劣化ウランと“イラクの自由
[転送・転載、歓迎]「劣化ウランと“イラクの自由”―― ハロルド・ピンターのノーベル文学賞受賞演説」 2005年12月10日皆様 今年のノーベル文学賞を受賞したイギリスの劇作家ハロルド・ピンターの受賞演説について、ロンドンのガーディアン紙(12月8日付)が報じています。 下記は、引用されている受賞スピーチの一文です。 「我々は、イラクの人々に対し、虐待、クラスター爆弾、劣化ウラン、数え切れない無差別殺人行為、悲惨、荒廃と死をもたらし、それを“中東に自由と民主主義をもたらすもの”と呼んでいる。」 草々 嘉指信雄[以下、メールニュース英語原文]----------From: "vlario" Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2005 14:49:54 -0000Subject: DU: Nobel prize Pinter demands war crimes trial for BlairPinter demands war crimes trial for BlairLondon Guardian/David Fickling | December 8 2005The Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter has called for Tony Blairto be tried for war crimes, in his acceptance speech to theNobel committee.The 5,000-word speech excoriates the US government over Guanta´namo Bay andits attempts to destabilise Nicaragua in the 1980s.But he saves his most savage comments for the UK, describedas "pathetic and supine" and a "bleating little lamb" tagging alongbehind the US in its support for the Iraq war."The invasion of Iraq was a bandit act, an act of blatant stateterrorism demonstrating absolute contempt for the concept ofinternational law," he said."The invasion was an arbitrary military action inspired by a seriesof lies upon lies and gross manipulation of the media and thereforeof the public ... a formidable assertion of military force responsible forthe death and mutilation of thousands and thousands of innocent people."We have brought torture, cluster bombs, depleted uranium,innumerable acts of random murder, misery, degradation and death to theIraqi people, and call it 'bringing freedom and democracy to the MiddleEast'."The 75-year-old will not be attending Saturday's award ceremony atthe Swedish Academy in Stockholm because of poor health. He will be sendinghis publisher, Stephen Page, in his place to receive the 10m kroner prize.But the author of The Caretaker and The Birthday Party has recordeda video of himself reading the speech, looking frail in a wheelchairwith a red blanket over his legs.In recent years he has been treated for cancer, and appeared with abandaged head earlier this year when it was announced that he hadbeen awarded the prize.One of the original "angry young men" who revolutionised Britishtheatre in the 1950s, he has lost none of his fury in the speech."How many people do you have to kill before you qualify to bedescribed as a mass murderer and a war criminal? One hundredthousand? More than enough, I would have thought," he said."Therefore it is just that Bush and Blair be arraigned before theinternational criminal court of justice. But Bush has been clever.He has not ratified the international criminal court of justice ..."But Tony Blair has ratified the court and is therefore availablefor prosecution. We can let the court have his address if they'reinterested: it is Number 10, Downing Street, London."He also discusses his early plays, the creative process, and theambiguity of language.Beginning with a 1958 quote in which he claims that "a thing is notnecessarily either true or false", he says that sometimes a writerhas toescape questions about the uncertainty of truth and stand upfor what they think is right."I believe that these assertions still make sense and do still applyto the exploration of reality through art"So as a writer I stand by them, but as a citizen I cannot. As acitizen I must ask: what is true, what is false?"