Iraq war USA in Haïti Israel Danmark Gældende bestemmelser Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court Saddam Husein Ramsey Clark's arbejde med 1. Iraqkrig enkeltpersoner, der skal anklages Afghan war 2, Verdenskrig.
"If George Bush were to be judged by the standards of the Nuremberg Tribunals, he'd be hanged. So too, mind you, would every single American President since the end of the second world war, including Jimmy Carter", Noam Chomsky
George Monbiot: "The media are minimising US and British war crimes in Iraq", The Guardian, 081105.
"War Criminals: Theirs and Ours", by William Blum, bringer en begrundet liste over amerikanske krigsforbrydere i nyere tid.
"I suppose if I had lost the war, I would have been tried as a war criminal. Fortunately, we were on the winning side." US General Curtis LeMay, commander of the 1945 Tokyo fire bombing operation.
It is absolutely necessary that we prosecute our own war crimes and crimes against humanity.
Britain has succeeded to keep quite a few of theirs secret. Torture camps for Nazis and later for communists i Germany, The Guardian, 030406 (Bad Nenndorf).
"The president of the United States is subject to death penalty under US law for that crime - alone [angrebet på Falluja almene sygehus]", Noam Chomsky - og så sammenligner han Srebrenica og Grozny med Falluja. Angreb mod sygehuse strider mod Haag konventionen (IX) af 1907, 1. Genévekonvention, artikel 19 ff, 4. Genèvekonvention artikel 18 ff., tillægsprotokollrn til Genèvekonventionerne af 1977, artikel 12 ff.
Associate United States Supreme Court Justice, Robert Jackson, chief judge in the Nürnberg Tribunal: "If certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes they are crimes whether the United States does them or whether Germany does them, and we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not de willing to have invoked against us." Det var jo et sundt synspunkt - nu må tiden være kommet til at omsætte det til virkelighed. I 1945 "overså" man jo bomber Harris og tæppebombningerne af Hamburg, Dresden m.fl. og atombomberne i Nagasaki og Hiroshima. Lad os nu ikke overse udraderingen af Fallujah.
Derfor skal statsminister Anders Fogh Rasmussen for ICC for sin deltagelse i angrebskrigen mod Iraq. Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and other top Bush officials could soon face legal jeopardy. Inklusive Cheney og Bush selv. Og Israels ansvarlige fra top til laveste pilot skal for ICC for bombningen af Gaza. Og her er der ikke brug for Freds- og Forsoningskonferencer, men for benhårde juridiske konsekvenser - dog ikke dødsstraf. Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights and author of "The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld," points out that over 20 countries now have universal jurisdiction laws that would allow them to indict U.S. officials for torture if America doesn't do it itself. Robert Gates bør også have en retssag.
150910, New Statesman, Alyssa McDonald, Noam Chomsky: "President Obama is Involved in War Crimes Right Now" ... What are your thoughts on President Obama?
He's involved in war crimes right now. For example, targeted assassinations are war crimes. That's escalated quite sharply under Obama. If you look at VikiLeaks, there are a lot of examples of attacks on civilians.
What did you think when he was given the Nobel Peace Prize?
Considering the history of the Nobel Peace Prize, it's not the worst example. It was given to him before he had the time to commit many war crimes.
... Afghanistan? The fact is that the invasion was a crime. ... [the Iranian threat] The threat to the US came in the presentations to Congress by Pentagon officials in April - they pointed out that the threat is not military; it's to the "stability" of the region.
Do you agree with that assessment?
It's imperial doctrine. Stability is when the UK and US invade a country and impose the regime of their choice. But if Iran tries to interfere, that's destabilising.
Do you vote?
I often do, without much enthusiasm. In the US, there is basically one party he business party. It has two factions, called Democrats and Republicans, which are somewhat different but carry out variations on the same policies. By and large, I am opposed to those policies. As is most of the population.
Og så skal US General John Craddock, NATO's top commander, i Afghanistan for ICC. Spiegel, 210809, NATO High Commander Issues Illegitimate Order to Kill . .. top NATO commander John Craddock wants the alliance to kill opium dealers, without proof of connection to the insurgency. NATO commanders, however, do not want to follow the order. ....According to the document, deadly force is to be used even in those cases where there is no proof that suspects are actively engaged in the armed resistance against the Afghanistan government or against Western troops. It is "no longer necessary to produce intelligence or other evidence that each particular drug trafficker or narcotics facility in Afghanistan meets the criteria of being a military objective," Craddock writes. ...' In the document, Craddock writes that the directive is the result of an October 2008 meeting of NATO defense ministers in which it was agreed that NATO soldiers in Afghanistan may attack opium traffickers. [Har de virkelig besluttet det - så skal de også for ICC]. The directive was sent on Jan. 5 to Egon Ramms, the German leader at NATO Command in Brunssum, Netherlands, which is currently in charge of the NATO ISAF mission, as well as David McKiernan, the commander of the ISAF peacekeeping force in Afghanistan. Neither want to follow it. Both consider the order to be illegitimate and believe it violates both ISAF rules of engagement and international law, the "Law of Armed Conflict." ... . Nevertheless, relations between the Americans and the local population are extremely tense due the rising number of US-led air strikes and the dramatic increase in the number of civilian casualties. ... Back in December, Central Command in Florida, which is responsible for the US Armed Forces deployment in Afghanistan, yet again watered-down provisions in the rules of engagement for the Afghanistan deployment pertaining to the protection of civilians. According to the new rules, US forces can now bomb drug labs if they have previous analysis that the operation would not kill "more than 10 civilians."
Geoffrey Wheatcroft: "The birth of "mere terror". The Guardian, 050805. Understreger, at udraderingen af Hiroshima ikke var 2. verdenskrigs første massakre på civile. Og at der består en stærk mistanke om, at USAs mål var at opnå japansk overgivelse inden Sovjetunionen erklærede Japan krig. Han gengiver ellers antiatomvåbenudtalelser af Dwight McDonald, amerikansk trotskist og anarkistisk pacifist, og Monsignor Ronald Knox, konservativ engelsk katolik.
081005, The Telegraph. "Both these men could be pulled up as war criminals for engaging in actions that we condemned Germany in 1946 for doing," he said. He said the Prime Minister and the US President were "guilty of the crime of plaining and committing aggressive warfare". Speaking in London at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Mr [Scott] Ritter said the two leaders vould have been in a much stronger position if they had got a UN resolution explicitly authorising the invasion."
170103, Professor Francis A Boyle: Impeachment Resolution against President George W Bush. 100807, ICH, Francis A. Boyle Fighting the Democrats' Complicity with Bush "To the contrary, the new Democrat-controlled Congress decisively facilitated these serial Nuremberg crimes against peace on May 24,2007 by enacting a $95 billion supplemental appropriation to fund war operations through September 30.2007."
311204, gennemgår Nicolas JS Davies, i Online Journal, den internationale lovgivning om agressionskrig fra Nürnberg til nu. Herunder USAs egen lovgivning.
100405, Charlie Smith, Veterans For Peace, gennemgår arbejdet med at rejse krigsforbryderanklager mod Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld etc. Herunder gør han opmærksom på, at enkelte torturofre forsøger at rejse private sager mod Rumsfeld m.fl. Det understreges, at når amerikanske soldater undskylder de mange nedskydninger ved vejspærringer med selvforsvar, så er dette næppe holdbart i.h.t. international ret. Der er jo tale om en besættelse og en angrebskrig - og det må man jo gerne forsvare sig mod, mens angriberen ingen rettigheder har. Canada har afvist at modtage 2608 personer, der har været indblandet i krigsforbrydelser - et eksempel til efterfølgelse, OJ.
240106, Truthout, Bush on Trial for Crimes against Humanity Bush forsøger åbent statskup med sin fodnote til underskrivelsen af McCains antitortur tilføjelse. Anklagerne listes og begrundes.
050206, RevCom. International Commission on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration offentliggjorde 020206, National Press Club i Washington, sine foreløbige konklusioner. Første anklagepunkt var angrebskrige. Her finder kommissionen overvældende bevis for at krigen mod Iraq falder ind under dette begreb. Selve den måde krigen blev ført på, specielt ødelæggelsen af byen Fallujah som sammenlignes med tyskernes ødelæggelse af Lidice, indeholder også krigsforbrydelser og forbrydelser mod menneskeheden. Anvendelsen af tortur er også en menneskerettighedskrænkelse. Så er der forbrydelser mod menneskeheden i den måde Bushregeringen har undergravet det videnskabelige arbejde med de globale klimaforandringer. Man fandt også, at håndteringen af Katrina i New Orleans var en forbrydelse mod menneskeheden. Regeringen vidste, at digerne ikke kunne holde og man havde 2 dages varsel til at få folk ud.
ICC
Krigsforbrydere kan dømmes for ICC. Men det land, der begår flest krigsforbrydelser, USA har en undtagelse til 1. juli 2004. De betræber sig på at få fornyet undtagelse, men denne bestræbelse møder - heldigvis og retfærdigsvis - stigende modstand i FNs Sikkerhedsråd. 9 lande skal stemme for i Sikkerhedsrådet for en vedtagelse. Foreløbig har 4 lande meddelt, at de nok undlader (6 skal undlade for at forslaget falder). Kinas FN ambassadør har meddelt, at han synes en undtagelse for USA "ville være et dårligt signal netop nu". (Reuters, 270504). Man kan dog frygte, at såvel Kina som andre lande kan købes til at stemme for.
Professor Marjorie Cohn, der bl.a. er vicepræsident i det amerikanske advokatsamfund har 091104 en skarp kritik af det amerikanske standpunkt.
War against Terrorism
The admissibility of evidence obtained by torture is a war crime, see e.g. The Guardian, 220703. And violates anyhow the Convention against Torture.
see Herbert P. Bix: "From Nanjing 1937 to Fallujah 2004", ZMag, 030504.
180705, The Telegraph, London. Den afghanske krigsherre Faryadi Sarwar Zardad er dømt i Old Bailey i London for krigsforbrydelser begået i Afghanistan 1992 til 1996. Det skulle være den første sag af slagsen. Han bor i London.
180805, International Herald Tribune. Afghan Justice Project (finansieres af Soros) har afleveret en 180 siders rapport om menneskerettighedforbrydelser i Afghanistan siden 1978.
The first and biggest war crime - because it is the mother of all other war crimes - is the starting of an aggressive war. Guilty of this war crime are the presidents/prime ministers, secretary/minister of defense and the top general of each national corps of the "coalition of the willing" - and they should be procuted correspondingly at ICC.
Executive Director, American Center for International Law, Evan Augustine Peterson III: "Was the Iraq war legal, or illegal, under international law", Information Clearing House, 170904, is a short and clear discussion of the main points, including references to deeper analysis. He points to the fact, that Frank and Frick were tried, sentenced and hanged in Nürnberg for providing Hitler with a pre-war legal advice that Germany could use the pretext of an imminent threat to "preemptively" invade Poland. This should by any moral standard apply to Yoo, Gonzales and the other "torture advocating" attorneys employed by the Bush administration.
All episodes that may be war crimes should be investigated, as indeed they seem to be as far as the british troops are concerned, 2, It is not absolutely sure that British forces did use cluster munition (mentioned for Basra, Hay al Zaitun, 250303 in The Independent, 080204).
Walter Sommerfeld, Süddeutsche Zeitung (english): Plundering museums in Baghdad
Le Monde, editorial, english, It is a war crime to start agressive war to achieve "regime change"
War crime threat to Blair, in 010603, Sunday Sun, a mother, Ann Nichol, who lost her 36 year old son in Iraq, wants Blair tried under international law as a war criminal, "If this turns out to be a lie" - this being the exsistence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
The cluster bombs that are spread - also in built up areas in cities - constitutes a war crime, so Richard Lloyd of Landmine Action, according to The Observer, 010603.
Soldiers have an individual responsibility for participating in warcrimes (150406, rinf.com.), some try to cope with it. After three months in Baghdad, Ben Griffin told his commander that he was no longer prepared to fight alongside American forces. The decision marks the first time an SAS soldier has refused to go into combat and quit the Army on moral grounds. "I did not join the British Army to conduct American foreign policy," he said. He was discharged with a testimonial describing him as a "balanced, honest, loyal and determined individual who possesses the strength of character to have the courage of his convictions". [Which tells us, that Blair has not totally destroyed British decency !! OJ]
Robert Fisk, The Independent, 310503, cites an Ahmed Chalabi militiaman on US troops: "they made a man crawl on all fours in front of his friends just because they didn't obey their orders". That is also a warcrime.
The Brussels court of Appeals said that a lawsuit filed by 23 survivors of massacres at Sabra & Shatila in 1982 against general Amos Yaron, army commander at the time, can go ahead.
Ian Urbina in Asia Times (100603) : New Report Implicate Soldiers in Death of Journalists.
240303 General Surgical Hospital in Nasiriyah became the target of 2 war crimes. 2 iraqi officials hid there and later the Americans bombed the clearly marked hospital. And after the bombing they even fired at the ambulances, from helicopters, as well as shooting t any moving target. The same day the bus from Baghdad to Nasiriyah was hit by a grenade from an American tank. (The next day they removed bodies and burned the bus !). Other war crimes are mentioned in the report.
Mike Ferner (Voices in the Wilderness) mentions in "Terror by another name" the ill treatment of the village Abou Siffa (080204).
Human Rights Watch skriver 120104 til Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld om "several incidents in Iraq involving actions by United States forces that appear to violate the 1949 Geneva Conventions".
The US is turning up the heat on the countries of the Balkans and eastern Europe to secure war crimes immunity deals for Americans and exemptions from the year-old international criminal court. At the same time USA requests the countries of former Yugoslavia to cooperate with ICTY in Hague, The Observer carries a similar story, 150603.
Belgium showed signs of giving in on its controversial war crimes law, a lawsuit against Franks and a US Maribe colonel was referred to the USA, after Rumsfeld threatened to block spending on new NATO headquarters in Bruxelles. Reuters 130603.
Steve Crawshaw: Why the US needs this court, The Observer, 150603:
"Ninety countries, uncluding almost all the world's major democracies, have now ratified the treaty. But not the United States - which is where the problems begin. Those problems are increasing by the month and by the day. The US administration, not content with refusing to ratify, and then 'unsigning' the treaty (a murky legal concept, at best), sekks to prevent this crucial instrument of international justice from building up the strength it needs to do its work successfully. It is, in short, doing its level best to kill the court. (The 'Hague invasion clause' signed into law by President Bush last year, allows him to use 'all means necessary and appropriate' to free US servicemen detained by the ICC).
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The irony is obvious: that Washington simultaneously demands complete co-operation with international justice at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal ...
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American contempt for the court - and its determination to bring the court's supporters to heel - sends a disastrous message worldwide. It suggests that there is one standard of justice for Americans and another for everybody else. Such haughty foolishness makes the world a less safe place - for Americans too."
See in this matter also Le Monde, 120603, english version, den franske version er ikke frit tilgængelig på nettet.
David Walsh: "The killing of [Saddam] Hussein's sons: The Nuremberg precedent and the criminalisation of the US ruling elite", 240703
Soldiers i Samarra blew up the house of Talab Saleh, who is accused of orchestrating attacks against US troops, witnesses said. They said the troops arrested Saleh's wife and brother and said they would not be released until Saleh surrenders. (The taking of hostages is terrorism and not allowed according to the Geneva conventions)
That the USA is the "evil empire" behind most warcrimes especially in Latin America is illustrated by the existence of School of the Americas and its supporters like Wesley Clark (New York Post, 181203, Vincent Morris). More on the school, now Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, Fort Benning, Georgia.
Carlos Mauricio: "What happened at Abu Ghraib was torture by the book; they were implementing US policy" [as tought at School of the Americas], Sunday Herald, 121204.
The mistreatment of people of the press, as e.g. described in The Nation, 290304, (Jazeera) are war crimes.
The more or less targeted killings of people of the press (19 in Iraq) may also be a war crime.
The bombing of the Hospital i Falluja, first week of april 2004, is a warcrime.
The use of heavy weapons from tanks and helicopters in the densely populated neighbourhoods in Sadr city in Baghdad in the first days of april 2004 is a war crime. So also the helicopter attacks on Shoula (Robert Fisk, 060404)
120404, beretterRahul Mahajan at have set en ambulance i Falluja, hvor kuglehullerne klart passede med at ambulanceføreren var blevet skudt af snigskytte på taget af en bygning, er det sket og det en amerikansk snigskytte, er det en krigsforbrydelse.
Phillip Carter from FindLaw has an extensive treatment of international law concerning occupants and occupied. "Customary international law has historically allowed some kinds of reprisal against other combatants for crimes of war. However, modern international law disdains such acts - an expressly prohibits them against civilians and other protetcted groups. For example, the Fourth Geneva Convention statets that "[r]eprisals against protected persons and their property are prohibited." Thus the American military cannot retaliate against the Iraqi civilians in Fallujah just to make a point. [These same rules cover Israel and IDF in the occupied territories !!!] TIME TO CONVICT NO 1 WAR CRIMINAL: SHARON.
Al Jazeera beretter, 210404, om ødelæggelse af huse i Falluja.
Orit Shohat, "Remember Falluja", Haaretz, 280404, giver en ubehageligt klar beskrivelse af US Army's forbrydelser i Falluja.
Normon Solomon: This war and racism - media denial in overdrive, The Progressive Trail, 060504, behandler sammenhængen mellem Abu Ghraib og USAs fængselsvæsen og reacismen.
Robert Fisk: "Pictures of wounded men being shot...", The Independent, 060504
see Herbert P. Bix: "From Nanjing 1937 to Fallujah 2004", ZMag, 030504.
FNs menneskerettighedskontrollør Paul Hunt forlanger en uafhængig undersøgelse af det amerikanske militær fremfærd i Fallujah, CBC, 040504.
Englands og USAs ambassadører i Schweiz har været kaldt til den Schweiziske regering på grund af mishandlingen af krigsfanger, The Independent, 100504.
Bombningen af brylluppet i Mukaradeeb nær den syriske grænse er en klar krigsforbrydelse, The Guardian, 210504/The Independent, 210504.
According to Geneva Conventions all POWs should be given free by the handover of sovereignty 010704, including Saddam Hussein, only exception is is there are criminal charges against someone, as also stated by Red Cross. If they are not given free - that is another war crime by the US coalition. The Guardian, 140604.
Også den engelske regering prøver at undgå ansvaret for tortur og drab i Iraqs fængsler, The Guardian, 100604.
Med alle de amerikanske krigsforbrydelser kan det jo blive svært at dømme Saddam Hussein påpeger Jude Wanniski, 230604, og det argumenterer han godt for. Anklagen om giftgasbombning af Halabja kan Saddam få CIA-hjælp til at afvise, IPS, 020704.
Center for Economic and Social Rights har lavet en oversigt over "US violations of Occupation Law in Iraq", 100604.
Når det konstateres, at torturen i Iraq ikke er bragt til ophør i juli, (The New Standard, 300804) må Rumsfeld kunne dømmes for krigsforbrydelser, jvf. Nürnberg-dpmmene.
070904, Lord Murray, tidligere lord advocate of Scotland, siger til The Guardian, at en debat om en mistillidserklæring til Blair i underhuset er helt på sin plads. Og at det er hans opfattelse, at beslutningen om at gå i krig mod Iraq var ulovlig i.h.t. international ret.
100904, The Guardian: "En amerikansk senatskomite har fået at vide, at der kan have været op til 100 hemmelige fanger i Abu Ghraib. Kun 8 af dem er med i en liste opstillet af generalerne George Fay og Paul Kern". Der er tale om fanger, som CIA har overtaget ansvaret for. Det er klart at CIA toppen har et ansvar - og bør dømmes herfor, f.eks.i ICC - men USAs regering bærer jo i sidste ende ansvaret.
160904, Annan presses i BBC til at sige, at Iraq-krigen er ulovlig.
151104, Toronto Star, "Should Canada indict Bush". Canada har en lovgivning, som Bush kunne anklages efter. Nürnberg principperne og det internationale retssystem, der er opbygget herefter giver et godt grundlag for en sag. Den måde krigen i Iraq føres på, Abu Ghraib etc. er klart dækket. Imod taler egentlig kun det politiske hensyn til den store nabo.
161104, juraprofessor Francis Boyle "A war crime in real time" med henvisninger til gældende ret om angrebet på Fallujah.
161104, Dahr Jamail, mindst 800 civile ofre. Røde Kors klager over manglende adgang, rygter om clusterbomber og phosphorbomber og over at forsyningerne til hospitalerne allerede afbrøds 2 månedr før angrebet.
161104, nu vågnede selv Louise Arbour, FNs højkommissær for menneskerettigheder. Hun vil undersøge "beskyldningerne om overdreven voldsanvendelse og bevidst beskydning af civile" i Falluja. Amnesty hanvde dagen før beskyldt begge sider for at bryde reglerne - på sædvanlig Amnesty vis !
181104, Francis A Boyle begrunder juridisk at Alberto Gonzalez er krigsforbryder og i øvrigt også er det efter Pentagon's US Department of the Army Filed Manual 27 - 10 The Law of Land Warfare.
CASI, Denial of water to iraqi cities, findes på www.casi.org.uk
150105, oplyser The Guardian, at amerikanske og polske soldater bruger det arkæologiske område Babylon (næsten 2600 år gammelt) som militært depot, med store jordarbejder. Den slags er også en krigsforbrydelse. Helt tilbage fra Haag-konventionens tid.
210105, Lyndon LaRouche's blad EIR, bringer et langt interview med Scott Horton, formand for advokatsamfundet i New York Citys udvalg om international ret. Horton understreger, at al mordene international ret har Haagkonventionen af 1907 som udgangspunkt. Den opstod som reaktion på den anarkistiske terrorbølge i slutningen af 1800tallet. Det er altså helt forkert, når Gonzales m.fl. vil påstå, at international ret og Geneve- med flere konventioner ikke kan anvendes på en situation med terror. Han understreger, at Genevekonventionerne blev til i en bestræbelse på at få alle væbnede konflikter ind under dem, med den indeholdte beskyttelse for civile, sårede, krigsfanger o.s.v. Han understreger, at bestræbelsen på at få "de andre" til ikke at være dækket af konventioner, mens "vore" er dækkede, er en bestræbelse, der er helt parallel til Carl Schmitts - nazisternes folkeretsekspert. Bestræbelsen - fra bl.a. Gonzales' side - på at lægge al magt hos commander-in-chief (præsidenten) også har sin parallel i dyrkelsen af Der Führer. Dødsdommen over Keitel i Nürnberg begrundes i høj grad netop i manglende respekt for Haagkonventionen. (Artiklen skriver Genevekonventionerne, men de blev jo først vedtaget 3 år efter at dommen var eksekveret).
March 2005, Brian Cloughley: " Twisting the mind of the American People" describes 2 bad examples of war crimes committed by American forces in Iraq. But his main theme is "the twisting af American minds". Mainstream news cover is directed by 2 major factors: advertising revenue and its precursor, audience prejudice.
The Economist is cited for "about 1 in 5 Americans now suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder".
The attitude towards non-americans is, they are Untermenschen - subhumans.
010505, The Observer: "Iraq, The secret US Visit, And An Angry Military Chief." Gennemgår den engelske regerings problemer med at overbevise sine sagkyndige i international ret og sine militære om krigens lovlighed !
010505, Sunday Times, "The secret Downing Street memo" of 230702 - om at krigen allerede er besluttet af Bush og Blair.
030505, CommonDreams. Paul Rockwell gennemgår militærpersoners ret til at sige fra. "En ordres lovlige autoritet afhænger af, at den er i overensstemmelse med loven". Der mangler krigerklæring fra Kongressen - det kræver forfatningen. Forfatningen, inklusive 5te tilføjelse gælder også i krigstid. Fastslået af Højesteret (for forfatningens vedkommende) ved dom i 1866. Internationale aftaler godkendt af senatet gælder over forfatningen.
060505, The Guardian. I går overrakte advokater for antikrigsgrupper bevismateriale til ICC for at den engelske regering handlede ulovligt ved at deltage i amerikanernes krig mod Iraq. Krigshandlingerne var helt ude af roportion med det angivne formål.
080505, The Independent. MilitaryFamilies against the War vil anklage Blair for ICC. Anklagepunkter: Clusterbomber i byområder; ødelagt kraft- og vandforsyning. Forsvarsministeriet har indrømmet at clusterbomberne havde en uacceptabel høj fejlprocent.
260505, Amnesty International. Udenlandske regeringer opfordres til at undersøge Rumsfeld, Gonzales og andre der beskyldes for at stå bag torturen. Hvis undersøgelserne støtter en anklage skal regeringerne arrestere enhver af dem som kommer ind i landet og retsforfølge dem. Det har man en pligt til i.h.t. international ret. En privat gruppe har udsendt den samme opfordring, udover Rumsfeld og Gonzales nævnes her Tenet, Ricardo Sanchez, Geoffrey Miller og Douglas Feith. Det understreges, at Torturkonventionen har "universal jurisdiktion", d.v.s. der kan rejses anklage mod enhver udøver i et hvilket som helst land.
130605, Six more British Documents Leaked. Link to: Iraq options Paper; Straw says case for Iraq is weak; Condi sommitted to regime change early 2002; The British legal background; What has changed is not the pace of Saddam's WMD programs; The Need to wrongfoot Saddam on Inspectors.
130605, TomPaine. Ray McGovern on Downing Street II. British admiral Michael Boyce demanded a straightforward, written opinion from the attorney general that attacking Iraq would be lawful. Should British troops be brought to trial by ICC British ministers should be "brought into the frame as well". He includes Blair and Goldsmith. Asked on the 230702 minutes Bush & Blair inadvertently acknowledged their authenticity.
140605, Information Clearing House, Francis A Boyle: The National Campaign to impeach president George W Bush. I henhold international ret, kan man se selve Bushadministrationen som en pågående kriminel sammensværgelse. 110303 indkaldte Conyers omkring 40 af sine juridiske rådgivere og Ramsey Clark og Francis Boyle til en diskussion af muligheden for en rigsretssag mod Bush. Resultatet blev negativt - ikke af juridiske grunde, men alene fordi det kunne skade demokraternes præsidentkandidat ved valget i 2004.
150605, CounterPunch, Stan Goff skriver et godt indlæg, der slår fast at man altid har ret til at sige nej til ulovlige ordrer og i øvrigt også altid skal følge sin samvittighed. Han citerer en underofficer for at have sagt "Genevekonventionen (!) eksisterer ikke i Iraq".
060705, CounterPunch, Jeremy R Hammond: "Applying the US standard - State sponsors of terrorism". Behandler bl. a. den internationale domstols dom. Retten siger bl.a. at en vejledning om psykologiske operationer i guerillakrigsførelse, som USA uddelte til contras, opfordrede disse til at begå menneskerettighedskrænkelser.
070705, HRW. "Afghanistan: Bring war criminals to justice". Link til rapport og andet materiale. Følgende nævnes som særligt belastede: Abdul Rabb al Rasul Sayyaf, Abdul Rashid Dostum, Mohammad Qasim Fahim, Karim Khalili, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.
200705, The Guardian. 3 britiske soldater står anklaget for krigsforbrydelser mod tilbageholdte i Iraq (Basra september 2003, Baha Musa).
070805, Information Clearing House, Jason Miller: "George Bush ved hvorfor de hader os". Et betragteligt antal af de civile dødsfald skyldes beslutningen om at anvende cluster-våben i tætbefolkede områder. Hvilket er en krigsforbrydelse.
080805, Information Clearing House. Mickey Z: "Vermin and souvenirs. How to justify a nuclear attack". Der er en sammenhæng mellem racisme og krigsforbrydelser.
230805, Iraq Dispatches. Doctors For Iraq opfordrer til undersøgelse af brud på Genevekonventionerne ved drab på civile og ved at forhindre medicinsk personale i at udføre sit arbejde i Haditha, Rawa, og Parwana.
141005, ICH. Prof. Francis A Boyle gennemgår Iraq og krigens love. Han definerer forbrydelserne udfra US Army Field Manual 27-10, 1957. Understreger tillige, at UNSC 1483 af 220503 kun konstaterer, at der er tale om en besættelse, med de bemyndigelser, det ansvar og de forpligtelser det giver. Samtidig opfordrer resolutionen til fuldt ud at efterkomme forpligtelserne i.h.t. international lov inklusive specielt Genevekonventionerne af 1949 og Haag-forordningerne af 1907. I brevet fra US/UK lover de selv dette og nævner forpligtelsen til at sørge for det iraqiske folks væsentlige humanitære behov.
Selvom USAs regering har lov til at indsætte en lydregering i Iraq, så er USA stadig fuldt ud ansvarlig for dens handlinger ! Besættelsesmagten har ansvaret for alle overtrædelser af krigens love, menneskerettighedsbestemmelser m.m. og de enkelte officerer og civile embedsmænd har derudover deres eget personlige ansvar.
En besættelse berører ikke den besatte stats suverænitet. Besættelsesmagten kan ikke overdrage denne, fordi den ikke har den. Bl.a. derfor kan besættelsesmagten ikke ændre grundloven og andre grundlæggede retsforhold.
151005, BBC. FNs menneskeretsundersøger Jena Ziegler beskylder koalitionen for at udsulte iraqiske civile i forbindelse med aktionerne mod byer. Dette er en overtrædelse af Genevekonventionerne. Ziegler forelægger den for UNGA, 271005.
191005, Reuters. En spansk dommer har dømt den tidligere argentinske flådekaptajn Adolfo Scilingo for forbrydelser mod menneskeheden for hans indsats under diktaturet.
271005, ICH. John Pilger ser på sagen mod en engelsk officer, som nægter at blive sendt tilbage til den ulovlige krig. Han skriver også:
At the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leadership, counts one and two, "Conspiracy to wage aggressive war and waging aggressive war", refer to "the common plan or conspiracy". These are defined in the indictment as "the planning, preparation, initiation and waging of wars of aggression, which were also wars in violation of international treaties, agreements and assurances". A wealth of evidence is now available that George Bush, Blair and their advisers did just that.
Og det har han jo fuldstændig ret i. Derudover omtaler han US/UKs bombekampagne i de 10 måneder, der gik forud, som dels gik ud på at forberede angrebet, dels på at provokere Saddam til at begynde krigen. US/UK omfattes også af Nürnbergdommens punkter 3 og 4 om forbrydelser mod menneskeheden, ved f.eks. mord på civilbefolkningen. Det at afbryde en bys forsyning med vand og mad er også en klar overtrædelse af Genevekonventionerne.
071105. La Repubblica. USA anvendte kemiske våben i Fallujah. Hvidt phosphor og en ny version af napalm. RAIhar en udsendelse herom med en amerikanske veteran, der fik ordre til at være forsigtig på grund af anvendelse af disse midler. Giuliana Sgrena medvirker også. [Når der blev skudt på hendes bil ved hendes befrielse, hænger det nok sammen med, at den historie ikke gerne skulle ud, OJ].
071105, ZNet. Om amerikanske krigsforbrydelser i Iraq, og om militærnægtere. Louise Arbour har som FNs menneskerettigheds højkommissær advaret om, at "those guilty of violations of international humanitarian rights laws including deliberate targeting of civilians, indiscriminate and disproportionate attacks, killing of injured persons, and the use of human shields-must be brought to justice, "be they members of the Multinational Force or insurgents."
The military technology the United States is using in Iraq, such as cluster bombs and depleted uranium, may be illegal in itself. Under Article 85 of the Geneva Conventions it is a war crime to launch "an indiscriminate attack affecting the civilian population in the knowledge that such an attack will cause an excessive loss of life or injury to civilians." A UN weapons commission described cluster bombs as "weapons of indiscriminate effects." A reporter for The Mirror (United Kingdom) wrote from a hospital in Hillah, "Among the 168 patients I counted, not one was being treated for bullet wounds. All of them, men, women, children, bore the wounds of bomb shrapnel. It peppered their bodies. Blackened their skin. Smashed heads. Tore limbs. A doctor reported that 'All the injuries you see were caused by cluster bombs'...The majority of the victims were children who died because they were outside."
Under the principles established by the Nuremberg and Tokyo war crimes tribunals, those in a position to give orders are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity conducted under their authority. But responsibility does not end there. Anyone with knowledge of illegal activity and an opportunity to do something about it is a potential criminal under international law unless the person takes affirmative measures to prevent the commission of the crimes.
221105, The Guardian, George Monbiot: "Behind the phosphorus clouds are war crimes within war crimes", dansk oversættelse: "Bag ved fosforskyeme er der krigsforbrydelser indeni krigsforbrydelser". Beskriver bl.a. anvendelsen af thermobarvåben, en blanding af fint forstøvet brændstof og eksplosiver, der når den antændes giver en mægtig indkugle efterfulgt af en kraftig trykbølge.
261105, Irish Examiner. "Iranian president calls for war crimes charges on US". "You, who have used nuclear weapons against innocent people, who have used uranium ordnance in Iraq should be tried as war criminals in courts," Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said in an apparent reference to the US. Since the 2003 start of the Iraq war, US forces have reportedly fired at least 120 tons of shells packed with depleted uranium.
"They say Iran has to stop its peaceful nuclear activity since there is a probability of diversion while we are sure that they are developing and testing (nuclear weapons) every day," Ahmadinejad said. "They speak as if they are the lords of the world."
240106, Referat fra mødet sidste weekend i The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration.
270106, AP. "Documents Show Army Seized Wives As Tactic". Gidseltagning er også en krigsforbrydelse ! (1. Genevekonvention, 1949, artikel 3).
First document: http://www.aclu.org/torturefoia/released/t2614_2616.pdf
E-mail exchange: http://www.aclu.org/projects/foiasearch/pdf/DOD044843.pdf
300106, CounterPunch. - Opening Remarks to the culminating session of the International Commission of Inquiry On Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration, Riverside Church, New York, January 20,2006. By MlCHAEL RATNER: "And a police state to me is one where authority is not under law, where the legislature is overridden, and where our courts are ignored. It is a State where one can be jailed without a court proceeding or trial and where the president, king or what have you, can do as he pleases - wire tap, torture, and disappear people. Unfortunately, and dangerously that is the situation we are in today. ...Wnat the President has done is basically lay the plan for what has to be called a coup-d'etat in America. It is a small paragraph and it's contained in what is called a 'signing statement. It was signed on December 30th and it's the signing statement to what is called the McCain amendment. You probably all remember McCain amendment. Thafs the amendment that prohibits cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment, or supposedly prohibits it. The president as you recall, resisted the McCain amendment. But in the end he had to sign it because it was part of a broader military authorization to pay for what we're doing in Iraq When a president signs legislation, he sometimes and, more recently with President Bush, almost always, issues a signing statement as to what his understanding of the new law is. The presidents statement on McCain is only one short paragraph. But it is historic. It is unprecedented. And if you're looking for the grab for power that allows you, permits you, compels you to call this administration a tyranny, it is that paragraph.
It makes three points and I'll paraphrase. First, speaking as the president, 'My authority as commander in chief allows me to do whatever I think is necessary in the war on terror including use torture. Second, the Commander in Chief cannot be cheeked by Congress. Third, the Commander in Chief cannot be checked by the courts.' There it is. There you have it. That boring stuff I leamed as a junior high school student about checks and balances or about limited law or about authority under law - out the window. Gone. In other words, the republic and democracy is över. In Germany what did they call that? They called that the Fuhrer's law. Why? Because the fuhrer was the law. Thats what George Bush is saying here. George Bush is the law."
Altså: Bush skriver i sin bemærkning til underskriften på McCains tilføjelse (der skulle afskaffe tortur) at Den øverstkommanderende kan gøre, hvad han finder nødvendigt, inklusive tortur. Han er ikke underlagt Kongressen eller domstolene. Denne tilføjelse sammenligner Ratner med Hitlers magtovertagelse. Ganske rimeligt. Det ville svare til, at dronning Margrethe ved underskrivelsen af finansloven tilføjede, at hun kunne give ordre til aflytninger, tortur etc. og at retsvæsenet ikke havde myndighed til at kontrollere regeringens magtudøvelse.
100706, AlterNet: Could Bust Be Prosecuted for War Crimes ? Benjamin Ferencz - anklager ved Nürnbergdomstolen - citeres for, at USA/Bush klart kan dømmes for at have iværksat en angrebskrig. Man kan ikke iværksætte en forsvarskrig i forventning om at blive angrebet. Han understreger, at Bush I ikke indtog Baghdad og afsatte Saddam Hussein, fordi han manglede FN mandat til det. Det er derfor ganske urimeligt i 2003 at bruge de gamle før 1991 Sikkerhedsrådsresolutioner som begrundelse. Ferencz understreger også at Genevekonventionerne er amerikansk lov, så Bush' overtrædelser heraf er også en forbrydelse efter amerikansk forbundslovgivning.
090806, AP. Retroactive War Crime Protection Proposed. Bush administrationen har lavet ændringsforslag til USAs War Crimes Act, som med tilbagevirkende kraft skal beskytte de, der er politisk ansvarlige for at godkende ydmygende og nedværdigende behandling af fanger, mod strafforfølgelse i.h.t. loven.
230806, News24, "UK 'assisted in acts of terror' " [T]he Islamic Human Rights Commission (IHRC) har anlagt sag ved High Court i London imod forsvarsminister Des Browne, Civil Aviation Authority, udenrigsministeriet for at have ydet bistand til brud på international lov ved at tillade mellemlanding for amerikanske fragtfly, der formodedes at bringe bomber til Israel under krigen mod Libanon.
Herefter udestår så blot at retsforfølge de ansvarlige danske ministre og embedsmænd - gør vi ikke det - er vi medskyldige.
241004, Al Jazira rapporterer, at CIA fører iraqiske fanger ud af landet til forhør - det strider mod Geneve konventionerne.
091104, The Independent, Sir Stephen Wall, former senior diplomatic adviser on Europe, ledende pro-europæer, ultra-loyal mandarin, der har tjent under Thatcher, Major og Blair beskylder Blair for at "depart from the rule of law" i forbindelse med Iraqkrigen.
050906, The Nation, "Bush Aims to Kill War Crimes Act". "As David Cole of the Georgetown University Law Center pointed out in the August 10 issue of The New York Review of Books, the Supreme Court's decision in Hamdan v. Rusmfeld "suggests that President Bush has already committed a war crime, simply by establishing the [Guantanamo] military tribunals and subjecting detaintes to them" because "the Court found that the tribunals violate Common Article 3 - and under the War Crimes Act, any violation of Common Article 3 is a war crime."" Det reelle indhold af War Crimes Act er, at de høje civile i Pentagon, som ikke er omfattet af Uniform Code of Military Justice kan drages til ansvar for krigsforbrydelser !!!
101006, Consumers for Peace.org har med bistand fra præsidenten for Association of Humanitarian Lawyers, Karen Parker, udarbejdet en rapport, U.S. War Crimes in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability. Der er link til rapporten i artiklen.
111006, wwv.thelancet.com Published online October 11, 2006 DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(06)69491-9, Gilbert Burnham et al. Mortality after the 2003 invasion of Iraq: a cross-sectional cluster sample survey. Der er interviewet 1849 husholdninger, 12801 personer, proportionalt udvalgt i Iraqs distrikter (2 af 17 distrikter er ikke med, de 2 har til sammen ca 1/25 af befolkningen). Interviewet søger oplyst antallet af dødsfald januar 2002 til 180303 (invasionsdatoen), og 180303 til juli 2006. Ved at sammenligne dødsraten i de to perioder, får man en overdødelighed. (Før invasionen døde 5.5 pr 1000 indbyggere pr år; efter invasionen er det 13.3 pr 1000 indbyggere pr år.). Regner man de to dødeligheder på hele Iraqs befolkning, får man en overdødelighed på 655.000. Regner man statistisk på tallene, når man til, at den virkelige overdødelighed med 95 % sandsynlighed ligger mellem 392979 og 942636. [Interviewmetoden og beregningsmetoden er standard for vurdering af dødeligheden ved jordskælv o.l. under tilsvarende forhold, hvor man ikke direkte kan tælle ligene. Man skal i tolkningen være opmærksom på, at basisperioden, førkrigsperioden, allerede havde - formentlig ikke i uvæsentligt omfang - forhøjet dødsrate p.g.a. af sanktionspolitiken. Sanktionspolitiken medførte bl.a. og i denne sammenhæng formentlig væsentligst, at man ikke kunne importere klor til vandrensning. Det dårlige drikkevand gav anledning til ikke mindst forøget dødelighed for småbørn. Sanktionspolitikken er af den årsag formentlig i sig selv en krigsforbrydelse - begået af FNs Sikkerhedsråd !! - Under alle omstændigheder betyder anvendelsen af den periode som basis, at overdødeligheden i Iraq, i forhold til en rigtig fredstid, er undervurderet. OJ]
251206, Legal Times, Alexia Garamfalvi In Search of a Criminal: Donald Rumsfeld's Name Tops the List. Der forsøges rejst sag i Tyskland, som har universal jurisdiction for krigsforbrydelser m.m., d.v.s. de kan retsforfølges i Tyskland, uanset hvor de er begået. Udover Rumsfeld søges også Alberto Gonzales, justitsministeren anklaget. Et væsentligt punkt i anklagen er Abu Ghraib, og fhv. general Janis Karpinski har lovet at vidne om, hvad hun rapporterede opad i systemet. Den offentlige anklager afgør om sagen kan rejses - og der forventes et kraftigt amerikansk pres for at forhindre det.
160107, BBC, Spain seeks US soldiers' arrest. "Spain has issued an internationil arrest warrant for three US soldiers accused of causing the death of a TV cameraman during the Iraq war. Jose Couso, 37, died in April 2003 after a US tank fired on a hotel used by foreign journalists in Baghdad." [Universel jurisdiktion, dette at krigsforbrydelser og menneskeretsforbrydelser kan strafforfølges uanset hvor de er begået, som bl.a. Spanien og Belgien har gennemført det, er en fantastisk god ide. Bliver det rimeligt almindeligt anvendt skulle det kunne standse de værste af den slags forbrydelser. OJ]
300107, Information Clearing House Blog, Howard Zinn, Impeachment by the People. Da det har lange udsigter med at få rejst rigsretsanklage mod Bush og hans folk foreslår Zinn at afholde folkets rigsretsanklagehøringer over hele landet. [Et godt forslag fordi den aktivering, det indeholder, også er forudsætningen for nogen som helst form for forandring.
060207, GulfTimes-Qatar, Mahathir fires war crimes volley at Bush. "Tomorrow, conference delegates are expected to formally launch a war tribunal that would hold "trials" for world leaders against whom common citizens file complaints. "We should not hang Blair if the tribunal finds him guilty but he should always carry the label as a war criminal, killer of children, liar. And so should Bush and the pocket Bush of the bushlands of Australia," Mahathir said, in reference to Australian Prime Minister John Howaed an ally of the US.!"
110207, The Independent, Noam Chomsky, The US says it is fighting for democracy - but is deaf to the cries of the Iraqis. USA bør som alle agressorer netale erstatninger, rette sig efter ofrenes ønsker og straffe de skyldige.
220507, International Herald Tribune, Former Australian army lawyer says Rumsfeld's handling criminal. "Former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's handling of the Iraq war verged on criminal negligence, a former Australian army lawyer turned political candidate said Tuesday. (Col. Mike Kelly, who ended a 20-year military career).
050807, Japan Times, ERIC PRIDEAUX, STEVEN L. LEEPER, Mr. Hiroshima-san. En præsentation af STEVEN L. LEEPER, formand for Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation. "Om bombningen af Hiroshima/Nagasaki, "I completely reject that it was necessary. All of the top military people of the United States at the time from (U.S. Fleet Admiral William Daniel) Leahy and [then Gen., and later Pres. Dwight D.] Eisenhower (1890-1969) on down, everyone was against the use of that bomb at time....And I think we had gone to all the trouble to make this incredible new device. and the people who did that really wanted to use it and see what it would do. And they saved Hiroshima, they protected Hiroshima from any other bombing so they could really see what happened as a result of the bomb. They saved Hiroshima for an experiment." [Her har vi virkelig en krigsforbrydelse, der burde straffes, OJ]
170610, Ralph Lopez, Wikileaks Soldier Reveals Orders for "360 Rotational Fire" Against Civilians in Iraq
261010, israel today | Israeli lawmaker calls for arrest of US war criminals. In a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, lawmaker Michael Ben-Ari of the National Union Party insisted that, the US military documents recently leaked by the website Wikileaks were grounds for an official probe. Among other things, the documents appeared to reveal that an average of 31 Iraqi civilians have been killed every day since American forces invaded in 2003, and that on numerous occasions American soldiers have tortured, raped and otherwise abused Iraqi nationals. ... Ben-Ari wryly suggested that the UN appoint Judge Richard Goldstone to head up the investigative committee. [Vi bør støtte den gode mand. Skriv til FN. Husk at de andre deltagere skal med. Det kunne blive et flot SELVMÅL !]
270312, ICH, "I Am No Longer the Monster I Once Was" Video "The reason I am doing this," said former Marine Jon Turner, Until people hear what is going on with this war, it will continue to happen, and people will continue to die.
The kidnapping of president and Mildred Aristide (the last a US citizen) is against The Multilateral Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons.
Israel in occupied territories and in Lebanon
Collective punishment
the lack of security for Palestinians
the settlements on occupied territory.
The killings without trial of suspected "terrorists".
There is every reason to declare Israel a terrorist state and zionism a terrorist movement.
130906, electronicintifada.net, Human Rights Watch: Don't Fire on Gaza Medics. Report, HRW, 13 September 2006 Israeli security forces launched attacks that harmed Palestinian medical emergency personnel and damaged ambulances on at least six different occasions in the Gaza Strip between May 30 and July 20, Human Rights Watch said today. The incidents are summarily described in the article. The descriptions does not leave the impression of accidents !
190906, The Independent, Patrick Cockburn: "Deadly harvest: The Lebanese fields sown with duster bombs". Han spørger, hvorfor gjorde den israelske hær det ? [Mon ikke svaret er, at man vil rydde Mellemøsten for arabere, det har jo været den israelske politik fra begyndelsen - og er roden til alle krigene. Med det udgangspunkt kan man jo ikke slutte en holdbar fred, OJ].
230610, Aljazeera om angrebet på Gaza January 2009. Case filed over Gaza assault. The complaint seeks charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity allegedly committed during Israel's war on Gaza in January 2009, Georges-Henri Beauthier, lawyer for the group filing the complaint, said on Wednesday. Blandt anklagepunkterne er bombning af Ibrahim al-Maqadna moskeen og anvendelse af fosfor-brandbomber mod en olivenlund. (Husk det tager en menneskealder inden et oliventræ bærer frugt). Sagen anlægges af belgiske borgere (af palæstinensisk oprindelse) i Belgien. Efter sagen mod Sharon i 2001, ændrede Belgien lovgivningen om universel retsforfølgelse af krigsforbrydelser, så sag kun kan rejses af belgiske borgere !!!
230610, Haaretz, 33 Greeks to sue Israeli officials over Gaza flotilla raid. Group of Greek Citizens who took part in Gaza-bound flotilla that was taken over by the IDF last month to sue senior Israeli officials - including Defense Min. Barak, and army chief Ashkenazi. ... The Greek activists also plan to sue soldiers and police officers who participated in the IDF's interception ... According to flotilla participants, Israel violated Greek criminal law as well as international treaties.
"Jeg anklager den danske regering", Jørgen Poulsen, Dansk Røde Kors, 180504. Det er dejligt, at se den ansvarsfølelse der ligger heri. Og så fra en Near Government Organization, som Jan Øberg kalder dem. Sørgeligt at "venstre"fløjen i Folketinget har snorket til nu.
Orlas brev til Fogh Rasmussen om Lov & orden; krigsforbrydelser og rød maling.
111005, Endelig udtager Grundlovskomiteen-2003 stævning mod Anders Fogh Rasmussen for i strid med Grundloven at have indledt en angrebskrig.
FNs sikkerhedsråd
FNs Oil for Food programme, der dræbte en halv million irakiske børn, først og fremmest gennem forurenet vand, (der manglede chlor til vandrensning), mangel på medicin og underernæring, er en krigsforbrydelse. Se f.eks. Media Lens, 230404.
Sagen mod Saddam Husein
201204, Jude Wanniski beretter at Khalil Doilami, der er medlem af Forsvars- og støttegruppen for Saddam Hussein, 161204, fik lov at møde Saddam. Pressemeddelelsen herom gengives. Anklagerne har opgivet anklagen: forbrydelser mod menneskeheden. Røde Kors har kun besøgt Saddam 4 gange. Gruppen mener ikke at behandlingen af Saddam er i overensstemmelse med 3. Genevekonvention, art. 44. Min vurdering er, at det ihvertfald strider mod nævnte artikel at holde ham isoleret uden adgang til at modtage og sende post.
Skånska Dagbladet, 091105. Om jag ifrågasätter bombandet, det direkta massmordet, av al Fallujas civilbefolkning, riskerar jag att kallas vän av SaddamH.
Om jag i samma, eller likvärdigt, sällskap fördömer "Bomber Harris" likvidation av Dresden ( [febmari 1945) blir jag lyckligtvis, eller märkligt nog, inte kallad vän av Adolf H.
Har vi, likt gamla prånglare, justerat besmanet?
Karl Axel Persson
121105, The Guardian. Ja så hører vi det med. England drev et hemmeligt torturcenter for tyske krigsfanger ! Over 3000 fanger gik gennem den lejr. Centeret lå i en af Londons fine bydele. Det blev holdt skjult for Røde Kors. Det fortsatte sin virksomhed 3 år efter krigen og i den tid blev også civile tortureret der. Der ligger en rapport fra de hemmelig tjenester, der lægger skylden på "the commanding officer". Forsvarsministeriet hemmeligholder stadig noge af dokumenterne.
Det er nok på tide, at vi får en international retssag om de allieredes krigsforbrydelser under 2. verdenskrig !!!
100406, ICH, K. Gajendra Singh har en solid gennemgang af hykleriet og dobbeltmoralen i retsforfølgelsen af krigsforbrydelser. "The Great Western Demonology Circus"
020806, ICH, Francis Boyle, A War Crimes Tribunal May be the Only Deterrent to a Global War. FNs generalforsamling må straks nedsætte en særlig krigsforbryderdomstol for Israel, i lighed med den, der blev oprettet for Jugoslavija. Det ville give et mindstemål af retfærdighed til ofrene for israelske krigsforbrydelser og kunne tjene som afskrækkelse for israelske ledere. Olmert, Peretz og Halutz nævnes som eksempler.
140806, New Yorker, Seymour Hersh, "Washington's interests in Israel's war." "The NATO forces commanded by U.S. Army General Wesley Clark methodically bombed and strafed not only military targets but tunnels, bridges, and roads, in Kosovo and elsewhere in Serbia, for seventy-eight days before forcing Serbian forces to withdraw from Kosovo." (Human Rights Watch estimated the number of civilians killed in the NATO bombing to be five hundred; the Yugoslav government put the number between twelve hundred and five thousand).
250806, OneWorld, "Bush and Saddam Should Both Stand Trial, Says Nuremberg Prosecutor". Det er Benjamin Ferenccz, som udtaler sig. Begge bør straffes for at have ført angrebskrig. ICC er den vigtigste udvikling og bør gennemføres effektivt.
051106, The Nation, Jeremy Brecher and Brendan Smith: War Criminals, Beware. 141106 vil en gruppe advokater og andre eksperter forelægge den tyske forbundsanklager en anmodning om en lrigsforbrydersag mod Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales og andre centrale figurer. Det er bl.a. en afprøvning af reglerne om universel jurisdiction, dette at visse særligt alvorlige forbrydelser kan retsforfølges over hele verden. Sagen er tidligere afvist med begrundelsen, at forbundsanklageren ikke så nogen grund til at tvivle på, at sagen ville blive retsforfulgt i USA. Men den nye lov om militærdomstole indeholder en bestemmelse som med tilbagevirkende kraft fritager civile embedsmænd for ansvaret for overtrædelser af USAs egen lov om krigsforbrydelser, det fjerner jo den indvending.
141106, The Center for Constitutional Rights, War Crimes Complaint Against Rumsfeld, et al. Blandt organisationer bag anklagen findes , the Republican Attorneys' Association (RAV). Det er Tysklands lov om ICC, der tillader, at krigsforbrydere og menneskerettighedsforbrydere retsforfølges uanset nationalitet og uanset, hvor forbrydelsen er begået. Det der kaldes universel jurisdiktion.
151206, FindLaw, John W Dean, Refocusing the Impeachment Movement on Administration Officials Below the President and Vice-President. Der er mulighed for at opnå domme over nogen af dem lavere på rangstigen, mens et senat med lige mange medlemmer fra hvert parti aldrig vil dømme en præsident eller en vicepræsident. Og en dom over nogen i komandorækken har betydning, først og fremmest ved at de pågældende ikke kan gøre tilsvarende nogen sinde i fremtiden, men det vil også konkretisere nogen juridiske grænser. Det der skete med Clinton var uheldigt. Da man rigsretsanklagede Nixon, gjorde man det rigtige, skabte først den nødvendige enighed på tværs af partierne. Går man ikke efter 2., 3. og 4. række, så kommer de med i nye regeringer, hvor de fortsætter som nu.
250307, Yahoo News/AFP, Kissinger's extradition to Uruquay sought over Operation Condor. En advokat for et offer for Uruguay diktatur (1973 - 1985) har forlangt udlevering af Kissinger for hans rolle i Operation Condor. Planen var Kissingers, de sydamerikanske diktaturer var kun entreprenører. [Det er derfor logisk at forlange en udlevering for meneskerettighedsforbrydelser. Det er den slags sager, der vil kunne standse USAs udvikling mod fascismen. Hverken Kissinger eller de nurværende bryder sig om ikke at kunne besøge udlandet. OJ]
Enkeltpersoner, der skal anklages for krigsforbrydelser
general Sanchez, Sanchez himself signed an 8-page memorandum with a laundry list of harsher interrogation techniques, including the specific use of unmuzzled dogs. (S: skal også anklages for forbrydelser mod sit eget personale ved at beordre dødsårsagen fjernet fra rapporterne om de kvinder, der døde af dehydrering (truthout)
general Geoffrey Miller for at have indført tortur på Guantanamo og siden overført den til Abu Ghraib
citat: [H]e said, "It's my opinion that you're treating the prisoners too well. At Guantanamo the prisoners know that we are in charge, and they know that from the very beginning." He said , "You have to treat the prisoners like dogs, and if you think or feel different You've lost control." (truthout)
Thomas Pappas
Bush, angrebskrig, truslen om at veto'e McCaintillægget. HRW
Cheney angrebskrig, kampen for at holde CIA udenfor torturforbuddet, HRW
Alberto Gonzales, for forsøgene på at omdefinere tortur, HRW
Porter Goss for at sige at "waterboarding" er en professionel forhørsteknik. HRW
Blair, Bush could face probe at The Hague, The Age, 180307. ICCs chefanklager, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, opfordrer arabiske lande til at anklage og siger, at han er parat til at starte forundersøgelser. Men Fogh skal sandelig have lov at komme med !
US General John Craddock.
Stephen Cambone, 130209, Raw Story, Stephen C. Webster, Unredacted Documents Reveal Prisoners Tortured to Death. "Much of this flowed through Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence a figure who has so far evaded scrutiny in the torture scandal.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, 1948
The Geneva Conventions, 1949
Tillægsprotokol 1 og 2 til Genevekonventionerne, 1977
The UN Convention against Torture or other Cruel, Degrading or Inhuman treatment or Punishment, 1984.
The Nuremberg Principles another link
En fuldstændig liste over menneskerettighedsrelaterede konventioner findes hos FNs Højkommissær for Menneskerettigheder
International Convention against the Recruitment, Use, Financing and Training of Mercenaries
I England har enkeltpersoner ret til at søge en international arrestordre mod "people suspected of serious human rights abuses." Den ret vil Blair have fjernet, Guardian, 030206.
Invasionen ved Bayeux 425000 døde soldater, 19000 civile !
Bombardementet af Dresden
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