People Court Pronounces U.S. Guilty

[Robbien]

A 'jury of conscience' declared Sunday after scores of witnesses testified before a 'World Tribunal on Iraq' that ”the U.S. government is guilty of committing a war of aggression against Iraq.” It also held the United States guilty of committing war crimes.

The tribunal set up by civil society groups supporting the anti-war movement drew testimonies from doctors, lawyers, academics and activists who have been in Iraq over the past year.

They presented eyewitness accounts, photographs, and documentary evidence to illustrate how the U.S. military has caused death and destruction in Iraq. ”Frankly, there is no respect for the Geneva Convention,” Geert van Moorter, a Belgian physician who specialises in emergency treatment told jurors. ”I have seen with my own eyes U.S. troops shooting at civilians, at ambulances.”

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”We know there is no official institution of international law that can hold the U.S. accountable,” says Ayca Cubukcu, one of the organisers of the tribunal. ”That's why we set up this tribunal. The promise of justice belongs not to a state, the system of states or to its institution, but to the people.” The anti-war movement plans to hold similar tribunals around the world up to March next year.

http://www.ipsnews.net/interna.asp?idnews=23664

[ConcernedCanuk]

1. No institution that can hold the US accountable - that is scary indeed

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Troops in over half the countries in the world

The most powerful Military in the world

Insane people at the helm

and Not Accountable

Prescription for disaster

Orwell was correct

Just his chronology was off

Not by much

(sigh)