Marouane Barghouti

Marouane Barghouti (June 6th 1958, Ramallah -) [[Arab] rear RTL مروانالبرغوتي] is a Politician and a Palestinian military chief. Marouane Barghouti is imprisoned since 2002 in a Prison of Israeli high-safety, condemned to 5 custodial sentences with perpetuity.

Biography

Barghouti enters to the Fatah at the fifteen years age. He is imprisoned by the State of Israel in 1976, at the eighteen years age, for participation in a Palestinian revolt. He learns the Hebrew with length from his imprisonment. To its exit, it returns in the West Bank and follows studies to the Université of Beir Zeit. It becomes there representing students near the council of the university. It obtains also a control in Histoire, another in Political sciences as well as a diploma of third cycle in International relations.

Barghouti is one of the political main leaders of the the First Intifada for the Gaza Strip in 1987. It is stopped as of 1987 by the armed Israeli and expelled towards the Jordan. It can return from exile only after the signature of the Accords of Oslo in 1994. Barghouti is elected with the Legislative council of Palestine in 1996, it defends there the required of a peace with Israel, being opposed in that to Yasser Arafat, chief of Fatah. Talented speaker and having proven reliable with the combat, Barghouti climbs in the political apparatus of Fatah and becomes general secretary for the West Bank about it.

At the summer 2000, the dissensions between Barghouti and Arafat are more and more shouting. Barghouti shows Arafat and the persons in charge of the Palestinian Autorité of corruption. It also reproaches the security services Palestinian Authority of multiple violations of the Human rights. Arafat envisages to dislocate Barghouti of her functions within Fatah.

Arafat will not do anything of it: the visit of Ariel Sharon on the Esplanade of the mosques lance the the Second Intifada and the political situation changes. Barghouti, chief of Tanzim-Fatah, the armed wing of Fatah, became essential by its capacity of organization and especially very popular at the Palestinians. Tanzim-Fatah diversifies while launching, via a sub-group called the Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs, Attack-suicides on the Israeli territory and against the Israeli colonies of settlement.

Its role supposed by the Israeli forces in the countryside of Attack-suicides against Israel does of it one of the most required Palestinians (to be captured or assassinated) by the Israeli soldiers. In 2001, it thwarts an attempted murder prepared by the Israeli army. The April 15th 2002, Israel captures Barghouti and he is accused by a civil court for murder and attempted murders in a terrorist company under his command. Palestinians captured for facts of " resistance " are usually judged by Israeli military tribunals but for Barghouti, Israel must subject itself to the foreign pressures and give to the lawsuit a legal minimum of credibility.

As in any political lawsuit, the defendant makes use of the platform which is offered to him to plead its political cause. Throughout its lawsuit, Barghouti refuses to recognize the legitimacy of the Israeli court and, logically, refuses to be defended. Barghouti known as to support the armed attacks against the Israeli occupation but cannot guarantee the attacks against civilians on the territory of Israel. He is condemned the May 20th 2004 for five murders via an armed group of which that of a Greek orthodoxe monk having taken place at the time of three Attentat S: one in the north of Jerusalem, with Tel-Aviv and another in the West Bank. Barghouti is also declared guilty of an attempted murder for a attack-suicide thwarted by the Israeli security forces. He affirms on his side innocent being of the counts of indictment carried against him. He is discharged from 21 counts of indictment of murder during 33 attacks. The June 6th, Barghouti is condemned to five sorrows of life imprisonment for the five murders and 40 years of imprisonment for attempted murder.

Barghouti is married with the lawyer Fadwa Barghouti.

Quotation

“I am not a Terroriste, but not either a Pacifiste. I am simply a normal guy of the Palestinian street defending the cause that very other oppressed defends: right to help me in the absence of any besides coming help”.

(Platform in the Washington Post in 2002)

External bonds

Campagne for the release of Barghouti
Position of the Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Israel on Barghouti
Bitter Circus Erupts ace Israel Indicts has Top Fatah Figure (in English) The NewYork Times, August 15th, 2002
official Bill of indictment (in Hebrew)
54 lodged complaints by Barghouti against the State of Israel
list of the commandos officially directed by Barghouti and civilian victims of these same commandos

See too

Brigades of the Al-Aqsa martyrs

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