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TOWARDS Oa TOWARDS 4% BIG BROTHER “ ee US ATROCITI ES their bodies were charred, they were thrown into plastic bags, along with IN their identification and _ personal effects. PANAMA ! ; Afterwards, they were thrown into their bodies were charred, they were thrown into plastic bags, along with their identification and personal effects. Afterwards, they were thrown into the sea or buried in common graves...some bodies were completely destroyed as they were run over by tanks...There were bodies in the streets of El Chorrillo for nearly a week. The Red Cross was not allowed to recover bodies of either the wound- ed or the dead...US troops also opened fire on the ambulances...’ IN sea WHO RUNS NEW ZEALAND? Even in Australia, ranked as the most media controlled country in the world, some news of the mass graves in Panama is leaking through. A small mention in the Sunday Telegraph (22 July 1990) mentioned that several Panamanian businessmen were suing the US for gross damage and negli- gence during the invasion in December 1989. This is an understate- ment when you consider these extracts from a speech given by Olga Majia, President of Panama’s Human Rights Commission, made in New York on Sth April 1990. ‘The US invasion of Panama perpe- trated by the 82nd Airborne Division under US Southern Command carry- ing out the orders of George Bush, is an act of genocide... violence, brutal- ity and the abuse of power that cannot even be classified as unconventional warfare is used against the civilian non-combatant population.... Panama has been brought into the era of com- mon graves, disappeared people, war refugees and ransacking of homes... an independent nation has been forced into submission by a colonising army... Five entire blocks of a poor area, where I was born and spent my early childhood were bombarded and completely wiped out and converted into a graveyard...In the middle of the night came the bombardment, the strafing and machine-gunning and fir- ing of rock ets.. Later came the use of flame throw- ers, tanks and the collective mourn- ing... It began with the bombardment of the Military HQ followed by the massacre of the civilian population... They machine-gunned wood frame and plaster houses... Many who ran out to flee from the fire died in the streets, machine-gunned down by US troops... Others were burned to death in their homes or dismembered by bombs or flame-throwers. Because The Aotearoa (New Zealand) Peace Movement has obtained (stolen?) a document from the Tangimoana High Frequency Spy Base. The 169 page document is titled “Government Communications Head- quarters Handbook No.131 for Anten- na Systems Type Ax - 19”. The significance of the find is in the title of the document itself which refers to the British GCHQ, the equiv- alent of the Australian Defence Signals Directorate (DSD) and the US National Security Agency (NSA). NZ activists believe this confirms their claim that the New Zealand security services are under the control of British (and US) Agencies. The GCHQ handbook provides guidance on the installation and oper- ation of the high frequency (1.5MHz - 30MHz) direction finding equipment. The base at Tangimoana contains high frequency antennas and a High Frequency Direction Finding system. Similar facilities operate within Australia at Peace Airbase in WA, Shoal Bay near Darwin and Carbalah in Qld. Two secret electronic intelligence agreements the ‘Radford-Collins’ and the ‘UKUSA Pact’ appear to govern the operations of these and similar facilities. The ‘Boss of the wash’ appears to be the United States although obviously the UK plays a major role. Downloaded from the Pegasus Network, oz.antibases conference - Topic 16 by user gekko 2:48 am Nov 6, 1990 Extracted from “Inside News” by Peter Sawyer For three years now, Iraq has been involved in an economic argument with Kuwait over oil from the Rumailia oil field, possibly one of the biggest in the world, with current esti- mated reserves of over 30 billion bar- rels. The border between Iraq and Kuwait straddled this field. In order to preserve it, the two countries suppos- edly had an agreement over how much oil would be pumped out, in line with OPEC’s quota system for each coun- try. Kuwaiti not only regularly exceeded their quota, they used the surplus to play havoc with the orderly marketing procedures accepted by all the other OPEC nations and the pur- chasing countries. It is perhaps wrong to say “Kuwait” did this: in fact these actions were directly ordered by the ruling Al- Sabah family of Kuwait. The Al- Sabahs, in turn, did not use this extra revenue to improve the lot of the Kuwaiti people, but rather immediate- ly invested the profits offshore, where they could continue to be controlled by the family, regardless of what hap- pened back home. NEXUS - 22 US ATROCITIES PANAMA ! A RECENT NZ-UK SPY _DOCUMENT HAS STARTLING IMPLICATIONS THE GULF CRISIS - WHAT THEY DIDN’T TELL YOU! YEAR BOOK - FEBRUARY 1991