<div dir="ltr">Nothing like a kangaroo court with no rules of evidence that lets liars like Boyle (if he were to have gone there) testify - Malaysia is clearly no friend of the US and has been a place where liars like Leuren Moret, etc. get plenty of opportunity to spread their lies - <div><br></div><div>Roger Helbig</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 6, 2016 at 5:45 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net" target="_blank">peace-discuss@lists.chambana.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<h2><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1e396c">Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia</span><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><u></u><u></u></span></h2>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">by Yvonne Ridley
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<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia's retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">After the guilty verdict reached by five senior judges was delivered, Mahathir Mohamad said: "Powerful countries are getting away with murder."
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">After the case he said: "This is the first conviction of these people anywhere in the world."
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"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." <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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."
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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".
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. <u></u>
<u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Pinochet was only eight years out of his presidency when that happened."
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The court heard how <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">- Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till today.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"Right now Guantanamo is still open, people are still being held there and are still being tortured there."
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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." <u></u>
<u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">These acts of crimes were applied cumulatively to inflict the worst possible pain and suffering, said lawyers.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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."
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"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.
<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">"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".
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