A POSITIVE FUTURE

An Appeal to the American People by Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad, Chairman, Perdana Global Peace Organization

An Appeal to the American People

The war in Iraq is getting worse. More and more American soldiers are being killed. Of course Iraqis are being killed in greater numbers.

This war was started by President Bush and supported by Prime Minister Tony Blair. They had lied in order to invade Iraq.

What has this war gained for America and Britain? Nothing except the unnecessary deaths of American soldiers, destruction of Iraq and higher oil prices. There is no democracy in Iraq, for which American soldiers were supposed to die.

Invading a country today does not end in conquest and subjugation of the people. The occupying forces would be continuously attacked by guerillas and terrorists.

War is no longer an option for even the most powerful countries in the settlement of international disputes.

Killing people to achieve a national objective is primitive and barbaric.

Modern wars kill and destroy more.

The majority of those killed are non-combatants; old people, sick people, children and babies.

War makes a mockery of our claims to be civilised, to care for human life, human rights etc.

War reduces us to being brutish animals.

It is time we renounce killing masses of people in order to solve international disputes. It is time we renounce WAR! Defensive war would not be necessary in the absence of wars of agression. Trillions of dollars would be saved as nations scale down their war machines.

I appeal to the American people to reject candidates in the Presidential primaries and election who do not reject killing people, who do not reject war as a policy option for the United States of America.

Elect only candidates who categorically declare they reject war and killing people.

If the United States does this, then candidates in elections in other countries will have to reject war.

Americans – you have a duty to yourselves – you have a duty to humanity at large.

Please do not fail in this moral duty.

Dr Mahathir bin Mohamad
Chairman,
Perdana Global Peace Organisation

http://www.perdana4peace.org

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Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission hears nine charges against Bush, Blair, Howard

Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission hears nine charges against Bush, Blair, Howard

Global Research, February 10, 2007
BERNAMA - 2007-02-08

Global Research Editor's Note

What has been initiated in Kuala Lumpur is a legal procedure distinct from previous war crimes tribunals. The Commission chaired by former Prime Minister Dr. Mahathir Mohamad as well as the Tribunal are integrated by several of Malaysia's most prominent jurists.

The war criminals in high office are on the defensive.  The office of PM Tony Blair has responded to this initiative by stating that the war on Iraq is legal.

Global Research has actively participated  in this process, with a view to unseating the war criminals and reversing the tide of war.

We will shortly be publishing the presentations to the Expose War Crimes, Criminalise War Conference organised by the Perdana Global peace Organisation, including the transcripts of testimony presented by several war crime victims to the KL War Crimes Commission.

Michel Chossudovsky, Kuala Lumpur, 9 February 2007. 

Feb 8 (NNN-BERNAMA) -- The Kuala Lumpur War Crime Commission chaired by former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad heard nine charges against US President George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and Australian Prime Minister John Howard for the sufferings of the people in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.

The charges against the US and its allies were presented by the legal counsel on behalf of the war crime victims, Matthias Chang, before Dr Mahathir and the other five commission members at the final day of the three-day war crimes conference organised by the Perdana Global Peace Conference.

Chang said Bush, Blair and Howard, through a deliberate plan of deception, falsehood, forgery and outright lies, misled their respective Congress and Parliament to wage war against Iraq which was a "crime against peace."

The trio were also being charged for embarking on a systematic campaign to destroy Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine economically and militarily, he said.

He said the third charge against them was for ordering the destruction of vital facilities essential to civilian lives in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine while the fourth was for the bombing of schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, residential areas and historical sites and conveniently labelling the destruction as "collateral damage".

The three leaders were also charged with allowing the use of weapons of mass destruction that inflicted indiscriminate death and suffering against civilian targets such as the cluster bomb, napalm bomb, phosporous bomb and depleted uranium ammunition, said Chang.

The sixth charge said that Bush, Blair and Howard have fraudulently manipulated the United Nations and the Security Council as well as corrupting its members to commit crimes against peace and war times, he said.

Through the aforesaid conduct, Chang said the three had destroyed the environment of Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.

The eighth charge was that Bush, Blair and Howard ordered and condoned the violation of human rights, specifically the civilians in the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay in Cuba as well as other prisons known and unknown in Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and anywhere else in the world.

The last charge spelled out that Bush, Blair and Howard systematically controlled and manipulated, directed and misinformed the mass media so as to incite war to achieve their military objectives in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine.

Apart from hearing the charges against the three leaders, the commission also heard the presentation from several war crime victims including Najwa J.A. Jalamna, 16, from Jenin, Palestine, Abbas Abid, a survivor of the Fallujah Massacre in Iraq, editor-in-chief of the Al-Intiqad & Al-Manar TV (Lebanon) Ibrahim Mousawi as well as Palestinian Peace Activity's Dr Walid Salah Al-Khatib.

Dr Mahathir said the commission was to respond to several petitions of war crime victims and investigate into their complaints.

"We appreciate there are other tribunals but there are so many complaints, the other tribunals perhaps are not being able to hear the complaint. We feel there is a need for the setting up of this tribunal and give an opportunity for those war crime victims to voice out their complaints and to seek redress," he said.

The commission would investigate complaints of war crimes and thereafter to submit and report to the tribunal that would be set up, which are still at the pro tem stage.

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THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY' - Googlevideo

THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY' - Googlevideo

The first episode of a Dutch documentary series about the Israel lobby (particularly AIPAC) in the USA and the situation in the Middle  ... all » East.

Featuring interviews with Mearsheimer, geostrategist Lawrence Wikerson, Richard Perle, historian and critic Tony Judt, John Hagee, former Congressman Earl Hilliard, Kenneth Roth of Human Rights Watch, Michael Massing and Daniel Levy.

(The intro of this video was adapted - with footage of the former Malaysian prime minister Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6720374854549743402

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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:

http://www.perdana4peace.org

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

Blair’s Last Gamble by Matthias Chang

EXCERPT:

Blair’s Last Gamble by Matthias Chang
Barrister, Inner Temple

The issues surrounding the lawful detention of 15 British soldiers by the Iranian Government should be analysed from two aspects – the Legal & Technical aspects and the Political aspects.

It is a measure of Tony Blair, a Barrister, who instead of approaching the issues objectively and dispassionately has resorted to hype, threats and bully logic in an attempt to compel the Iranian government to release the said soldiers without first establishing conclusively a case against the Iranian Government. In the like manner of his conduct prior to the illegal invasion of Iraq, Tony Blair seems to think that he could, through threats and falsehoods establish the casus belli for an illegal war against Iran.

It is therefore of the utmost importance that the peace loving peoples of the world should be exposed to this insidious attempt by Tony Blair to create the necessary propaganda to demonise Iran and the public opinion for a war against Iran.

AP: Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal Established - The Muslim Observor: Mahathir Backs Militants

Excerpt:

NOTE: The International Criminal Court (ICC), as of Feb. 2007, had received 240 complaints of war crimes in Iraq, and failed to act on any of these citizen complaints.

War crimes tribunal

"Mahathir spoke after launching a tribunal that plans to hold trials based on complaints by Iraqis and Palestinians against world leaders including Bush, Blair, Australian Prime Minister John Howard and Israeli ex-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon.

"The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, which opened with a preliminary meeting, does not have the legal authority of an international organisation and cannot impose penalties, but its main aim is to condemn leaders in history books, Mahathir said."

 

LONDON SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Hague court could try Bush, Blair (Mentions Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal)

EXCERPT:

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."

Bush Right Candidate For KL War Crimes Tribunal

EXCERPT:

"By far and large international law on genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and wars of aggression is applied selectively and in a racist and colonial fashion. Except for the mass murders in Nazi Germany and former Yugoslavia, no other crime perpetrated by Europeans and Americans has ever been prosecuted in international courts. European, American and Australian colonisers have committed genocide on four continents. The United States has bombed 28 countries since World War II. Europe and America are complicit in the genocide that is raging unhindered in Palestine, Gaza and Lebanon. No bells toll for the victims of mass murders in Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Vietnam, Kampuchea, Laos, Afghanistan, Palestine, Lebanon, Chechnya, Chile, Argentina and Nicaragua. No one has been prosecuted.

"The KL War Crimes Commission and Tribunal will, on the other hand, provide a forum to all, irrespective of race, religion or nationality, who are victims of mass crimes to make their case before the Commission and the Tribunal."