MAAT condemns the terrorist crimes in Spain and Finland
Ideological confrontation and activation of the UN decisions against the supportive states for terrorism are inevitable
MAAT for Peace, Development and Human Rights expresses its condemnation to the terror attacks witnessed by Spain and Finland during the past two days, as well as its condolences to the victims’ families and its consolidation with the Spanish and Finish people and governments in these difficult moments, where a van ran over people in the streets leading to 13 deaths and dozens of injured in central Barcelona, followed by stabbing incident taking the live of two people in Finland by terrorists.
MAAT stresses that the two crimes emphasizes the necessity to adopt a more comprehensive approach o face the terrorism phenomena, becoming the greatest threat to human rights in general and the right to life as the most sacred right specifically, especially when the terrorism group are changing their attacking techniques to adopt with the tightened security measures that led to difficulties in moving explosions, developed weapons and professional terrorists, making them recruit youth inside the targeted states, support them to conduct terrorism acts using simple available tools and traditional techniques that neither need professionals nor previous training, running over and stabbing are the most important models for those techniques.
Ideological confrontation became a necessity to forbid terrorism organizations from recruiting new members, while deterrence of states sponsoring terrorism and availing media outlets and safe haven for them is becoming increasingly important in the meantime, we remind ere the necessity to activate the relative UN decisions and conventions led by the Security Council Decision No. 1373, including an explicit ban forcing the states not to provide any kind of support to the involved people in committing terrorism crimes, as well as the International Convention for the Suppression of the Financing of Terrorism adopted by the UN and presented for signature, ratification and joining by decision No. 54/109 dated 9 December 1999, and the relative human rights council decisions including the “impact of terrorism on enjoying human rights” decision, urging the states to refuse all forms of support provided to terrorists, as well as refusal to provide safe haven to them to those inciting the commitment of terrorism crimes.
