When some of the SAS witnesses Nine Entertainment subpoenaed refused to give evidence about alleged war crimes on the grounds of self-incrimination it was game, set and match as far as proving war crimes had been committed in Afghanistan.
Category: war crimes
It’s Henry Kissinger’s 100th birthday today. The fact that this monster is celebrated instead of in jail tells you that he’s part of a much bigger problem — and that problem is America’s global empire.
Source: Henry Kissinger Is a Disgusting War Criminal. And the Rot Goes Deeper Than Him.
Yet again, both Republican and Democratic party leaders are attacking Rep. Ilhan Omar for telling the truth about American and Israeli war crimes. And yet again, Omar has nothing to apologize for.
On Monday, Omar posted on Twitter her exchange with Secretary of State Antony Blinken. There she raised what should be a fairly tame question: What mechanisms exist to investigate war crimes and crimes against humanity in Palestine and Afghanistan?
The United States government opposes the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) jurisdiction to hear alleged cases of human rights abuses by both Israel and Hamas, the United States and the Taliban. If domestic courts won’t investigate war crimes, and if the United States opposes the ICC’s ability to do so, where can victims of war crimes go for justice?
Israel is also not a member of the ICC and rejects the court’s jurisdiction over its territory and nationals. The long war persists. International law — hamstrung by its own institutions, entrenched power relations and politicisation — offers no clear or quick solution.
Source: Why is accountability for alleged war crimes so hard to achieve in the Israel-Palestinian conflict?
These days, there’s a significant consensus here that the Iraq invasion was a “terrible mistake,” a “tragic error,” or even the “single worst foreign policy decision in American history.” Fewer voices are saying what it really was: a war crime. In fact, that invasion fell into the very category that led the list of crimes at the Nuremberg tribunal, where high Nazi officials were tried for their actions during World War II. During the negotiations establishing that tribunal and its rules, it was (ironically, in view of later events) the United States that insisted on including the crime of “waging a war of aggression” and on placing it at the head of the list. The U.S. position was that all the rest of Germany’s war crimes sprang from this first “crime against peace.”
via Trump’s Fascination with appointing War Criminals to High Office
The implicit assumption was that the very serious allegations could not be true because the accused had belonged to the ADF. This is as logical as stating that another of our hallowed institutions, the church, could never give rise to people who abuse positions of power.
via Jim Molan, Address The Allegations About Your Time In Iraq – New Matilda
No matter the position one might take on the issue of sanctions, the fact remains that they caused a decade of tremendous suffering and widespread deaths of Iraqi civilians, many of them children.
Source: U.S. Repeating Same War Crime In Syria That Starved 500K Children To Death In Iraq
Had the ICC aggression amendment existed back in 2003, John Howard would have been tried as a war criminal.
Source: Inglourious Basterd(s): John Howard’s case to answer on invasion of Iraq
TeleSur | – – The United Nations said it was “deeply concerned” about reports the groups are using children on …
Source: ‘Unacceptable’ UN says US-Backed Iraqi Militias Recruiting Children
US killings of civilians near Gardez, Afghanistan is an extraordinary case of a cover-up which goes far beyond what happened with the bombing of the MSF hospital, says Gareth Porter, an investigative journalist on US national security policy.
Source: Exposed: ‘US Special Forces in Afghanistan killed pregnant women, removed bullets’ — RT Op-Edge
What the CIA did to Abu Zubaydah was barbarous. That his torturers have gone unpunished is an American tragedy
The conviction of Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic shows that no one is above the law, says the UN Commissioner for Human Rights, Prince Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein.
Source: Radovan Karadzic deserves punishment – but what about the Neocons? — RT Op-Edge
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