More UN stupidity
YogsVR4
06-17-2004, 01:46 PM
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/06/16/world/UN_bulldozers040616
UN to Caterpillar: Stop selling bulldozers to Israel
GENEVA - A U.S.-based company has been warned by a United Nations expert not to sell bulldozers to Israel because of the way the Israeli army is using them.
Jean Ziegler, the UN's special expert on the right to food, sent a letter to Caterpillar Inc. saying that the company could be considered an accomplice in human rights violations.
The letter to Caterpillar chief executive James Owen expressed Ziegler's concerns "about the actions of the Israeli occupation forces in Rafah and in other locations in Gaza and the West Bank."
A resolution passed this year by the UN Human Rights Commission extends responsibility to protect rights to "non-state actors."
Ziegler's letter, dated May 28, said the Israelis are "using armoured bulldozers supplied by your company to destroy agricultural farms, greenhouses, ancient olive groves and agricultural fields planted with crops."
There's been no comment from Caterpillar headquarters in Peoria, Ill.
The letter also says Caterpillar bulldozers have been used to destroy "numerous Palestinian homes and sometimes human lives, including that of the American peace activist Rachel Corrie."
Corrie, 23, was crushed to death in March 2003. She was trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer from destroying Palestinian homes in a Gaza Strip refugee camp.
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:screwy: Perhaps the paper mills in Canada better watch out as the instruction manuals written for the bulldozers is produced there. Maybe China will get in trouble because the paper for the manuals for the bulldozers is printed there.
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UN to Caterpillar: Stop selling bulldozers to Israel
GENEVA - A U.S.-based company has been warned by a United Nations expert not to sell bulldozers to Israel because of the way the Israeli army is using them.
Jean Ziegler, the UN's special expert on the right to food, sent a letter to Caterpillar Inc. saying that the company could be considered an accomplice in human rights violations.
The letter to Caterpillar chief executive James Owen expressed Ziegler's concerns "about the actions of the Israeli occupation forces in Rafah and in other locations in Gaza and the West Bank."
A resolution passed this year by the UN Human Rights Commission extends responsibility to protect rights to "non-state actors."
Ziegler's letter, dated May 28, said the Israelis are "using armoured bulldozers supplied by your company to destroy agricultural farms, greenhouses, ancient olive groves and agricultural fields planted with crops."
There's been no comment from Caterpillar headquarters in Peoria, Ill.
The letter also says Caterpillar bulldozers have been used to destroy "numerous Palestinian homes and sometimes human lives, including that of the American peace activist Rachel Corrie."
Corrie, 23, was crushed to death in March 2003. She was trying to stop an Israeli army bulldozer from destroying Palestinian homes in a Gaza Strip refugee camp.
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:screwy: Perhaps the paper mills in Canada better watch out as the instruction manuals written for the bulldozers is produced there. Maybe China will get in trouble because the paper for the manuals for the bulldozers is printed there.
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TexasF355F1
06-17-2004, 01:53 PM
As you've said time and time again, another stupid move by the U.N. Funny thing is I know a guy who is an engineer at Caterpiller. If I see him sometime in the near future I'm gonna have to ask him what the word is around the office.
Raz_Kaz
06-17-2004, 01:53 PM
Well they are using it to crush homes and take over land....
But it's stupid to go to Caterpillar and not the Isreali government
But it's stupid to go to Caterpillar and not the Isreali government
CarSuperfreak
06-17-2004, 01:55 PM
In other news, don't give them water either! they are drowning innocent people!
like they can stop sales because of miss-use by the consumer
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/182423demonsofstupid.jpg
like they can stop sales because of miss-use by the consumer
http://files.automotiveforums.com/gallery/watermark.php?file=/500/182423demonsofstupid.jpg
Afrofent
06-18-2004, 03:58 AM
I agree with what Raz_Kaz said.
Sticky
06-18-2004, 10:40 PM
What can the UN do to the company anyways. In reality the only power they have is to tell countries what to not do, and hope they listen.
Flatrater
06-19-2004, 12:16 AM
I wonder where Israel gets it's gas for the bulldozers?
Sticky
That's simple the other UN countries that are against Caterpillar selling dozers to Israel will stop buying the same dozers.
Sticky
That's simple the other UN countries that are against Caterpillar selling dozers to Israel will stop buying the same dozers.
Sticky
06-19-2004, 01:13 AM
True, but that's more the rest of the world pressuring Israel to stop buying them instead of the UN taking action. They can't halt the sale themselves.
eversio11
06-19-2004, 01:27 AM
Funny thing is I know a guy who is an engineer at Caterpiller
That wasn't funny at all.
:biggrin:
That wasn't funny at all.
:biggrin:
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