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Dear Friends - Hi! Please note the early edition of this LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH article for March 18, 2007 below, which mentions Tun Dr. Mahathir's formation of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal in an interview with Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of the International Criminal Court ICC.
The KL Tribunal was formed on Feb. 7, 2007 (www.perdana4peace.org), and will be a permanent citizen's war crimes tribunal.
"Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's former prime minister, has announced plans to set up an alternative war-crimes tribunal to hear complaints against countries including Britain, Israel and the United States."
Dear Friends - Hi! Please note the early edition of this LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH article for March 18, 2007 below, which mentions Tun Dr. Mahathir's formation of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal in an interview with Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo of the International Criminal Court ICC.
The KL Tribunal was formed on Feb. 7, 2007 (www.perdana4peace.org), and will be a permanent citizen's war crimes tribunal.
"Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's former prime minister, has announced plans to set up an alternative war-crimes tribunal to hear complaints against countries including Britain, Israel and the United States."
We will be posting the article at http://www.peaceinspace.org, where we are maintaining an online presence of articles on the Tribunal.
With all best wishes, Alfred
Hague court could try Bush, Blair
By Gethin Chamberlain
LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
Published March 18, 2007
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The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said in an
interview that he can envision a scenario in which President Bush and
British Prime Minister Tony Blair could one day face war-crimes charges
at The Hague.
Chief Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo said in an
interview with the Sunday Telegraph that it was frustrating that the
court was viewed in the Arab world as biased in favor of the West.
Asked whether he could envision a situation in which Mr. Bush and
Mr. Blair found themselves in the dock answering charges of war crimes
in Iraq, he replied:
"Of course, that could be a possibility
... whatever country joins the court can know that whoever commits a
crime in their country could be prosecuted by me."
The U.S.
has refused to accept the court's jurisdiction and for years opposed
the court, fearing that it would be used as a political tool to target
American soldiers and diplomats overseas.
Human rights
lawyers remain skeptical about whether charges against either leader
would ever gain credibility in the court.
Some Muslim
countries have criticized what they claim is the court's reluctance to
address offenses committed by Western governments.
Sudan,
which has been investigated over its role in the mass killing of
civilians in its western region of Darfur, has called for the court to
investigate coalition actions in Iraq.
Mahathir Mohamad,
Malaysia's former prime minister, has announced plans to set up an
alternative war-crimes tribunal to hear complaints against countries
including Britain, Israel and the United States.
Mr.
Moreno-Ocampo said that, while he was sympathetic to the views of Arab
countries, the answer was for them to get involved in the legal process.
The court is restricted in what it can investigate. The U.N .
Security Council can ask it to act -- as in the case of Darfur -- or
the court can launch an investigation if it receives a complaint from a
state that is party to the Rome agreement that established it.
The U.S . is not a signatory, although lately it has begun
supporting court investigations in several African civil wars,
including the conflict in Sudan.
The court can also look into purported offenses carried out by, or on the territory of, a party to the agreement.
Afghanistan is a signatory, though Sudan is not. Days before the
invasion of Iraq in 2003, then-Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein approached
lawyers in Britain about signing up, but his effort was overtaken by
events. Had he succeeded, the actions of the U.S. in Iraq would fall
within the court's jurisdiction.
Mr. Moreno-Ocampo said it
was still possible for an investigation to be launched into coalition
actions in Iraq if that country signed up.
Hamid al-Bayati, Iraq's ambassador to the United Nations, said Iraq was actively considering joining.
The court is currently prosecuting cases against the Lord's
Resistance Army in Uganda, a militia leader in the Democratic Republic
of Congo and a number of individuals believed to have been involved in
the conflict in Darfur.
Note: This is the URL to the above article, which is the earlier Edition. In the later Editions, all mention of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal was deleted from the article.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/18/nirq118.xml
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