Friday, August 20, 2010

Palestinian acheives the impossible: bringing Israeli soldiers to justice for the shooting of his 10yr old daughter.

How many stories like these that had never reached a fair conclusion? A must read in order to understand how little the Israeli judicial system values Palestinian life:
Bassam Aramin with a picture of his daughter Abir, killed by a rubber bullet that witnesses say was shot by Israeli border police

Bassam Aramin with a picture of his daughter Abir, killed by a rubber bullet that witnesses say was shot by Israeli border police

On a hot August afternoon exactly three years ago Bassam Aramin was adamant that he did not want revenge for the death of his ten-year-old daughter, Abir, but justice. At the time, he added quietly: "I have to prove my daughter was killed: that is my problem."

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.

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