US Presidents Charged with Crimes Against Humanity as Universal Jurisdiction Dies in Spain

In October 2009, under strong U.S. pressure, the government of Spain decided to limit its jurisdiction in cases of genocide and crimes against humanity, closing a window, the ultimate responsibility for crimes the most serious crimes committed by the most powerful nations on Earth. Under international law, these crimes of universal jurisdiction of any nation, whether his own people are victims or not. The logic is that crimes against humanity are crimes against each member of the human species, a crime against all.
Spain had been an outbreak of heavy charges of crimes against the violators of human rights in Guatemala, Argentina, China, Israel and elsewhere. Most cases were against individuals linked to the right politically untouchable, like Chile's Augusto Pinochet, the Argentine military officer Adolfo Scilingo, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and six of his principal advisers and, more recently, George W. former officials of the Bush administration.

Calls to reign in judges increased when the Spanish judges have announced probes involving Israel and the United States.

In January 2009, the Spanish National Court Judge Fernando Andreu said it was investigating seven former and Israeli officials during a 2002 attack on the air in Gaza that killed a Hamas member and upper fourteen. In March 2009, Baltasar Garzon, the Spanish court's highest profile, invoked the principle of universal jurisdiction when he tried to investigate six former officials of the Bush administration to give legal cover to torture in U.S. prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba in May 2009, another Spanish High Court Judge Santiago Pedraz said that charge three U.S. soldiers for crimes against humanity for the April 2003 death a television cameraman in Spanish and a Ukrainian journalist. The men were killed when a U.S. tank shelled their hotel in Baghdad.

activist judges that Garzón, Andreu, Pedraz and created a diplomatic headache for the government of Zapatero. China has warned Spain that bilateral relations could be damaged in a case regarding Tibet, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Spain is likely to be marginalized in the peace process the Middle East.

But the Spanish government is more concerned about the negative impact of Guantanamo probe could have on relations with the United States. Zapatero has increased the expectations of Spanish voters, with the promise of being able to create hot links to the Obama administration. Indeed, some European leaders have moved away from the Spanish position, for fear of jeopardizing future relations with Washington.

Glen Ford Reporter noted that the greatest potential defendant in the world for war crimes and crimes against humanity is the United States, whose record of direct and indirect participation in the massacres and torture has been unmatched by any other nation, at least since the Second World War. E 'was above all the U.S. pressure that forced Spain to close its courts in cases of international jurisdiction.

 A separate motion was filed by Judge Garzon April 27, 2010, with the New York Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), who tries to intervene as a party in criminal proceedings currently underway in the U.S. program of torture at Guantanamo . The investigation focuses on torture and abuse of four former Guantanamo detainees with strong links with Spain. RAC notes that because of the nature of the crimes alleged and the obligations of Spain as a signatory of the Geneva Conventions, the Convention against Torture, in particular, Spain should retain jurisdiction over the case.

"For eight long years we fought to correct their brutal, inhumane and illegal attacks against our clients, but were blocked at every turn by both Obama and Bush administrations," said Michael Ratner, president of risk who presented the first petition for habeas corpus filed on behalf of a detainee at Guantanamo in 2002. "We came to Spain in search of nothing less than justice, which is unfortunately not available in the United States."

One day before the change in Spanish legislation, a number of members of the Court of Brussels under the auspices of an international effort to prosecute U. S. Genocide in Iraq, presented the charges of crimes against humanity and genocide against four U.S. presidents and four prime ministers of Great Britain. The costs include 1.5 million Iraqi deaths over nineteen years of British and American attacks, including two large-scale wars of aggression, "the sanctions regime ever designed the most draconian," and occupation of Iraq. Half a million dead, prosecutors said, were children.

In parallel, a unique heritage and rich cultural and archaeological heritage of Iraq was arbitrarily destroyed. To make Iraq dependent on U.S. strategic designs and the United Kingdom, successive U.S. and British governments have attempted to isolate Iraq and establishing military force by pro-occupation Iraqi government and the political system. They promoted and engaged in widespread looting of Iraq's natural resources, the attempt to privatize the ownership and the wealth of the Iraqi nation. Thus, the attacks have been massive and systematic on Iraq, which extends about a generation, prosecutors charged the United States and the United Kingdom with the deliberate destruction of a nation.

The defendants are George Herbert Walker Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Hussein Obama, Margaret Thatcher, John Major, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. Claims that each costume has played a key role in Iraq wanted the destruction, which instigated, supported, streamlined, performance and / or perpetual nor justified the destruction based on lies and limit the strategic and economic interest and cons will of their people. The Brussels Tribunal, states that allow managers to escape liability means that such measures could be repeated elsewhere.

The clearinghouse in the world for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide is the International Criminal Court. However, Ford said that in recent years this court has continued throughout the world, but Africans and is increasingly exposed as an instrument of Western hegemony. The United States refuses to join the International Criminal Court, and thus claims immunity from prosecution.

  Update by Glen Ford

Lawless United States has offered a job as Executor of the International Court. The impunity with which the United States and Great Britain has killed 1.5 million Iraqis displaced and 4.7 million over two decades of uninterrupted aggression (since 1990), is eclipsed in scale slaughter genocide in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). About 6 million Congolese have died since the main proxy, the United States in the region, Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni and the Government of Rwanda Tutsi military, which is shed on the borders of the DRC in pursuit of nearly $ 1 million Rwandan Hutu refugees in Rwandan civil war in 1994, including the defeat of the Hutu militia.

Ugandan and Rwandan military commanders quickly took control of mining in the region rich in minerals, which provide raw materials for mining companies and U.S. companies based in Europe, a profitable company that develops common in environment of terror and mass murder. Despite the fact that their activities in eastern Congo has led to a holocaust that even under the Nazi regime, Rwanda and Uganda enjoy impunity because the most loyal customers of Washington in black Africa. U.S. media company, led by the collective nose of the Department of State U.S., found hidden genocide everywhere except in Africa between the U.S. delegation to Kampala and Kigali.

Having failed to prosecute anyone, but Africans since its inception in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) is now actively courting the United States, the most prolific author and sponsor of the World War Crimes crimes against humanity and genocide as executor comprehensive indictments of the ICC. The United States refuses to join the ICC, fearing it could be prosecuted for his crimes (only the 111 nations that have ratified the treaty within its jurisdiction). However, the chief prosecutor of the ICC, Luis Moreno-Ocampo openly lobbying for the United States lead a "coalition of the willing" to deploy "Special Forces" as the implementation arm of the Court in The Hague.

Moreno-Ocampo apparently believes the global search for justice should have been allowed access to the "ability of rare and expensive" the world's most active war-machine, as reported by student journalists and Adam Branch in Samar the newspaper Al-Bulushi Pambazuka Africa. The United States sees no contradiction in serving as executor of international law that respects and does not recognize as compulsory. Stephen Rapp, the U.S. ambassador at large for war crimes, said Washington "can support this court constructively when working in our interest. And so far, if we assume, are in our interests and the interests of all humanity.

The United States was in the spotlight, although officially only an observer at the last conference of the CPI (May 31-June 11) in Kamala, Uganda. "It's hard to focus on how countries are happy to see us here," said State Department legal adviser Harold Koh. He was very distressed when the hostility of the United States to the court. "Washington is, of course, fiercely opposed to any limitation of its powers super, but accepted the invitation of Mr. Moreno-Ocampo to enforce indictments of the ICC are very selective.

greatest tyrant in the world, a nation that proudly proclaims that the law ends where they start their own interests, is offered by Marshal badge. Justice can not be fully enforced.

  Update by Ad Hoc Committee For Justice For Iraq

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  Sources:

Glen Ford, “Four U.S. Presidents and Four UK Prime Ministers Charged With Genocide,” Black Agenda Report, October 13, 2009, http://www.blackagendareport.com/?q=content/four-us-presidents-and-four-uk-prime-ministers-charged-genocide.

“Justice for Iraq: Legal Case Filed U.S. Presidents and UK Prime Ministers,” Brussels Tribune, October 7, 2009, http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/printer_57154.shtml.

Center for Constitutional Rights, “CCR Seeks to Intervene in Spanish Court’s Investigations into Bush Administration’s Torture Program,” press release, April 27, 2010, http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/ccr-seeks-intervene-spanish-court%E2%80%99s-investigations-bush-administration%E2%80%99s-tor.