a norwegian activist for Tjen Folket Media.
In
2003, the NATO base Joint Warfare Center (JWC) was opened in the Jåttå
area of Stavanger. This is a massive complex behind barbed wire fences
adjacent to a suburb of Stavanger. Originally built within tunnels dug
by Germans during WWII, but now also with large buildings above-ground.
The
base is included in the command structure of imperialist NATO and is
often visited by top leaders in NATO and its member countries.
Since
the establishment of the NATO base, there have been several rounds with
training and education for the leadership of the occupation forces in
Afghanistan. Since 2001, Afghanistan has been hit with a bloody war,
waged by an imperialist NATO occupation where hundreds of thousands have
been killed, including large amounts of civilians.
Furthermore,
training for the top leadership in the Iraqi military installed by the
US has also been carried out at the base. Iraqi police have also been on
tours in the police station in Stavanger as a part of the same project.
This military has in the past week shot and killed demonstrators in
Iraq, who have demonstrated against the neglect of the country that now
has a US-loyal regime. The regime that imperialists have installed has
left the people in miserable conditions without enough food, water,
electricity, and medicine. To serve the imperialists’ control of oil and
military power in the Middle East, gravediggers are trained to smash
the people’s justified rebellion.
Training, organizing, and administration of the imperialist war.
One
of the most important people who has been trained in the base is the
Canadian Lieutenant General Charles Bouchard. Bouchard was the commander
for the NATO operation in 2011 in Libya where Norway killed several
civilians and thrust the oil-rich country into a brutal civil war that
continues to this day, and afterwards served as leader for the Canadian
branch of the American weapons company Lockheed Martin until 2018.
Joint
Warfare Center has also participated very actively in the NATO exercise
Trident Juncture, which was met by demonstrations all over Norway.
From
Jåttå, wars of aggression, occupations, and the murder of civilians
have been organized as a part of the plunder of the world’s poorest by
imperialist countries like Norway and the US. Gravediggers who kill our
fellow people that demonstrate in Iraq have been trained here. And
future imperialist wars will most likely be waged with the support of
the JWC.
Generals entrench
themselves behind high barbed-wire fences in the world’s wealthiest
country and rain death over the world’s poorest people on other
continents.
Sources:
https://www.jwc.nato.int/index.php/jwcmedia/news-archive/224-international-security-assistance-force-for-afghanistan-isaf-training-at-the-joint-warfare-centre
https://www.jwc.nato.int/index.php/jwcmedia/news-archive/337-largest-us-nato-joint-pre-deployment-exercise-for-afghanistan-begins
https://www.jwc.nato.int/index.php/jwcmedia/news-archive/691-nato-joint-warfare-centre-celebrates-its-15th-anniversary-in-stavanger-norway
https://www.jwc.nato.int/index.php/jwcmedia/news-archive/236-joint-warfare-centre-holds-second-key-leader-training-course-for-iraqi-security-forces
https://www.jwc.nato.int/index.php/trident-juncture-2018-cpx
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