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Blair War Crimes Foundation Announcement
Blair War Crimes Foundation Announcement | UN Observer & International Report
The Blair War Crimes Foundation (which aims to bring Tony Blair to trial) is pleased to announce that we are now utilising our resources for Bill Bowring, Professor of International Law at Birkbeck College, University of London, and his colleagues, in their submission to the International Criminal Court at The Hague asking for a preliminary investigation of Blair and his colleagues for war crimes committed in 2003-4.
The Foundation's Declaration has been signed by Derek Jacobi, Naji Haraj, John Pilger, Noam Chomski, Ben Griffin, Bruce Kent, Ken Loach, Haifa Zangana, Tahrir Swift, and 6,113 other signatories.
It is hoped that the unexpected revelations emerging from the Chilcot Inquiry, added to the Report prepared by Prof Bowring and his colleagues in 2004, will help to persuade the Prosecutor at the ICC to commence an investigation. The Report not only found substantial evidence of commission of war crimes, but also asserted that under the international legal principle of "joint enterprise", Blair and others could be held liable for crimes committed by US forces, since both the USA and UK had embarked on an illegal course of action.
Signed by Joint Secretaries the Blair War Crimes Foundation, Dr. David Halpin and Nicholas Wood on behalf of 6,113 other signatories (as of 2 Feb 2010).
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I wonder what the ICC will say, for it's clearly been and, for now, remains controlled by the U.S. elite(s) and their foreign counterparts or associates. Hopefully, this group of people the article names will be able to succeed in getting the ICC to finally act like an honourable court of law, instead of again acting as an instrument of the west's imperialists, etcetera.
And if they succeed, then I hope the same thing will happen with regards to the wars on Afghanistan and Pakistan, for these have always and wholly been criminal. The government of Afghanistan, which was governed by the Taliban, never attacked or even threatened the USA or any other western country or government, and they offered, on apparently three occassions, two that I definitely know of and while the second of these occurred the morning of Oct. 7, 2001, when the U.S. and NATO launched the war on the Taliban government that afternoon and the Bush Jr-Cheney administration definitely knew about the Taliban offers to hand over Osama Bin Ladin. They demanded that sufficient preliminary evidence against him, a man who denied responsibility in or for the 9-11 attacks and who the U.S. still, to this day, Feb. 4, 2010, has no formal, official charges against for those attacks, be provided before handing him over, but this is normal and moral procedure, so the U.S. and NATO criminally refused to provide this evidence; ruling hegemonically, hypocritically, roguely and, therefore, criminally, instead.
The UNSC voted to authorize actions, but only police-like actions, to track down, capture, and bring Osama bin Ladin et al, to investigation and trial. The UNSC's two resolutions specifically pertaining to Afghanistan and the war launched there did not authorise recourse to war on the Taliban government, any war at all.
It's a wholly criminal war of aggression and this fact has only become more obvious than it was at first, when many in the U.S. were emotionally off-balance because of the destruction of the WTC towers and the killing of around a few thousand people in those towers; and a little destruction caused with some UFO object at the Pentagon, whatever the projectile or weapon, ..., thing, was.
And these are not the only international crimes of the U.S. and NATO that the ICC should prosecute, but both of these wars need to be prosecuted and this would be a great start. We should neglect neither, but succeeding in getting the ICC to prosecute the Blair government as explained in this article at ADS is a good start. If this succeeds, then getting the ICC to prosecute the war of aggression on Afghanistan, and the extension in Pakistan, would be more feasible. Going for both prosecutions right away, at the same time, probably is a sure way to not succeed in either case, so I fully support trying to get the war on Iraq prosecuted, first, as an excellent beginning.
It just shouldn't be the end.
Mike Corbeil