Open Letter from Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, Perdana Global Peace Organization about the threatened U.S. attack on Iran
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, flanked by image of Hiroshima,speaking at 2007 Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Conference.
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad is Chairman of the Perdana Global Peace Organization:
Perdana Global Peace Organization has held three international peace conferences since 2005 as part of the the Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalize War.
http://perdana4peace.org/index2.php
http://www.perdana4peace.org/petition.html
Perdana and Tun Dr. Mahathir have brought together a diverse group of international organizations, researchers, activists, scientists, lawyers, academics, judges, professionals with the common goal of Criminalizing War.
On Feb. 5-7, 2007, Perdana Global Peace Organization held a War Crimes Conference entitled "Criminalizing War," attended by over 5000 persons, at which War Crimes victims from Iraq, Palestine, Lebanon, and scientists, researchers, activists and scholars from many different nations spoke.
Over 240 valid complaints concerning War Crimes in Iraq had been filed with the International Criminal Court, which has failed to take action on these. Thus the need for a Citizen's War Crimes Tribunal, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal.
At the Kuala Lumpur Conference, a War Crimes Commission, and a Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, a citizen's War Crimes Tribunal were established. On February 7, 2007, the War Crimes Commission took direct and evidentiary testimony from War Crimes Victims and from Experts, as well as documentary evidence on the genocidal effects of Depleted Uranium (DU) weapons in Iraq and elsewhere. The War Crimes victims from Iraq has themselves approached the Perdana Global Peace Organization, seeking redress.
Globalresearch.ca: Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission hears nine charges against Bush, Blair, Howard
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=viewArticle&code=20070210&articleId=4731
Both Dr. Mahathir and his wife, Tun Siti, are physicians. Dr. Mahathir is the first former Head of State to have championed the issue of abolishing the use of Depleted Uranium (DU) Weapons, which have been found by a 2002 United Nations Sub-Committee, as well as by the 2004 Tokyo International Tribunal for War Crimes in Afghanistan, to violate International Law and constitute genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.
This is a URL for the Speech of Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad at the 2007 Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Conference:
http://www.perdana4peace.org/2007/criminalising_war.php
EXCERPT:
16. The people who devised the bombs and used them were not quite sure of their power. They thought in terms of conventional explosives, where the damage would be confined to a fairly well-defined area and would be of limited duration.
17. Then we learnt that the residual radiation can kill the rescuers who entered the area, through a variety of diseases. Even those who came much later were afflicted with radiation diseases. Now we are learning more about the effects of radiation. It is not limited to any given area. It is capable of spreading thousands of miles, carried by dust and wind. And we are learning that the half life of those radiated particles lasts for centuries, even millions of years as the experts will tell you.
18. The killers will be killed too, for the radiation would reach their countries. And so will their children, and children’s children.
19. But now we have depleted uranium, a waste product used extensively by the nuclear powers because it is cheap. But depleted uranium is as capable of producing the particles as would a nuclear bomb explosion. Those who use depleted uranium must know that it pollutes the air not just when and where it is used but is carried to faraway places, including the countries which use it in the attacks against their helpless victims.
20. The nuclear powers are saying that only they can be trusted to possess nuclear weapons. Why? Is it because they are sensible, humane people who would not use their nuclear weapons. Can we trust them? Look at the carnage they caused with their so-called conventional weapons. They have not hesitated to kill hundreds of thousands of people with their conventional weapons. Would they not use their safe nuclear weapons which can kill probably a smaller number of people. Would this not start a nuclear war! Their willingness to use depleted uranium which is a nuclear weapon is not reassuring about their not using their 10,000 nuclear warheads against others. It is even less reassuring when we know they are adding to their nuclear arsenal more and better nuclear weapons. Despite the Nuclear Test Ban the US is still testing.
21. And powerful countries are already manufacturing weapons for warfare in space. The U.S. Space Command in its Blueprint, VISION 2020, unequivocally declared that the U.S. will dominate the space dimension of military operations “to protect U.S. interests and investments – integrating space forces into war-fighting capabilities across the full spectrum of conflict...”
22. General Joseph Ashy, the former Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Space Command commented:
“It’s
politically sensitive, but it is going to happen. Some people don’t
want to hear this, and it sure isn’t in vogue, but – absolutely – we’re
going to fight in space. We are going to fight from space and we are
going to fight into space. That’s why the U.S. has developed programs
in directed energy and hit-to-kill mechanisms. We will engage
terrestrial targets someday – ships, airplanes, land targets – from
space. We will engage targets in space from space…”
23. How can we be sure that some day they will not choose a madman to be their leader, who might press the button on the sly? What we have seen lately, leaders lying to their own people and the world in order to go to war, to kill hundreds of thousands of people merely confirms the possibility of mad people being placed in charge of nuclear weapons and other WMD.
24. Can we trust the nuclear powers when they have shown how ready they are to war and kill indiscriminately at the slightest provocation? Yet they are insistent that no one else be allowed to have nuclear weapons. The few countries that have recently acquired the technology can produce only a very limited number of nuclear weapons. These countries are not likely to use their weapons because the nuclear powers would not hesitate to wipe them off the surface of the earth, with conventional or nuclear weapons. So why do the nuclear powers need 10,000 nuclear warheads and why do they need more? What they have is already more than enough to deter weak nations.
from: "Criminalizing War" by Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad.
Tun Dr. Mahathir has now authored an Open Letter, dated April 11, 2007, about the threatened U.S. attack on Iran.
You can download the text of this letter (PDF) below.
Download tun_dr. Mahathir Mohamad letter.pdf
Thank you.
Alfred Lambremont Webre, JD, MEd
Member, Pro Tem Committee, Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal
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