-Caveat Lector- THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL TRIBUNAL FOR THE FORMER YUGOSLAVIA INTERNATIONAL ETHICAL ALLIANCE vs WILLIAM CLINTON AND WILLIAM COHEN INDICTMENT WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY GENERAL ALLEGATIONS 1. The herein indictment supplements, supports, and incorporates by reference the facts and legal principles asserted in the May 23, 1999 indictment of Milosevic et al. 2. The jurisdiction of the Tribunal is invoked pursuant to Statute (Article 18.1) which imposes a duty on its prosecutor, Justice Louise Arbour to hear and investigate "information obtained from any source, particularly...organizations." 3. INTERNATIONAL ETHICAL ALLIANCE, Inc. is a United States nonprofit organization, incorporated under the nonstock laws of the State of Connecticut to promote ethics in public forums, including this Tribunal and the Internet. 4. Defendant CLINTON is President of the United States and pursuant to its Constitution and War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 US Code 1541) has limited powers to act as Commander-in-Chief of its armed forces. Defendant COHEN is Secretary of Defense of the United States. 5. On March 24, 1999 defendant CLINTON ordered the military forces of the United States to participate in an aggressive military attack on former Yugoslavia and with the aid and abetment of defendant COHEN continued the attacks for more than 60 day, in violation of: (i) Article 2 of the United States Constitution, giving Congress the sole power to declare war (ii) 50 USC 1542, mandating initial and regular consultations with Congress; 50 USC 1543, mandating written reports of necessitating circumstances; and 50 USC 1544 mandating the termination of the war use of United States Armed Force after 60 days in the absence of the official enactment by Congress of specific statutory authority. 6. At all times relevant to this indictment, the Armed Forces of the United States have participated in non-defensive aggressive military attacks on former Yugoslavia, which have not been necessary to defend the national security of the United States and have also been violations inter alia of (i) Article 18 of the Geneva Convention On The Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, which provides, "Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and materinity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack, but shall at all times be respected and protected by the Parties to the conflict;" and (ii) Protocol II (8 June 1977) to the Geneva Convention of 12 August 1949, Article 14, which provides "It is therefore prohibited to attack, destroy, remove or render useless...objects indispensable to the survival for the civilian population, such as foodstuffs...drinking water installations...[and] works or installations containing dangerous forces...even where these objects are military objectives..." 7. Non-defensive aggressive wars as defined and proscribed in the Charter of the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, Aug. 8, 1945, are: "War crimes: namely, violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations include, but not be limited to, murder, ill-treatment ... of civilian population, ... wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity. "Crimes against Humanity: namely, murder ... and other inhumane acts committed against any civilian population, before or during the war. ..." 8. The definitions and proscriptions in the preceding paragraphs have been formally adopted by the United Nations as set forth in its Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, G.A. res. 2391 (XXIII), annex, 23 U.N. GAOR Supp. (no. 18) at 40, U.N. Doc. A/7218 (1968). 9. As has been recently charged by former Nuremberg prosecutor for the United States, Walter Rockler, with respect to the 1999 attacks on former Yugoslavia: "We have engaged in a flagrant military aggression, ceaselessly attacking a small country primarily to demonstrate that we run the world. The rationale that we are simply enforcing international morality, even if it were true, would not excuse the military aggression and widespread killing that it entails. "It also does not lessen the culpability of the authors of this aggression." 10. As stated in paragraph 88 of the May 23, 1999 indictment of Slobodan Milosevic et al by the Court herein (the International Criminal Tribunal for former Yugoslavia): A superior is responsible for the acts of his subordinate(s) if he knew or had reason to know that his subordinate(s) was/were about to commit such acts or had done so and the superior failed to take the necessary and reasonable measures to prevent such acts or to punish the perpetrators thereof." 11. The facts alleged in Counts 1 and 3 below are based on verbatim quotations from a May 27, 1999 New York Times article former United States President Jimmy Carter, charging: "The decision to attack Yugoslavia [as] counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life [as] senseless and excessively brutal." 12. The facts alleged in Count 2 below are a summary of acts in an open letter to American and other NATO leaders from Bishop Artemious of Kosovo, a leader of a resistance movement against the Milosevic regime, charging: " The greatest victim of your bombing is Democracy! Before your bombs democratic forces existed here, however embryonic. Destroying those forces is the greatest crime of your bombs... ." 14. On information and belief, as reported by journalist Alexander Coburn: "The tribunal's prosecutor, Judge Louise Arbour, has kept a contemplated indictment of those responsible for the single largest ethnic cleansing of the mid-1990s locked in her desk. [It] refers to Croatia's Franjo Tudjman and his forces--a senior KLA commander apparently among them--who drove 300,000 Serbs from their homes in the Krajina, bombarding and murdering them as they fled. This was carried out under the supervision of the US Ambassador to Croatia, Peter Galbraith, with US personnel offering Tudjman's cleansers targeting advice and appropriate materiel." 15. On information and belief based in part on evidence presented in a BBC2 documentary of May 1, 1999 prepared and reported by Harold Pinter, NATO's onslaught against Serbia was (ii) "a bandit action, committed with no serious consideration of the consequences, ill-judged, ill-thought, miscalculated, an act of deplorable machismo;" (ii) "contrary to the United Nations charter [since] NATO was bombing a fellow UN member, without UN authority;" (iii) [in bombing Serbian TV were] " ugly murders of human beings who propagate words or images that somebody else doesn't like." Pinter further reported that, "The greatest single act of displacement and ethnic cleansing in the entire Yugoslav war was that of 200,000 Serbs from Croatia in 1995 carried out by officers trained by NPRI, an organization of US army veteran commanders and armed with a great deal of US weaponry, in an attack of which the US had full knowledge...and its purpose was creating convenient ethnically-pure maps without committing US ground forces." 16. There is substantial credible evidence to require the disqualification of Justice Arbour from this tribunal, including but not limited to: (i) the engaging in selective prosecution by intentionally failing to act on any facts or principles of law which she knows or has reason to know would incriminate defendants CLINTON and COHEN, and other as yet unindicted officials of NATO and NATO countries; (ii) conflicts of interest, or the appearance thereof, in receiving compensation from funds contributed to the Tribunal in whole or in part by NATO countries; and (iii) biases in favor of NATO countries. 17. Five of the fourteen justices of this court, including Chief Justice Gabrielle Kirk McDonald represent NATO countries (United States, United Kingdom, Britain, France, Italy, and Portugal) the United States, Portugal), have conflicts or appearances of conflicts of interest and should either recuse themselves or be disqualified from this case. 18. The aforesaid precedents and legal principle and the allegations contained in paragraphs 1 through 19 are re-alleged and incorporated into each of the charges set forth below. CHARGES 1. The Armed Forces of the United States, acting under orders of defendants CLINTON and COHEN have executed a non-defensive aggressive military campaign against former Yugoslavia. 2. Defendants CLINTON and COHEN and others have committed or aided and abetted actions which they knew, or had reason to know, would result in the following. COUNT 1 The killing, injuring, terrorizing, and destruction of the homes of thousands of Serbian and other civilians in former Yugoslavia, including but not limited to, such acts described by former President Carter as: 1. 25,000 sorties and 14,000 missiles and bombs, 4,000 of which were not precision guided, as of May 1999; 2. The use of anti-personnel cluster bombs that have resulted to damage to hospitals, offices and residences of ambassadors, and the senseless and brutal killing of innocent civilians and conscripted troops; and 3. The use of specific types of cluster bombs that are designed to kill and maim humans and are condemned almost universally by other nations, as are land mines. COUNT 2 The provocation of the government of former Yugoslavia to continue to increase the murder, terrorization, and deportation of Albania civilians in Kosovo, and such acts as are charged in the May 24, 1999 indictment of Slobodan Milosevic et al, that are described by Bishop Artemios of Kosovo as resulting in the destruction of democracy in Yugoslavia. PRAYER FOR RELIEF Based on the above, petitioner prays for an order: A. Requiring defendants William Jefferson CLINTON and William COHEN to show cause no later than August 10, 1999 why they should not be indicted for war crimes and crimes against humanity; B. Scheduling hearings to commence on August 20, 1999 and summoning the defendants to appear; C. Authorizing petitioner International Ethical Alliance to be represented by counsel at said hearing to examine the defendants and witnesses; D. Summoning former President Carter, Bishop Artemious of Kosovo, former Nuremberg prosecutor Walter Rockler, Alexander Cockburn, Harold Pinter and others to testify as witnesses; E. Disqualifying Justice Louise Arbour and other NATO country justices from any further participation in the proceedings of the Tribunal; and F. For such other relief as to the Tribunal may seem just and proper. DATED: July 8, 1999 Respectfully submitted by, ___________________________ Jerome M. 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