War Crimes Report Shows US Violations of
International Law
Demands Prosecution of US Military and
Civilian Leaders
The violence of the Iraq War, the chaos that has come to Iraq,
can be traced directly to the illegality of the invasion and
occupation of that country and the illegality of the tactics and
weapons being used to maintain the occupation. U.S. War Crimes
in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability documents these
violations and calls on us all to demand investigation and
prosecution of violations of international law by military and
civilian leaders.
10/10/06 "Information
Clearing House" -- --
Click here to read the
report in full [pdf]
The report was prepared by Consumers for Peace.org with the
advice of Karen Parker, noted lawyer in human rights and
humanitarian law. Ms. Parker is President of the
San-Francisco-based Association of Humanitarian Lawyers (www.humanlaw.org)
and Chief Delegate to the United Nations for the Los
Angeles-based International Educational Development/Humanitarian
Law Project (IED/AHL), an accredited non-governmental
organization on the U.N. Secretary-General?s list.
Dahr Jamail, noted independent journalist who spent more
than eight months reporting from occupied Iraq, writes the
following about the report:
I cannot endorse strongly enough this report prepared by Karen
Parker regarding U.S. war crimes in Iraq. Having witnessed much
of what is so well documented in this report, it is a clear and
encompassing indictment of the Bush Administration for the war
crimes they are directly responsible for in Iraq. Until evidence
such as this begins to see the light of day in a court of law
and the perpetrators brought to justice, the world remains
unsafe and unstable from an administration determined to rule
the world. After witnessing what they are capable of in Iraq, I
have no doubt these people will not stop in their quest for
world domination.? Instead, they must be stopped. And the only
way to do that is bring the guilty to justice. This document
will help achieve that goal.
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report in full [pdf]
Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative
Non-Violence, three-time nominee for the Noble Peace Prize, who
has visited Iraq 28 times in the last 15 years, writes of the
report:
After spending four days in the fortified and secure Green Zone,
in Iraq, during September 06, former Secretary of State James
Baker III assured that the investigative panel he led had not
spent any time wringing our hands over what mistakes might or
might not have been created in the past. (NYT, September 20,
2006). The Consumers for Peace report on war crimes committed in
Iraq helps us understand our responsibility not to wring our
hands but rather to demand accountability from elected
representatives by delivering this report to them and to local
media. How many people killed? How many families torn apart? How
many homes destroyed? How many livelihoods gone? How many lives
ruined? How many cities sacrificed? We bear responsibility to
end the war in Iraq, insist on just reparations for suffering
caused, and promote careful, legal scrutiny of the crimes
committed. This report beckons all who read it to stop
collaborating with illegal, immoral warmongers who recklessly
afflict Iraq.
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report in full [pdf]
Neil MacKay, multi-award winning Home Affairs and
Investigations Editor of the Sunday Herald (Scotland), writes:
"What has happened in Iraq is a great sin and a great crime. The
invasion and occupation have stained the concepts of democracy,
freedom and liberty; and disgraced the good name of the people
of both the United States of America and Great Britain. As a
journalist who has investigated the roots of this war, and the
on-going horror of what is happening in Iraq, I fully commend
this report to readers. It is an important reminder of the blood
which is on the hands of our leaders, and the shame that the
governments of the UK and the USA have brought to the British
and American people by perpetrating a criminal war in our name."
Click here to read the
report in full [pdf]
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read the report in full
The report is being published on the internet by:
Consumers for Peace
http://www.consumersforpeace.org
Association of Humanitarian Lawyers
http://www.humanlaw.org
Traprock Peace Center
http://www.traprockpeace.org
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
http://www.vcnv.org
Uruknet
http://www.uruknet.info
Information Clearing House
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
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