USA: Bush administration on trial for crimes against humankind

Well, they may be: it depends on the guts of the tribunal. From Global Research:

Plaintiff Sundus Shaker Saleh, an Iraqi single mother and refugee now living in Jordan, filed a complaint in March 2013 in San Francisco federal court alleging that the planning and waging of the war constituted a “crime of aggression” against Iraq, a legal theory that was used by the Nuremberg Tribunal to convict Nazi war criminals after World War II.

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In her lawsuit, Saleh alleges that:

– Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and Paul Wolfowitz began planning the Iraq War in 1998 through their involvement with the “Project for the New American Century,” a Washington DC non-profit that advocated for the military overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

– Once they came to power, Saleh alleges that Cheney, Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz convinced other Bush officials to invade Iraq by using 9/11 as an excuse to mislead and scare the American public into supporting a war.

– Finally, she claims that the United States failed to obtain United Nations approval prior to the invasion, rendering the invasion illegal and an act of impermissible aggression.

The US Government has asked for immunity for the accused (George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz) on the grounds that the war falls within the legal scope of their jobs.

If so, it seems formally critical to prove that they had planned the war long before being appointed as such public officers.

Of course, We The People know that they are guilty, no matter what tribunals may say.

Syria: Islamist rebels and not regime used chemical weapons

Not really new but worth reminding as Russia is providing further evidence that the only use of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war corresponds to the Islamist rebels. This was already the conclusion reached by the UN but silenced by the NATO propaganda machinery that hammered us with accusations against the Damascus regime.

According to the Russian ambassador in New York, Vitaly Churkin: sarin gas was clearly used against civilians [in Aleppo province] and there are many reasons to think that it was the opposition who used them. 

Source: Webguerrillero[es].

Chad: children used to test "vaccine" suffer horrible consequences

On December 2012 five hundred children from Gouro, Chad, were rounded up at school and forced to be administered an injection said to be a vaccine against meningitis A, under the threat that otherwise they will not get access to superior education. The children were injected without their parents' knowledge.

This "vaccine" seems to be an untested drug, still in process of experimentation, and this experimentation in humans was surely the goal that the fake charity wanted to achieve. 

Soon the children suffered headaches, vomits, convulsions and even severe paralysis. The fake vaccinators run away from the village then. A physician took five days to arrive and when he did, there was nothing he could do. Finally some 50 children were moved to hospitals in Faya and Djamena, where some children from other villages also arrived.

But the children were soon brought back to their villages without even a single document being filled. Informally the families were given a payment said to amount to more than €1000 and verbally told that their children did not suffer any harm from the vaccine.

However at least 40 children have become paralyzed. Seven children were flown to Tunis, along with some other 20 patients whose data is not known. The doctors there reported that the adverse reaction from the vaccine was without consequences. Still one child had to be attended for amygdalitis, while others were reported to have other illnesses.

That was the official version. The parents tell a very different and rather horrific story: children keep suffering violent uncontrolled convulsions, falling unexpectedly to the ground. Prior to the "vaccination" the children were in good health and there had never been any meningitis case in the region. 

Sources: WG[es], Vactruth. 

UN: Israel tortures children

... and abuses them in many other ways, including systematically using children as human shields, arresting them arbitrarily, etc.

Video by The Real News:

Basque Country: thousands march against the impunity of Fascist crimes

Thousands marched through Bilbao yesterday in demand "truth, justice and reparation" for the many crimes against Humankind committed by the Fascist regime in Spain, which remain unpunished and almost totally not investigated. 

Source: Naiz Info[eu]

 

A million people were killed in the Spanish civil alone, most of them behind the fascist lines, in a murderous campaign of ideological cleansing which has never been sufficiently investigated. Many others were killed in prisoner camps for those opposed to the regime. After the war, the Fascist regime ruled with iron fist, arbitrarily arresting, torturing, imprisoning and murdering whoever stood in their way, inflicting panic to whole generations. 

Guatemala: Ríos Montt sentence reversed

The Constitutional Court reversed by 2-1 votes reversing the recent veredict of guilt against genocidal dictator Ríos Montt, on the technical grounds that a claim against to two of the magistrates was disdained because it was an obvious attempt to delay the trial again, denying justice to the victims. 

This shows again that the bourgeois justice system only works in favor of the oligarchs, tyrants and other high ranking criminals, and that only popular trials are guarantee of true Justice. 

Source: LINyM[es].

Guatemala: Ríos Montt sentenced to 80 years of prison

Ríos Montt in court

The mass murderer ex-dictator has been finally officially designed as criminal against Humankind and put behind bars.

The First Tribunal A of Greatest Risk declared retired general José Efraín Ríos Montt guilty of the crime of genocide (50 years) and crimes against Humankind (30 years) for the massacres committed against the Ixil People. 

However José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, former commander of military intelligence accused of the same crimes, was acquitted, on the grounds of lacking evidence that he had any influence on the operations area.

Judge Jazmín Barrios declared:

We the judges consider that the behavior of the accused Ríos Montt fits within the crime of genocide in quality of author, therefore the corresponding penalty must apply. We the judges are completely persuaded of the intention of physical destruction of the Ixil area. 

Edgar Pérez, of Justice and Reconciliation Association (AJR), explained that:

Under the rule of Ríos Montt part of the Ixil people was displaced towards the mountains, another part was relocated under concentration camp conditions in the so-called "model villages" and a third part was massacred.

The extermination campaign killed 33.61% of the Ixil ethnicity, what demonstrates that there was clear intention of destroying this ethnic group.

After the sentence was read, Judge Barrios decreed that Ríos Montt be interned in prison with immediate effect, removing all benefits of restricted freedom that the dictator enjoyed until yesterday.

Pakistani court rules: US drone attacks are Crimes Against Humankind

Sometimes someone has to state the obvious: drone attacks (againts usually civilian or mixed targets) are Crimes Against Humankind, and then, of course, absolutely illegal under Pakistani and International law. 

The case was brought by citizens of North Waziristan on the particular (but way too common) case of a US attack against a tribal council (jirga), which had been mustered to solve a long-standing inter-tribal conflict. Among the attendants were some 18 alleged Taliban militants but all the rest were unrelated to any conflict. 

The Peshawar High Court declares the USA and the CIA guilty of blatant violation of basic human rights and are against the UN Charter, the UN General Assembly Resolution, as well as against the Geneva Convention (war laws).

The civilian victims of this mass murder included infants/ suckling babies, women and preteen children, as well as considerable damage to properties, livestock and wildlife. 

The court rules that the USA and CIA must pay indemnities to the victims or their survivor relatives, established in dollars. It also instructs the Pakistani government to take measures so no further violations of the sovereignty of Pakistan are committed by foreign troops, having the right and obligation to strike down the drones when they enter Pakistani airspace. 

It also instructs the government to file a formal complaint against the USA and to officially investigate the matter, as well as to demand the UN to establish a War Crimes tribunal dedicated to the matter. It requires from the Pakistani and UN Security Councils to pass resolutions condemning the violations of sovereignty, asking that, if not satisfied by the USA, Pakistan must sever all ties with the aggressor power, diplomatic and logistic. 

The Pakistani Armed Forces get a yearly $26 billion bribe from the USA, what effectively makes them, as happens with Egyptian, Yemeni, Colombian and other neocolonial armed forces, a mercenary entity unwilling to defend its own population against their imperial master.

Source: The Dissenter.

Bangladesh: fascist war criminal sentenced to death

Mohammad Kamaruzzaman, 59, former pro-Pakistani militia commander and currently Assistant Secretary-General of the reactionary fundamentalist Jamaat-e-Islami party, sponsored by Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Great Britain, the USA, etc., was sentenced to death by a Bangladeshi court today.

The notorious war criminal turned fundamentalist politician was found guilty of leading his troops to murder at least 183 civilians in his home district of Sherpur. He had formed the death squad Al Badr in collaboration with the Pakistani army with the goals of murdering civilians and raping women. 

Kamaruzzaman was 19 at the time of the crimes but like the kapos of the Nazi death camps his crimes against Humankind can never prescribe.

Sadly enough it is not common that a criminal of this kind has to face justice and, even in Bangladesh, this trial has taken way too long to happen: forty years!

This is just the tip of the iceberg, Jamaat murdered some three million civilians and raped some 200,000 women, in the Bangladeshi Liberation War, working for the neocolonial Pakistani oppressor. Some days ago another notorious war criminal of the same fascist organization, Abdul Quader Mollah, was sentenced to life in prison, a punishment deemed too benevolent by many, considering his crimes (murder of 345 civilians, including a poet, and raping an 11 years old girl).