Court holds state responsible for shooting of Palestinian girl

[LeftishBrit]

In civil suit, judge orders government to pay damages to family of Abir Aramin, a 10-year-old Palestinian girl killed by a rubber bullet in the West Bank in 2007.
By Chaim Levinson Tags: Israel news West Bank Palestinians

A Jerusalem court on Monday held the state responsible for killing killing a 10-year-old Palestinian girl in January 2007.

In a civil suit, the court ruled that border guards had either been negligent or disobeyed orders in shooting Abir Aramin with a rubber bullet, calling the incident 'totally unjustifiable'.

http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/court-holds-state-responsible-for-shooting-of-palestinian-girl-1.308443

[azurnoir]

1. Good news thanks

now it will be interesting to see if the state listens to the court

[ConsAreLiars]

2. A civil suit. The Israeli state refused to bring criminal charges for this murder.

Yesterday he had the satisfaction of knowing that his three-year fight to do just that had been vindicated by a judge's ruling that Abir Aramin had indeed been shot dead by a border policeman with a rubber bullet, that the killing was "totally unjustifiable" and that the state should pay her family compensation.

It had not been easy. Abir, described by teachers as a "lovely" model student, was fatally wounded in January 2007 as she walked down the street with her sister and two friends after buying sweets in a shop across the road from her school in the West Bank village of Anata at the end of a maths exam.

The dead girl's father spoke eight months later to The Independent after learning that police investigators had closed the file on his daughter's death without attributing blame for it.

He described how his wife, Salwa – who, like him, was always convinced she had been killed by a police rubber bullet – had broken down in tears when she heard that there was to be no prosecution, feeling "that they had killed her another time".

More at: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/bassam-aramins-search-for-justice-2055355.html

Any society which allows its agents to deliberately murder children of a subjected and despised ethnic group without being held criminally responsible is worse than morally bankrupt.

[LeftishBrit]

3. With regard to your last line..

'Any society which allows its agents to deliberately murder children of a subjected and despised ethnic group without being held criminally responsible is worse than morally bankrupt.'

True. So when will our own societies try Bush and Blair for war crimes? I'm not holding my breath.

[ConsAreLiars]

4. Yes, when monstrous actions like those wars and the very long histories

of bringing brutality and suffering to the people of Iraq and Afghanistan has gone unpunished forever, it is no wonder that their allies expect their actions are similarly exempt from accountability, both legal and moral.