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Wanted - Bush & Blair for War Crimes The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:58:43 GMT

Wanted - Bush & Blair for War Crimes

The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal found the former heads of state guilty after a four-day hearing. A seven-member panel chaired by former Malaysian Federal Court judge Abdul Kadir Sulaiman presided over the trial.
The five panel tribunal unanimously decided that the former US and British leaders had committed crimes against peace and humanity, and also violated international law when they ordered the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.
The prosecutors at the hearing ruled that the invasion of Iraq was a flagrant abuse of law, and act of aggression which amounted to a mass murder of the Iraqi people.
“Bush and Blair are found guilty under the same law that applied to the Nazis after the end of the World War II. So, they are international (war) criminals guilty of Nuremberg crimes against peace; and they should be prosecuted by any state in the world that gets a hold of them. We will continue our efforts to bring Bush and Blair to justice and put them in jail,” Francis Boyle, an international law expert and prosecutor, told Press TV.
The judges in the verdict said that that the United States, under the leadership of Bush, forged documents to claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
Bush and Blair were tried in absentia by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal at the end of the hearing. The participants also demanded that the findings of the tribunal be made available to members of the Rome Statute and that the names of the two former officials be entered in the register of war criminals.
“There is also a recommendation that this (the findings) be circulated to the states because all states have universal jurisdiction. Therefore, whenever Bush or Blair appear within their shores there is an obligation on the international law to commit these international war criminals through the justice system,” Gurdial Singh Nijar, a prosecutor, told Press TV.
Lawyers and human rights activists in Malaysia have described the verdict issued by the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal against Bush and Blair as “a landmark decision.”
They say that they would lobby the International Criminal Court to charge the pair for war crimes.
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal is scheduled to hold a separate hearing next year on charges of torture linked to the Iraq war against former US officials including ex-Vice President Dick Cheney, former Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld and ex-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

http://presstv.com/detail/211548.html
http://warcriminalswatch.org/
http://stopwar.org.uk/

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The Palestinian Children . . . . "Mohammad Shabrawi from the West Bank town...

Sun, 04 Mar 2012 23:35:17 GMT

The Palestinian Children . . . .

"Mohammad Shabrawi from the West Bank town of Tulkarm was arrested last January, aged 16, at about 2.30am. "Four soldiers entered my bedroom and said you must come with us. They didn't say why, they didn't tell me or my parents anything" he told the Guardian. Handcuffed with a plastic tie and blindfolded, he thinks he was first taken to an Israeli settlement, where he was made to kneel – still cuffed and blindfolded – for an hour on an asphalt road in the freezing dead of night."

"Another Azzun youngster, Sameer Saher, was 13 when he was arrested at 2am. "A soldier held me upside down and took me to a window and said: 'I want to throw you from the window.' They beat me on the legs, stomach, face," he said."

"Juvenile detainees also allege harsh interrogation methods. The Guardian interviewed the father of a minor serving a 23-month term for throwing rocks at vehicles. Ali Odwan, from Azzun, said his son Yahir, who was 14 when he was arrested, was given electric shocks by a Taser while under interrogation."

"At the beginning, nearly all deny the accusations. Most say they are threatened; some report physical violence. Verbal abuse – "You're a dog, a son of a whore" – is common. Many are exhausted from sleep deprivation. Day after day they are fettered to the chair, then returned to solitary confinement. In the end, many sign confessions that they later say were coerced."

"Israeli military law has been applied in the West Bank since Israel occupied the territory more than 44 years ago. Since then, more than 700,000 Palestinian men, women and children have been detained under military orders."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/22/palestinian-children-detained-jail-israel
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http://www.davidicke.com/articles/political-manipulation-mainmenu-72/60587-the-elephant-in-the-living-room--at-war-with-the-world
http://occupiedpalestine.wordpress.com/2012/02/12/iof-soldiers-break-the-legs-of-palestinian-minor/
http://palsolidarity.org/2012/02/hebron-at-least-10-children-arrested-by-israeli-military-in-one-week/

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HUNTED!!...

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 18:11:39 GMT

HUNTED!!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/21/afghanistan-trophy-photos-us-soldier
http://www.thewe.cc/weplanet/asia/afghanistan/afghanistan.html
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/03/21/human-exceptionalism-wrong-to-pose-with-dead-humans-as-if-they-were-hunted-animals/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/21/us-army-kill-team-afghanistan-posed-pictures-murdered-civilians
http://ukforcesafghanistan.wordpress.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_Gibbs
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7038828n
http://kitup.military.com/2011/06/army-wants-more-xm25s-in-afghanistan.html#more-5094

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Israel Kills Children This is an image of a protesting young girl. I took it...

Tue, 21 Sep 2010 06:41:26 GMT

Israel Kills Children

This is an image of a protesting young girl. I took it in Al Quds Day in Marble Arch, London 2010.
Iman Darweesh Al Hams (Arabic: ايمان درويش الهمص, also 'Iyman'), (1991 - 5 October 2004) was a 13-year-old Palestinian girl killed by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) fire near a military observation post in a no-man's zone near the Philadelphi Route on 5 October 2004, in Rafah in the Gaza Strip.
The IDF commander of the soldiers which shot her was accused by his comrades and Palestinian witnesses of using automatic fire into the girl's body as she lay wounded on the ground, a subject which was brought into investigation. The commander was found not guilty of illegal use of his weapon, conduct unbecoming an officer and perverting the course of justice by an Israeli military court.
Human rights groups cite her death as one of several incidents which illustrate a culture of impunity in the IDF.
According to Umar Abu Khalifa, 25, Israeli soldiers stormed the area, the girl left the bag and tried to run. Bullets hit the (girl's) bag and then soldiers opened fire on the girl.
Palestinian witnesses reported that it was more than an hour before Israeli troops would allow medics to evacuate the body in an ambulance. At least fifteen bullets were found in the girl's body by Palestinian hospital officials.
Dr. Mohammed al-Hams, who inspected the child's body told The Guardian newspaper that:
She has at least 17 bullets in several parts of the body, all along the chest, hands, arms, legs ... The bullets were large and shot from a close distance. The most serious injuries were to her head. She had three bullets in the head.
Ehab Hams, an older brother of the slain girl, expressed his distrust of Israeli military justice: We demand the prosecution of Iman's killer (but) we do not trust the Israeli judicial system. He added, My sister was an innocent little girl.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iman_Darweesh_Al_Hams

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Welcome to the Games...

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 09:08:18 GMT

Welcome to the Games...

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quack

Thu, 03 May 2007 14:18:13 GMT

quack

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