Brett
Wilkins, de schrijver van het hieronder opgenomen artikel (gisteren
gepubliceerd op Common Dreams, door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media) stelde op het verlangen van Bolton, het ICC in haar wieg te wurgen, dat hij eigenlijk bedoelt dat VS
militairen baby's in hun wieg moeten kunnen vermoorden zonder daar
voor te worden vervolgd........
Wilkins
geeft een paar voorbeelden van vreselijke VS terreur en wijst naar de
regering van George W. Bush en de verklaring van deze president over
het niet willen deelnemen aan het ICC, waar deze met een lam excuus
kwam van niet serieus te nemen onderzoeken, terwijl de werkelijke
angst van Bush, zijn psychopathische staf, zijn regering en het
Pentagon, was dat zijzelf vervolgd zouden worden, ofwel dat het ICC
haar taak juist te serieus zou nemen.
Het
voorgaande geldt trouwens ook voor de Obama en Trump administratie,
ook zij waren/zijn bang om zelf aangeklaagd te worden voor de enorme
oorlogsmisdaden die de VS jaar in jaar uit begaat en dat in feite al
meer dan dik 100 jaar.......
Het
meest schunnige van al (althans voor mij) is wel dat de westerse
regeringen nooit de VS verantwoordelijk houden voor haar
oorlogsmisdaden en andere misdaden tegen bijvoorbeeld democratieën.... Als Rusland wordt verdacht van oorlogsmisdaden
schreeuwt men bij wijze van spreken de volgende dag al moord en brand in de Kamer en
eist sancties, terwijl de VS zelfs op basis van feiten nog niet wordt
veroordeeld en er al helemaal geen sancties worden geëist....
Why John Bolton Really Hates the International Criminal Court
September
14, 2018 at 10:36 pm
Written
by Common
Dreams
When
Bolton expresses his desire to “strangle the ICC in its cradle,”
what he really means is he wants US troops to be able to murder
babies in their cradles with impunity.
(CD Op-ed) — On
February 12, 2010, US Army Rangers conducted a nighttime
raid on
a home in the village of Khataba, outside Gardez, Afghanistan. Dozens
of men, women and children, including the district prosecutor and
local police chief, had gathered at the house to celebrate the naming
of a newborn baby just before the raid occurred. The Rangers stormed
the home with guns blazing, killing the prosecutor, police chief, two
pregnant women and a teenage girl.
The
US military lied about the Khataba raid, initially making the
outrageous claim that the women and girl had been killed by their
relatives before the assault. But Afghan investigators soon
discovered that not only had the American troops killed the
civilians, they also dug the bullets out of their riddled bodies and
washed the wounds with alcohol in a failed attempt to conceal their
crime. When confronted with the evidence, the US-led coalition
admitted its forces had indeed killed the women. Despite the US
admission, none of the Rangers involved in the atrocity were ever
disciplined.
The
Khataba raid is but one of many US war crimes and atrocities in
Afghanistan. Other notable events include the 2010 serial murder of
unarmed Afghan civilians in Kandahar province by members of a
self-described Army “Kill
Team,” which
collected victims’ body parts as grisly souvenirs of their crimes,
the torture
and murder of
detainees at secret prisons including the notorious “Salt Pit”
near Kabul and air strikes like the intentional
bombing of
an international charity hospital in Kunduz that killed 42 patients
and staff in October 2015.
To
date, no senior US government, military or intelligence officials
have been held accountable for these and other incidents that, if
committed by America’s enemies, would inarguably be considered
— and prosecuted as — war crimes. The International
Criminal Court (ICC) was created two decades ago to address the
general impunity enjoyed by many war criminals. And while the court,
which has almost exclusively prosecuted Africans, has been widely
criticized as the “Infamous
Caucasian Court” and
an instrument of Western neocolonialism, it has in recent
years announced that
it would begin investigating US war crimes in Afghanistan, as
well as Israeli
crimes against Palestine, which became the 123rd ICC member nation in
2015.
Countries
with nothing to fear do not fear the ICC. The United States and
Israel are very afraid of the ICC. The murder of unarmed civilians is
a war crime. So is torture. Israel’s indiscriminate bombing of
densely-populated civilian areas, its half-century occupation of
Palestinian territory and its construction and expansion of Jews-only
settler colonies on Palestinian land are all also illegal under
international law. Neither Israel nor the United States has joined
the ICC. Other leading human rights violators, including North Korea,
China, Saudi Arabia, Myanmar and Ethiopia, have either never joined
or have withdrawn from the court.
The
United States, which was instrumental in forging the post-World War
II human rights framework embodied by the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights and
admirably demonstrated at the Nuremberg trials, has sadly abrogated
its role and responsibility to promote and uphold human rights in
recent decades. After Nicaragua successfully
sued the
United States in the International Court of Justice (ICJ) for waging
a war of terror against it while supporting the horrifically brutal
Contra rebellion, President Ronald Reagan ignored the ruling and
angrily withdrew the US from the court. Later, the George W. Bush
administration refused to
join the nascent ICC on the dubious grounds that the court might be
used to “frivolously” charge US troops with war crimes in
“politically-motivated” trials.
However,
the Bush administration’s concern wasn’t really that the ICC
would be used frivolously, but that it would be used seriously, and
not to prosecute low-ranking troops but rather officials in
Washington, DC, quite a few of whom would surely qualify for
prosecution. This was, after all, an administration that went
to great lengths to
“legalize” torture, and which argued that
the president had unlimited wartime powers to, among other crimes,
order the massacre of an entire village of civilians.
John
Bolton, currently President Donald Trump’s national security
adviser, was a key proponent of torture and illegal invasion and
occupation when he served in the Bush administration. Bolton has
consistently criticized the ICC as a threat to “US sovereignty.”
What he really means is that it is a threat to US impunity. When
Bolton expresses his desire to “strangle the ICC in its cradle,”
what he really means is he wants US troops to be able to murder
babies in their cradles with impunity.
That’s
what happened on March 11, 2012 when US Army Sgt. Robert Bales raged
from house to house in three villages in Panjwai district, Kandahar
province, Afghanistan and methodically
executed 16
civilians, nine of them children, before setting many of his victims’
bodies on fire.
Bales
was sentenced to life imprisonment, but such accountability is the
exception rather than the rule when it comes to US war crimes and
atrocities. And that’s exactly the way that Bolton and the other US
officials who fear the ICC want things to remain.
There
is much hand-wringing by those who fear President Trump fancies
himself above the law. But for too much of its existence and in too
many of its affairs, the United States has acted as if the law only
applies to itself when it stands to achieve a favorable outcome.
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