration came to see my mother, and they gave her to sign
papers that she's using the phone - and wants to pay for it. It was obvious
that my mother does not understand English, and does not know what she has
signed. These people have acted as criminals! My mother has thought that
she's signing a paper to do a test or another medical procedure. Even after
my written declaration to hospital's material part's management, in which
I demanded not to disturb my mother and not to force her signing any financial
document, because she does not understand English properly, because she's
suffering from tremendous pain - and became vulnerable and manipulative,
- they kept coming to my mom with their forms and financial documents. In
the same time, they were denying that they came to see my mom - as if my
mother's signature could appear on their papers in a miraculous way! Even
when I have identified a person (after my mother's description), who recently
approached my mom, she was still denying that it was her, who has again disturbed
my mother.
According to hospital's policy, each telephone must be connected, and the
patient has right to make calls. Only to enable an outside caller to speak
to the patient the last must pay for this. However, my mother's telephone
was initially disconnected, and this was causing serious inconveniencies
and troubles for all of us. When - after my loudly complaints - the telephone
was connected one day in the morning, it was quickly disconnected the same
night.
Hospital's telephone operator misinformed me about the telephone status -
which indicated a wide-scale conspiracy among the hospital's staff in this
matter.
There were many of other small incidents on administrative ground, which
was a proof that we were really not welcomed at the Jewish hospital.
4. AROUND MRI SCAN
I have recommended my mother not to do an MRI test at the Jewish General
hospital. I was afraid that this test poses a threat not only for my mother's
health, but to my own health as well - because of the genetic relationship.
When doctor Cohen with another medical doctor came with a form, which my
mother had to sign before being sent to the MRI test, she refused to sign
it. However, doctor Cohen came next time, when my mother was alone (in spite
of my verbal and written declarations, demanding not to approach my mother
with something that she has to sign, without my presence), and my mother
has signed it.
This time my mother understood, what paper she's signing, and has sign it
- because by then was already in disagreement with me. I think that she was
afraid of Zionists, their MDs, their hospital, and though that if she will
do everything they demand, they would leave her alive. However, she was always
hesitating, and, if they did not take advantage of her age, situation, and
vulnerability, she would never sign anyway. I was categorically against it,
and clearly explain my mother - why.
As was highly expected, they scanned not only my mother's brain but also
her whole body. When the scan results were already available in the hospital's
computer system, doctor Cohen lied to my wife that the readings of the scan
are not yet ready. Later not just the results of the scan but even the record
that my mother had this procedure was erased from hospital's computer system.
At Radiology, at Information, at Emergency, at Medical Records etc. people
could not see them through hospital's computers.
Doctor Cohen never responded to our demands to tell, what did the scan show.
Only on the day when my mother was released from the hospital, she told that
the white brain essence is damaged, and that the cortex is suffering from
a damage. However, there were just common words – because without any reference
to the scan we know that in patients with hemiparesis normally the cortex
is involved. No paper or summary of the MRI scan was provided for us.
According to my opinion, my mother's condition has suddenly became worse
in next 24 hours after the MRI scan, and since then did not improve.
On Sunday, (March 17) doctor Cohen refused to speak to my wife and answer
her questions about the MRI. So, she never told about MRI scan's results.
A resume of MRI scan was never released by the Jewish General hospital.
When my mother came once to Saint Mary's emergency, and the Saint Mary's
staff have submitted a request to the Jewish General about my mother's MRI
result, it was denied by the Jewish General hospital.
5 medical doctors have submitted a request to the Jewish General hospital
to release the result of my mother's MRI scan, but never obtained it. However,
almost 1 year later I have managed to approach a medical doctor, who claimed
that saw my mother's MRI scan resume, before it was erased from hospital's
computer system. He said that it revealed an old hemorrhage in the brain,
and nothing more. All details, which could be read as abnormalities were
not life threatening, and there were no indications of a fresh insult (stroke).
The diagnosis "bells pulsy" is now officially presents in my mother's medical
documents, supported by 7 medical doctors, including 2 neurologists. No medical
doctor now thinks that my mother had a stroke.
A serious oral infection was found in my mom and olso a cyst on her gum,
which was operated and removed.
Red itchy marks on my mother's skin were tested by an allergologist - and
was found out that they relate to moule allergic reaction, but my mother
has no moule in her apartment.
5. DOCTOR COHEN'S CONDUCT
Her conduct with us was outraged from her very first appearance. Her every
word was a lie. She presented herself as "Mirian" (or "Miriam") Cohen - when
in reality she's Janis Cohen. She has called herself a neurologist, when
in reality she's not. She told that she booked an appointment with a dentist
- when in reality she didn't. MRI scan was done on March 14, but she was
mentioning it as if it was done on March 17 (to confuse us). When I have
insisted that she should not approach my mother with a form for MRI scan
allowance, she promised - in the presence of another MD, but did the opposite.
She was abusing my mother, her husband, my wife, and me - trying to assault
us, to provoke an overreaction, making racist remarks.
She openly expressed her detestable attitude towards people from the Slavic
countries, like Russia, Poland, Belarus and Ukraine. In her single racist
remark she has mentioned only Russians, but her behaviour clearly demonstrated
that she detest all people from the world of Slaves. She told the nurses
(I found this out later) not to answer our questions, not to speak to us,
to refuse us any information.
Once, in the presence of my stepfather and another patient, and her daughter,
and in front of my mother (a post-stroke patient, for whom any stress is
life-threatening) doctor Cohen has shouted at me and cried out that she's
going to call police: with no gesture, or word, or action from my side.
She promised consultations with a dentist, ophthalmologist, dermatologist
and endocrinologist, but doctor Cohen lied about sending these request. As
I found out later – no requests were done: until I personally went to other
departments of the hospital.
When she has appeared beside my mother's bed at the hospital, she did not
respond to my "good morning" greeting, and has never responded later on to
my "good day", or "good afternoon", or "good evening". When we met each other
the very first time - she has avoided looking at me, to speak to me, to answer
my questions. Her questions or affirmative phrases she directed only to my
mother, looking always at her, as if I was not standing at the same room.
She had to speak to my mother through me - because there was no other translator.
However, she ignored me even if I was translating, never saying "tell your
mother that..." or "ask your mother....". When I was asking her to repeat
her question or specify it - she has repeated it to my mother, without looking
at me. I tried to be friendly and polite, generating a positive approach
(into myself) towards doctor Cohen. Gradually I was admitting with horror
that it does not work. Maybe my interpretation of her gestures, looks, or
intonation was incorrect, and she never stopped ignoring me, but I tried
to convince myself (even later - when analysing (in writing) - what happened)
that she has begun to put some attention at me after some of my efforts.
However, if even my impression was correct, she did not become more friendly.
Doctor Cohen was cold with me, she was knocking me down, abruptly cutting
off my phrases. She posed a question to my mother, and then suddenly interrupted
me while I was translating it to my mother in Russian or Yiddish - as if
she knew Russian and Yiddish and was angry because of my incorrect translation.
(And again - without looking at me or without any traces of personal recognition
of my presence). She cut me off then more aggressively while I was translating
to her my mother's responses. She refused to answer any question (given to
her by my mom or by me) concerning medical evaluation of my mother's condition
and the post-stroke complications' treatment. She has responded to just 1
question: when I asked her if the post-insult spastic hemiparesis in my mother
could be treated. "It can not be said yet, - she told with a kind of
a malevolence. In the same time she said it in a humiliating manner as if
she was miming-teasing me, laughing at my semi-medical jargon. All
the time she stressed my individual manner to speak - trying to abuse my
English skills. It's rude and cruel to mock even at a foreign student's mistakes
in English. It is much more rude and unacceptable to mock at a patient's
relative if you're a medical doctor. I can not judge myself about how good
is my English or how detectable is my Russian-Polish accent in it - but nobody
and never before said that my English is bad. I have also participated in
a number of activities, where knowledge of English (spoken or written) is
essential, and have never failed.
By her very first appearance (by her behaviour) doctor Cohen has demonstrated
clearly that she knows something about me, that she's accusing me and hates
me. If she would not know, who I am, why should she behave with me like that?
Somebody from the hospital's staff, a Polish origin, has told me that "doctor
Cohen is our "small Zionist" (the word "small" was probably corresponding
to doctor Cohen's very short height).
Doctor Cohen has provided my mother with a commonly known post-stroke medication,
without going into my mother's individual condition.
She refused to analyse, what reasons led to my mother's present medical state,
or evaluate some unusual symptoms like red chancres on my mother's neck,
yellow spots on my mother's back, etc. My mother's skin was burning, and
she suffered from it hardly. When my mother complained that she's suffering
from a tremendous pain in her eyes and left cheek (and dental areas), doctor
Cohen ignored it claiming that these are usual post-stroke pains. (Later
we found out that they were not stroke-related).
Another thing that has concerned me - strange manipulations with my mother's
blood pressure measurements. If the nurse used to measure my mother's blood
pressure as 178 x 80, in doctor Cohen's diary it appeared as 178 x 50. The
law heart rate was used by doctor Cohen as an excuse to decrease the dosage
of Haysar and Atenolol, which my mother was receiving. Because the dosage
now was decreased against the dose that my mother was receiving usually at
home, the picture was now distorted, and it became unclear, her high blood
pressure has a post-insult or another nature.
I was shocked that the nurses have stopped to tell me, what medications my
mother receives. Later I understood that they also started to avoid bringing
her medications while I'm visiting her.
It is not necessary to mention all abuses, which doctor Cohen has directed
at us. She practically refused to speak with me from the very first moment.
If she "spoke with me" - then only through somebody else.
On Sunday, (March 17) doctor Cohen has refused to speak to my wife and answer
her questions about how long my mother must stay in the hospital. However,
after my wife began to insist, and a conflict situation has formed, she told
my wife that my mother would be released from the hospital on March 19, at
10.00. All nurses, the whole medical staff knew about this decision. Doctor
Cohen never told that it should be a release under some conditions.
On March 18 my mother's husband received a call from Immigration. A female
voice was asking to speak to Elisabetha EPSTEIN (GUNIN). According to my
mother's husband, he did not tell that my mother was in the hospital. He
only told that "she's not home". About the same time (11.30) they called
me. A woman asked me if my mother will appear at the interview at Immigration.
"Because she's in the hospital now, we afraid that she can not come – and
we'll delay the interview for 6 months, - she told. I said in response that
only my mother can know if she will appear at the interview, and that they
have no legal ground to cancel the interview.
On March 19 a dentist found out that my mother's pain at her cheek was not
a post-stroke pain: as I suggested before…..
On the same day, March 19, around 10.00 my mother was completely dressed
– and ready to go. However, doctor Cohen has ordered us to wait. She claimed
that "not all papers are ready". Then she tried to involve another person
(Nadege, who was asking my mother if she can put on the bandage on her left
eye for night-time). We understood that doctor Cohen wants just to win time.
Later doctor Cohen has changed an excuse to keep my mother longer at the
hospital, and said that an endocrinologist must see my mother at 2 – because
the level of cholesterol in my mother's blood is too high, she claimed. However,
as we suspected, nobody came at 2 (and – as I think – did not have to come).
Then my mother went out asking me not to follow her (she was tired, and wanted
to walk a bit). After several minutes I was also out of the room looking
for her. I've found her standing near the desk, where she was asked to sign
a paper that she went out from the hospital against the medical advise, and
responsible for the consequences. I was near to stop my mother to sign this
paper, but doctor Cohen then said that if my mother will not sign this paper
– she will not be allowed to go out from the hospital, and will not be able
to appear at the interview at Immigration. Doctor Cohen pretended that I
told her about Immigration, but I didn't.
They wanted to force my mother to sign another paper saying that if she leaves
now - she has to pay for all future medical services herself - until she
returns to the Jewish General Hospital, but I said categorically that my
mother is not going to sign this paper.
My mother was released without any document that she was in the hospital,
without any medications, and even the prescription was given her after a
brief fight. However, the dosage in the prescription was for some drugs incorrect,
for others - skipped.
As soon as my mother found herself at home her pain have immediately decreased.
However, comparing to the day of her admission to the hospital, her condition
has been worsen. She could not stay at home in such a condition, and, after
receiving the landed immigrant papers, made an appointment to a doctor, whom
she has already visited before. He told me that without a formal paper from
the Jewish General Hospital we can not do anything.
He said that my mother can not be treated, admitted to another hospital,
have other tests - nothing!
On the 21-st of March, at 11.00, I went to the Admission Office of the Jewish
General Hospital trying to obtain the official discharge from the hospital
paper. I was refused with no explanation!
After taking my mother to the doctor, my daughter Marta went with an official
request from this doctor to the Jewish General Hospital, and was told that
they will submit an answer for this request in 10 days!
They knew pretty well that in 10 days my mother can die without medical help!
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There were innumerous minor incidents at the hospital - like an incident
with my mother's eye drops, and so on.
There was no doubt that this conflict with the Jewish General hospital in
Montreal was Israeli medical terrorism-related.
I did not describe the situation outside hospital, when anonymous e-mail
said that I am guilty of what happened with my mom; total strangers have
started to speak with me at a bus station, demonstrating their knowledge
of my mother's situation, and so on. This all was just another indirect indication
of the terrorist connection.
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In December 2002, my mother's husband, Mr. S. Chmiel, fell in the kitchen,
and injured himself. The day when it happened he was categorically against
calling an ambulance. However, one day after his condition has worsen, and
we called an ambulance. When an ambulance came, I demanded not to take him
to the Jewish General hospital, and asked, if they can bring him to Montreal
General, Royal Victoria, or even to Saint Mary hospital. They called their
supervisor, and were told that because less and less patients want to go
to the Jewish General hospital, and its emergency is not overcrowded, they
must bring Simcha only to the Jewish General.
In the Jewish General they kept him the whole day: from 10.00 to 17.00 (Saturday,
Dec. 7 2002), and then decided to send him home. He could not walk, he could
not go to bathroom; they did not care. My mother, and me - we did not insist
that they must keep him in the hospital. They only were concerned, how they
should transport him home. They told us to take him home by taxi. However,
it was obvious that he can not go into a cab. With an experienced medically
caregiver he maybe could be taken to a taxi, but not with my help. I could
not move him, and he was screaming wildly if I've only touched him. Then
they had an idea to send him home by an ambulance. However, they could not
manage it for an unknown to me reason. So, they've left him in the hospital
for a while.
I have realised that next day we'll be left with Simcha (my mother, who's
sick herself, and me), with a person, who can not walk. He also could not
change his position in the bed. First of all, it was impossible for me to
sit 24 hours with him, providing an intensive care. I am not too strong;
and I don't think that I could move Simcha. Because we can not afford to
buy a car, it takes us 1-2 hours to go to my mom. Even if I could give myself
a try, we don't have any equipment for taking care of Simcha. My head was
pouring from thinking about what to do.
IN THE HOSPITAL. On Sunday they didn't give him his pills, and his blood
pressure was 240 x 130. They did not empty his urine can; when I came, it
was full, and nobody has cared. They did not give him any breakfast. I went
myself – and got it. When they took him to radiology, to do the x-ray, they've
thrown him as commodity, not as somebody alive, and he told later that he
suffered from pain, which he never had before. They have abused him so aggressively
and so blatantly that we had no choices but to take him home. I don't think
that it could happen in any other hospital. At least - not yet. Jewish facilities
are untouchable. Jewish organizations, Jewish medical doctors, Jewish hospitals
are doing what they want and abuse people how they want: because everybody
is afraid to dispute their privileges and power. Because of the Israeli-Jewish
terrorism.
=====================
Since January 2002, my own health was under an attack. As I've already described,
in January 2002, I've received an uretral infection of an unknown type. I've
complained to doctor Rohan and to doctor Jast about this infection, describing
symptoms, and they sent me several times to do urine tests at Saint Mary
hospital's laboratory. From March to December 2002, I had an infection 10
times, and took 4 courses of medications. 8 times (when I had an infection)
I went to Saint Mary hospital's laboratory - and did urine tests. 4 of the
tests results "were lost" in the laboratory. 4 have revealed no abnormalities.
The same day, when once doctor Jast has checked my urine - and told that
there is an infection, I did a test at Saint Mary's hospital, and it was
"in norm". Hospital Saint Mary is located in the same "Jewish" area, where
the Jewish General hospital is also located. I have started to suspect that
my urine tests were perverted there. Each of all 3 times, when I've been
coming to Saint Mary hospital's laboratory for a blood test, the same woman
was always sitting in the first from the entrance armchair, with the content
of her purse on the floor. Each time the same medical nurse was asking me
the same stupid questions giving the woman in armchair time to collect her
belongings and free her place. Each time I was invited to sit in this first
armchair (of course, I did not agree – and went further) – by the same blood-collecting
nurse. Isn't it was "a bit" suspicious? No wonder that I was forced to arrange
a small experiment. 2 times I've taken referrals for urine tests from 2 different
medical doctors, and did 2 tests at Saint Mary hospital - and at 2 other
hospitals. Each time one urine test was done at Saint Mary hospital's laboratory
- and another one - at another hospital: on the same day. As I've suspected,
the results were astonishing. Tests, done at Saint Mary hospital's laboratory,
were "in norm", when other tests have shown an infection!
Once I've appeared at one of Montreal hospital's emergencies. My urine was
tested, and an infection was found. A unique specialist, who used to be by
that time at the hospital, told me that I have a very rare infection. He
prescribed me common medications, but told me that I must appear after 5
days at the emergency, where doctors will take care of my specific infection.
However, when I came, nobody knew who I am and who sent me. I have also discovered
that the record of my appearance at the emergency, and everything, which
related to my visit, was erased from their database.
One very specific symptom - is that every time when I have this infection,
I have simultaneously an ulcer in my mouth; I told this 2 MDs, but nobody
cares to send me for a micro-culture testing. I receive no treatment, no
intensive diagnostics.
This virus is slowly destroying my organism. I am sure that it disbalanced
metabolism in my organism. An ageing process has suddenly erupted with a
bizarre progressivity in me, destroying not only my look, but also the way
I feel. My urine test result, which once was already received by doctor Rohan
- before his vacations, - later has vanished from my file.
It is very possible that the Israeli terrorism stands behind all these strange
events. It is very possible that Israeli terrorism has decided to punish
me through medical tools. It is possible that they are preparing to kill
me sooner or later. Hundreds of Israeli ultra-patriots and racists-extremists,
thousands of Zionist activists, web sites and newspapers of Israeli right-wing
parties have called me an enemy of Israel, and addressed me their damnation.
No doubt that Israel is able to destroy a single independent activist like
me. However, I believe that a day will come, a day, when they'll be forced
to pay the bills.
6. KILLING PEOPLE FOR DONOR ORGANS
Was a new immigrant (Naum Tsipnis) murdered by an ambulance in Petach-Tikva
that an Israeli might live? (See the 1-st chapter of this part ("Medical
Terrorism").
We know at least 3 such horrible incidents, when new Russian-speaking immigrants
were killed by ambulances at Petach-Tikva, Ashdod, and Rishon-Le-Zion. Their
organs were donated to wealthy Israelis without a required legal procedure
and without permission of victims' families.
From Arabs in Israel I heard about a number of similar incidents with Arabs,
killed by ambulances near Haifa or in other parts of Israel, and taken to
hospitals for stripping out of organs, which were donated to wealthy Israelis.
Here, in Canada, old patients from the middle class, and patients of all
ages from poor families are so badly maltreated and humiliated in Jewish
hospitals - that many non-Jews can easy believe rumours that organs of killed
by Israelis Arab or Christian, or "Russian" victims are donated not only
through hospitals in Israel, but also through Jewish hospitals outside Israel.
Israeli medical system is so cruel, and medicine and medical questions are
so heavily exploited by Israeli government in political and racist purposes
- that it gives materials about killings of people in Israel and by Israelis
for donor organs a very credible base.
And also, if, after materials, provided by Lubomir Prytulak, we'll go back
to Amnesty International's reports, we'll find there the same credibility
(support) for Mr. Prytulak's analysis.
Justification of killing of people for transplant organs is a widespread
opinion among wealthy Israelis. Living 3,5 years in Israel - I have often
heard that to kill a poor person, "who's useless, lives on welfare, and brings
no contribution into society", for transplants - is "very fair".
It is very sad that this opinion prevualates not only among wealthy secular
Israelis, but also among rich ultra-orthodox Jews in Israel.
Organizations like Amnesty International or UN should send their people to
Israel to speak with ordinary wealthy Israelis - to hear, what they think
about killing people for donor organs.
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Bernie Farber Letter 03
13-May-2002 What else is scaring the stone-throwers?
"Perhaps one of the visions that terrifies
these boys is that
of being strapped to an operating table
and ending up like
the Palestinian in this photograph."
— Lubomyr Prytulak
13 May 2002
Bernie Farber
Executive Director, Ontario Branch
Canadian Jewish Congress
4600 Bathurst Street
Toronto, ON M2R 3V2
Bernie Farber:
Palestinian boys throw stones at Jewish
tanks to overthrow Jewish oppression
and
to win back the land Jews robbed
Palestinians of.
One might imagine that upon being
captured, these boys would receive
treatment as good as that mandated by
international conventions for prisoners
of
war, and perhaps better on account of
several considerations:
they are
young,
their
weaponry falls short of lethal,
they demonstrated
heroism,
they were
fighting not to oppress,
but to
win emancipation from
oppression;
not to keep what they
have stolen,
but to win back what
has been
stolen from them.
Photographs, however, do not show boys
who recognise that their capture removes
them from the danger of confrontation
to a
place of lawful and just and safe captivity,
but rather show boys in a state of panic
who have to be subdued by force.
In my letter, What's scaring the
stone-throwers?, of 08-Apr-2002, I asked
Ezra Levant what he thought these boys
were afraid of, and suggested that they
might be afraid of having their hands
broken, of being beaten, tortured, and
even executed.
To that list might be added the fear
of being
delivered to a Jewish organ-harvesting
facility.
Perhaps one of the visions that terrifies
these boys
is that of being strapped to an operating
table and
ending up like the Palestinian in this
photograph.
If you read my letter to Israel Asper,
titled "They
left their hearts in Tel Aviv", of 10-May-2002,
you
will be given reason to understand that
such a fear
would not be totally irrational.
If you think that such a fear on the
part of the
captured Palestinian boys would be unfounded,
perhaps you will be able to begin dismantling
this
fear by explaining what happened to
the following
25 Palestinian children that went missing:
Lubomyr PRYTULAK (ukr.arch.org)
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OCCUSING ISRAEL OF MASS KILLING OF CHILDREN AND CIVILIANS
(INCLUDING FOREIGNERS) FOR ORGAN TRANSPLANT
Israel Asper Letter 01 10-May-2002 They
left their hearts in Tel Aviv
"The family of Alastair
Sinclair, a Scottish
tourist who hanged
himself in an Israeli jail,
was forced to bring suit
for the return of missing
body parts." —
Jonathan Rosenblum
10 May 2002
Israel
Asper
Executive
Chairman
CanWest
Global Communications Corp.
3100 TD
Centre, 201 Portage Avenue
Winnipeg
MB R3B 3L7
Israel
Asper:
Could
Your Readers Have A Little Balance?
In one
of your newspapers, The Windsor Star of 09-Apr-2002, p. C10, I read that
your father, Leon,
was a
violinist trained at the Odessa Conservatory and your mother, Cecilia, was
a concert pianist.
Your parents
seem to have managed their accomplishments in Ukraine in the face of what
writer Zev
Singer
would have us believe was an adverse environment: "Escaping the pogroms of
their native
Ukraine,
Cecilia and Leon Asper came to Canada in the early 1920s."
In order
to avoid giving the impression that you are using your newspaper empire to
keep alive the
nurtured
hatreds and hyperbolized grievances of your ancestors, I wonder if you could
not introduce
some balance
to your coverage of Ukrainian-Jewish relations?
Was A
Ukrainian Murdered That A Jew Might Live?
For example,
a story that is both more recent and more urgent than that of your parents
escaping
Ukrainian
"pogroms," and perhaps more credible as well, and one which I don't think
you have
permitted
your newspaper empire to allude to as yet, is the following:
UKRAINIAN ECHO 07 January 2002 Page 22
A view of the press in
Ukraine
KHMELNYTSKY
"Returned from foreign labor ... without his heart." Underneath such
a
headline, this newspaper relates that, reduced to despair by extreme
material straits, a 39-year-old Khmelnytsky resident took a job in
Israel. However, the terrible news shortly arrived that he had died
there of poisoning by a tainted alcoholic beverage (even though all
domestic sources insist that he never drank!). The body of the
unfortunate worker was returned to Ukraine for burial. However,
medical experts discovered that he was missing ... his heart! At the
moment, this dreadfully-inhuman affair is being investigated with the
help of Interpol.... (Ukrinform, 23 November).
Maybe
Ukrainians Are Just Creating An Urban Legend?
There
are those who seem ready to disbelieve all reports of organ robbery, and
who thus would likely
consider
the above story of organ robbery, perhaps preceded by murder as well, as
an "urban
legend,"
as at
The Folklorist thefolklorist.com/horror/organtheft_turkey.htm
However,
acknowledging that some organ-robbery stories are likely to be urban legends
nevertheless
leaves
open several possibilities:
quite simply, that other organ-robbery stories are true;
that anyone interested in discrediting the true stories might do so by broadly
disseminating
false ones;
that one way of creating an urban legend is to label a true story an "urban
legend."
I touch
below on several reasons for thinking that the above story of a Jewish organ
robbery of a
Ukrainian
may be true.
Was a
Scotsman Murdered That A Jew Might Live?
The highly
similar fate of Scottish tourist Alastair Sinclair does seem credible:
Moreover, [Jerusalem District Court Judge Ruth] Orr was well within her rights
to be skeptical of
the pathological findings of [government pathologist Dr. Yehuda] Hiss, who
has long been the
subject of controversy as director of Israel Institute for Forensic Medicine,
at Abu Kabir. Last
November, a local Tel Aviv paper Ha'ir ran a 12-page expose of Abu Kabir
and revealed how the
national lab allows medical students to practice on bodies sent there for
autopsies, and transfers
body parts for transplants without permission from the family of the deceased.
The family of Alastair Sinclair, a Scottish tourist who hanged himself in
an Israeli jail, was forced to
bring suit for the return of missing body parts.
University of Glasgow pathologists who did an autopsy at the request of Sinclair's
family, found
that it had been returned without a heart (which they suspect was used for
a transplant) and
without the crucial bone needed to confirm the claim that he died from hanging.
Jonathan Rosenblum, Presumed Guilty, Dei'ah veDibur, 07-Feb-2001, originally
published in the Jerusalem Post,
currently available at www.shemayisrael.com/chareidi/archives5761/beshalach/features.htm
And because
it appears plausible that Alastair Sinclair did not hang himself but was
murdered, and
because
it also appears plausible that the motive for the murder was the harvesting
of Alastair
Sinclair's
heart, the similarity to the Ukrainian story invites us to upgrade the plausibility
of the latter
at the
same time — which is to say, invites us to upgrade the Ukrainian story from
possible urban
legend
to possible murder followed by organ harvesting.
Three
Palestinian Teenagers Murdered By Born-to-Kill Jews,
Then Stripped
Of Organs
With respect
to the accompanying photograph,
one might ask
what it would signify about
Canadian or
American police or military personnel
if they boasted
that they were "Born to Kill,"
especially personnel
sent into Black or Chicano or
Arab or Oriental
neighborhoods? And what it
would signify
about the government if it allowed
them to inscribe
this boast on their uniforms? I
assume, also,
that as these Jews are openly
proud of being
Born-to-Kill, that you will find no
fault in my
calling them Born-to-Kill Jews?
With respect
to the block quote below, you will
not fail to
notice that the sinister name of Abu
Kabir (the location
of the Israeli Institute for
Forensic Medicine
mentioned just above) comes
to our attention
once again in a story of
Palestinian
teenagers being the targets of Jewish
murder and organ
robbery, published incidentally
on 09-Jan-2002,
just two days after the
Ukrainian story
above:
Israel Kills Palestinian Boys, Steals Organs For
Transplants
Teheran Times.com
1-9-2
AL-KHALIL (IRNA) — The Zionist state has tacitly admitted that doctors at
the Israeli forensic
institute at Abu Kabir had extracted the vital organs of three Palestinian
teenage children killed by
the Israeli Army nearly ten days ago.
Zionist Minister of Health Nessim Dahhan said in response to a question by
Arab member of the
Zionist Parliament 'Knesset', Ahmed Teibi, on Tuesday that he couldn't deny
that organs of
Palestinian youths and children killed by the Israeli forces were taken out
for transplants or
scientific research.
"I couldn't say for sure that something like that (taking out the organs)
didn't happen."
Teibi said he had received credible evidence proving that Israeli doctors
at the forensic institute
extracted such vital organs as the heart, kidneys, and liver from the bodies
of Palestinian youths
and children killed by the Israeli Army in Gaza and the West Bank.
The Israeli authorities normally detain the bodies of martyred Palestinians
for a few days without
any explanation.
The Israeli Army on December 30 killed three Palestinian boys, aged 14-15
near Khan Younis in
unclear circumstances.
The army issued conflicting reports on the killing, while Palestinian sources
charged that Israeli
troops murdered the three unarmed boys in cold blood.
The bodies of the three boys were handed over to the Palestinians for burial
on 6 January.
However, shortly before burial, Palestinian medical authorities examined
the bodies and found out
that the main vital organs were missing from the bodies.
The Israeli media have nearly completely ignored the affair.
(IRNA)
Reproduced on the Jeff Rense web site at www.rense.com/general19/israelkills.htm
Photographs
Need To Be Explained
Below
are two photographs out of several available that lend credibility to the
above charges —
supposedly
Palestinians whose organs have been harvested by Jews. If the lengthy
central incision
has some
explanation other than organ harvesting, then negative speculation could
be discouraged
by re-publishing
the photographs along with that alternative explanation. For example,
perhaps such
an incision
results from a standard autopsy, in which case it should be explained why
an autopsy was
performed
in a case where the victim had undergone such massive damage that the cause
of death
could
not have been in doubt, as in the second photograph below:
With regard
to the above photographs, one might request from the two sides that the quality
of
debate
be upgraded. From the accusers, one would like to see names, dates,
locations, and
particulars
attached to each photograph, which at present are lacking. And as the
photographs are
on public
display at the link immediately above, it behooves the accused to publish
some defense, as
a posture
of nolo contendere encourages the conclusion that no defense is available.
An Organ
Robbery in Beersheba
The conjecture
of Jews harvesting Palestinian organs is further strengthened by the report
of an
organ
robbery below. Although the nationality of the victim in this case
is unspecified, reference to
an "anonymous"
traffic victim calls to mind the hypothesis that if a deceased person in
Jewish-controlled
territory in the Middle East cannot be identified, then that person is more
likely to
be Palestinian
than Jewish; and the same if the family of the victim cannot be identified:
Interestingly, the Israeli Anatomy and Pathology Law (1953) allows for "using
part of a corpse
when it is needed to save the life of a person" without any consent.
This law has very rarely been
used and on one celebrated occasion may have brought more damage than benefit.
On June 19,
1993, a heart, liver, lungs, and kidneys were harvested from an anonymous
traffic accident victim
in Beersheba and transplanted in five patients in Israel. After all
attempts to identify the family
failed, the hospital staff harvested the organs without consent. This
person was not carrying a
donor card. The story was described on the front pages of the daily
newspapers as a case of
"organ robbery," and public response was so unfavorable that no similar attempts
have been made
since.
Ethical Issues in Organ Transplantation in Israel by Gershon B. Grunfeld,
Ph.D., Bruce Rappaport Faculty of Medicine,
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, P.O.B. 9649, 31096 Haifa, ISRAEL,
on University of Tsukuba web site at
www.biol.tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/EJ66/EJ66O.html
Seven-Year-Old
Palestinian Boy Murdered By Born-To-Kill Jews,
Then Stripped
Of Organs
That Jews
allocated expensive resources to save "Israeli-Arab teenagers" is
one detail
that does not ring true below, and if true in this one instance, might
have been
implemented so as to justify and strengthen the precedent of
harvesting
Palestinian organs, but with the intention of channeling later supply
to Jews
— a hypothesis that could be evaluated by an examination of the
number
of organs that Israel has been allocating to Jews and Arabs
respectively,
should such data ever be released. A question called to mind
by the
discussion of the influence of Jewish religion on organ transplant policy
at the
bottom of the present letter is whether in the entire history of Israel,
a
Jewish
organ has ever been transplanted into a non-Jew?
Furthermore,
the above claim of a Ukrainian victim of Jewish organ-harvesting
is considerably
reinforced by the admission below that Gastarbeiter (foreign
worker) donors
constitute nearly half of all donors, with the claim that family
permission for
organ harvesting is obtained (in all cases, apparently) being a
second detail
that does not quite ring true. Certainly permission being granted
"by telephone"
carries an air of informality, and places an obstacle in the path
of any investigator
attempting to verify that family permission had in fact been
given. Finally,
it must be kept in mind that the bulk of Jewish transplants are
conducted outside
Israel, as will be documented in the next section; the small
numbers cited
in the box quote immediately below fail to convey the volume
of activity:
During the first
ten months of the year, 26 donors contributed to 91 recipients.
The donors included
traffic-accident fatalities, operating-room deaths, and
seven-year-old
Ali Jawarish of Bethlehem, accidentally shot by IDF soldiers
during riots
outside Rachel's Tomb. He was pronounced brain-dead on
Nov. 15; his
organs were transplanted into three Israeli-Arab teenagers the
next day.
Nearly half the donors during the first six months of 1997 were
gastarbeiter
whose families overseas gave their consent by telephone —
sometimes in
return for Health Ministry funding to fly the corpse home.
Organ Transplants and Donations, ISRAEL YEARBOOK and ALMANAC,
1998 www.iyba.co.il/98/organs.htm
That deaths
among Gastarbeiter are so commonplace, and Gastarbeiter family permission
to harvest
organs
is so dependable, that Gastarbeiter constitute nearly half of all organ donors
is a claim that
cries
out for investigation — the suspicion being aroused that Jews murder Gastarbeiter
in order to
harvest
their organs, and fall short of Western standards as to what constitutes
obtaining family
permission
as well. For organs that may be worth millions of dollars, offering
families only the
compensation
of flying what remains of a Gastarbeiter body back home sounds like a minor
injustice
added
to a major one.
Israel
Is A World Leader In Illegal Organ Trafficking, The
Surviving-Donar
Variety Being Best Documented
As one
cannot always rob, one sometimes is reduced to purchasing:
Israel has recently become something of a pariah in the transplant world.
Without a strong culture
of organ donation and under the pressure of angry transplant candidates,
the Ministry of Health
has refused to crack down on the country's multi-million dollar business
in transplant tourism that
arranges junkets from dialysis clinics in Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to medical
centres in Europe and the
United States.
"Why should we Israelis be made to travel to third world clinics to get the
kidneys we need to
survive from the bodies of peasants, soldiers, or guest workers who may be
in worse physical
shape than ourselves?" a 71-year-old "kidney buyer" from Tel Aviv asked me
rhetorically. "Organs
should be seen as a human, not as a national resource." It was good
to see "Avirham," an elderly
gentleman, alive and happy with his revitalizing 22-year-old "peasant" kidney.
And his living
donor? "A peasant, without anything!" he replied. "Do you have
any idea what $1,000, let alone
$5,000 means in the life of a peasant?"
For most bio-ethicists, the "slippery slope" in transplant medicine begins
with the emergence of a
black market in organs and tissue sales. For the anthropologist, it
emerges much earlier: the first
time a frail and ailing human looks at another living person and realizes
that inside that other body
is something that can prolong his or her life. The desire is articulated:
"I want that; I need that
even more than you." In terms of transplants, the kidney has emerged
as the ultimate fetish,
promising to satisfy the most basic of human desires — that for life, vitality
and ?lan.
The sale of human organs and tissues requires that certain disadvantaged
individuals and
populations have been reduced to the role of "suppliers." It is a scenario
in which bodies are
dismembered, transported, processed and sold in the interests of a more socially
advantaged
population of organ and tissue receivers. I use the word "fetish" advisedly
to conjure up the
displaced magical energy that is invested in the strangely animate kidney.
Avirham, who flew from
Jerusalem to Georgia for his kidney, explained why he would never tolerate
a donation from a
corpse: "That kidney is practically dead. It was probably pinned down
under the wheels of a car
for several hours... I was able to see my donor. He was young,
healthy, strong. Just what I was
hoping for."
Nancy Scheper-Hughes, The Organ of Last Resort, UNESCO, The Courier, July/August
2001
www.unesco.org/courier/2001_07/uk/doss34.htm
Investigative
journalism in Turkey uncovers Jewish plundering of Turkish organs:
Ugur D?ndar, Haluk Sahin, and M. Ali ?nel of Kanal D's ARENA, H?rriyet Production,
Turkey
"The International Transplant Mafia," broadcast in two installments in 1997,
exposed a human
organ black-market network linking Turkey, the Czech Republic, and Israel.
An Istanbul man,
struggling to raise two young children, had agreed to sell one of his kidneys
for $8,000 U.S. dollars
but later contacted Arena, Turkey's lead investigative TV program, fearing
that more than a kidney
might be lost. An Arena reporter with a hidden camera, posing as the
donor's friend, accompanied
him over the next several days to meetings with organ brokers and a Turkish
surgeon. The
operation was aborted at the last minute, when the Arena crew entered the
hospital, cameras rolling.
The surgeon was denounced by the country's medical board and was later tried,
but Arena
discovered another syndicate operating several months later in another city.
This time posing as the
donor, an Arena reporter met with an organ broker and agreed to sell his
kidney for $5,000. A trip
to the Czech Republic for the operation fell apart after Arena alerted police.
The man confessed he
was paid to arrange kidney transplants by his boss in Israel, where Arena
reporters later
unsuccessfully searched for the syndicate boss. Instead, they found
the president of an association
of patients waiting for kidney transplants, who said 50 Israelis had been
saved in the last year by
Turkish kidneys.
1998 International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) Award Finalists
www.icij.org/about/finalists.html
Excerpts
below from Michael Finkel writing in the New York Times
Magazine
outline the experiences of Israeli dialysis patient and Organ
Buyer Moshe Tati,
offer generalizations on some Drawbacks of Selling Off
One's Body Piecemeal, and
describe the tribulations of 44-year-old Organ Seller
Mehmet Piskin whose kidney went to an Israeli purchaser
— Mehmet thought for $30,000, but he was able to collect
only $10,000.
The three
headings below were not in the original:
Organ Buyer Moshe Tati
Moshe was 43 years old, and he was dying, and not one of his family members
was a suitable
match for a kidney donation. So he called the broker.
Moshe lives in Israel, which happens to be one of the more active nations
in the international
organ-trafficking market. The market, which is completely illegal,
is so complex and well organized
that a single transaction often crosses three continents: a broker from Los
Angeles, say, matches
an Italian with kidney failure to a seller in Jordan, for surgery in Istanbul.
[...]
The sale of human organs, whether from a living person or a cadaver, is against
the law in virtually
every country (Iran is perhaps the only exception) and has been condemned
by all of the world's
medical associations. [...]
Yet in Israel and a handful of other nations, including India, Turkey, China,
Russia and Iraq, organ
sales are conducted with only a scant nod toward secrecy. In Israel,
there is even tacit
government acceptance of the practice — the national health-insurance program
covers part, and
sometimes all, of the cost of brokered transplants. [...]
Paying for an organ has become so routine in Israel that there have been
instances in which a
patient has elected not to accept the offer of a kidney donation from a well-matched
relative.
"Why risk harm to a family member?" one patient told me. Instead, these
patients have decided
that purchasing a kidney from someone they've never met — in almost all cases
someone who is
impoverished and living in a foreign land — is a far more palatable option.
I can get you a kidney immediately," said the broker whom Moshe Tati called.
"All I need is the
money." Then he quoted a price: $145,000, cash, paid in advance.
[...]
Desire for a living donor is another reason why dialysis patients often prefer
to purchase a kidney
and circumvent national programs, where legally transplanted organs are almost
always from
cadavers. An Israeli kidney buyer named Avriham, who used the same
broker as Moshe Tati and
traveled to Eastern Europe, described this notion in his own terms: "Why
should I wait years just
to have a kidney from someone who was in a car accident, pinned in his car
for hours, then in
miserable condition in the I.C.U. for days, and only then, after all that
trauma, have part of him put
inside me? That organ is not going to be any good! Or, worse,
I could get the organ of an elderly
person, a person who died of a stroke or an aneurysm — that kidney is all
used up! It's better to
take a kidney from a healthy young man who can also benefit from the money.
Where I went,
families were so poor they didn't even have bread to eat. The money
I gave was a gift equal to
the gift I received. I insisted on seeing my donor. He was young
and very healthy, very strong.
It was perfect, just what I was hoping for. A dream kidney."
[...]
When Moshe's plane landed in Istanbul, there was no need to clear customs,
no one asking for
passports. "Everything was already taken care of," Moshe says.
"The organization was like
clockwork." Moshe and the other three patients were driven to a hospital
— An old hospital,"
Moshe says, "not modern, but very clean" — and their family and friends were
taken to a hotel.
[...]
"As I was being prepared for surgery," Moshe says, "I saw the man who was
giving me his kidney.
I just glimpsed him briefly. He was in an operating room across from
me. We never spoke; when I
saw him, he was already asleep, at the beginning of his surgery. [...]
Drawbacks of Selling Off One's Body Piecemeal
Scheper-Hughes remains unconvinced that selling a kidney is actually a low-risk
activity. She says
she feels that the chief tenet of the Hippocratic Oath — do no harm — is
being violated. "In these
deals you are certainly harming someone else," she says. "You are harming
the sellers." The
argument that the slight harm to the sellers is more than offset by the lifesaving
potential on the
other end of the transaction is also troubling to Scheper-Hughes. "I
call this 'increasing the net
good,'" she says. "Is this really the kind of world we want to live
in — one based on utilitarian
ethics in which net gain to one relatively privileged population allows them
to claim property rights
over the bodies of the disadvantaged?"
Further, she points out, every study demonstrating that kidney donation does
not compromise
health has been conducted in a wealthy nation. "It is not exactly clear
that poor people can really
live safely with one kidney," she says. People who sell their kidneys,
she adds, usually live in
abject conditions and face greater-than-average threats to their health,
including poor diets,
low-quality drinking water and increased risk of infectious disease, all
of which can easily
compromise the remaining kidney.
The actual kidney-removal surgery may also not be as gentle as advertised.
Even Michael
Friedlaender admits that removal surgery is a more painful procedure than
transplantation. After a
surgeon has carved through skin, fat and several layers of muscle, getting
at a kidney sometimes
necessitates the partial extraction of the 12th rib. Short-term complications
have been
documented in nearly one in five kidney-donation surgeries. [...]
There is further concern about the notion that sellers are making an autonomous
choice.
Lawrence Cohen, an associate professor of medical anthropology at Berkeley
and the other founder
of Organs Watch, has done much of his fieldwork in India. He recently
studied 30 kidney sellers in
the city of Chennai. Twenty-seven of them were women. Some of
their husbands, Cohen learned,
made it clear that if the men had to do heavy labor, it was only fair that
the women contribute to
the family income by selling a kidney. Cohen observed that in none
of the cases did selling an
organ significantly improve the family's fortunes in the long run.
"If only I had three kidneys," one
of the women told Cohen, "then I could sell two and things might be better."
"Nobody seems concerned about the sellers," Scheper-Hughes says. "The
buyers are supported by
doctors, but no one represents the sellers. Nobody solicits their opinions.
In this market, they
have become an invisible population. Someone needs to listen to them.
What do they have to
say?" [...]
Organ Seller Mehmet Piskin
The surgery lasted a little less than three hours. "When I woke up
I had severe pain in my right
side," Mehmet recalls. "I told the doctor about the pain and he gave
me a shot. [...]
Mehmet, meanwhile, has never regained his health. It has been four
years since the operation.
"I'm not the same person," he says. "I swell up like a pregnant woman.
I can't sleep. I have not
been able to work; my health has not allowed it. [...] The people
of this village, they look down
on me because of what I've done. I feel helpless."
An American surgeon, after being told of Mehmet's symptoms, suggested that
Mehmet might suffer
either from nerve-entrapment syndrome — in which a nerve was mistakenly caught
in one of his
internal sutures — or a type of hernia that can result if one of the layers
of abdominal muscle the
surgeon sliced through did not heal properly. Mehmet has not gone to
see a doctor about his
pain. He can't. All of the money from the operation is gone.
Mehmet's wife is the family's sole
wage earner. [...]
"Everything is worse now than before," Sebnem says. "Mehmet was a healthy
person, and now he
is like this. Nothing is right. [...] We've basically been
reduced to begging."
Michael Finkel, This Little Kidney Went to Market, New York Times Magazine,
27-May-2001
www.artsci.wustl.edu/~anderson/introethics/NYTimes_Organ_buying.htm
The BBC
report below includes description of young Moldovan engineer Sergei Timms
who had a
kidney
stolen in Turkey, apparently for Jewish use, in gruesome, urban-legend style.
Additional detail
concerning
this same incident is available at www.lifeissues.net/related/organ/news/010801-06.html
which
ends with Sergei's philosophical resignation: "What can I say to the Israeli
who got my kidney?"
Sergei
said. "Even though they got it through deceit, what is done is done.
Let him be healthy, but
let it
be on his conscience."
MOLDOVA/TURKEY/ISRAEL — ORGAN TRADE
Reporter: Sue Lloyd Roberts (BBC)
LEAD STORY
EPISODE 5
SERIES 11 - 01-Aug-2001
Synopsis:
The Moldovan village of Minghia has the dubious distinction of being the
world's best source of
human kidneys. At least 14 young men from the village have sold one
of their kidneys in an
extensive trade across three countries. In an extraordinary investigation
the BBC's Sue Lloyd
Roberts even discovers one case of a young engineer who had his kidney stolen.
Lured to Istanbul
on the promise of work, he was told the job had evaporated but he could earn
his return fare by
selling blood. When he woke from the anaesthetic he had a major scar
and an empty feeling in his
left side. He was told he could either accept the $3000 for his kidney
(the going rate for Moldovan
kidneys) or find his own way out of the predicament.
"I was furious, it was a fait accompli" Sergei Timms
In Turkey, Sue discovers that the surgeon responsible for the illegal trade
is well known to the
authorities, having been repeatedly exposed on Turkish TV, but seems to be
continuing his trade
with impunity. Most of the recipients of the kidneys are Israelis because
of the very low level of
[organ] donations there. From the health authorities in Israel we learn
that the practice is now so
widespread that insurance companies, subsidised by the Government, are funding
these illegal
transplants. It's a shocking indictment of the ways supply and demand
can distort the law and
ethics. For poor Moldovan villagers $3,000 may be their only chance
of a reasonable future, for
Israelis on dialysis $60,000 is a cheap price to get back their lives.
Meanwhile fortunes are being
made by agents, middlemen and surgeons feeding this demand. The organ
trade is illegal in all
three countries but the police and health authorities are either unwilling
or unable to combat the
pressures of these disturbing market realities.
Australia Broadcasting Corporation Online, 01-Aug-2001 www.abc.net.au/foreign/2001/ep5-11.htm
The excerpts
below give some idea of the volume of the trade, and reveal that live donors
may give
up not
only a kidney, but also corneas and patches of skin:
HEALTH: Israeli Link In Estonian 'Human Kidneys
For Sale' Scam
By Andrei Ivanov
MOSCOW, Feb 20 (IPS) — The commercial trade in human body parts is no longer
confined
to the poorer developing countries, it seems — Eastern and Central Europe
is now
becoming a source of cheap human kidneys and other organs for the booming
transplant
industry.
Investigations are continuing in Tallinn following revelations in January
that two Israeli doctors
performed kidney transplants on six Israeli nationals in Tallinn using kidneys
donated from natives of
Romania, Moldova and Russia.
The surgery was organised in Estonia because transplantation of organs is
legally prohibited in
Israel without a special permission of the health minister unless the donor
is a relative of the
patient. The Israeli surgeons said the donors had given their kidneys
voluntarily and free of
charge.
However Estonian police have launched criminal proceedings against the surgeons,
the patients
and the donors on the grounds that they concealed the aim of their visit
in their visa applications.
[...]
Andrus Maesalu, head doctor at Tallinn's Central Hospital where the operations
were carried out,
says they were performed in Estonia because the hospital service is cheaper.
He said the Israelis
had told doctors at the hospital the donors were relatives of the recipients.
However, the same newspaper quoted one of the donors, a 37-year- old resident
of Kingissepp,
Russia, as saying he was not a relative of any of the recipients. [...]
According to Israel's Ha'aretz newspaper, however, each kidney operation
cost the patient 150,000
dollars. Chaim Efraima, an adviser with the Priaso sponsorship company
which organised the kidney
transplant operations, says his company charged 160,000 dollars for each
operation. [...]
Israeli Public Health Ministry statistics show that number of Israelis waiting
for kidneys is
increasing, while the number of kidney transplant operations has remained
relatively small.
In 1995 only 21 percent of patients needing a kidney received one and this
fell to 15 percent in
1996. At present there are 900 persons on the list of patients waiting
for a kidney transplant
operation in Israel and the list is growing longer every day. [...]
The prices for organs taken from live patients run about 4,425 dollars for
a cornea, 55 dollars for a
patch of skin, and 1,000-2,000 dollars for a kidney, according to researchers
into the trade.
Inter Press Service www.oneworld.org/ips2/feb98/transplants.html
The Relation
Between Organ Trafficking And Child Trafficking
Although
documentation that children are trafficked for their organs does not appear
to be currently
available
on the Internet, suspicions have been raised in the case of Brazil, and alarm
from the
direction
of Romania.
As for
the suspicions concerning Brazil:
In all, the organ stealing rumor has its basis in poor peoples' perceptions,
grounded in a social and
bio-medical reality, that their bodies and those of their children might
be worth more dead than
alive to the rich and the powerful. They can all too easily imagine
that their bodies, and the
bodies of their young children, may be eyed longingly by those with money.
As they envision it,
organ exchange proceeds from the bodies of the young, the poor and the beautiful
to the bodies of
the old, the rich, and the ugly, and from the poor in the South to the rich
in the North: Americans,
Germans, Italians, Japanese and Israelis in particular. [...]
Finally, the child and organ stealing rumor reflects unscrupulous practices
of international
adoption. In the shantytowns of Brazil I encountered several cases
of coerced adoption and (in
1990 alone) two cases of child stealing by wealthy "patrons." Each
year nearly 1,500 children
leave Brazil, legally, to live with adoptive parents in Europe, the United
States, and Israel. But if
one adds the clandestine traffic in babies that relies on false documents
and bureaucratic
corruption in Brazil and abroad, exploiting the ignorance and the powerlessness
of poor women, the
number of children leaving Brazil has been estimated at 3,000 a year, or
roughly 50 babies a week.
The lively market in "spare babies" for international adoption is often confused
with the lively
market in "spare parts" for international transplant surgery. As poor
people in shantytowns see it,
the ring of organ exchange proceeds from the bodies of the young, the poor,
and the beautiful to
the bodies of the old, the rich, and the ugly, and from poor nations in the
South to rich nations in
the North. In the midst of the black market for organs and babies,
poor people can hardly be
blamed for thinking that their babies are wanted as much dead and for their
organs as for their
lives. [...]
Between 1985-1990 about 2,000 children have entered Israel from Brazil in
a questionable manner.
And as
for the alarm from the direction of Romania:
Romania probes Israeli adoption agency link in
organ trafficking
By Ran Reznick
Romanian authorities are looking into possible links between Israeli adoption
agencies and an illegal
global conspiracy to sell organs for transplants.
The Romanian Embassy in Israel has asked for, and received from the Labor
and Social Affairs
Ministry, a list of all children born in Romania who have been brought to
Israel for adoption in
recent years. The Romanian officials are trying to ascertain if all
such children arrived in Israel
with all organs in their bodies. [...]
Responding to complaints and rumors, Romanian authorities have taken the
highly unusual step in
the past year of withholding authorization for the adoption of 16 Romanian
babies destined for
Israeli parents. This delay has been enforced although the Israeli
couples have paid $20,000 each
to adopt the infants, and have already become acquainted with the babies
in the foster homes and
institutions where they are being held. Romanian authorities insist
they will not give the go ahead
for the adoptions until inquiries about possible wrong-doing are completed.
The summary
below concerns Israeli child trafficking mainly during the years 1948-1954,
and thus at
a time
when organ transplantation was not yet feasible, so that this particular
batch of stolen
children
cannot be suspected of having been trafficked so that their organs could
be transplanted.
These
trafficked children of earlier years are relevant to our present discussion,
however, in disclosing
a culture
of child trafficking existing alongside the culture of organ trafficking
that we have been
discussing
at length above. The two coexisting together within one culture must
lead to the
hypothesis
that they may sometimes overlap, which is to say must lead to the hypothesis
that a
culture
that traffics both children and organs is only one step removed from becoming
a culture that
traffics
children for their organs.
Although the issue of the missing Yemenite and other Jewish children is well
known in Israel, I
understand that it is virtually unknown abroad.
This issue involves thousands of children who were taken, sometimes forcably,
from their biological
parents while in hospitals or childcare homes, then sold both in Israel and
abroad for substantial
sums (that varied from case to case), or given out for adoption, while their
parents were told that
the children had died. In most cases, when the parents asked about
the cause of death or
requested a death certificate or other documentation confirming the death
of their children, they
were ignored and their requests went unanswered.
They never saw a body. In most cases, not even a burial spot was seen.
In a few cases,
however, graves were shown to the families. Some of those graves, later
on, were dug up by
parents who did not believe that their beloved, healthy child truly died
overnight. The graves were
found empty.
These activities were carried out by doctors, nurses, social workers and
other members of the
Israeli Establishment at that time. I have heard many "moral" justifications
given for taking these
children from their parents. I do not believe any are legitimate.
It seems to me that the real
reason for the kidnapping of the children was money. People in positions
of power at the time that
the State of Israel was established profited from the abduction and sale
of children from poor
immigrant families.
This practice continued on at least into the early 1960s. Some say
that it still continues, although
on a much smaller scale.
One common misconception is that these abuses were practiced against Yemenite
Jews alone.
While researching this issue I have concluded that the victims also included
immigrant Jews from
Tunis, Spain, Morocco, Lybia, Iraq, Iran, and Belgium, to name a few countries.
In most cases, the
immigrants came from Middle Eastern countries.
The number of kidnapped children has been estimated at around 2,400 by the
official investigating
committee. When Rabbi Uzi Meshullam was still collecting evidence,
he gathered the names of
4,500 children. I believe that the real number is much larger than
that. I have found that many
families never reported the disappearance of a child. I estimate that
approximately 10,000 children
were kidnapped and sold, and I would not be surprised if the real number
is higher.
Yechiel A. Mann, Research Associate of Israel Resource News Agency, The Case
of the Missing Children: Discovering the
Fate of Thousands of Jewish Children Who Disappeared in Israel Between 1948
and 1954, Israel Resource Review,
02-Jun-1998 israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/Jun-02.shtml
The story
told by Yona Hovera below presents heart-rending detail of a single one of
the thousands
of baby
kidnappings, and brings to mind that a corollary of learning to exploit the
out-group as
subhumans
is that the the habits of exploitation will, sooner or later, be discovered
being applied to
the in-group
as well:
"One day, I arrived to nurse my daughter and they told me: 'You can't nurse
her today. She has
pneumonia'. I was very surprised, since the child was completely healthy,
but they said she needs
to be sent to the Pardes Hannah Hospital, for three days. I told them
I will go consult my husband
and will be right back. We lived about five meters away from the baby
ward. Three minutes later,
I arrived, with my husband, but they told us: 'They already took her'.
Three days later, a man
arrived, announcing that Masha Hovera had died. My husband asked that
they bury her. They
told him: 'You are her father? She has died. Sign here'.
He said: 'I'm not signing. I want to see a
body and bury it'. They told him: 'They buried her yesterday, along
with another five children'. My
husband was in shock. He asked: 'Are we in Israel or in Germany'?
He asked and begged to see
the grave, and they did not let him. He said: 'I am not signing, nor
mourning'. Every day, I would
go to the manager's office, and beg that they show me where my daughter was
buried. A few
days later, the manager told me: 'Go, there is a room downstairs, they will
give you your child, but
do not touch her. She will be given to you, wrapped up, and you return
her to the grave'. I went,
and saw a strange package, that didn't look like a dead child to me.
I felt I was being fooled. I
said to myself, I'll open it, maybe it's a dead cat. I removed a rag,
and another rag, until I reached
the last one, and found nothing. Only rags. I started to cry:
'Why did you give me rags?', the
manager told me: 'We wanted to calm you down, we didn't know you were so
smart'...."
To this very day, they do not know of their child's fate.
Yechiel A. Mann, Research Associate of Israel Resource News Agency, The Case
of the Missing Children: Discovering the
Fate of Thousands of Jewish Children Who Disappeared in Israel Between 1948
and 1954, Israel Resource Review,
02-Jun-1998 israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/mann2.htm
A question
which the above narrative calls to mind is that if the complaints of Jewish
parents who
have had
their baby stolen can be met with such callous disregard, then with what
regard might we
expect
the complaints of Palestinian parents to be met in a similar situation?
Among
the valuable pieces of information cited by Yechiel A. Mann is that Dr. Yehuda
Hiss, implicated
higher
above in organ trafficking at the Institute for Forensic Medicine at Abu
Kabir (also written
Abu-Kbir),
appeared to contribute to a cover-up of the Israeli child trafficking scandal.
Although the
organs
of children in 1948-1954 could not have been harvested for transplanting,
there nevertheless
is talk
of medical experiments on children at possibly this same institute, and talk
of bodies not being
released
or made available for examination, and other gruesome details:
[Ami] Chovav was interviewed concerning the allegations that were current
then, that medical
experiments were conducted on Yemenite children hospitalized during the 1950s.
[...]
One of the reasons claimed by Chovav that a body was never seen and a grave
site was not
specified in many of the cases is, to quote, "... The child that died
would be sent to the institute
of pathology. Many were sent. It was for a humanitarian cause,
for advancing medical research.
I do not see anything wrong with that at all." When he was asked about
permission from the
family to do such a thing, he answered "In many of the cases, they did not
know who the child
belonged to, or where it came from. When there was a family, they didn't
want to show it the
body.
"Once the autopsy was completed, the body would be completely dismembered.
Were they
supposed to show that to a religious parent? The refrigeration compartment
would eventually fill
up, and then they called the Chevera Kadisha to come and bury all the body
parts." He added,
regarding the pathological institute not telling the parents anything, "I
asked them. They said it
wasn't their job, it was the hospital's job. But the hospital did not
always know who the child
belonged to...."
One example of a reason for this that was given by Chovav: "In one case,
the children were taken
in the ambulance in cardboard boxes, since they weren't going to put babies
on stretchers. On
that specific trip, they put notes with the children's names on top of the
boxes. The wind blew all
the notes away. That is how the children were brought to the hospital."
Yechiel A. Mann, Research Associate of Israel Resource News Agency, The Case
of the Missing Children: Discovering the
Fate of Thousands of Jewish Children Who Disappeared in Israel Between 1948
and 1954, Israel Resource Review,
02-Jun-1998 israelbehindthenews.com/Archives/mann2.htm
Jewish
Fundamentalists Give A Green Light To Murder For Organ
Acquisition
The passage
quoted below discloses
1.that religious opposition may be the chief
reason that Israeli Jews have a low rate of
organ donation, and
2.that some Jewish thinking condones murder of
non-Jews for any of several purposes, among
which is the harvesting of non-Jewish organs
for use by Jews.
In view
of the information in the present letter, and
particularly
in the quotation below, it may be
wondered
what inhibitions the Jewish soldiers
pictured
here might feel about delivering the
Palestinians
that they seize to an organ-harvesting
facility,
or what finder fees they may be paid for
doing
so.
Also of
interest would be to see photographs of the people sacrificed for their organs
juxtaposed with
photographs
of those who receive those same organs.
In 1994 Rabbi [Yehoshua] Sheinberger [...] met with senior physicians from
the Israel Transplants
Association and discussed with them the Jewish religious prohibition on organ
donations. In Israel
Haredi Jews refuse organ transplants from their and/or their relatives' corpses.
On this issue the
Haredi position influences many people for superstitious as well as religious
reasons. Organ
transplants in Israel are thus difficult to arrange. Surgeons frequently
request Haredi rabbis to
appeal to their followers to agree to organ transplants from corpses of their
relatives in order to
save lives. The surgeons' argument is based upon the Jewish religious
law giving priority to saving
Jewish lives. In this discussion Rabbi Sheinberger put the condition
that only a Haredi rabbi could
authorize such transplants. He explained: "Jewish religious law states
that it is forbidden to
transplant Jewish organs into either non-Jews or Jews who are not pious.
It is obvious that it is
prohibited under any circumstances to transplant Jewish organs into Arabs,
all of whom hate
Jews." Rabbi Sheinberger, when asked for his definition of a Jew who
is not pious, replied that a
rabbi must determine the status of every Jew. Sheinberger's request
caused a huge commotion
and was rejected.
Many non-Haredi rabbis allow an organ of a non-Jew to be transplanted into
a body of a Jew in
order to save the life of the Jew. They, however, oppose the transplant
of an organ from a Jew
into the body of a non-Jew. Some important rabbis go much further in
discussing and ruling about
differences between Jews and non-Jews on medical matters. Rabbi Yitzhak
Ginsburgh, an
influential member of the Habad movement and the head of a yeshiva near Nablus
[...] opined in an
April 26, 1996 Jewish Week article, reproduced in Haaretz that same day:
"If every single cell in a
Jewish body entails divinity, and is thus part of God, then every strand
of DNA is a part of God.
Therefore, something is special about Jewish DNA." Rabbi Ginsburgh
drew two conclusions from
this statement: "If a Jew needs a liver, can he take the liver of an innocent
non-Jew to save him?
The Torah would probably permit that. Jewish life has an infinite value.
There is something more
holy and unique about Jewish life than about non-Jewish life." It is
noteworthy that Rabbi
Ginsburgh is one of the authors of a book lauding Baruch Goldstein, the Patriarch's
Cave murderer.
In that book Ginsburgh contributed a chapter in which he wrote that a Jew's
killing non-Jews does
not constitute murder according to the Jewish religion and that killing of
innocent Arabs for reasons
of revenge is a Jewish virtue. No influential Israeli rabbi has publicly
opposed Ginsburgh's
statements; most Israeli politicians have remained silent; some Israeli politicians
have openly
supported him.
Israel Shahak and Norton Mezvinsky, Jewish Fundamentalism in Israel, Pluto
Press, London and Sterling Virginia, 1999,
pp. 42-43 (blue emphasis added).
Four Things
You Might Consider Doing
(1)
Balance your coverage of Ukrainian-Jewish relations
Your relying
on the folk legends of your ancestors to renew accusations of Ukrainian "pogroms"
in the
newspapers
under your control, while at the same time ignoring stories such as that
of the Ukrainian
guest
worker who died under mysterious circumstances and was discovered to be missing
his heart,
paints
a distorted picture of the nature of Ukrainian-Jewish relations.
A truer
picture is that Ukrainians have historically played a role toward Jews similar
to the one
Palestinians
are playing today, which is to say that Ukrainians have been exploited and
oppressed and
dispossessed,
and have occasionally staged rebellions in an attempt to regain their freedom,
rebellions
which your ancestors chose to label "pogroms," and rebellions resembling
those in the
Middle
East today which you prefer to label "terrorism."
Reduced
coverage in your newspapers of Ukrainian "pogroms" and increased coverage
of Jewish organ
trafficking
would serve to project a more accurate impression of both historical and
contemporary
realities.
(2)
Warn guest workers, tourists, and expectant mothers
You might
consider using your newspaper empire to warn Gastarbeiter in Israel that
they stand in
danger
of losing their lives, the more so if they are young and healthy.
Similarly,
you might caution a young and healthy and non-Jewish tourist, especially
one travelling
alone,
that organ-hungry Israel is capable of asking him to follow in the footsteps
of Scottish tourist
Alastair
Sinclair, and you might caution such a tourist more particularly to avoid
venturing alone on a
tour of
an organ-harvesting facility such as the one at Abu Kabir.
In the
case both of Gastarbeiter and tourists, your newspapers could recommend that
the movie
Coma be
viewed in the course of weighing the decision to come to Israel in the first
place.
Pregnant
women also might be warned that giving birth in Israel could be followed
by reports that
their
apparently-healthy baby had died, along with a failure to produce a body.
(3) Help
the United States break free of its repetition compulsion
The United
States repeatedly makes the mistake of creating institutions that are inherently
evil, that
grow strong,
and that then need to be destroyed, the regimes of Saddam Hussein, and of
the
Taliban,
offering current examples. Israel has today emerged as by far the biggest,
and by far the
most dangerous,
product of this same mistake.
Today's
Israel was created largely by the United States. It was evil from its
inception and has since
degenerated
into barbarism. Its misbehavior is destabilizing not just the Middle
East but the whole
world.
And yet the United States cannot at this point implement its habitual remedy
of bombing it
into rubble
because Israel has acquired hundreds of nuclear weapons and because Jews
exercise
strong
influence over the press and over the American government.
Thus,
you might consider helping the United States to acknowledge its recurring
mistake, and to
recognize
that the first step in correcting the current manifestation is to divest
Israel of its nuclear
arsenal.
(4) Re-activate
Jewish mechanisms of self-correction
Israel's
regression into barbarism and savagery was made possible, or rather was rendered
inevitable,
by the
de-activation of mechanisms of self-correction within Jewish culture.
Jewish influence over
the press,
and the use of this influence to inhibit criticism of Jews, is the leading
instance of such a
de-activation
of a mechanism of self-correction.
A current
example of self-correction activated in the service of non-Jews is the evident
Catholic
effort
to correct its sinning clergy, but with no comparable self-correction evident
among Jews, even
when the
Jewish clergy stands in much greater need of correction, as I documented
in my letter to
Ezra Levant,
titled Good Priests, Bad Rabbis, of 15-Apr-2002.
Anyone
who views the Catholic clergy being pilloried for its sins, even when some
of these sins are
feebly
documented, while the Jewish clergy is granted comparative impunity for its
more egregious
and better
documented sins — anyone who views this differential treatment, I say — as
a victory for
Jews is
mistaken, for in fact it is a stunning Jewish defeat because impunity is
a cancer and a curse.
It is,
then, particularly the work of media lords like yourself that serves to drag
the Jewish people
down.
From this
point of view, the greatest service that you or anybody can perform for the
Jewish people
is to
hold them not to a lower standard than the rest of mankind, but to the same
standard; is to
give them
not the curse of immunity from criticism, but the blessing of criticism as
severe as that
given
to others; is to give them not the disease of impunity for their crimes,
but the health of full
punishment.
What the
Jewish people need in order to be saved, in other words, is less of the sort
of writing that
you publish
in your newspapers, and more of the sort that I publish on the Internet.
As this
perspective
is increasingly adopted, posterity will come to ask who has injured Jews
most, and who
has assisted
them most, and according to this criterion will mark your work as having
served to
undermine
Judaism, and will mark my work as having served to reinforce it.
As it
is possible that in your reading of the present letter, the accusation of
anti-Semitism will have
intruded
itself into your thoughts, I ask you to remember that in an impartial evaluation
of our
respective
effects upon the Jewish people, it is likely to be concluded that it is you
— together with
the Born-to-Kill
members of Jewish intelligence and police and armed forces units that your
newspapers
defend — who weaken the Jewish people, and thus that it is you who play the
role of
anti-Semite.
Lubomyr
Prytulak
7. DEMOLITION OF HOUSES AND ELIMINATION OF
THE SOURCE OF LIFE:
TO PROVOKE DEGRADATION, INHUMAN CONDITIONS, STARVATION,
AND DEATH OF MILLIONS OF PEOPLE
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Israel and the Occupied Territories
Shielded from scrutiny: IDF violations in Jenin and Nablus
"I have been in urban environments where house to house fighting has happened:
Rwanda, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Colombia, and a city struck by a massive
earthquake: Mexico city. The devastation seen in Jenin camp had the worst
elements of both situations. Houses not just bulldozed or dynamited but reduced
almost to dust by the repeated and deliberate coming and goings of bulldozers
and tanks. Houses pierced from wall to wall by tank or helicopter gun ships.
Houses cut down the middle as if by giant scissors. Inside, an eerie vision
of dining or bedrooms almost intact. No signs whatsoever that that bedroom
or dining room or indeed the house had been used by fighters. Gratuitous,
wanton, unnecessary destruction. Children's prams, toys, beds everywhere.
Where were those children? I do not know, but I do know where the survivors
will be in the future."
[Javier Zuniga Amnesty International's Director of Regional Strategy who
entered Jenin refugee camp on 17 April 2002]
Demolition of houses and property
"There is total devastation, no whole standing house, as though someone has
bulldozed a whole community. If anyone was in a house
they could not have survived..... There is nothing but rubble and people
walking around looking dazed. There is a smell of death under
the rubble."
These are the words of an Amnesty International delegate who entered Jenin
refugee camp minutes after the IDF lifted the blockade on 17 April
2002. IDF forces that entered Jenin and Nablus brought tanks or bulldozers
through roads, often stripping off the front of houses. In Hawashin
and neighbouring areas of Jenin refugee camp 169 houses with 374 apartment
units were bulldozed, mostly after the fighting had ceased. As a
result more than 4,000 people were left homeless.
In both Jenin and in Nablus there were instances when the IDF bulldozed houses
while residents were still inside. IDF soldiers either gave
inadequate warnings or no warnings before houses were demolished and subsequently
failed to take measures to rescue those trapped in the
rubble and prevented others from searching for them. Amnesty International
documented three such incidents leading to the deaths of 10 people.
Six others on the hospital lists of those killed in Jenin were recorded as
being crushed by rubble.
The full report is available online at:
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/recent/MDE151432002!Open
AI-index:
MDE 15/143/2002 04/11/2002
Israel
and the Occupied Territories
Shielded from scrutiny: IDF violations in
Jenin and Nablus
Amnesty International's Conclusions
Demolition of houses and property
According to UNRWA, 2,629 Palestinian homes, housing 13,145 refugees, sustained
serious damage during the
period 29 March-23 April 2002. These figures do not include the scores of
destroyed or damaged homes of
Palestinians who were not registered as refugees with UNRWA during this period,
nor the homes demolished later in
the year. Amnesty International delegates, including a military adviser,
witnessed the effects of the demolition of
Palestinian homes, especially in Jenin, in the vast majority of cases without
apparent military necessity. IDF forces
who entered Jenin and Nablus brought tanks or bulldozers through narrow roads
stripping off the fronts of houses;
sometimes the house front was stripped off even in wider roads. In Hawashin
and neighbouring areas of Jenin refugee
camp 169 houses with 374 apartment units, were bulldozed mostly after the
fighting had ceased. Amnesty
International delegates who witnessed the devastated site on 17 April, when
the IDF blockade of the town was at last
lifted came to the conclusion that there was no absolute military necessity
in this destruction.
In both Jenin and in Nablus, there were instances when the IDF bulldozed
houses while residents were still inside. The
IDF either gave inadequate warnings or no warnings before houses were demolished,
and subsequently not only failed
to take measures to rescue those trapped in the rubble but even prevented
others from searching for them. Amnesty
International documented three incidents leading to the deaths of 10 people
between the ages of four and 85; six
others on the hospital lists of those killed in Jenin are recorded as a result
of being crushed by rubble.
During military operations, commercial, religious, cultural, and civic buildings,
were also destroyed without absolute
military necessity. Nablus suffered particularly severely from such destruction
not only of its commercial buildings but
also of religious and cultural buildings dating back several centuries.
Amnesty International has also documented incidents where personal property
inside apartments or homes occupied
by the IDF was intentionally damaged and sometimes looted. In September the
Israeli Government announced that it
had prosecuted 18 soldiers for looting. The numerous incidents of vandalism
and looting by a number of IDF units in
various towns raises concern that some of these actions, which violate international
humanitarian law, may have been
sanctioned or condoned by the Israeli authorities or IDF commanders.
Article 33 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits collective punishment,
such as the demolition of houses, stating
that: "No protected person may be punished for an offence he or she has not
personally committed. Collective
penalties and likewise all measures of intimidation or of terrorism are prohibited."
This same article also prohibits
pillage and reprisals against protected persons and their property. Article
53 of the Fourth Geneva Convention states
that: "Any destruction by the Occupying Power of real or personal property
belonging individually or collectively to
private persons, or to the State, or to other public authorities, or to social
or cooperative organizations, is prohibited,
except where such destruction is rendered absolutely necessary by military
operations." In November 2001 the
Committee against Torture, in its conclusions after its review of Israel's
report, stated that Israel's policy of closures
and its demolitions of Palestinian homes "may, in certain instances, amount
to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment
or punishment" in breach of Article 16 of the United Nations Convention against
Torture.
Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention lists "extensive destruction
and appropriation of property, not justified by
military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly" as a grave breach
of the Convention. It is therefore a war
crime.
Amnesty International
On-line. http://www.amnesty.org
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MDE 15/154/2002 04/11/2002
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
Israel/Occupied Territories: Israeli Defence Force war crimes must
be investigated
Jerusalem -- at the launch of a report into the actions of the Israeli Defence
Forces (IDF) in Jenin and Nablus in March and April 2002, Amnesty International
said today that there is clear evidence that some of the acts committed by
the IDF during Operation Defensive Shield were war crimes.
The report, Israel and the Occupied Territories: Shielded from Scrutiny -
IDF violations in Jenin and Nablus, documents serious human
rights violations by Israeli forces -- unlawful killings; torture and ill-treatment
of prisoners; wanton destruction of hundreds of homes sometimes
with the residents still inside; the blocking of ambulances and denial of
humanitarian assistance; and the use of Palestinian civilians as "human
shields". Following meetings with the IDF in May to discuss IDF actions and
strategies, Amnesty International submitted most of the individual
cases included in the report to the IDF for comment but, despite promises
to answer on the cases, no response has yet been received.
Israel has the right to take measures to prevent unlawful violence, but in
doing so they must not violate international law. In Jenin and Nablus, the
IDF blocked access for days to ambulances, humanitarian aid and the outside
world while the dead and wounded lay in streets or houses. In
Jenin a whole residential quarter of the refugee camp was demolished leaving
4,000 people homeless.
"Up to now the Israeli authorities have failed in their responsibility to
bring to justice the perpetrators of serious human rights violations. War
crimes are among the most serious crimes under international law, and represent
offences against humanity as a whole. Bringing the perpetrators
of these crimes to justice is therefore the concern and the responsibility
of the international community. All states who are parties to the Geneva
Conventions must search for those alleged to have committed grave breaches
of the Conventions and bring them to justice," said Amnesty
International.
"There will be no peace or security in the region until human rights are
respected. All attempts to end human rights violations and install a system
of international protection in Israel and the Occupied Territories, in particular
by introducing monitors with a clear human rights mandate, have
been undermined by the refusal of the government of Israel. This refusal
has been supported by the USA."
"It is imperative that the international community stop being an ineffective
witness of the grave violations that take place in Israel and the Occupied
Territories. Meaningful, urgent and appropriate action is long overdue,"
Amnesty International concluded.
Israel and the Occupied Territories Shielded from Scrutiny : IDF violations
in Jenin and Nablus details the following violations:
The use of Palestinians for military operations or as "human shields"
"We entered my neighbour's house. The soldiers began to drill a hole in the
wall. I went with three soldiers and the dog through the
wall. The soldier kept the gun positioned at my head. This happened about
six or seven times. In each case, when we passed from
building to building the soldiers always kept me in front of them. At the
last place I pulled the door back and just as I was walking out I
heard shooting. The soldiers pulled me back from the alley and began to return
fire. I was one metre behind them".
In both Jenin and Nablus, the IDF systematically compelled Palestinians to
take part in military operations or to act as "human shields". Women
as well as men were used in this way. Typically, the IDF would hold a Palestinian
for several days and compel them to search property in the
camp, thus putting them at serious risk of injury.
Torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in arbitrary detention
" They started to beat us on the body and chest with rifle butts.....We were
all gathered there in our underwear. It was cold. When we
asked for blankets, we were beaten. We were not given any water."
In Jenin, men who had been rounded up and separated from women, children
and men aged over 55 were stripped to their underwear,
blindfolded and handcuffed. Many said they were beaten. One detainee died
as a result of beatings.
In Nablus a similar pattern of torture and ill-treatment of people detained
in mass round-ups was recorded. Immediately after arrest, detainees
were taken to Shomron temporary detention centre. Those interviewed said
that beatings took place during and after the arrests. The centre was
overcrowded and detainees were given insufficient water, little food and
were sometimes denied access to toilet facilities.
Blocking medical and humanitarian relief
'Atiya Hassan Abu Irmaila, 44 , was shot in the head by the IDF while in
his home on 5 April. Desperate attempts by his family to call
an ambulance failed. The family was even unable to leave their home to tell
relatives that he had died. 'Atiya Hassan Abu Irmaila's
body remained in the house for seven days.
Suna Hafez Sabreh, 35, was shot and seriously injured on 7 April while closing
the door to her house. The family called an ambulance,
but it failed to reach them, on at least one occasion because it had come
under fire. An ambulance finally arrived two days later, after
Suna Hafez Sabreh's condition had seriously deteriorated. She has since had
five operations.
In both Jenin and Nablus, the IDF denied medical and humanitarian relief
organizations access to the affected areas even after the fighting had
stopped.
The IDF blocked medical aid for days; in addition they shot at ambulances
or fired warning shots around them. Ambulance drivers were harassed
or arrested. Meanwhile, the wounded lay for hours untended or were treated
in homes, and the dead remained in the street or in houses for days.
In several cases, people reportedly died in circumstances where lack of access
to medical care may have caused or hastened their death.
Demolition of houses and property
"There is total devastation, no whole standing house, as though someone has
bulldozed a whole community. If anyone was in a house
they could not have survived..... There is nothing but rubble and people
walking around looking dazed. There is a smell of death under
the rubble."
These are the words of an Amnesty International delegate who entered Jenin
refugee camp minutes after the IDF lifted the blockade on 17 April
2002. IDF forces that entered Jenin and Nablus brought tanks or bulldozers
through roads, often stripping off the front of houses. In Hawashin
and neighbouring areas of Jenin refugee camp 169 houses with 374 apartment
units were bulldozed, mostly after the fighting had ceased. As a
result more than 4,000 people were left homeless.
In both Jenin and in Nablus there were instances when the IDF bulldozed houses
while residents were still inside. IDF soldiers either gave
inadequate warnings or no warnings before houses were demolished and subsequently
failed to take measures to rescue those trapped in the
rubble and prevented others from searching for them. Amnesty International
documented three such incidents leading to the deaths of 10 people.
Six others on the hospital lists of those killed in Jenin were recorded as
being crushed by rubble.
The full report is available online at:
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/recent/MDE151432002!Open
The executive summary is available at:
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/recent/MDE151492002!Open
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
PRESS RELEASE
Israel/Occupied Territories: Israeli Defence Force war crimes must
be investigated
Jerusalem -- at the launch of a report into the actions of the Israeli Defence
Forces (IDF) in Jenin and Nablus in March and April 2002, Amnesty International
said today that there is clear evidence that some of the acts committed by
the IDF during Operation Defensive Shield were war crimes.
The report, Israel and the Occupied Territories: Shielded from Scrutiny -
IDF violations in Jenin and Nablus, documents serious human
rights violations by Israeli forces -- unlawful killings; torture and ill-treatment
of prisoners; wanton destruction of hundreds of homes sometimes
with the residents still inside; the blocking of ambulances and denial of
humanitarian assistance; and the use of Palestinian civilians as "human
shields". Following meetings with the IDF in May to discuss IDF actions and
strategies, Amnesty International submitted most of the individual
cases included in the report to the IDF for comment but, despite promises
to answer on the cases, no response has yet been received.
Israel has the right to take measures to prevent unlawful violence, but in
doing so they must not violate international law. In Jenin and Nablus, the
IDF blocked access for days to ambulances, humanitarian aid and the outside
world while the dead and wounded lay in streets or houses. In
Jenin a whole residential quarter of the refugee camp was demolished leaving
4,000 people homeless.
"Up to now the Israeli authorities have failed in their responsibility to
bring to justice the perpetrators of serious human rights violations. War
crimes are among the most serious crimes under international law, and represent
offences against humanity as a whole. Bringing the perpetrators
of these crimes to justice is therefore the concern and the responsibility
of the international community. All states who are parties to the Geneva
Conventions must search for those alleged to have committed grave breaches
of the Conventions and bring them to justice," said Amnesty
International.
"There will be no peace or security in the region until human rights are
respected. All attempts to end human rights violations and install a system
of international protection in Israel and the Occupied Territories, in particular
by introducing monitors with a clear human rights mandate, have
been undermined by the refusal of the government of Israel. This refusal
has been supported by the USA."
"It is imperative that the international community stop being an ineffective
witness of the grave violations that take place in Israel and the Occupied
Territories. Meaningful, urgent and appropriate action is long overdue,"
Amnesty International concluded.
Israel and the Occupied Territories Shielded from Scrutiny : IDF violations
in Jenin and Nablus details the following violations:
Unlawful killings
"My family was at home on Friday 5 April. It was about 3 or 3.15 in the afternoon.
We heard the knocking and calling for us to open
the door. My sister 'Afaf said 'Just a moment'. She said this right away....
When she reached the door, she had just put her hand out to
touch the handle of the door and it exploded. The door exploded in on her
and the right side of her face was blown off.... I think she
must have died instantly. We started shouting. The soldiers were just outside
that door. The IDF began to shoot at the walls as if to try
and scare us. We yelled at them to get an ambulance but they did not answer
us."
"I looked and saw one of the large bulldozers coming from the west side bulldozing
the al-Shu'bi family house and I saw the house tilt
over. Without even thinking, I yelled to the soldier in the bulldozer, 'Let
the residents leave the house.' At this point the soldier came out
of the bulldozer, took his weapon and started to fire in my direction." Ten
members of the Shu'bi family were buried under their house in
Nablus for six days, only two survived.
These cases are just two of many documented by Amnesty International in Jenin
and Nablus where people were killed or injured in
circumstances suggesting that they were unlawfully killed. Palestinians not
involved in fighting were killed as a result of disproportionate use of
force and the failure of the IDF to take adequate measures to protect those
not involved in the fighting.
In Jenin refugee camp and Jenin city, more than half of the 54 Palestinians
who died as a result of the incursion between 3 and 17 April, appear
not to have been involved in fighting. Among those killed were seven women,
four children and six men aged over 55. Six had been crushed in
houses. In Nablus, at least 80 Palestinians were killed by the IDF between
29 March and 22 April. Among the victims were seven women and
nine children.
None of these killings has been impartially and thoroughly investigated,
even where there have been strong reasons to believe they were unlawful.
This failure on the part of the Israeli authorities has helped created a
climate where some members of the IDF, aware that no action will be taken
against them, continue to carry out unlawful killings.
The use of Palestinians for military operations or as "human shields"
"We entered my neighbour's house. The soldiers began to drill a hole in the
wall. I went with three soldiers and the dog through the
wall. The soldier kept the gun positioned at my head. This happened about
six or seven times. In each case, when we passed from
building to building the soldiers always kept me in front of them. At the
last place I pulled the door back and just as I was walking out I
heard shooting. The soldiers pulled me back from the alley and began to return
fire. I was one metre behind them".
In both Jenin and Nablus, the IDF systematically compelled Palestinians to
take part in military operations or to act as "human shields". Women
as well as men were used in this way. Typically, the IDF would hold a Palestinian
for several days and compel them to search property in the
camp, thus putting them at serious risk of injury.
Torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in arbitrary detention
" They started to beat us on the body and chest with rifle butts.....We were
all gathered there in our underwear. It was cold. When we
asked for blankets, we were beaten. We were not given any water."
In Jenin, men who had been rounded up and separated from women, children
and men aged over 55 were stripped to their underwear,
blindfolded and handcuffed. Many said they were beaten. One detainee died
as a result of beatings.
In Nablus a similar pattern of torture and ill-treatment of people detained
in mass round-ups was recorded. Immediately after arrest, detainees
were taken to Shomron temporary detention centre. Those interviewed said
that beatings took place during and after the arrests. The centre was
overcrowded and detainees were given insufficient water, little food and
were sometimes denied access to toilet facilities.
Blocking medical and humanitarian relief
'Atiya Hassan Abu Irmaila, 44 , was shot in the head by the IDF while in
his home on 5 April. Desperate attempts by his family to call
an ambulance failed. The family was even unable to leave their home to tell
relatives that he had died. 'Atiya Hassan Abu Irmaila's
body remained in the house for seven days.
Suna Hafez Sabreh, 35, was shot and seriously injured on 7 April while closing
the door to her house. The family called an ambulance,
but it failed to reach them, on at least one occasion because it had come
under fire. An ambulance finally arrived two days later, after
Suna Hafez Sabreh's condition had seriously deteriorated. She has since had
five operations.
In both Jenin and Nablus, the IDF denied medical and humanitarian relief
organizations access to the affected areas even after the fighting had
stopped.
The IDF blocked medical aid for days; in addition they shot at ambulances
or fired warning shots around them. Ambulance drivers were harassed
or arrested. Meanwhile, the wounded lay for hours untended or were treated
in homes, and the dead remained in the street or in houses for days.
In several cases, people reportedly died in circumstances where lack of access
to medical care may have caused or hastened their death.
Demolition of houses and property
"There is total devastation, no whole standing house, as though someone has
bulldozed a whole community. If anyone was in a house
they could not have survived..... There is nothing but rubble and people
walking around looking dazed. There is a smell of death under
the rubble."
These are the words of an Amnesty International delegate who entered Jenin
refugee camp minutes after the IDF lifted the blockade on 17 April
2002. IDF forces that entered Jenin and Nablus brought tanks or bulldozers
through roads, often stripping off the front of houses. In Hawashin
and neighbouring areas of Jenin refugee camp 169 houses with 374 apartment
units were bulldozed, mostly after the fighting had ceased. As a
result more than 4,000 people were left homeless.
In both Jenin and in Nablus there were instances when the IDF bulldozed houses
while residents were still inside. IDF soldiers either gave
inadequate warnings or no warnings before houses were demolished and subsequently
failed to take measures to rescue those trapped in the
rubble and prevented others from searching for them. Amnesty International
documented three such incidents leading to the deaths of 10 people.
Six others on the hospital lists of those killed in Jenin were recorded as
being crushed by rubble.
The full report is available online at:
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/recent/MDE151432002!Open
The executive summary is available at:
http://web.amnesty.org/ai.nsf/recent/MDE151492002!Open
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8. COMPELLING PEOPLE
TO PARTICIPATE IN MILITARY OPERATIONS
AND TO ACT AS "HUMAN
SHIELDS"
The IDF systematically compelled Palestinians to take part in military operations.
Several Palestinians interviewed
by Amnesty International in relation to other subjects said that they had
been compelled to take part in military
operations and as "human shields". These practices violate international
humanitarian law. Although the IDF
announced through the State Attorney on 24 May 2002 that it would not use
civilians in military operations, Amnesty
International has continued to receive reports of cases in which Palestinians
were used by members of the IDF during
military operations, including as "human shields" (see, for example, the
description of the case resulting in the killing
of Fares al-Sa'adi above).
The large number of cases of Palestinians used as "human shields" in IDF
military operations reveal a clear pattern.
Typically the IDF would compel an adult male(6) in their military operation
to search property in each area of the
refugee camp. A Palestinian would be held by the IDF for a certain period,
sometimes for days. These Palestinians
were placed at serious risk, in some cases resulting in injury, as the following
case illustrates.
Faisal Abu Sariya
Faisal Abu Sariya, a 42-year-old teacher, told Amnesty International delegates
that he was forced to accompany the
IDF on military operations for two days and during this period was used as
a "human shield". During the time he was
in the custody of IDF soldiers, he reports being subjected to beatings and
other ill-treatment. During the time he acted
as a "human shield" he sustained a gunshot wound to the knee but was not
given adequate medical care and was
unable to seek treatment until three days later.
On 4 April 2002, the second day of the incursion, Faisal Abu Sariya was at
home with his family in Jenin refugee
camp. At approximately 4am there was knocking at the door. A 15-year-old
neighbour had been told by IDF soldiers to
enter Faisal Abu Sariya's home and to instruct the family to go to one room.
The soldiers then searched and occupied
the house that day and evening. Faisal Abu Sariya said that during this time
he was taken into a side room and
beaten. He told Amnesty International delegates:
"An officer, whom I came to know as Eitan, told me to call another soldier
[a derogatory term]. I refused.
He then told me that 'This was an order', but I kept refusing. They then
began to beat me with their
boots and their fists on my shoulders and on my legs. After this they went
to the television and pushed
it on the floor."
On the morning of 5 April, Faisal Abu Sariya was taken by IDF soldiers from
his home:
"The officer, Eitan, said to me: 'Come with us'. I asked him 'Why should
I go with you? I am not wanted'.
He told me to come with him just for 10 minutes, just to a neighbour's house.
I told him that if I go my
children will start crying. He again told me to come just for 10 minutes
and then said, 'I would prefer not
to use force'. After this, I went with them. When we were leaving the house
the officer looked left and
right and then grabbed me by the collar and put me in front of him as we
exited and went towards the
neighbour's house. There was no firing at the time, but Eitan crouched down
just below me and began
firing to the left while the other soldiers moved towards the neighbour's
house.
"We entered the neighbour's house. There was no one there. About 15 soldiers
were with us at that
time. I was told to stay in one room. I was then taken from this house and
told to go to another house
alone, and to knock on the door. I did this but no one answered. They told
me to come back. I saw that
they had a type of metal box that they were carrying and they brought it
to the door. I then heard an
explosion. I was then told to go back to the house and to go in and if there
were any people in the house
to tell them to go to one room. When I went back, I found another door. Again,
I knocked but no one
replied. The soldiers exploded this door. At this time, they sent in a dog
and then told me to go in and if
I was to find any closed doors, to open them. The soldiers then came in after
me.
"It was now about 3.30pm, I told the soldiers that I wanted to go home and
one of them replied that I
could go back when they found someone else to replace me. The soldiers were
searching the house
and then we went to the bottom floor of the house where they put a hole in
the wall between this house
and the next. I was taken by the soldiers and told to go through the hole
first. There were about six to
seven soldiers that followed behind me. From there, I was taken to another
house. Again, the soldiers
searched the house; there was no one home. When leaving this house, Eitan
grabbed me by the neck
and put his machine gun against my right hip. I walked about 20 metres like
this. I was then taken to
another house of a neighbour, Ibrahim Fraihat, whom I know. When we entered,
there were already
soldiers there. I was placed with Ibrahim in one room. We stayed there for
the night"
During this period and the day that followed, Faisal Abu Sariya continued
to ask the soldiers to release him. In each
case, the soldiers would tell him that his release would be secured when
they found someone else to replace him. He
said that during this period he or another detainee would be placed in front
of soldiers during house-to-house searches.
On three separate occasions he stated that a soldier placed his gun near
or on his body and in one case, he was
made to stand in front of a soldier when he opened fire. At approximately
5pm on 6 April Faisal Abu Sariya was
instructed to cross a small road and to knock on a door of a building opposite
as the soldiers could see some wires
running from the building. While he was crossing the road, an IDF unit that
was positioned on a nearby roof opened
fire, wounding Faisal Abu Sariya seriously in the leg. He made his way back
to the IDF unit he was with who gave him
some initial first aid, but did not arrange for him to be taken to a hospital.
Instead, the soldiers had some Palestinian
youths carry him. They were unable to reach the hospital and so they left
him in a home in the al-Damaj district of the
camp. It was not until 9 April, when the IDF told residents in this area
to evacuate their homes, that he was able to
receive medical treatment.
9. UNLAWFILL KILLINGS
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Amnesty International's Conclusions
Unlawful killings
Amnesty International has documented cases in Jenin and Nablus where people
were killed or injured in
circumstances suggesting that they were unlawfully and deliberately targeted,
or were killed as a result of
disproportionate use of force or gross negligence in protecting those not
or no longer involved in the fighting.
In several cases the IDF caused the deaths of Palestinians by demolishing
homes while residents were still inside.
IDF soldiers frequently failed to give adequate warnings before demolishing
houses, refused to allow family and
neighbours to warn residents, failed to offer help themselves or to call
rescue units or ambulances and sometimes
shot at those who tried to help. The failure to properly investigate killings
in disputed circumstances and those clearly
unlawful have created a climate where members of the IDF believe that they
may carry out such violations of the right
to life with impunity.
Unlawful killings violate the "right to life" laid down in Article 6 of the
ICCPR. Amnesty International considers that
some of these abuses of the right to life would amount to "wilful killings"
and "wilfully causing great suffering or serious
injury to body or health" within the meaning of Article 147 of the Fourth
Geneva Convention dealing with grave
breaches of the Convention; "grave breaches" of the Geneva Convention are
war crimes.
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"My family was at home on Friday 5 April. It was about 3 or 3.15 in the afternoon.
We heard the knocking and calling for us to open
the door. My sister 'Afaf said 'Just a moment'. She said this right away....
When she reached the door, she had just put her hand out to
touch the handle of the door and it exploded. The door exploded in on her
and the right side of her face was blown off.... I think she
must have died instantly. We started shouting. The soldiers were just outside
that door. The IDF began to shoot at the walls as if to try
and scare us. We yelled at them to get an ambulance but they did not answer
us."
"I looked and saw one of the large bulldozers coming from the west side bulldozing
the al-Shu'bi family house and I saw the house tilt
over. Without even thinking, I yelled to the soldier in the bulldozer, 'Let
the residents leave the house.' At this point the soldier came out
of the bulldozer, took his weapon and started to fire in my direction." Ten
members of the Shu'bi family were buried under their house in
Nablus for six days, only two survived.
These cases are just two of many documented by Amnesty International in Jenin
and Nablus where people were killed or injured in
circumstances suggesting that they were unlawfully killed. Palestinians not
involved in fighting were killed as a result of disproportionate use of
force and the failure of the IDF to take adequate measures to protect those
not involved in the fighting.
In Jenin refugee camp and Jenin city, more than half of the 54 Palestinians
who died as a result of the incursion between 3 and 17 April, appear
not to have been involved in fighting. Among those killed were seven women,
four children and six men aged over 55. Six had been crushed in
houses. In Nablus, at least 80 Palestinians were killed by the IDF between
29 March and 22 April. Among the victims were seven women and
nine children.
None of these killings has been impartially and thoroughly investigated,
even where there have been strong reasons to believe they were unlawful.
This failure on the part of the Israeli authorities has helped created a
climate where some members of the IDF, aware that no action will be taken
against them, continue to carry out unlawful killings.
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According to hospital lists reviewed by Amnesty International there were
54 Palestinian deaths between 3 and 17 April
2002 in both Jenin refugee camp and Jenin city as a result of the incursion
and subsequent fighting. This figure
includes seven women, four children and six men over the age of 55. Six had
been crushed by houses. The body of
one person known to have died by being crushed in his house has not been
recovered.(5)
The records of Palestinians killed in the incursion and admitted to Jenin
City Hospital reflect the impact of the IDF
blockade round the hospital between 5 and 15 April. Five bodies were brought
to the hospital, which is just at the edge
of the refugee camp, on 3 April, the first day of the IDF incursion into
the camp. One body was brought in on 4 April.
After that the hospital and the camp were under tight siege and although
the hospital stands at the entrance to the
camp, not a single corpse was brought into the hospital from 5 until 15 April,
the day after a petition filed by two
human rights organizations, Adalah and LAW, before the Israeli High Court
resulted in the State agreeing to allow the
ICRC access to the refugee camp. Most bodies of those fighters or those not
involved in fighting killed between 5 and
15 April remained where they lay; a few were taken from streets to homes,
a few were buried by their families in yards
or back gardens, and four were taken to the al-Razi Hospital. Amnesty International
delegates who entered the refugee
camp on the departure of the IDF on 17 April found ruins smelling of death,
with parts of human bodies sticking out of
the rubble of destroyed houses.
The list of the wounded brought to Jenin City Hospital shows that on 3 and
4 April, 24 wounded Palestinians were
admitted to the hospital. In the 10 days between 5 and 15 April only 10 wounded
Palestinians, who had succeeded in
crossing the IDF cordon, managed to enter the hospital. The admission lists
of the al-Shifa Hospital tell the same
story; between 4 and 10 April only one person, a child, was apparently admitted
to the hospital. On 10 and 11 April a
total of nine wounded people were admitted. After that there were no admissions
of wounded Palestinians until the IDF
started to withdraw from the camp on 16-17 April.
During the fighting Palestinian residents and Palestinian and foreign journalists
and others outside the camp saw
hundreds of missiles being fired into the houses of the camp from Apache
helicopters flying sortie after sortie. The
sight of the firepower being thrown at Jenin refugee camp led those who witnessed
the air raids, including military
experts and the media, to believe that scores, at least, of Palestinians
had been killed. The tight cordon round the
refugee camp and the main hospital from 4-17 April meant that the outside
world had no means of knowing what was
going on inside the refugee camp; a few journalists were able to slip into
the area at risk to their lives after 13 April, but
only saw a small portion of the camp, including some dead bodies before leaving.
Those within the camp reachable by
telephone were confined to their homes and could not tell what was happening.
It was in these circumstances that
stories of a "massacre" spread. Even the IDF leadership appeared unclear
as to how many Palestinians had died:
General Ron Kitrey said on 12 April that hundreds had died in Jenin before
correcting himself a few hours later saying
that hundreds had died or been wounded.
When Amnesty International delegates went to Jenin Hospital on 17 April they
found only "walking wounded" - those
who had managed to make their own way through the IDF cordon. Doctors and
diplomatic or other military experts
who visited the scene, aware that in armed combat there is usually a ratio
of three or four seriously wounded people to
one dead person, wondered where were the heavily wounded. Stories of bodies
buried in secret places or carried away
in refrigerated vans spread. After the IDF temporarily withdrew from Jenin
refugee camp on 17 April, UNRWA set up
teams to use the census lists to account for all the Palestinians (some 14,000)
believed to be resident of the camp on
3 April 2002. Within five weeks all but one of the residents was accounted
for.
The following cases of unlawful killings were amongst those documented during
the course of Amnesty Internationals
research in Jenin. Amnesty International submitted all of these cases to
the IDF for clarification and comment in June
and July 2002 but has received no answer. In none of these cases does it
appear that the Israeli authorities initiated
proper investigations. Amnesty International is concerned that the failure
to investigate cases of unlawful killings gives
members of the IDF a carte blanche to continue.
Mundher Muhammad Amin al-Hajj
On 3 April, the first day of the incursion, 21-year-old Mundher al-Hajj,
reportedly a member of a Palestinian armed
group, was shot and injured. Staff at the al-Razi hospital told Amnesty International
that they made three attempts to
rescue Mundher al-Hajj carrying white flags but each time they were fired
upon by the IDF. Hospital staff were able to
reach him approximately two hours after he was first reported in need of
medical help. By that time he was dead.
'Afaf 'Ali Hassan al-Desuqi
During the military operations in Jenin refugee camp, as elsewhere, the IDF
has frequently used explosives to open
doors of homes and buildings, sometimes without waiting to allow residents
to open them, resulting in the death or
injury of a number of women and men. On 5 April 'Afaf al-Desuqi, 59, was
killed when an explosive was used on the
door of her home as she went to open it. She had been called to open the
door by her neighbour, Ismahan Abu Murad,
who was used as a "human shield" by the IDF to lead the way to the house.
Ismahan Abu Murad confirmed the
account given by 'Afaf's sister, 'Aisha 'Ali Hassan al-Desuqi.
Jamal al-Sabbagh
On 6 April 2002, 33-year-old Jamal al-Sabbagh was shot by the IDF after he
had been taken into their custody.
According to a witness, at the time Jamal al-Sabbagh was shot, he was unarmed
and had posed no threat to the
soldiers who had detained him.
The day before Jamal al-Sabbagh's killing, a missile had destroyed his house.
On 6 April Jamal al-Sabbagh, along
with other men aged between 16 and 45 years from the camp, were instructed
by an IDF loudspeaker to come into the
streets. This occurred at approximately 6pm.
At this time, 16-year-old Muzaffar Jamal Zubaidi, from the Hawashin district
of the camp, was at home. He heard the
loudspeaker instructing men in the district to go out into the street but
he was alone and afraid. Soldiers were moving
around on foot and in tanks. He told Amnesty International delegates that
he waited beside his house and was looking
to see if he recognised anyone going out into the street. When he saw his
neighbour, Jamal al-Sabbagh, he left his
house to walk with him. It was getting dark by this time. He said that soldiers
had each man strip to their underwear
and provide their details, including name and ID number. Jamal al-Sabbagh
was carrying a sack with him and he
explained that the soldiers allowed him to carry his medicine, as he was
diabetic, and to keep his clothes on. The
soldiers had instructed the men to walk to a square near the health clinic.
Muzaffar Zubaidi and Jamal al-Sabbagh
walked there together.
Abd al-Karim Yusuf Sa'adi and Wadah Fathi Shalabi
On 6 April 2002, 27-year-old 'Abd al-Karim Sa'adi and 37-year-old Wadah Shalabi
were shot dead by the IDF in an
alleyway close to the Sa'adi home. The two men were neighbours who lived
near the entrance to the Jenin refugee
camp. At the time of their killing, the two men were with Wadah Shalabis
father, Fathi Shalabi, who managed to
escape uninjured.
Ali Na'el Salim Muqasqas
Professor Derrick Pounder conducted an autopsy on the body of a 52-year-old
man, later identified as 'Ali Na'el Salim
Muqasqas, in Jenin City Hospital on 17 April 2002. The autopsy disclosed
a single fatal gunshot wound to the right
chest and heart which would have caused rapid death.
Jamal Fayed
It is clear that people were not always given sufficient time to evacuate
homes before the IDF began bulldozing them.
In one such case, Jamal Fayed, a 38-year-old man, was killed when the bulldozing
of his home caused a wall of his
house to collapse on him.
Jamal Fayed's mother, Fathiya Muhammad Sulayman Shalabi, told Amnesty International
delegates that her son was
disabled from birth. He was unable to move on his own accord and he could
not speak. The family's home is in the
Jurrat al-Dahab area of the camp, close to the Hawashin district. She described
heavy fighting in and around her area
on 10 April, roughly one week after the first incursion to the camp. She
said that on the following day, a missile hit
their house and the upper floors of the house had begun to burn. When they
tried to leave the house, her aunt Fawziya
Muhammad was hurt. The family then climbed out through a side window but
was unable to carry Jamal Fayed with
them. When they left the house, they informed the IDF, who had taken up position
in a house nearby, that Jamal
Fayed was in the house and they should hold their fire. An IDF medic was
there and treated Fawziya Muhammad's
wound. The family then sought shelter in an uncle's house where they remained
for the evening.
The following day, Jamal's mother and sister went back to their home to check
on Jamal. At that point Jamal was alive
and had not been injured.
Ahmad and Jamil Yusuf Ghazawi
On 21 June 2002, two months after Operation Defensive Shield, during the
first days of Operation Determined Path
and the IDF reoccupation of the West Bank, the IDF shot from a tank at Dr
Samer al-Ahmad, and killed two brothers,
six-year-old Ahmad and 12-year-old Jamil Yusuf Ghazawi, seriously wounding
their brother, Tareq, and Dr al-Ahmad.
Following an IDF announcement that the curfew was lifted, six-year-old Ahmad
Ghazawi took a shekel from his father
to buy candy. He went with his brothers Jamil, aged 12, and Tareq, aged 11.
The area where the family lives is a
residential area on the edge of Jenin city, in Area C (under full Israeli
control). Part of the incident was caught on video
by a neighbour on a rooftop. The film showed Dr Samer al-Ahmad's car and
seven children (aged between six and 12)
four of them riding about on bicycles. There was no sound of firing, but
suddenly there was a red flash and a blast.
Ahmad was dead with one leg severed and the other almost severed, Jamil was
covered in cuts and blood and Tareq
lay near an electricity pole with a hole in his side and stomach.
Dr Samer al-Ahmad, aged 40, a veterinary doctor and Director of the Palestinian
Agricultural Relief Committees for the
Jenin district, said that after the IDF announced the lifting the curfew
from 10am to 2pm, he went by car to his office to
collect faxes and then went to a local shop, where he was told that the army
was about and he should go home. The
shop was 200 metres from his home. As he drove into the main road he saw
a tank moving down the road which fired
at him, wounding him through the back windscreen. He quickly turned off the
road down the first side-street where he
saw a group of children playing, some on bicycles. The tank shot again, a
tank round which apparently fragmented off
the wall.
Fares Hassan al-Sa'adi
On the evening of 21 June 2002, the IDF blew up an unoccupied house in the
old city area of Jenin. The explosion also
demolished an adjacent house, which contained eight family members, all of
whom were trapped in the rubble. Two
were seriously injured and one 12-year-old child, Fares, died. According
to the family and neighbours no warning was
given to the family before the explosion, despite protests from a neighbour
who had been used during this military
operation to check the adjacent house. Amnesty International interviewed
neighbours, as well as family members.
Their accounts of the incident are consistent. The IDF has claimed the targeted
property was used to store munitions.
Regardless of whether this was the case, the responsibility remains for those
members of the IDF involved in the
operations to secure the safety of the civilian population in the immediate
area.
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Amnesty International's Conclusions
Torture or other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment in arbitrary detention
In the towns and refugee camps occupied by the Israeli army the IDF ill-treated
and sometimes reportedly tortured
Palestinians detained in mass roundups of males aged 15-55. Amnesty International
interviewed many Palestinians
from Jenin who had been released from detention while they were still in
Rumaneh, a village near Jenin, prevented from
returning to their homes. Amnesty International delegates also interviewed
former Palestinian detainees arrested
during Operation Defensive Shield in Jenin and Nablus, who described the
cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or
punishment to which they had routinely been subjected. Most were humiliated
and many were insulted. Many
described treatment amounting to torture, mostly in the form of random beatings
with rifle butts.
Article 7 of the ICCPR prohibits torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading
treatment or punishment; this article is
non-derogable. Israel has also ratified the Convention against Torture which
states that "No exceptional circumstances
whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political
in stability or any other public emergency, may
be invoked as a justification of torture" (Article 2(b)) and requires investigations
into every allegation of torture or
ill-treatment (Article 12).
Under Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention "torture or inhuman treatment…
unlawful confinement of a
protected person," and "wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights
of fair and regular trial prescribed in the
present Convention" are all grave breaches of the Convention and therefore
war crimes.
The use of Palestinians for military operations or as "human shields"
In both Jenin and Nablus, as many testimonies show, there was a pattern of
forcing Palestinians to participate in
military operations or to act as "human shields". Women as well as men were
used in this way.
The use of Palestinians as "human shields" and to conduct military operations
was the subject of a petition in the
Israeli High Court in May 2002. Seven human rights organizations submitted
a petition seeking to prevent the IDF from
using Palestinian civilians as "human shields". The State response was to
indicate that the army had issued a ban on
all forces from using "human shields" (although it did not admit or deny
that such a practice, known by the IDF as the
"neighbour procedure", was employed) and that it was to begin an internal
investigation on the issues raised in the
petition. In light of the State response, the Court decided not to issue
an injunction but requested that the State
submit a written copy of its orders.(27) This had not yet been done. Meanwhile,
the practice of compelling
Palestinians to act as a "human shield" in military operations has continued.
In August a Palestinian used as a
"human shield" by the IDF was killed in crossfire and the High Court of Justice
issued an interim injunction against
this procedure; nevertheless, it still continues.(28)
Article 51 of the Fourth Geneva Convention prohibits the Occupying Power
from compelling protected persons to
assist in military operations. Article 28 prohibits the use of protected
persons as "human shields". Article 147 lists
"wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health" as
a "grave breach". It is therefore also a war crime.
Keeping the world away: the failure of international action
The Israeli State has the primary obligation to respect articles of the Fourth
Geneva Convention. In addition, under
Article 1 of the Fourth Geneva Convention all states which are High Contracting
Parties to the Geneva Conventions
have an obligation to "respect and ensure respect" of the Convention.
The international community, governments, organizations and individuals,
have taken a keen interest in the situation in
the Occupied Palestinian Territories. The relationship of the conflict to
the deteriorating human rights situation has led
to a growing understanding that there can be no peace or security for the
region until human rights are respected. The
failure to bring change has not been through a failure of awareness or even
of will of most members of the international
community. In the United Nations, the European Union, the League of Arab
States and in other intergovernmental
organizations, statements have been made and resolutions passed. Delegations
have been sent to the area and
peace plans projected. But all attempts to end human rights violations and
install a system of international protection
in Israel and the Occupied Territories, in particular by introducing monitors
with a clear human rights mandate, have
been undermined by the refusal of the government of Israel, frequently supported
by the United States, which as a
permanent member of the UN Security Council, is able to exercise its support
for Israel by vetoing a Security Council
resolution.
During April 2002, as Operation Defensive Shield continued, concern swiftly
mounted on what was happening in areas
the IDF had closed to the outside world, such as Jenin and Nablus. There
was unprecedented international pressure
on the Israeli government, including debates leading to resolutions and action
in national parliaments throughout the
world, the European Parliament, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council
of Europe; in United Nations bodies,
including the Security Council, the General Assembly and the Commission on
Human Rights as well as scores of
diplomatic interventions and visits of governmental and parliamentary delegations
to Israel.
However, the willingness of the international community under the auspices
of the United Nations to act to ensure
protection of human rights, including the human rights of Israeli civilians
targeted by Palestinian armed groups, were
consistently blocked by the Israeli government.
Only two days after the invasion of Jenin and Nablus, the UN Commission on
Human Rights, meeting in Geneva on 5
April, requested the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to head a visiting
mission to travel immediately and
return expeditiously to submit its findings and recommendations to the current
session of the Commission. The
mission was set up on 8 April. However, on 19 April the Israeli Foreign Ministry
informed the mission that the Israeli
Government would not facilitate their visit. At the request of the Commission
on Human Rights the High Commissioner
for Human Rights issued a report on 24 April 2002 calling for full applicability
of the Fourth Geneva Convention, for both
sides to end the violence and for accountability on all sides:
"Failure to investigate widespread allegations of serious human rights violations
and to seek
accountability risks undermining the integrity of the human rights system."(29)
The European Union High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security
Policy, Javier Solana, and Josep
Pique, Foreign Minister of Spain, holding the European Union's Presidency
at the time, visited Israel on 4 April. They
were not allowed to meet President Arafat. On 10 April the European Parliament
called for the immediate suspension
of the EU-Israel Association Agreement. At the Euro-Mediterranean ministerial
summit in Valencia on 22-24 April the
human rights situation in the Occupied Territories dominated the agenda;
Javier Solana again visited Israel and the
Occupied Territories on 25 April holding meetings with Prime Minister Ariel
Sharon and, after some difficulty, was
allowed to meet President Yasser Arafat, then confined to his headquarters
in Ramallah.
The UN Security Council under Resolutions 1397 and 1402 in March and Resolution
1403 in April, expressed concern
at the deterioration of the situation and called for a meaningful ceasefire.
On 10 April the "Quartet", made up of
representatives of the United States, the United Nations, the European Union
and Russia, issued a public statement
urging Israel to implement Resolutions 1402 and 1403. US Secretary of State
Colin Powell spent six days in Israel,
from 11 to 17 April, in an attempt at mediation.
As a result of increasing disquiet over the situation in Jenin and the devastation
of demolished houses which greeted
the first observers from the international community able to enter Jenin
refugee camp after 15 April, the UN responded
to calls for an international investigation which came from many groups,
including Amnesty International. An
agreement to send a fact-finding team to "develop accurate information" regarding
events in Jenin was agreed between
the UN Secretary General, Kofi Annan, and Israel's Foreign Minister Shimon
Peres and welcomed by a unanimous
vote in Security Council resolution 1405 (2002) of 19 April 2002. The resolution
also stressed the need for all to ensure
the safety of civilians and to respect universally accepted norms of international
humanitarian law. The Fact-finding
team was composed of three eminent independent experts, (Martti Ahtisaari,
former Prime Minister of Finland, Sadako
Ogata, former UN High Commissioner for Refugees, and Cornelio Sommaruga,
former President of the ICRC), and
included military, police, legal, and medical advisers, including forensic
expertise. After initially agreeing to the UN
Fact-finding team, the Israeli Government raised a series of objections relating
to the membership and mandate of the
team. The Israeli Government then withdrew its cooperation and blocked its
access to Israel. The team was disbanded
by the UN Secretary General on 3 May.
On 7 May 2002, the UN General Assembly requested the UN Secretary-General
"to present a report, drawing on the
available resources and information, on the recent events that took place
in Jenin and other Palestinian cities".(30)
This report was written without a visit to Jenin or other Palestinian cities.
It was based solely on submissions from
member states, observer missions and non- governmental organizations, as
well as documents already in the public
domain. Israel did not respond to a request by the UN Under-Secretary-General
for Political Affairs to provide
information for the report. The report, made public in July 2002, reaffirms
Israel's obligations under the Geneva
Conventions - and the Palestinian Authority's obligation under customary
international law - to respect human rights.
Factually, many of its conclusions are in line with those of Amnesty International
and other human rights
organizations. The report raises Israel's imposition of round the clock curfews,
"restrictions on and sometimes
completely barring, the movement of international personnel, including at
times humanitarian and medical personnel"
and stresses the "severe hardships" suffered by the civilian population (Para.
24). The report mentions numerous
reports of the IDF use of Palestinians to accompany them on house searches,
detentions and ill-treatment of
Palestinians, vandalism by the IDF and "the widespread destruction of Palestinian
and private property". It also states
accusations that Palestinian armed groups breached international humanitarian
law by basing themselves in a densely
populated area and by the use of children to transport and possibly lay booby
traps.
The Secretary General's report on events in Jenin and other Palestinian cities
can not be a substitute for a full,
independent, impartial and thorough investigation or inquiry. Amnesty International
is conscious that there is still an
overriding need for such an investigation of the events of Operation Defensive
Shield. A full international Commission of
Inquiry with access to testimonies from individuals and records of both sides
could thoroughly investigate each killing,
using forensic, legal and military expertise, to determine whether the killing
was lawful or unlawful; it could investigate
the circumstances of the demolition and damage of each Palestinian home and
building to determine the "absolute
military necessity" of its demolition; it could fully investigate the treatment
of Palestinian detainees after arrest; the
extent of the use of "human shields" and the facts about the denial of medical
and humanitarian aid. It could also fully
examine alleged breaches of international humanitarian law by Palestinian
armed groups, and by the Palestinian
Authority during Operation Defensive Shield. A Commission of Inquiry could
make clear recommendations with the
force of its investigations behind them.
War crimes and crimes against humanity are among the most serious crimes
under international law, and represent
offences against humanity as a whole and are prohibited in the Rome Statute
of the International Criminal Court. The
international community cannot therefore remain as ineffective witnesses
of the grave violations which continue to take
place in Israel and the Occupied Territories.
9. WILD EXPLAITATION OF ARABS (PALESTINIANS),
EAST EUROPEANS
AND NEW IMMIGRANTS FROM EX-USSR (JEWS AND NON-JEWS): TREATED
MORE WORSE THEN SLAVES
The best source for this problem is a huge work (900 pages) "GULAG of Palestine".
However, it available only in Russian.
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In one of John Bryant-related essays, we can read:
"--Motto of the Mossad
``The [government] must put the most modern medical means in the service
of this knowledge.... Those who are physically and mentally unhealthy and
unworthy must not perpetuate their suffering in the body of their children....
The prevention of the faculty and opportunity to procreate on the part of
the physically degenerate and mentally sick, over a period of only 600 years,
would ... free humanity from an immeasurable misfortune.''
-- Adolf Hitler"
"We must use terror, assassination, intimidation, land confiscation, and
the cutting of all social services to rid the Galilee of its Arab population."
--Israel Koenig, "The Koenig Memorandum."
Bloodshed and atrocities became a modern sacrifice for their new gods: one
or another idea-fixe. However, this wild carnage, these bloody habits of
Israelis have already left behind Hitler and Koenig's imagination.
FEW MORE WORDS
People would argue that some of the crimes, described above, were committed
not by Israel, but by Canadian hospitals and by the Federal Ministry of Immigration
in Canada. First of all, we have already provided some clear evidence that
all such crimes were committed by Israeli and Jewish extremists' people in
Immigration and in other places, as well as because of the enormous Jewish-Israeli
influence IN and OVER all Canadian institutions. There is also another point.
Canada becomes more and more like Israel; Israeli moral standards, habits,
views, ideology, intolerance, tyranny are enforced in Canada with an "iron
hand". Israel wants to strip Canadians from their rights and freedoms, from
their own political traditions, from their free will. Jewish newspapers like
"Canadian Jewish News", Jewish media magnate Asper's editorials, Canadian
Jewish Congress are lobbying anti-democratic, anti-privacy, Mossad-KGB-GESTAPO-like
rules and laws by their saw-tones voices. Toronto's "National Post's" Jewish
extremists' advocate and Zionist journalist Mrs. Stein, and a famous Zionist,
Mr. Jil Troy are lobbying "law enforcement", "anti-terrorist legislation"
and war on Iraq, repressive methods against dissidents. Jewish organizations
and Jewish elite are using all their power for transferring Canada into a
police state. And the very fact that - in spite of all this bizarre pressure
from Jewish extremists and from United States - Canada is still a very modest
politically, and relatively free country, reflects the level of Canadian
oppression to Israeli-Jewish extremists' terrorism and global hegemony.
Others will probably compare situation with Palestinians with situation in
Chechnia.
There is a very big principle difference between these two conflicts.
Palestinian territories were captured by the same sadistic Israeli regime,
which presently rules from Jerusalem, BEFORE the "Jewish State" was even
declared. Jewish terrorists - extremists-Zionists – have captured Arab territories
by war on Arabs, and "liberated" them from the "Arab presence" by atrocities
and massacres, which have removed any distance between Jewish Zionists –
and nazis. We must understand that some Arab population was left there not
because Jewish bandits (Israelis) just voluntarily stopped atrocities, but
because of a mighty public outcry – worldwide, - which forced Israelis to
stop killings. Israeli policy towards Palestinians is a total genocide. They
were ready to kill millions of Arabs "to clean "aretz Israel" from them",
and to continue keeping a small number of others as slaved and transplant
organs donors – if they could just ignore Europe's opinion.
Chechnia got into the present Russian regime's hands from the previous regimes,
together with all Chechen-related problems. Russian Empire and then – Soviet
Empire have never planned to kill ALL Chechens. Even during the brutal Stalin's
deportation most of the Chechens could survive.
Palestinian territories' status is "occupied territories", they are an occupied
land, without any other status. Israelis actually have build the biggest
concentration camp in human history, surrounded Palestinian territories by
walls and army-controlled border, placing military checkpoints all over this
concentration camp. Generations of Palestinians have no citizenship, no passports,
no rights. The situation of Palestinians is an illustration, what the Jews
(I mean – Israeli regime and Jewish financial elite, as well as organizations
like Bnei Brith or Jewish Congresses in Canada and USA) will do with all
of us – Christians, Muslims, Buddhists, atheists, Jewish orthodox, who don't
recognize the state of Israel, when they will capture the whole world (and
they are now closer to this then ever before).
Chechens – on the other hand – were citizens of USSR, and then – of Russia,
and they could travel to Moscow and other regions of the country without
specific restrictions. Till now they have passports and – formally – rights
of the citizens of Russia.
There is no war between Israeli – and Palestinians. Palestinian Intifadah
(upraise) against Israeli occupants is a small mutiny of disarmed prisoners
against the prison's administration. Teenagers, throwing stones – this is
the "war" from the Palestinian side. And the rare terrorist attacks on Israeli
civilians are acts of total despair and agony, committed by the brutally
terrorized by Israelis people.
In Chechnia there is a real war, and Chechen guerillas are a well-armed and
well-trained army.
Until we will not be able to understand that Israeli expansion (and Israeli
terrorism) are products of an alienated to ours, degraded Eastern culture
– we will not be able to oppress the aggressor.
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