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Subject: SLS: SNET: Bush Found Guilty at War Crimes Tribunal! (fwd)
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>
> STOP ALL FEDERAL ABUSES NOW!
> S.A.F.A.N. Internet Newsletter, No. , March 16, 1997
>
>FINAL JUDGMENT: INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIBUNAL
>by the Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal
>(<http://deoxy.org/warcrim3.htm)
>
>United States War Crimes Against Iraq
>
>The members of the International War Crimes Tribunal, meeting in
>New York, have carefully considered the Initial Complaint of the
>Commission of Inquiry dated May 6, 1991 against President George
>H. W. Bush, Vice President J. Danforth Quayle, Secretary of Defense
>Richard Cheney, Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf Commander of the Allied
>Forces in the Persian Gulf, and others named in the Complaint
>charging them with nineteen separate crimes against peace, war
>crimes, and crimes against humanity in violation of the Charter of
>the United Nations, the 1949 Geneva Conventions, the First Protocol
>thereto, and other international agreements and customary international
>law:
>
> having the right and obligation as citizens of the world to
>sit in judgment regarding violations of international humanitarian
>law;
> having heard the testimony from various Commissions of Inquiry
>hearings held within their own countries and/or elsewhere during
>the past year and having received reports from numerous other
>Commission hearings which recite the evidence there gathered;
> having been provided with documentary evidence, eyewitness
>statements, photos, videotapes, special reports, expert analyses
>and summaries of evidence available to the Commission; having access
>to all evidence, knowledge, and expert opinion in the Commission
>files or available to the Commission;
> having been provided by the Commission, or elsewhere obtained,
>various books, articles, and other written materials on various
>aspects of events and conditions in the Persian Gulf and military
>and arms establishments;
> having considered newspaper coverage, magazine and periodical
>reports, special publications, T.V., radio, and other media coverage
>and public statements by the accused, other public officials and
>other public materials;
> having heard the presentations of the Commission of Inquiry
>in public hearing on February 29, 1992, the testimony and evidence
>there presented; and having met, considered and deliberated with
>each other and with Commission staff and having considered all the
>evidence that is relevant to the nineteen charges of criminal
>conduct alleged in the Initial Complaint make the following findings.
>
>FINDINGS
>
>The members of the International War Crimes Tribunal finds each of
>the named accused Guilty on the basis of the evidence against them
>and that each of the nineteen crimes alleged in the Initial Complaint,
>attached hereto, has been established to have been committed beyond
>a reasonable doubt.
>
>The members believe that it is imperative if there is ever to be
>peace that power be accountable for its criminal acts and we condemn
>in the strongest possible terms those found guilty of the charges
>herein.
>
>We urge the Commission of Inquiry and all people to act on
>recommendations developed by the Commission to hold power accountable
>and to secure social justice on which lasting peace must be based.
>
>Recommendations
>
>The Members urge the immediate revocation of all embargoes, sanctions
>and penalties against Iraq because they constitute a continuing
>crime against humanity. The Members urge public action to prevent
>new aggressions by the United States threatened against Iraq, Libya,
>Cuba, Haiti, North Korea, Pakistan and other countries and the
>Palestine people; fullest condemnation of any threat or use of
>military technology against life, both civilian and military, as
>was used by the United States against the people of Iraq.
>
>The Members urge that the power of the United Nations Security
>Council, which
>
>was blatantly manipulated by the U.S. to authorize illegal military
>action and sanctions, be vested in the General Assembly; that all
>permanent members be removed and that the right of veto be eliminated
>as undemocratic and contrary to the basic principles of the U.N.
>Charter.
>
>The Members urge the Commission to provide for the permanent
>preservation of the reports, evidence, and materials gathered to
>make them available to others, and to seek ways to provide the
>widest possible distribution of the truth about the U.S. assault
>on Iraq.
>
>Charges of Other Countries
>
>In accordance with the last paragraph of the Initial Complaint
>designated Scope of Inquiry, the Commission has gathered substantial
>evidence of criminal acts by governments and individual officials
>in addition to those formally presented here.
>
>Formal charges have been drafted by some Commissions of Inquiry
>against other governments in addition to the United States. Those
>charges have not been acted upon here. The Commission of Inquiry
>or any of its national components may choose to pursue such other
>charges at some future time. The Members urge all involved to
>exert their utmost effort to prevent recurrences of violations by
>other governments that were not considered here.
>
>Done in New York this 29th day of February, 1992.
>
>(signed)
>
> Olga Mejia, Panama, Pres. Nat'l Human Rights Commission,
>Panama, a non-governmental body representing peasants' organizations,
>urban trade unions, women's groups and others.
> Sheik Mohamed Rashid, Pakistan, former deputy prime minister.
>Long-term political prisoner during the struggle against British
>colonialism and activist for workers' and peasants' rights.
> Dr. Haluk Gerger, Turkey, founding member of Turkish Human
>Rights Assn and professor of political science. Dismissed from
>Ankara University by military government.
> Susumu Ozaki, Japan, former judge and pro-labor attorney
>imprisoned 1934- 1938 for violating Security Law under militarist
>government for opposing Japan's invasion of China.
> Michael Ratner, USA, Atty, former director of the Center for
>Constitutional Rights, past pres. Nat'l Lawyers Guild.
> Lord Tony Gifford, Britain, Human rights lawyer practicing in
>England and Jamaica. Investigated human rights abuses in
>British-occupied Ireland.
> Rene Dumont, France, Argonomist, ecologist, specialist in
>agriculture of developing countries, author. His 45th book, This
>War Dishonors Us, appears in 1992.
> Bassam Haddadin, Jordan, member of Parliament, Second Sec'y
>for the Jordanian Democratic Peoples Party. Member of Parliamentary
>Committee on Palestine.
> Dr. Sherif Hetata, Egypt, Medical Doctor, author, member of
>the Central Committee of the Arab Progressive Unionist Party.
>Political prisoner 14 years in 1950s and 1960s.
> Deborah Jackson, USA, 1st Vice Pres. American Association of
>Jurists, former director of National Conference of Black Lawyers.
> Opato Matarmah, Menominee Nation of North America Involved
>in defense of human rights of indigenous peoples since 1981.
>Represented the International Indian Treaty Council at the Commission
>of Human Rights at the U.N.
> Laura Albizu, Campos Meneses, Puerto Rico, past Pres. of the
>Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and current Secretary for Foreign
>Relations. Honorary president of Peace Council.
> Aisha Nyerere, Tanzania, Resident Magistrate of the High Court
>in Arusha, Tanzania. Researched the impact of the Gulf war on East
>Africa.
> Peter Leibovtich, Canada, Pres. of United Steel Workers of
>America, USWA, Local 8782 and of the Executive Council of the
>Ontario Federation of Labor.
> John Philpot, Quebec, Attorney, member of Board of Directors of
>Quebec Movement for Sovereignty. Organizing Secretary for the
>American Association of Jurist in Canada.
> John Jones, USA, Community leader in the state of New Jersey.
>Vietnam veteran who became leader of movement against U.S. attack
>on Iraq.
> Gloria La Riva, USA, founding member of the Farmworkers
>Emergency Relief Committee and Emergency Committee to Stop the U.S.
>War in the Middle East in San Francisco.
> Key Martin, USA, Member of Executive Committee of Local 3 of
>the Newspaper Guild in New York. Jailed in 1967 for taking message
>of Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Vietnam to active duty Gls.
> Dr. Alfred Mechtersheimer, Germany Former member of the
>Bundestag from the Green Party. Former Lieutenant Colonel in the
>Bundeswher; current peace researcher.
> Abderrazak Kilani, Tunisia, Tunisian Bar Association. Former
>President, Association of Young Lawyers; founding member, National
>Committee to Lift the Embargo from Iraq.
> Tan Sri Ahmad Noordin bin Zakaria, Malaysia, Former Auditor
>General of Malaysia. Known throughout his country for battling
>corruption in government.
> P. S. Poti, India, former Chief Justice of the Gujarat High
>Court. In 1989 elected president of the All-lndia Lawyers Union.
>
>Index: World Wide Web URL: <http://deoxy.org/warcrim3.htm
>The Commission of Inquiry for the International War Crimes Tribunal
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