Bulletin de liaison et d'information - Institut kurde de Paris

REVUE DE PRESSE-PRESS REVIEW-BERHEVOKA ÇAPÊ-RMSTA STAMPA-DENTRO DE LA PRENSA-BASIN ÖZETi
Tribune 6 décembre 1993
SUITE AU COUP DE FILET ANTI PKK
Un Kurde lyonnais
assigné à résidence
Un comité de soutien a rencontré le préfet de police, afin
de protester contre cette décision
Près de quinze. jours après
la' vaste opération de police
dirigée contre. les' membres,
présumés ,du Parti des Travailleurs
du Kurdistan (PKK), le
porte-parole de la communauté
kurde de Rhône-Alpes S'est vu
notifier un arrêté ,d'assignation
à résidence dans un village
proc"e de Tours.
Mustapha Kisa avait été interpellé
le 18 novembre dernier,
avec plusieurs de ses
coreligjonnaires; Après quel- ,
ques heures de garde à vue, il "
avait été hbéré et .aucun~ pour- ,
suite judiciaire n'avait été
entreprise contre lui.
Finalement, et alors qu'il se
:~endait à Paris, mercredi, il a
été arrêté par les gendarmes
;sur l'autoroute A-6. Au cours
de ce simple contrôle de routine,
les militaires lui ,?nt notifié
son assignation à résidence ,sur
décision du ministère de l'Intérieur
en date du 30 novembre.
Mustapha Kisa a aussitôt été
invité à suivre les forces, de
l~ordre qui l'ont immédiatement
conduit à Sainte-Maure-de-
TourlilinE!,petit vill~ge de la
région l'le Tours.
•Par ,ail(eurs',et: toujours siJr
décision du ministère de l'intérieur,
Mustapha Kisa fait l'objet'
d'un arrêté de reconduite à la
frontière, assorti d'un sursi à
exécution, mais applicable à
tout moment.
Vendredi après-midi, une
délégation composée de représentants
de SOS Racisme, du
CentFil culturel œcuménique de
Villeurbanne, de la CIMADE, du
CRARDA, du MRAP, et de
Résistance Verte a rencontré'
Marcel Leclerc, préfet adjoint à
la sécurité.
Au cours de l'entretien, ce
comité a fait part de sa vive
protestation à l'égard des deux
décisions ministérielles. « Mustapha
Kisa n'est pas un. terroriste,
soulignait Jean YI.ncent
de SOS Raçisme. D a1lleu.rs
,l'abandon de toute poursu~te
judiciaire est la preuve qu.e(len
'n'a ~té retenu contre lUI. Ces
'Srr~tés ne nous semblent pas
fond~s et les avocats de Mustapha
entreprendront de forme.r
des recours contre ces décIsions»'.
En attendant, le jeune
: homme est tenu de' « pointer»
:chaque jour au commiss~riat
'de Sainte-Maure-de-Touraine,
'mais il reste libre de rencontrer
, ses proches.
Depuis le coup de filet du
18 novembre, Mustapha Kisa
est le deuxième Kurde assigné
à résidence. Une jeune femme
avait fait l'objet d'une décision
similaire. Elle est actuelleme~t
, tenue de rester dans \,Jn petit
village des Pyrénées. ,
Thatcher to Testify
In Iraqi Sales Probe i
By Richard Stevenson
New York Times Service
-LONDON- With the inquiry'
iitto Britain's sales,of anns-making
e?iuipment to Iraq shifting its sights
t9;high-ranking government ministers,
former Prime, Minister Margaret
Thatcher will f/lee public questpning
Wednesday for the first
ttpe about her role in the matter,
officials said Monday. '
Lady Thatcher, who headed the
gg.vernment until November 1990,
nearly four months after President
S~ddam Hussein's forces invaded
~iiwait, will be asked whether she
.riiisled Parliament in 1989 by stat-
'in,g that there had been no change
~,the government's stated policy
'l1arring the export to Iraq of tech-,
n'ölogy that could be used in weapons
production, officials involved
in the inquiry said.
, The former prime minister is to:
testify to the quasi-judicial inquiry),
INTERN:ATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7; 1993
which is headed by Lord' Justicë:
Scott, a High Court judge. Lord
'Justice Scott, who was appointed,
Jast year by Prime Minister John
~ajor, is to issue a public report
next spring, but has no power to
'rV)ke or recommend criminal
charges. None of the testimony to
ht~inquiry can bé used in any criminal
case.
'
? Mr. Major, who served in a numb«r
of positions in the Thatcher
gbvernment, is scheduled to appear'
before the inquiry next month and
to face questions about what he'
'knew of the exports of machine,
t601s and other high-tech equipment
to Iraq. Several other senior,
,ministers, including the defense
s&retary, Malcolm Rifkind, and
,ttie chanéellor of the Exchequer,
I(enneth Clarke, also will appear.
The story that has unfolded so
far in seven months.oi püblïc hèâririgs
is one featuring both the dramil
of spycraft and the banality of
bUreaucratic feuds and bungling.
~At its heart was a tug-of-war
within the British government durir.tgthe
mid-198OS over how far to
g9 in allowing sales of sophisticated
machinery and other equipment
by British companies, eager to do
business with, Iraq. '
Much of the questioning has cen- '
tlèred on a decision made by govemment
ministers in 1988 to interpret
more loosely the guidelines'
that had been adopted in 1985 barring
the sale to Iraq of any equipnient
that might have military pur-
,ppses. Following the change, which
apparently came in the wake of the '
q;ase-fire in the war, between Iraq
aÎld Iran, government ministers approved
a nuIDber of sales to Iraq,
idcluding the export of machine ,
tools that British intelligence had
roncluded niight be used to make
attiIlery sh,ells. . '
, But according to testimony from
a number of witnesses, there was
often little coordination among
various arms of the government on
the issue. The officials responsible
for applying the government's policy
to day-to-day.decisiori~making
often were distracted or only dimly
aware of repeated warnings by intelligence
agencies of the possible
military uses of the technology being
sold to Baghdad.
Throughout the inquiry, British,
trade officials have testified that
they were primarily concerned
about not causing British industry
to miss out on opportunities to sell.
Anthony Steadman, a former
chief of the Department of Trade
and Industry's export-licensing
unit, told the Scott inquiry last
week that he had ignored or failed
to read intelligence rep,arts and bypassed
normal procedures in approving
machine-tool exports to
Iraq in 1989.
"Things would just get scanned
when perhaps more attention
should have been paid to them,"
Mr. Steadman testified.
Mr. Steadman's boss, Eric Beston,
the head of the Department of
Trade and Industry's export control
branch from 1985 to 1990, testified
last month that he was often
more concerned with the export of
antiques and "other large expensive
things owned by richand powerful
people" than with teChnology.
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