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initial complaint with 19 crimes listed.
Final Judgment:
International War Crimes Tribunal
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
President of the National
Human Rights Commission in 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 Association 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
Attorney, former director of
the Center for Constitutional Rights, past president of the National
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
Secretary 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
First vice president of the
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 President 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
President 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.
* The Basis in International Law
* Testimony and Evidence
* International Law
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