“Make War a Crime”: Bring these war criminals to trial
The Kuala Lumpur initiative to crminalize war
Global Research, November 6, 2009
by Arman Ahmad
KUALA LUMPUR: The international community has failed to charge leaders who went to war to solve problems.
“The criminals have not been questioned or tried,” said former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad [...]
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Some Palestinians only get 20 litres of water a day, Amnesty says
Israel is denying Palestinians access to even the basic minimum of clean, safe water, Amnesty International says.
In a report, the human rights group says Israeli water restrictions discriminate against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank.
It says that in Gaza, Israel’s blockade has [...]
The US Massacre at Al-Sukkariya
Attack on Syria Cover Up
By Real News
Erlich: The US massacre at Al-Sukkariya, Syria in 2008 was a clear violation of international law.
Posted October 21, 2009
Reese Erlich is a best-selling book author and freelance journalist who writes regularly for the Dallas Morning News, Canadian Broadcasting Corp. Radio and National Public Radio. He [...]
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Humanitarian Law Applies to All
By Tammy Obeidallah
October 12, 2009 “Information Clearing House” — Throughout the world, people have attempted to distinguish ordinary Americans from the United States government. Perhaps our complacency for aiding and abetting war crimes has been attributed to lack of education, apathy in the face of an omnipotent pro-Israeli lobby or that [...]
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FOR JUSTICE FOR IRAQ:
2009-10-07 | LEGAL CASE FILED AGAINST FOUR US PRESIDENTS AND FOUR UK PRIME MINISTERS FOR WAR CRIMES, CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY AND GENOCIDE IN IRAQ
MADRID: Today the Spanish Senate, acting to confirm a decision already taken under pressure from powerful governments accused of grave crimes, will limit Spain’s laws of universal jurisdiction. Yesterday, [...]
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The Goldstone report has been denounced in Israeli and ignored by the U.S. press, unless you count the NY Daily News, which called it a “blood libel against Israel.”
By Roane Carey, The Nation. Posted September 26, 2009.
The recently released UN Human Rights Council fact-finding mission on the December-January Gaza conflict, released on the [...]
Bush Administration officials should be prosecuted for war crimes. Soldiers should disobey wrongful orders
Randy Dotinga interviews Marjorie Cohn
by Marjorie Cohn
Voice of San Diego – 2009-09-26
On the legal front, George W. Bush and Dick Cheney have few bigger enemies than Marjorie Cohn, a professor at San Diego’s Thomas Jefferson School of Law.
Cohn, president of [...]
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A Palestinian Child Against Israel at The ICC
Kawther Salam
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September 1, 2009
Netherlands/ The Hague, Amira Al-Qirim, a Palestinian girl aged 15, a victim and survivor of the Israeli massacre in Gaza last January, held a press conference together with her lawyer [...]
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Death Squad
spiegel
Blackwater Accused of Creating ‘Killing Program’
A memo obtained by SPIEGEL indicates that cooperation between the CIA and private security firm Blackwater was deeper than previously known. SPIEGEL has uncovered further details about a plan to set up squads for targeted killings of suspected al-Qaida leadership in Afghanistan.
On Wednesday, the CIA disclosed that it had [...]
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High Tech Weaponry used in Gaza: Radiation contamination by Depleted Uranium
Global Research, August 14, 2009
by Peter Eyre
I am a Middle East Consultant living in the UK and would like all people living in or near areas of conflict to understand the High Tech Weaponry used by many military establishments worldwide, especially the US [...]
Source: Salon
It has long been known that soon after the American invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, hundreds or thousands of Taliban prisoners who had surrendered in the city of Kunduz were herded into metal containers and suffocated or shot, allegedly under orders from an Afghan warlord. As Newsweek reported in August 2002, the bodies were [...]
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Iraq�s refugees; the region�s largest displacement crisis goes on
World Vision Middle East/Eastern Europe/ Central Asia office
June 20, 2009
Some 2 million Iraqi refugees across the Middle East will spend a fifth World Refugee Day far from home and even further from any prospect of return or [...]
New UN Report Denounces Washington
by Stephen Lendman
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Global Research, June 15, 2009
On May 26, the UN Human Rights Council issued a report titled “Promotion and Protection of All Human Rights, Civil, Political, Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, Including the Right to Development – Report of the Special Rapporteur [...]
This is probably exactly what the photos show, because it happened. The same-sex crimes against detainees have been documented.
The Telegraph of London broke the news — because the U.S. press is in a drugged stupor – — that the photos President Barack Obama is refusing to release of detainee abuse depict, among other sexual tortures, [...]
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An Interesting Holohoax Anecdote
Positive Affirmation of What I Already Know About the Hollowco$t
Brandon Dean
WizardofOswald.com
May 28th, 2009
the remains of ethnic German victims of the Polish pogroms before WWII. if you don’t know what that means, LOOK IT UP.
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One of the people I work with is a kid about 20, who’s grown up living in his German [...]
by Sherwood Ross
Global Research, May 20, 2009
Massachusetts School of Law
Bringing war criminals to justice can have a positive effect in unifying a nation, legitimizing its government, and keeping it on the right path, a legal scholar says.
The trial of Nazi SS officer Adolf Eichmann by Israel inspired German youth to question their elders’ [...]
By Raw Story
Published: May 19, 2009
Vice President Cheney is daring the Obama administration to indict him for authorizing torture, according to a former White House lawyer, and it’s time to call him out on his bluff.
“I have written many times in this space that I oppose any criminal prosecution of prior-administration officials on torture [...]
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Two months ago, Hersh, speaking at the University of Minnesota, said the following in trying to reveal yet more of the incredible depravity and lawlessness of Dick Cheney:
“After 9/11, I haven’t written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people they thought to be enemies of [...]
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Irish For Palestine
Today the Israeli Army Child Killing Unit shot another child. But no need to worry, decent people of the world, after all they are “allowed” to shoot 12 year old children. Why? Because, according to Israel, you are no longer a child when you turn 12 years old. Never mind that the world [...]
‘Racism in Israel is not like racism in other states.’
By Jeremy Salt – Ankara
Racism is common to most and probably all societies. Laws never seem entirely to eliminate it. It was the essential tool in the creation of modern settler states. The United States could not have come into existence without the obliteration of North [...]
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