The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission
In 2012, the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission found George W. Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld et al guilty of war crimes in absentia for the illegal invasion of Iraq. The trial was commissioned by Malaysia’s retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the Washington-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. The hearing took personal statements, testimonies, and statutory declarations from five witnesses who suffered from illegal torture at the hands of the Pentagon and CIA.
A guilty verdict was returned by five senior Malaysian judges following the trial, ruling that the prosecution had proven "beyond a reasonable doubt" that decision-makers at the highest level - President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other commanders and CIA officials – all acted in concert. Torture was systematically applied and became an accepted norm.
War crimes expert and prosecutor Francis Boyle, Professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in America, described how the trial was conducted based on the regulations of the Nuremburg and International Criminal Courts: “Leaders, organizers, instigators and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit war crimes are responsible for all acts performed by any person in execution of such a plan.”[1]
The Pentagon remains the world's largest polluter and emitter of greenhouse gases, with its illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq infamous as one of the bloodiest "wars for oil" ever waged.[2] Studies estimate that upwards of 3 million Iraqi civilians have been murdered since 1990 as a consequence of genocidal U.S. policies.[3]
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