newsitems CoE asks Turkey 180.000€ for 9 Cyprus' MISSING, but Crimes' Impunity persists after 23 Years ECHR
CoE asks Turkey 180.000€ for 9 Cyprus' MISSING, but Crimes' Impunity persists after 23 Years ECHR
*Strasbourg/- CoE's Committee of Ministers slammed Turkey for Failing during almost 4 Years now even to pay a minimal just satisfaction and costs' reimbursement awarded by the ECHR to the Families of 9 Persons gone "MISSING" in Cyprus since the 1974 Turkish Military Invasion and Occupation of the Northern Coasts of the Island, according to its Judgement in the "Varnavas" case, dated from September 2009, which has not yet been implemented by Ankara until now (Autumn 2013) in any way whatever...
However, despite Victims' Lawyers' stern reminder (See Infra), the CoE's Committee again withheld any warning for any possible Sanction whatever, vis a vis the Substance of this key case, which is obviously much more Serious, since it concerns Turkey's persisting Failure, for many Decades, to make any Efficient Investigation, in order to Find the Truth on what really Happened to the Victims, as well as Search, Find and Punish those Responsible for their Enforced Disappearances, according to what ECHR's case-law notoriously requires in all such cases of "Missing" Persons : The examination of this Substantial point had been already postponed again by CoE's Ministerial Committee, since last Spring, for December 2013...
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- Today, CoE's Ministers , "deeply Deploring that Turkey has still Not Complied" with "its Obligation" to pay the total amount of 180.000 € for 9 Cases of "MISSING" Persons, (i.e. 20.000 € per application lodged by the Victims' Families : 12 Thousands € for "non-pecurniary Damages", and 8 Thousands € for "Costs and Expenses" in each case : Obviously Minimal sums, compared to ECHR's average, and considering the Gravity of these cases of Massive and Prolonged Enforced Disappearances),.
- Stressing that this Duty is "UnConditional", CoE's Top Body "Exhort(s) Turkey to pay, without further Delay the Sums Awarded in the ECHR's Judgement of .. .2009", "as well as the default Interest due" since then, i.e. for "nearly 4 Years" until now (9/2013), as a Letter by one of the Victims' Lawyers noted.
But, the most important Question raised by that Lawyer of the Victims' Families, Achileas Demetriades, remains entirely Open :
- The non-executed yet ECHR Varnavas "Judgement .. relates to Applications filed More than 23 Years ago" (sic !), reminds the Victims' Lawyer, pointing to the 9 Applications on Greek Cypriot "MISSING" Persons which have been officially lodged in Strasbourg's PanEuropean Court since ... January 1990 !....
+ However, during all this Time, "the Respondent (Turkish) Government has, so far, FAILED TO CARRY OUT an EFFECTIVE INVESTIGATION in relation to the Missing Persons in issue", "in Addition to the Unpaid just satisfaction awarded" to the Victims' Families by the ECHR (Comp. Supra), denounces Lawyer Demetriades' Letter, dated September 10. Therefore, he reiterates one among many suggestions on how to make the (UNO-brokered, notoriously "Toothless") "CMP", (a body based mainly on Parity between the two sides, and not on Judicial Independence, neither on Fairness, nor on Efficiency), "become an Effective Domestic Remedy", in the Future..
But, meanwhile, given the above mentioned Facts, one can't but, sincerely, wonder :
- What really happened to the PanEuropean System for the protection of Human Rights, precisely, after these last "23 Years" ? Why has its Credibility and Efficiency gone so blatantly "MISSING" ?
Does anybody, inside CoE' Committee of Ministers, seriously believe that European Citizens of Today could really feel that, at least their Life and Personal Freedom would be fairly well Protected and "Safe", if they knew that someone might make them, all out of a sudden, "Disappear" from the face of the Earth, without anyone among their Family and Friends ever being informed about what really happened to them, and that they might face, somewhere in the "Dark", even brutal Murder, perhaps after several Inhuman/Degrading Treatments or Torture, while their Kidnapers, Torturers and/or Murderers wouldn't really have not even to give a dime, whatever the ECHR might say, after "more than 23 Years" (sic !) of Legal Procedure without even the slightest Sanction being ever imposed to anyone among those Responsible for such Horrible Crimes ?
Is it really a Time for some to let the so-called "Europen Dream", insidiously fall even Lower than Hollywood's replays of Alfred Hitchcock's Horrror" Stories, (perhaps revised by USA's Spielberg, in order to become even more Spectacular) ?....
- "Applications" by Victims' Families officially lodged since .. "January 1990" (sic !), heavy Responsibilities for Enforced Disappearances of several Human Persons clearly found, attributed, denounced and condemned by an ECHR's Grand Chamber Judgement. ... But Turkish Authorities don't even give a dime, "during more than 23 Years" of Legal procedures in Strasbourg", did you say ?
By the way : How much does it cost, a cheap Airplane Flight ticket, straight to the Rocky Mountains, to Moscow or rather Vladivostok, Beijing or Australia, better New Zeland, with No Return ?
Is that really what some seek to oblige European Citizens to feel, sooner or later ?
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*Paris/ACM/12 October 2008/-
When Europeans really feel a vital need to urgently launch common replies to challenging World Crisis, as the present Financial turmoil of Global Markets, they forge new decision-making tools and new dynamics :
The 1st in History EuroZone Heads of State and Government Summit, organized in Paris at the invitation of French President, and current EU chair, Nicolas Sarkozy, with the participation of 15 national leaders and EU institutions' chairmen, partly enlarged to British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, after a highly symbolic duo with German Chancelor Angie Merkel, at General De Gaulle's birth-village, 50 Years after he welcomed there former German chancellor Adenauer (1958-2008), may have not one, but two results :
- The first, and more urgent, was to launch an "ambitious", "coherent", and "efficient" common European movement, able to stimulate "solutions" to the World Economic Crisis, as Sarkozy anounced from the outset : State Garantees (to new Bank debts up to 5 years), fresh Capital input (f.ex. by buying shares), support to distressed banks, (while also restructuring them), incite the European Central Bank to facilitate commerial bills europe-wide, etc.
"Acting swiftly", from tomorrow, national measures will quantify all these targets, with coordinated actions from all EuroZone's Governments : France, Germany, Italy and others, decided to anounce, at the same time, such concrete measures, according to agreements that we have already made all together, revealed Sarkozy at the final Press Conference, flanked by EuroZone's chairmen : EuroGroup's Jean-Claude Juncker, and Central European Bank's Jean-Claude Truchet, as well as EU Commission's Jose Baroso, to solemnly stress the will to find common European solutions.
- "United and Determined, all EuroZone's Countries will act to prove that Citizens can Trust" the Economy, Sarkozy concluded. If we attract also all EU's 27 countries, Wednesday in Brussels, then we can coordinate action with our American Friends at a Global level, he anounced.
- "With this new Toolbox, we do not want to serve Bankers, but to work for Europe and its Citizens' interests", added Juncker.
- "For the moment, we want to act urgently to regulate the Crisis. But the time will come when those responsible for this, will have to account for their actions. Yes to real Capitalism, No to Speculators. Those who abused, will face sanctions, Sarkozy warned.
Need stimulates activities which create new organs, say biologists, and Gordon Brown, compatriot of Spencer, the famous bio-Historian, would certainly not deny that, after his surprise visit to EuroZone's Summit in Paris, which attracted him one hour more than scheduled...
Decisions include also the creation of a Crisis-management European mechanism, which "requires constant Monitoring", as well as strengthening Economic policy cooperation between EuroZone's countries.
Sarkozy will be judged by History not just by the immediate Economic results, expected at the end of this week's decision-making proces at National and EU level, but also by the more far-reaching consequences at the aftermath of this Historic EuroZone 1st Summit : Will it succeed to become a precursor forging a New era in European institution's revitalization ?
Significantly, the French President sat, during discussions, between German Chancelor Merkel, and British Prime Minister Brown, facing the chairmen of EuroGroup, Juncker, ECB : Truchet, and EU Commission, Baroso, with Prime Ministers of Spain, Zapatero (a hot partisan of EuroZone's Summit) at his right side, and Italy's Berlusconi, at his left, surrounded by Austrian, Belgian, Cyprus', Finland's, Greece's, and Ireland's leaders, as well as Slovakia's, Slovenia's, Portugal's, Netherlands', Malta's and Luxembourg's leaders.
Meanwhile, those who tabled for a rift between French and German positions were faced with a smiling Merkel at De Gaulle-Adenauer's meeting place, a sunny Saturday morning, and a particularly active-looking Merkel inside the French Presidential Palace at Elysee's gardens on Sunday, (as happy few photographers discovered)..
- "De Gaulle's hilltop, at Colombey-les-2-Eglises, gave an astonishing overview to a huge landscape, entirely surrounded by splendid Nature, as far as eyes could see", said to EuroFora an obviously charmed German Journalist.
She was describing Saturday's inauguration of a High-Tech Memorial close to the Historic Giant Double Lorraine's Cross, built by famous Novelist Andre Malraux, to perpetuate the Memory of his famous call for "Resistance" to NAZI, and his vision for the creation of New Institutions and Franco-German reconciliation, to foster Europe's role in the World, also for the Future.
Children playing at Elysee's gardens before the Historic 1st EuroZone's Summit : What Europe's Future will look like ?