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<H2 class=byline>Our very own Francis Boyle was part of the prosecution
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<H2 class=byline>by Yvonne Ridley | May 12, 2012</H2></DIV>
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<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Kuala Lumpur — It’s official; George W Bush is a
war criminal.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">In what is the first ever conviction of its kind
anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his
administration were yesterday (Fri) found guilty of war crimes.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their
legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and
John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing
witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US
soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">They included testimony from British man Moazzam
Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was
tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">At the end of the week-long hearing, the
five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney,
Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals
for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Full transcripts of the charges, witness
statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor
of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the
Security Council.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also
asking that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington
and Haynes be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals
for public record.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia’s
retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led
invasion of Iraq in 2003.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">He sat through the entire hearing as it took
personal statements and testimonies of three witnesses namely Abbas Abid,
Moazzam Begg and Jameelah Hameedi. The tribunal also heard two other Statutory
Declarations of Iraqi citizen Ali Shalal and Rahul Ahmed, another British
citizen.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">After the guilty verdict reached by five senior
judges was delivered, Mahathir Mohamad said: “Powerful countries are getting
away with murder.”</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">War crimes expert and lawyer Francis Boyle,
professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in
America, was part of the prosecution team.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">After the case he said: “This is the first
conviction of these people anywhere in the world.”</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">While the hearing is regarded by some as being
purely symbolic, human rights activist Boyle said he was hopeful that Bush and
Co could soon find themselves facing similar trials elsewhere in the world.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“We tried three times to get Bush in Canada but
were thwarted by the Canadian Government, then we scared Bush out of going to
Switzerland. The Spanish attempt failed because of the government there and the
same happened in Germany.”</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Boyle then referenced the Nuremberg Charter which
was used as the format for the tribunal when asked about the credibility of the
initiative in Malaysia. He quoted: “Leaders, organizers, instigators and
accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or
conspiracy to commit war crimes are responsible for all acts performed by any
person in execution of such a plan.”</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The US is subject to customary international law
and to the Principles of the Nuremberg Charter said Boyle who also believes the
week-long trial was “almost certainly” being monitored closely by both Pentagon
and White House officials.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Professor Gurdial Singh Nijar, who headed the
prosecution said: “The tribunal was very careful to adhere scrupulously to the
regulations drawn up by the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal
Courts”.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">He added that he was optimistic the tribunal
would be followed up elsewhere in the world where “countries have a duty to try
war criminals” and he cited the case of the former Chilean dictator Augustine
Pinochet who was arrested in Britain to be extradited to Spain on charges of war
crimes.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“Pinochet was only eight years out of his
presidency when that happened.”</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The Pinochet case was the first time that several
European judges applied the principle of universal jurisdiction, declaring
themselves competent to judge crimes committed by former heads of state, despite
local amnesty laws.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Throughout the week the tribunal was packed with
legal experts and law students as witnesses gave testimony and then cross
examination by the defence led by lawyer Jason Kay Kit Leon.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify"> The court heard how</P>
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<LI>Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his
fingernails removed by pliers.</LI>
<LI>Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and
hung from a wall.</LI>
<LI>Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement.</LI>
<LI>Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield
whilst being transported by helicopter.</LI></UL>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The witnesses also detailed how they have
residual injuries till today.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">Moazzam Begg, now working as a director for the
London-based human rights group Cageprisoners said he was delighted with the
verdict, but added: “When people talk about Nuremberg you have to remember those
tried were all prosecuted after the war.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“Right now Guantanamo is still open, people are
still being held there and are still being tortured there.”</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">In response to questions about the difference
between the Bush and Obama Administrations, he added: “If President Bush was the
President of extra-judicial torture then US President Barak Obama is the
President of extra judicial killing through drone strikes. Our work has only
just begun.”</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The prosecution case rested on proving how the
decision-makers at the highest level President Bush, Vice-President Cheney,
Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other
commanders and CIA officials – all acted in concert. Torture was systematically
applied and became an accepted norm.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">According to the prosecution, the testimony of
all the witnesses exposed a sustained perpetration of brutal, barbaric, cruel
and dehumanising course of conduct against them.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">These acts of crimes were applied cumulatively to
inflict the worst possible pain and suffering, said lawyers.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">The president of the tribunal Tan Sri Dato Lamin
bin Haji Mohd Yunus Lamin, found that the prosecution had established beyond a
“reasonable doubt that the accused persons, former President George Bush and his
co-conspirators engaged in a web of instructions, memos, directives, legal
advice and action that established a common plan and purpose, joint enterprise
and/or conspiracy to commit the crimes of Torture and War Crimes, including and
not limited to a common plan and purpose to commit the following crimes in
relation to the “War on Terror” and the wars launched by the U.S. and others in
Afghanistan and Iraq.”</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">President Lamin told a packed courtroom: “As a
tribunal of conscience, the Tribunal is fully aware that its verdict is merely
declaratory in nature. The tribunal has no power of enforcement, no power to
impose any custodial sentence on any one or more of the 8 convicted persons.
What we can do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to
recommend to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of
conviction by the Tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the
Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United
Nations and the Security Council.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“The Tribunal also recommends to the Kuala Lumpur
War Crimes Commission that the names of all the 8 convicted persons be entered
and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals and be publicised
accordingly.</P>
<P style="TEXT-ALIGN: justify">“The Tribunal recommends to the War Crimes
Commission to give the widest international publicity to this conviction and
grant of reparations, as these are universal crimes for which there is a
responsibility upon nations to institute prosecutions if any of these Accused
persons may enter their jurisdictions”.</P></DIV>
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