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Index: Testimony From World Tribunal for
Iraq
25 - 27 June 2005
Testimony - World Tribunal Iraq - Istanbul, Turkey
The
Excessive Use of Weapons and Banned Weapons
by Akira Maeda, Sayo Saruta, Koichi Inamori,
ICTI
The Use of Depleted Uranium (DU) Weapons
The Truth About the Use of Depleted Uranium (DU) Weapons by US and
UK Troops. Continue
History
of US and UK Intervention in Iraq
by Larry Everest
Many would be shocked to learn that the U.S. government helped
bring the Hussein regime to power and was directly complicit in
the very crimes for which it was indicted - the use of chemical
weapons, aggression against neighboring countries, and atrocities
against the Kurds. Continue
Testimony - World
Tribunal Iraq - Istanbul, Turkey
The
Conduct of the UN before and after the 2003 Invasion
by H.C. von Sponeck
World leaders were hiding behind the curtain of the UN
Security Council to premeditate their betrayal before and
after the illegal war of 2003. There can be no more doubts,
the facts are present, that the US and UK governments were
actively pursuing regime change by force at a time when the
world was made to believe that international law, peaceful
solutions to the conflict and the protection of the Iraqi
people, were part of the US and UK governments' approach. Continue
Testimony - World
Tribunal Iraq - Istanbul, Turkey
Violations
of international law being committed by the occupiers of Iraq
By Dahr Jamail
And it is now exceedingly clear that the only way
the Bush Administration will withdraw the US military from Iraq in
order for Iraqis to have true sovereignty is if they are forced to
do so. Continue
Testimony - World
Tribunal On Iraq - Istanbul, Turkey
The Doctrine of Humanitarian Intervention & The Neo-Colonial Implications of its Revival in our Unipolar World
by Jim Harding
As the surviving superpower of the Cold War, the U.S. now flaunts the export of democracy while, at the same time, acting outside of international and domestic law. It escalates a humanitarian crisis in the name of HI. Meanwhile, its internal democracy is one of the most manipulated and 'bought' democracies on the planet.
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Testimony - World
Tribunal On Iraq - Istanbul, Turkey
Illegality
of Preventive Attack and Unilateral Use of Force
By Phil Shiner
International Law is surprisingly clear and easy to understand on
whether the Iraq war was lawful. First, war was abolished by the
adoption of the UN Charter in 1947. Thereafter, contracting states
entered into a compact. In return for giving up their right to
wage war each vested the right to use force in the collective
security provisions of chapter VII of the UN Charter. Second,
Article 2 (4) of the UN Charter provides that: Continue
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