Guilty as charged in 1992:
George Bush, James Baker, Richard Cheney, Colin
Powell, Norman Schwarzkopf
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 the crimes alleged and has been established to have
been committed beyond a reasonable doubt." http://burn.ucsd.edu/~mai/warcrimes.html
Why isn't anyone talking about these past
criminal war crimes charges as we approach yet another war in Iraq?
I'm amazed no one at the so-called "smoking gun" United Nation hearings
this past Wednesday challenged Colin Powell on any of this. You would
think that at least one person from one nation would have objected to
Mr. Powell's testimony on Iraq as being unreliable lacking any
credibility in light of his past criminal record by the Interenational
War Crimes Tribunal, not to mention his well documented involvement in the 1968
Vietnam My Lai massacre.
Then to top it all off, it's revealed that
Mr. Powell was praising British "intelligence reports" that were cut and pasted
from an a grad student term paper that was found posted on the
Internet!
What in God's name are we collectively thinking
of? Why is the corporate media
praising Mr. Powell's "unvarnished" testimony before the United
Nations? Mr. Powell should be in prison, not speaking before the United
Nations as a representative all United States citizens concerning matters that
will influence world events and history for decades to come should we stay on
our present ill-conceived course of a headlong mad rush into war with
Iraq. And this is all the result of having a radical court appointed
administration selected by judiciary, most of whom were appointed by war
criminals.
Can anyone say impeachment? Can anyone
say stop this insanity? Can anyone say the inmates are running the asylum
and we must immediately implement contingency plans to restore sanity, common
sense and the people's will to our out-of-control war mongering government?
Now is not the time to sit at home watching
events unfold on CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, and CBS.
They are complicit in allowing this
appalling situation to happen in the first place.
The hour is getting late and our freedoms
and many lives are stake.
-
Warren
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.
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.
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.
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.
Index
World Wide Web URL:
http://deoxy.org/warcrim3.htm
Copyright � 1992 by The Commission of Inquiry
for the International War Crimes Tribunal
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