Toch ziet World Beyond War mogelijkheden om de VS aan te klagen. Zo zou het ICC nu bezig zijn met onderzoek naar oorlogsmisdaden door de VS gepleegd in Afghanistan*, dit daar Afghanistan in tegenstelling tot de VS wel lid is van het ICC. Echter alleen de door de VS verrichtte oorlogsmisdaden kunnen dan vervolgd worden en niet het beginnen van die illegale oorlog (de ultieme oorlogsmisdaad). Vreemd dat het ICC niet de andere NAVO landen, die deelnamen/nemen aan die oorlog, onderzoekt op oorlogsmisdaden, daar ook dat 'geen misselijk' aantal misdaden is...... Wat betreft het beginnen van oorlogen, heeft het ICC lullig genoeg besloten, alleen oorlogen te vervolgen die werden aangegaan na 17 juli 2018......
Aan de belachelijke precieze datum (dus waarom niet vanaf 1 januari 2018), kan je al zien dat dit een groot discussiepunt is geweest, waarbij de deelnemers hoogstwaarschijnlijk onder druk zijn gezet door de VS. De VS die waarschijnlijk nog wel een oorlog (of meer) wil beginnen voor die datum......
Maar laten we blij zijn dat oorlogen, en oorlogsmisdaden begaan door de VS, eindelijk vervolgd zullen gaan worden door het ICC!
Mensen, lees ajb het volgende en zet je handtekening onder de petitie aan de regeringen op onze aarde, zich achter het ICC te scharen en eindelijk oorlog echt tot een misdaad te verklaren. Dit om zo de weg richting waarlijke vervolging door het ICC open te stellen en daarmee de hoop te koesteren dat dit toekomstige oorlogen kan voorkomen.
By
David Swanson http://worldbeyondwar.org/prosecute
War
is a crime. The International Criminal Court has just announced that
it will finally treat it as a crime, sort-of, kind-of. But how can
war’s status as a crime effectively deter the world’s leading
war-maker from threatening and launching more wars, large and small?
How can laws against war actually be put to use? How can the ICC’s
announcement be made into something more than a pretense?
The
Kellogg-Briand Pact made war a crime in 1928, and various atrocities
became criminal charges at Nuremberg and Tokyo because they were
constituent parts of that larger crime. The United Nations Charter
maintained war as a crime, but limited it to “aggressive” war,
and gave immunity to any wars launched with U.N. approval.
The
International Court of Justice** (ICJ) could try the United States for
attacking a country if (1) that country brought a case, and (2) the
United States agreed to the process, and (3) the United States chose
not to block any judgment by using its veto power at the U.N.
Security Council. Desirable future reforms obviously include urging
all U.N. members to accept the compulsory jurisdiction of the ICJ,
and eliminating the veto. But what can be done now?
The
International Criminal Court (ICC) can try individuals for various
“war crimes,” but has thus far tried only Africans, though for
some time now it has claimed to be “investigating” U.S. crimes in
Afghanistan. Although the U.S. is not a member of the ICC,
Afghanistan is. Desirable future reforms obviously include urging all
nations, including the United States, to join the ICC. But what can
be done now?
The
ICC has finally announced that
it will prosecute individuals (such as the U.S. president and
secretary of “defense”) for the crime of “aggression,” which
is to say: war. But such wars must be launched after July 17, 2018.
And those who can be prosecuted for war will be only citizens of
those nations that have both joined the ICC and ratified the
amendment adding jurisdiction over “aggression.” Desirable future
reforms obviously include urging all nations, including the United
States, to ratify the amendment on “aggression.” But what can be
done now?
The
only way around these restrictions, is for the U.N. Security Council
to refer a case to the ICC. If that happens, then the ICC can
prosecute anyone in the world for the crime of war.
This
means that for the force of law to have any chance of deterring the
U.S. government from threatening and launching wars, we need to
persuade one or more of the fifteen
nations on
the U.N. Security Council to make clear that they will raise the
matter for a vote. Five of those fifteen have veto power, and one of
those five is the United States.
So,
we also need nations of the world to proclaim that when the Security
Council fails to refer the case, they will bring the matter before
the U.N. General Assembly though a “Uniting
for Peace”
procedure in emergency session to override the veto. This is what was
just done in December 2017 to overwhelmingly pass a resolution that
the U.S. had vetoed, a resolution condemning the U.S. naming
Jerusalem the capital of Israel.
Not
only do we need to jump through each of these hoops (a commitment to
a Security Council vote, and a commitment to override the veto in the
General Assembly) but we need to make evident beforehand that we will
be certain or likely to do so.
Therefore,
World Beyond War is launching a
global petition to the national governments of the world asking
for their public commitment to refer any war launched by any nation
to the ICC with or without the Security Council. Click
here to add your name.
After
all, it is not only U.S. wars that should be prosecuted as crimes,
but all wars. And, in fact, it may prove necessary to prosecute
junior partners of the United States in its “coalition” wars
prior to prosecuting the ring leader. The problem is not one of lack
of evidence, of course, but of political will. The U.K., France,
Canada, Australia, or some other co-conspirator may be brought by
global and internal pressure (and the ability to circumvent the U.N.
Security Council) to submit to the rule of law prior to the United
States doing so.
A
key detail is this: how much organized murder and violent destruction
constitutes a war? Is a drone strike a war? Is base expansion and a
few home raids a war? How many bombs make a war? The answer should
be any use
of military force. But in the end, this question will be answered by
public pressure. If we can inform people of it and persuade the
nations of the world to refer it to trial, then it will be a war, and
therefore a crime.
Here’s
my New Year’s resolution: I
vow to support the rule of law, that might may no longer make right.
* Zie: 'VS wordt eindelijk aangeklaagd voor oorlogsmisdaden bij Internationaal Strafhof (ICC)'
** The International Court of Justice (ICJ), ofwel het Internationaal Hof van Justitie, gezeteld in het Haagse Vredespaleis.
Zie ook: 'Jemen 'kerstweek bombardementen': meer dan 100 vermoorde burgers, de daders >> de Saoedische coalitie o.l.v. de VS.........' (zie ook het grote aantal links onder dat bericht)
en: 'VS luchtaanval >> 13 burgerdoden en weer kijkt de wereld weg........'
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