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War crimes nation, USA!
by harley Sunday, Mar 1 2009, 7:45pm
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[The following has been upgraded from a comment (on 1460) to a story in its own right. Ed]

Nazi Judge; the Hague is in close proximity to Berlin

In his recent book, Professor Michael Haas lists some of America's war crimes in Afghanistan (only). If we include crimes committed in the Balkans and Iraq the case against the USA is overwhelming!

Prof. Hass fails to realise that until such time as the culpable (Bush regime and those involved in protecting it) are held accountable, the entire nation stands accused and therefore bears the full weight of responsibility.

American and Israeli war crimes compromise not only the offending nations but the courts pretending to prosecute these matters -- perhaps we should all send emails to the Hague War Crimes Courts and accuse them of flagrant bias and partiality -- IT IS PLAIN TO SEE!

Following are only a few of the crimes the USA (and its allies) commit on a regular basis:

# The U.S. bombed the children's hospital in Kabul and a hospital in Herat, resulting in 100 deaths. This violated the Red Cross Convention of 1864 that established even military hospitals as “neutral” and that must be “respected by belligerents.”

# Clearly marked Red Cross warehouses were bombed on three occasions in the Afghan War during October 2001, a violation of the Geneva Convention of 1929 that protects “the personnel of Voluntary Aid Societies.”

# During its 2001 offensive in Afghanistan, at least 1,000 civilians were killed by U.S. carpet bombing. This violates Protocol 1 to the Geneva Conventions prohibiting “indiscriminate attacks” against civilians.

# While the Hague Convention of 1899 requires that prisoners be “humanely treated,” this was often not the case in Afghanistan where the conditions in the prisons were so shocking that Canadian forces stopped sending prisoners to the American-run prisons at the end of 2005, preferring to send them to facilities run by the Afghan government.

# Although the Geneva Convention of 1949 forbids “violence to life and person, in particular murder of all kinds,” captives were murdered in Afghanistan’s prisons. Some were chained naked to the ceiling, cell doors, and the floor. One man, Ait Idr, had his face forced into a toilet that was repeatedly flushed. Another, Mohammed Ahmed Said Haidel, was hit with his arms tied behind his back until his head began to bleed. Another, Ahmed Darabi, was hung by his arms and repeatedly beaten, though he survived---unlike (a) taxicab driver (named) Dilawar, who died from the same treatment.

# Prisoners of war “shall be lodged in buildings or in barracks,” says the POW Convention of 1929 but many cells at American-run prisons in Afghanistan lack windows and adequate ventilation. Some prisons lacked heat during cold weather so that prisoners died of exposure. What’s more, some prisoners have been held in solitary confinement for years.

# Where the Geneva Convention decrees sick or wounded prisoners “shall not be transferred as long as their recovery may be endangered by the journey,” some prisoners transferred in Afghanistan were thrown to the ground from helicopters and badly injured. Still others were kicked or beaten en route and others died while stuffed into sealed cargo containers. Not surprisingly, the deaths of some Afghan prisoners have never been recorded, another war crimes violation.

Former VP and current self-confessed war criminal, Dick Cheney

Torture

Child killer

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=12504

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