OMNI WAR CRIMES NEWSLETTER
#5, June 8, 2013. Compiled by Dick Bennett for a Culture of
Peace. (#1 Oct. 8, 2011; #2 Nov. 25, 2011; #3 March 7, 2012; #4 Oct. 4, 2012).
"To initiate a war of aggression,
therefore, is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international
crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself
the accumulated evil of the whole."
- Robert H. Jackson ,
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Afghan Wedding Airstrike Murders to 2010
Afghan Wedding Airstrikes 2012
New Film on Indicting Cheney for Torture
Yoder:
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Film: Indict Cheney for War Crimes
US War Crimes Google Search
Reporting Child Victims of War
Prosecute US War Crimes
McNamara: Afghanistan
Chemical War , Vietnam War, Agent Orange , US
No to Naming Freeway After Bush II
Shanley:
Madeleine Albright, “we think the price is worth it”
Sudan Burns Villages in Southern Provinces
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At long last . . . we are now a
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the very final cut, but with something pretty close.
One of the things we are still
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“In spite of strong
evidence identifying Dick Cheney as the mastermind
behind this torture regime–the subject remains taboo, both in the ‘news’
business and in Hollywood–that is until Hollywood executives watched trailers
for the anti-war documentary.”
During this summer of Occupy and subsequent police brutality, the
subject of torture is hotly denounced by protesters and conveniently ignored by
candidates. Like that ostrich diving head first into the sand of political
expediency–Americans want to focus on the alleged debt crisis or gay
marriage–anything that absolves us from the messy subject of tortures committed
in our names by the Bush/Cheney administration and which continue under Obama
to the present day. The entire Bradley Manning debacle speaks volumes to this
accusation.
In spite of strong evidence identifying Dick Cheney as the
mastermind behind this torture regime–the subject remains taboo, both in the
‘news’ business and in Hollywood–that is until Hollywood executives watched
trailers for the anti-war documentary–The Last War Crime.
Written, produced and directed by a new
talent known only as ‘The Pen,’ this
film documents the torture protocol ordained by the Bush-Cheney administration.
Since it first circulated a trailer on the web; it has been heavily censored
and cyber attacked. You Tube has removed it at intermittent intervals and MTV (which
is owned byViacom) has refused to sell air time for a
commercial.
Apparently, there are some things that Viacom won’t accept money
for—namely any film or story which exposes the regular torture ordered by
Vice-President Cheney. Curious about this documentary and the blatant
censorship–(I couldn’t download it)–I contacted the artist aka The Pen. Here is
the interview.
JM : What are you hoping this film will accomplish in terms
of genuine political change?
The Pen:” The Last War Crime Movie
is about indicting Cheney for torture. And isn’t that something billions of
people want to see? They say sometimes life can imitate art. But first we felt
it was important that we retrace our country’s steps as to how torture was used
to get the false intelligence to sell us on a war with Iraq
The people who committed these war crimes believe they can
escape accountability by changing the way people think, by selling the
American people on the idea that torture was a great thing that got us
wonderful intelligence to protect us. But the only people making these
arguments are the torturers themselves and their propaganda advocates. All
other percipient witnesses confirm the opposite, which we knew already,
that torture does not even work, and that any actionable intelligence they
got was obtained before they started torturing people. So part of the
mission of this movie is to counter their ongoing lies initiative, to
change the way people think back to the truth, and then we can have good
policy change, which is political change.
JM : Do you expect more interference, and if so–in what form?
The Pen: Based on what we have run into
already, the attempted YouTube censorship (which we forced them to reverse
after more than 7,000 direct protests), the rejection of the ad submitted to
MTV (Viacom Inc.), it is clear that we are encountering serious censorship
interference from the very beginning. Obviously we are telling a story that
certain people don’t want heard. The American people believe that we have free
speech. It was on that justification that the Supreme Court said in the
Citizens United decision that the gloves were off, and that corporations with
unlimited war chests should be permitted to flood our political process with
money favoring their point of view. But now we see that the other side of that
bargain was a fraud, that these same corporations believe they can discriminate
against points of view they disagree with. So for the actual people, we find
that even if we have the money, we cannot even BUY “free” speech.
This is not a tolerable situation. Must we generate thousands of
protests every time we want to run an ad when it is rejected for political
reasons?
Already Viacom has received over 12,000 protest messages in
response to our call to action there, and in that situation apparently they
think “we the people” can just be ignored. We are seriously considering a
federal lawsuit, the argument has to be made, that if they accept
political advertising of any kind, at least in that case, it must be some
kind of 14th Amendment equal protection violation to practice what we
would call “speech discrimination”. Only by bringing such a case can we
determine if we actually have free speech or not.
JM: Has there been any direct retaliation or threats connected
with the release of this film aimed at you? Any suspected retaliation?
The Pen : Gandhi is reputed to have said, “First they ignore you,
then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win”. At this point
we are still mostly at the attempted “ignore you” stage.
JM: What has Hollywood
The Pen: We are just starting to get the word out about this film.
The censorship attempts are doomed to fail, but we still don’t have enough
visibility to where the rest of the Hollywood
film community would be called on to react. It would not surprise me if some of
the censorship we’ve been talking about was based in part on cowardice. Of
course we all remember when Michael Moore called out the fiction of the basis
for the war in Iraq
JM: Anything else you would want to add?
The Pen: “The soul of America America
rejected. And there is a Facebook page where we are posting video
clips, still shots from the movie, including behind the scenes shots, and
more on a daily basis, so you can follow our progress and help get this movie
out in real theaters where it belongs and deserves to be.”
It should be noted that as of May 22nd, 2012, The Last War Crime
was presented at the Cannes Film Festival. There was no refusal to air the
film, no censorship–corporate or otherwise. Apparently the independent artistic
community in Cannes and similar venues knows
something that evades the vapid corporate offices of Hollywood
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Philippine–American War [edit]
See also: 1902 Lodge Committee investigating Philippine-American
war crimes and Philippine–American
War
The Committee
on the Philippines was a standing committee of the United States Senate from 1899 to 1921.[1] The
committee was established by Senate resolution on 15 December 1899, to oversee
administration of the Philippines, which Spain
had ceded to the United
States Philippines
World War II [edit]
See also: Allied
war crimes during World War II
Air raids on civilian
population [edit]
See also: Bombing
of Dresden in World War II
During World War II, both Axis and Allied aerial
forces conducted air raids on civilian populations in Europe and over Japan
Bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki [edit]
Main
article: Atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
In 1963, the atomic
bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were
the subject of a judicial review in Ryuichi
Shimoda et al. v. The State.[6] In
this case, the District Court of Tokyo declined to rule on the legality of
nuclear weapons in general, but found that "the attacks upon Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Prisoners of war [edit]
SS concentration
camp guards being executed at Dachau
concentration campduring its day of liberation
(US Army soldier photograph/National Archives)
(US Army soldier photograph/National Archives)
The "Canicattì massacre"
involved the killing of Italian civilians by Lieutenant Colonel Herbert
McCaffrey. A confidential inquiry was made, but McCaffrey was never charged
with an offense relating to the massacre. He died in 1954. This fact remained
virtually unknown in the U.S.A until 2005, when Joseph S. Salemi of New York University
The "Dachau massacre" involved the killing of
German prisoners of war and surrendering SS soldiers at the Dachau
In the "Biscari massacre", which consisted of two
instances of mass murder, U.S.
"Operation Teardrop"
involved eight surviving captured crewmen from the sunken German submarine U-546 being tortured by US military
personnel. Historian Philip K. Lundeberg has written that the beating and
torture of U-546's survivors was a singular atrocity
motivated by the interrogators' need to quickly get information on what the US
believed were potential missile attacks on the continental US by German
submarines.[16]
In the aftermath of the 1944 Malmedy massacre, in which 80 unarmed US
military personnel were tortured by their German captors, a written order from
Headquarters of the 328th US Army Infantry Regiment, dated 21 December 1944,
stated: "No SS troops or paratroopers will
be taken prisoner but [rather they] will be shot on sight."[17] Major-General
Raymond Hufft (U.S. Army) gave instructions to his troops not to take prisoners
when they crossed the Rhine in 1945.
"After the war, when he reflected on the war crimes he authorized, he
admitted, 'if the Germans had won, I would have been on trial at Nuremberg
Near the French village
of Audouville-la-Hubert,
30 German Wehrmacht prisoners
were massacred by U.S.
Historian Peter Lieb has found that many US
and Canadian units were ordered to not take enemy prisoners during the D-Day
landings in Normandy
According to an article in Der Spiegel by Klaus Wiegrefe, many personal memoirs
of Allied soldiers have been willfully ignored by historians until now because
they were at odds with the "Greatest Generation"
mythology surrounding World War II. However, this has recently started to
change, with books such as "The Day of Battle", by Rick Atkinson, where he describes Allied war
crimes in Italy, and "D-Day: The Battle for Normandy," by Antony Beevor.[21] Beevor's
latest work is currently discussed by scholars, and should some of them be
proven right, it suggests that Allied war crimes in Normandy
American soldiers in the Pacific sometimes
deliberately killed Japanese soldiers who had surrendered, according to Richard
Aldrich (Professor of History atNottingham University).
Aldrich published a study of diaries kept by United States U.S.
Ulrich Straus, a U.S. Japanologist, suggests that troops on the
front line intensely hated Japanese military personnel and were "not
easily persuaded" to take or protect prisoners, as they believed that
Allied personnel who surrendered got "no mercy" from the Japanese.[28] Allied
soldiers believed that Japanese soldiers were inclined to feign surrender in
order to make surprise attacks.[28] Therefore,
according to Straus, "Senior officers opposed the taking of prisoners on
the grounds that it needlessly exposed American troops to risks ..."[28] When
prisoners nevertheless were taken at Gualdacanal, Army interrogator Captain
Burden noted that many times POW's were shot during transport because "it
was too much bother to take [them] in".[29]
U. S. historian James J. Weingartner
attributes the very low number of Japanese in U.S. prisoner of war compounds to
two important factors, namely (1) a Japanese reluctance to surrender, and (2) a
widespread American "conviction that the Japanese were 'animals' or
'subhuman' and unworthy of the normal treatment accorded to prisoners of war.[31] The
latter reason is supported by Ferguson, who says that "Allied troops often
saw the Japanese in the same way that Germans regarded Russians — as Untermenschen" (i.e.
"subhuman").[32]
Rape [edit]
Main
articles: Rape
during the liberation of France, Rape
during the occupation of Germany, Rape
during the occupation of Japan, and War rape
It has been claimed that some U.S.
Based on several years of research, Okinawan
historian Oshiro Masayasu (former director of the Okinawa Prefectural
Historical Archives) writes:
Soon after the U.S.
Marines landed, all the women of a village on Motobu Peninsula fell into the hands of American soldiers.
At the time, there were only women, children, and old people in the village, as
all the young men had been mobilized for the war. Soon after landing, the
Marines "mopped up" the entire village, but found no signs of
Japanese forces. Taking advantage of the situation, they started "hunting
for women" in broad daylight, and women who were hiding in the village or
nearby air raid shelters were dragged out one after another.[34]
However, many other authors have noted
that Japanese civilians "were often surprised at the comparatively humane
treatment they received from the American enemy."[35][36] According
to Islands of Discontent:
Okinawan Responses to Japanese and American Power by Mark Selden, the Americans "did not
pursue a policy of torture, rape, and murder of
civilians as Japanese military officials had warned."[37]
There were also 1,336 reported rapes
during the first 10 days of the occupation of Kanagawa prefecture after the Japanese surrender.[33]
Secret wartime files made public only
in 2006 reveal that American GIs committed
400 sexual offences in Europe, including 126 rapes in England England , France
and Germany
Korean War [edit]
No Gun Ri
Massacre [edit]
The No Gun Ri Massacre refers to an incident of mass killing
of undetermined numbers of South Korean refugees conducted by U.S. Army forces
of the 7th
Cavalry Regiment (and
in a U.S. air attack) between 26 July and 29 July 1950 at a railroad bridge near
the village of No Gun Ri, 100 miles (160 km) southeast of Seoul. In 2005,
the South Korean government certified the names of 163 dead or missing (mostly
women, children and old men) and 55 wounded. It said many other victims' names
were not reported.[42] Over
the years survivors' estimates of the dead have ranged from 300 to 500. This
episode early in the Korean War gained widespread attention when the Associated
Press (AP) published a series of articles in 1999 that subsequently won a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting.[43]
Vietnam War [edit]
The Vietnam
War Crimes Working Group Files is
a collection of (formerly secret) documents compiled by Pentagon investigators
in the early 1970s, confirming thatatrocities by
U.S. forces during the Vietnam War were
more extensive than had been officially acknowledged.[44][45] The
documents are housed by the United States National
Archives and Records Administration, and detail 320 alleged
incidents that were substantiated by United States Army investigators (not including the 1968 My Lai Massacre). (See also Winter Soldier
Investigation).
My Lai
Massacre [edit]
Main article: My Lai Massacre
The My Lai Massacre was the mass murder of
347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South
Vietnam US
Agent Orange [edit]
Main article: Agent Orange
A panel of legal and political
activists calling themselves the International
Tribunal of Conscience in Support of the Vietnamese Victims of Agent Orange formed in France have claimed that the
use of Agent Orange during Operation Ranch Hand during the Vietnam War was
a violation of laws regarding the use of chemical weapons in the 1907 Hague
Convention, the 1927 Geneva Convention, and the 1949 Geneva Convention.[50][51][52] In
2005 a suit filed against the United States and several companies who produced
Agent Orange was rejected by a United States District Court in Brooklyn. The
court found that "No treaty or agreement, express or implied, of the
United States, operated to make use of herbicides in Vietnam a violation of the
laws of war or any other form of international law until at the earliest April
of 1975."[53] In
2007 the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the Court in Brooklyn
saying that "Agent Orange and similar U.S.
Yugoslavia
Main article: Legitimacy
of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia
Amnesty International has condemned the 1999 NATO
bombing of Yugoslavia, which they confirm killed 400 civilians (some
sources place this figure at over 1,000 or as high as 5,000) in what it claims
were violations of international law and war crimes, due to deliberate
targeting of civilian infrastructure and indiscriminate attacks, with lack of
precautionary measures taken to prevent civilian casualties[55]
Human Rights Watch documented approximately 500 civilian
deaths as a result of the NATO bombing campaign. They reported "no
evidence of war crimes" but cited violations of international humanitarian
law.[56]
The International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia reviewed these events, including HRW's
report, as well as that alleged by the Federal
Republic of Yugoslavia. It concluded "either the law is not
sufficiently clear or investigations are unlikely to result in the acquisition
of sufficient evidence."[57]
War on Terror [edit]
Main article: War on Terror
As a reaction to the September 11,
2001 attacks the U.S. Government adopted several controversial measures
(e.g., invading
Iraq, applying "unlawful combatant"
status to prisoners, conducting extraordinary
renditions, enhanced
interrogation methods, kill list and Drone attacks in
Pakistan[58]).
Command
responsibility [edit]
Human Rights Watch had claimed in 2005 that the principle
of "command responsibility" could make high-ranking officials within
the Bush administration guilty of war crimes allegedly committed during the War on Terror, either with their knowledge or
by persons under their control.[59]
A presidential memorandum of September
7, 2002 authorized U.S. interrogators of prisoners captured in Afghanistan to deny
the prisoners basic protections required by the Geneva Conventions, and thus
according to Jordan J. Paust, professor of law and formerly a member of the
faculty of the Judge
Advocate General's School, "necessarily authorized and ordered
violations of the Geneva Conventions, which are war crimes."[60] Based
on the president's memorandum, U.S.
Alberto Gonzales and others argued that detainees
should be considered "unlawful combatants"
and as such not be protected by the Geneva Conventions in multiple memoranda regarding these
perceived legal gray areas.[63]
Gonzales' statement that denying
coverage under the Geneva Conventions "substantially reduces the threat of
domestic criminal prosecution under the War Crimes Act"
suggests, to some authors, an awareness by those involved in crafting policies
in this area that US officials are involved in acts that could be seen to be war crimes.[64] The US Supreme Court challenged the premise on which this
argument is based in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld,
in which it ruled that Common Article Three of the Geneva Conventions applies
to detainees in Guantanamo Bay and that the Military
Tribunals used to try
these suspects were in violation of US and international law.[65]
On April 14, 2006, Human Rights Watch said that Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could be criminally liable for his
alleged involvement in the abuse of Mohammad al-Qahtani.[66] On
November 14, 2006, invoking universal
jurisdiction, legal proceedings were started in Germany – for their
alleged involvement of prisoner abuse – against Donald Rumsfeld, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, George Tenet and
others.[67]
The Military
Commissions Act of 2006 is
seen by some as an amnesty law for
crimes committed in the War on Terror by retroactively rewriting the War Crimes
Act[68] and
by abolishing habeas corpus, effectively making it
impossible for detainees to challenge crimes committed against them.[69]
Luis Moreno-Ocampo has told the Sunday Telegraph he is willing to start an inquiry by
the International
Criminal Court (ICC),
and possibly a trial, for war crimes committed in Iraq involving British Prime
Minister Tony Blair and
American President George W. Bush.[70] Though
under the Rome Statute, the ICC has no jurisdiction over
Bush, since the USA is not a State Party to the relevant treaty—unless Bush
were accused of crimes inside a State Party, or the UN Security Council (where the USA has a veto) requested
an investigation. However Blair does fall under ICC jurisdiction as Britain
Nat Hentoff wrote
on August 28, 2007, that a leaked report by the International
Committee of the Red Cross and
the July 2007 report by Human Rights First andPhysicians
for Social Responsibility, titled "Leave No Marks: Enhanced
Interrogation Techniques and the Risk of Criminality", might be used as
evidence of American war crimes if there was a Nuremberg-like trial regarding
the War on Terror.[72][unreliable
source?]
Shortly before the end of President
Bush's second term, newsmedia in countries other than the U.S. began publishing the views of those who
believe that under the United Nations Convention Against Torture the US U.S.
Michael Ignatieff, then leader of the Liberal Party of
Canada and former
director of the Carr
Center for Human Rights Policy said
that the threat of terrorism requires serious and possibly permanent
abridgement of civil liberties. He stated that governments are justified in
combating terrorism with "lesser evils", ranging from suspension of
civil liberties, through secret uses of executive power, to torture of suspects,
as well as targeted killing, right up to pre-emptive war to destroy terrorist
bases and also to prevent the development or deployment of weapons which may be
used by terrorists or states that support terrorist aims.[75]
Tomas Young, an Iraq War veteran wounded
during that conflict, is one of the more recent critics of the Bush
administration's actions during the War on Terror, accusing Bush and his former
vice-president, Dick Cheney, of committing war crimes in a
letter he wrote to them in March 2013.
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Focus (FPIF), a joint project of theInternational
Relations Center (IRC,
online at www.irc-online.org) and theInstitute for
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Further reading [edit]
General [edit]
·
Jeremy Brecher, Jill
Cutler, Brendan Smith, ed. (2005). In the name
of democracy: American war crimes in Iraq
·
Michael Haas (2008). George W.
Bush, war criminal?: the Bush administration's liability for 269 war crimes. ABC-CLIO. ISBN 978-0-313-36499-0.
·
Jordan J. Paust
(2007). Beyond the law: the Bush Administration's unlawful
responses in the "War" on Terror. Cambridge
University
·
Mark Selden, Alvin United States ,
Japan
·
Frederick Henry
Gareau (2004). State terrorism and the United States
·
Vincent Bugliosi (2008). The
Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. Vanguard. ISBN 978-1-59315-481-3.
·
"Leave No Marks: Enhanced Interrogation Techniques
and the Risk of Criminality". Physicians
for Human Rights / Human Rights First. August
2007.
By nation [edit]
Iraq
·
Richard A. Falk, Irene L. Gendzier, Robert Jay Lifton, ed. (2006). Crimes of
war: Iraq
·
Ramsey Clark (1992). War crimes:
a report on United States
war crimes against Iraq
·
Nafeez Mosaddeq
Ahmed (2003). Behind the war on terror: western secret strategy and the
struggle for Iraq. New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0-86571-506-6.
·
Ulrike Demmer
(2007-03-26). "Wanted For War Crimes: Rumsfeld Lawsuit Embarrasses
German Authorities". Der Spiegel.
·
Patrick Donahue
(2007-04-27). "German Prosecutor Won't Set Rumsfeld Probe
Following Complaint". Bloomberg
L.P.
Vietnam
·
Greiner, Bernd; Anne
Wyburd (2009). War Without Fronts: The USA
in Vietnam New Haven , Conn : Yale
University
·
Deborah Nelson
(2008). The war behind me: Vietnam
veterans confront the truth about U.S.
·
Nick Turse (2013). Kill
Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam New York
Yugoslavia
·
Michael Parenti (2000). To kill a
nation: the attack on Yugoslavia. Verso. ISBN 978-1-85984-776-3.
·
Michael Parenti The
Rational Destruction of Yugoslavia
·
Balkans region archives, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
External links [edit]
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Human Rights First; Command’s Responsibility: Detainee Deaths in U.S. Custody
in Iraq and Afghanistan
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A key component of
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16 civilians (including 9 children) were murdered in cold blood in
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VIDEO: The Lingering Effects of Agent Orange
Posted: 03 Dec 2012 01:59 PM PST
This video explores the perspectives of three generations of Agent Orange survivors offering a rare insight into non-Vietnamese survivors highlighting the global scale of this issue. Additionally, Jon Mitchell, a Welsh born journalist now residing in
Special thanks to
Heather Bowser (Children Of Vietnam Veterans Health Alliance), Kenneth H. Young, Jenna Mack,
&
Da Nang
The lingering effects of Agent Orange from Peace Boat on Vimeo.
http://vimeo.com/peaceboat
Tue Mar 12, 2013 12:14 pm (PDT) .
Posted by:
quister1789 Veterans for Peace
From: microann@yahoo.com
To: campcaseyalumni@yahoogroups.com, middle_east_alumni@googlegroups.com,
code-pink-delegation-to-pakistan@googlegroups.com
Sent: 3/12/2013 10:08:02 A.M. Central Daylight Time
Subj: [campcaseyalumni] Say NO in poll to name freeway in Dallas after War
Criminial George W. Bush
Please vote NO to change the name of Central Freeway in Dallas to George
W. Bush freeway!!!
Ann Wright
microann@yahoo.com
Facebook: http://www.www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=504291178
Twitter: annwright46
"Dissent: Voices of Conscience" www.voicesofconscience.com
--- On Tue, 3/12/13, JHarris866@aol.com <JHarris866@aol.com> wrote:
From: JHarris866@aol.com <JHarris866@aol.com>
Subject: [codepinkhouse] SO embarrassing for Dallas! Please help us say
NOOOOO!
To: codepinkhouse@yahoogroups.com, roseroots@googlegroups.com
Date: Tuesday, March 12, 2013, 1:32 PM
As if the soon-to-be-dedicated shrine to Bush's presidency weren't enough,
now this. Help us Dallasites keep our sanity!
Please vote in the WFAA poll, share, and make calls. The hearing in the
House may be set for today.
_http://www.wfaa.com/home/Dallas-lawmaker-proposes-new-name-for-Central-Expr
essway-197234321.html_
(http://www.wfaa.com/home/Dallas-lawmaker-proposes-new-name-for-Central-Expressway-197234321.html)
There's already one major highway in DFW named after Daddy Bush. :(
Leslie
...and don't forget to join us in April for this:
_www.thepeoplesresponse.org_ (http://www.thepeoplesresponse.org/) .
Who Will
Speak If We Don’t?
Madeleine
Albright at St. John’s
High
School, Worcester
by Suzanne
Belote Shanley.
When I learned last January,
that former Secretary of
State, Madeleine Albright,
would be a keynote speaker
at St. John
School in Worcester
stunned, outraged, my mind spinning back to
the first Gulf War, and Albright’s infamous 60
Minutes interview in 1996. Responding to a
pointed question by Leslie Stahl, who compared
the US
sanctions in Iraq
killing of civilians during the US
bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
asserted: “I think this is a very hard choice, but
the price—we think the price is worth it.”
Albright’s reply, later
revised and regretted,
(distinct from repented) but
never spoken of in
terms of sorrow for the slow
starvation of a
civilian population,
decimation of infrastructure
through US bombing and
embargo, and the
preventable deaths of
children, became a
benchmark for self-delusion
and the re-writing
of history to gratify the
ends of empire.
Albright, now on a national
lecture tour,
was to address an audience
of over a thousand
people, including high
school students,
unbelievably, on the subject
of “The Courage
to Listen”, with the
enlightened task of “civility
in discourse, discussion and
decision-making.”
Alternately baffled and
enraged, I attempted
calling headmaster, Michael
Welsh, who was
out of town and unavailable,
and proceeded to
write an open letter to him
and a private letter to
earlier, had dis-invited,
Vicki Kennedy, Ted
Kennedy’s widow, from a
graduation address
at Anna Maria, a local Catholic College
of her pro-choice position.
Yet, unlike the
negativity around Kennedy, St. John’s
glowingly announced
Albright’s (strong prochoice, if not pro-abortion proponent) arrival at
of Paul Farmer, a previous
Abdella lecturer.
In my letter to Bishop
McManus, I outlined
the fact that “as Secretary
of State during the
Clinton Administration, Albright
presided over
the US
Ramsey Clark described as a
“war crime,” a
charge supported by The
International Court on
Crimes Against Humanity.
Unless “Albright’s
purpose in coming to a
Catholic high school
was to repent her
participation in such an
unspeakable carnage,” I
wrote “,using Catholic
Social Teaching as a
guideline,” how could the
diocese and the headmaster
ignore, Cardinal
Etchegaray’s, (President of
the Pontifical
Council for Justice in 1998)
condemnation of
the sanctions as “destroying
the soul of the Iraqi
people.”
After my initial letters,
which I emailed to
local peace groups and
peacemakers, inviting
them to begin a
letter-writing campaign, I called
Diocesan Director of
Communication, Ray
Deslile, to clarify that
Agape was not asking
that Albright be disinvited,
(even though some
letter writers did). Rather,
I proposed that a
spokesperson for the
extended Agape peace
community, preferably a
woman, be invited to
speak on nonviolence and
Catholic Social
teaching on war, at the
forum with Albright. I
knew, with less than a week
before her talk, this
might be all but impossible,
but I had hoped to
stir a debate from a
gospel-peacemaking
perspective on the Iraq
and Madeleine Albright’s
role. Ray and I found
common ground in the
perspective that the
Diocese would do well after
Albright’s talk, to
initiate a district-wide
study of Catholic Social
teaching, with a primary
emphasis on Jesus’
teachings on revenge.
Over the years, Albright
held to the validity
of sanctions “for dealing
with such tyrannies as
observations do not answer
the question of
whether any policy, no
matter how strategically
sound, is worth the deaths
of 500,000 Iraqi
children — a figure that
originated in a Unicef
report on infant mortality
in sanctions-era Iraq
and became the rallying cry
of anti-sanctions
campaigners.” (NYT, 7/23/03;
“Were the
Sanctions Right?”)
Albright’s response to Rieff:
“It was a genuinely stupid
thing to say,” in what
Rieff remarked was
Albright’s search “for the
lesser evil.” Over the
years, it appeared that
“stupid thing to say” never
translated into an
apology to the Iraqi people,
or, as a former
Catholic, now Episcopalian,
into any public
expression of remorse.
Instead, she gets major
billing, creates a minor
stir, appears at a Catholic
institution, which publicly
acclaims its
commitment to peace and
justice. Albright,
many of us in the peace
community agreed,
could not come to Worcester
unchallenged.
Scott and Claire
Schaeffer-Duffy, of St.
Therese and St. Francis
Catholic Worker in
vigil. Letters to Headmaster
Welsh came from
people who had observed
first-hand, the effects
of the sanctions on Iraqi
children. John
Schuchardt of the House of
Peace in Ipswich ,
wrote: “In 1991 and 1995 I
was in the hospitals
of Iraq
from the naval blockade
imposed by the U.S.
in August, 1990 and
continued by Madeline
Albright during her 4 years
of refusal to listen
to the cries of pain and
suffering.” Albright’s
view of this suffering,
seems appallingly bland
compared to the horrors
reported by John:
“What was so terrible for me
was that I did see
the faces of the people who
were suffering —
even if I thought then and
think now that the
sufferings of the Iraqi
people were Saddam’s
doing, not ours. There’s a
terrible price you pay.
A terrible price.’’ (Ibid.)
That price was further
described by another
first-hand account by George
Capaccio, also
present during “Saddam’s
doings”: “These little
ones, with their parents
beside them, lay on filthy
mattresses in public
hospitals where broken
windows could not be
repaired, where overhead
lights were often missing
and not replaceable,
where oxygen tanks lacked
the necessary valves,
where a lack of
disinfectants left hospital wards
and corridors smelling rank…
in a country that
once had a healthcare system
that was the pride
of the Middle
East . … Denis Halliday and Hans
von Sponek— stationed in Baghdad
their posts concluding that
the sanctions were
‘genocidal.’”
Scott Schaeffer-Duffy,
summed it all up:
“I asked an exhausted
doctor, who worked
without electricity, clean
water, medications, or
sterile supplies, what the
life expectancy was in
the Basra
have not saved a patient in
6 months.’”
These letters went to the Worcester
chancery, and to
administrators at St. John’s
priests, women religious,
and area peacemakers,
including the renowned
scholar on Catholic
Social Teaching, David
O’Brien, who lamented
the lack of dialogue within
the “Catholic
community… of how Catholic
Social teaching”
is “best applied in the
practice of our country’s
foreign and national
security policy.”
Tom Cornell, Catholic Worker
elder and
author, who lived and worked
with Dorothy Day,
delivered a one sentence
chastisement: “Please
let His Excellency know that
many people will
be scandalized if Madeleine
Albright’s views
on war are not
counter-balanced by
representatives of authentic
Catholic Social
Teaching.”
January Witness at John’s
High School
About twenty of us, having
purchased hand
warmers and alert to
possible frost-bite, arrived
at St.
John’s with banners asking for repentance
of the “Sin of Violence”,
and a brief leaflet
with the facts and figures
of the death toll on
Iraqi children and a picture
of a dying Iraqi child.
With the strong police
presence and their
apologetic warnings, we knew
that any thoughts
of leafleting were doomed.
ACatholic Free
Press headline, after the
vigil proclaimed:
“Albright calls for
listening; opponents seek to
be heard” lending truth to
the cliché, “frozen
out”. Albright’s remarks to
several standing
ovations went unchallenged,
except for a
handful of fliers that Pax
Christi members Pat
Ferrone, (Regional Director
of Pax Christi,
MA), and Sue Malone, who
were inside, were
able to distribute.
Pat had written before the
talk of their
intention as attendees: “We
will listen carefully
to what Dr. Albright may
say, hoping that she is
forthright and
self-reflective about the moral
implications of her part in
events that resulted
in ‘perverse and
uncontrollable effects’ during
her reactions to Albright’s
presence and the
dilemma of being an
“observer” at such a forum,
where history goes unnoted
and collective
amnesia is in full display:
“We are up against
‘civilized power’ that
disarms and entices, uses
words like humility,
harmony, listening; takes
advantage of the cultivation
of nice boys and
girls and, despite the fact
that it talks about critical
thinking, doesn’t present
the truth of historical
events (500,000 dead Iraqi
children) so that
critical thinking can be
applied. She who holds
the power, who ‘graces’ the
audience, who is
applauded and lauded by a
full-house
contingent, is certainly not
held under scrutiny.
We’re bamboozled, laugh at
the jokes, pulled
in when she, like a master
comic, plays with us
and gives us tidbits of
‘inside’ gossip. Civility,
in myriad unspoken ways,
invites silence.”
AVisit with Headmaster
Michael Welsh
I carried in my heart, a
strong desire to
follow-up after a terse
phone conversation with
Mr. Welsh, the day of
Albright’s lecture, when
he stated that leafleting or
a presence near the
auditorium would not be
welcome or
“allowable”. Brayton and I
wanted to represent
the compassionate listening
side of nonviolent
communication. After cordial
exchanges, I
began by expressing my
sadness that we didn’t
have enough time to meet
personally before
the public witness, a
Gandhian and Kingian
approach of stating
objections, heading for
compromise, and only after
these options are
exhausted, a public
demonstration or civil
disobedience.
I recalled, but didn’t share
in the meeting,
how I was drawn to
interrupting Albright as she
spoke, but prayed about the
implications of such
a stance, and decided
against it, though in
retrospect, I wish there had
been time to
coordinate a silent presence
with banners inside
the auditorium. I shared
with Mike, that as a
Catholic woman, I believed
that someone had
to speak for the dead
children. I related the
story of Mrs. Shibama, a
survivor of the atom
bomb, who, having been
spared the incineration
deaths of her entire
elementary school at
students at Brookline High School
children have no voices, so
now I must speak.”
The Iraqi children had no
voices, I said: “So we
had to speak.” Mike Welsh
was a good and
respectful listener,
granting my concerns
uninterrupted time.
Headmaster Welsh maintained
about
Madeleine Albright that like
St. Paul
has committed some sin in
life, and none of us
would want to be judged by that
sin alone.
Conversely, Brayton and I
pointed out that when
one opens a Catholic School
of a policy opposed by the Vatican
an unindicted war crime, we
are into an arena
of accountability, not a
tidy lecture on civility.
Welsh’s notion that past
sins of public
personages should not
condemn them to a
lifetime of ostracism in
public speaking seemed
a dodge from the heart of
the matter—the lies
of empire presented as
truth, a clean return to
public life, without mention
of the horrific deaths
of children.
We weighed and considered
each other’s
insights . . . . http://agapecommunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/Servant-Song-Spring-2013-final-for-website.pdf
George Clooney: Sudan Village
By JASON STRAZIUSO 12/06/12 10:31 AM ET EST 
American actor
George Clooney attends voting ceremonies during the first day of voting for the
independence referendum in the southern Sudanese city of Juba
January 9, 2011 in Juba , Sudan
NAIROBI, Kenya — Actor George Clooney and a group of U.S.
genocide scholars in the United States are warning that war crimes are taking
place in an obscure conflict in Sudan's southern region.
Clooney has long worked to prevent conflict in Sudan and South Sudan ,
and he co-founded a group that uses satellite imagery to monitor acts of war
there. That group, the Satellite Sentinel Project, said Thursday that 26
villages were intentionally set on fire last month by Sudanese forces.
"Razing a village is a war crime, and the torching of
now at least 26 Nuban villages, plus the systematic destruction of crops and
grasslands for cattle, is a crime against humanity, Clooney said. "What
we're seeing here is a widespread campaign of village and crop burning. We've
seen this in Darfur, and it's happening again in South Kordofan and Blue
Nile," he said, referring to two states in southern Sudan that border the separate country of South Sudan .
"The international community must act more robustly
to counter and create a consequence for these crimes," he said.
Sudanese troops are fighting rebels in the Nuba Mountains
who were once aligned with what is now South Sudan .
When South Sudan peacefully broke away from Sudan
last year, following decades of civil war, the rebels' region was placed in the
Sudan side, though many
there say they wish they would have been put with South
Sudan .
Antonov airplanes have routinely bombed the rebels' region
over the last year, resulting in farmers fleeing their fields. John
Prendergast, a co-founder of the satellite project, said Sudan South Sudan .
The United States
under President George W. Bush played a large role in ending decades of
conflict between Sudan and
what is now South Sudan . But the fighting in Sudan 's South Kordofan and Blue
Nile states – between Sudanese forces and rebels known as the
SPLM-North – is not generating much international attention by comparison.
Samuel Totten, a professor at the University
of Arkansas and the author of
"Genocide by Attrition: The Nuba Mountains of Sudan ,"
leads an online discussion with scholars and human rights activists about
events in Sudan U.S.
Totten's letter said Sudan
is carrying out attacks in Nuba much like it once did in Darfur, a region in
western Sudan U.S.
"There is a point, we believe, when it should become
self-evident that the continuation of talk, talk and more talk with a state
that has engaged in serial crimes against humanity, genocidal-like actions,
ethnic cleansing ... is all but a total waste of time," Totten wrote.
"As hundreds of thousands of innocents needlessly suffer, there is a moral
imperative that the continual `diplomatic' talking, negotiating, pleading, and
ultimately begging with leaders of such openly deceptive and destructive
strategies must be replaced by concrete and effective action ... ."
Preventing a return to war between Sudan and South Sudan
appears to be the international community's first priority. A border has not
yet been defined, and major oil disagreements over the last year have seen the
South half its oil production, costing its own government and that of Khartoum
The U.S.
special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan , Princeton Lyman, traveled to the region in
late November. Lyman said that without ending the conflict in the Nuba Mountains
it will be hard for Sudan
and South Sudan to sort their outstanding
issues. Khartoum accuses South Sudan of aiding
the SPLM-N rebels, a charge officials in Juba, South Sudan 's
capital, deny.
"There has to be, and I think everybody really recognizes
this, a political channel inside Sudan
E.J. Hogendoorn, a Horn of Africa expert at the
International Crisis Group, a think tank that tracks conflicts, said Sudanese
forces aren't strong enough to take the Nuba Mountains
"You have a strategic stalemate that if the
international community doesn't do anything about it could last for a very long
time, and the knock on-effect is that the civilian population is going to get
screwed," he said.
Contents of #2 Nov. 25, 2011
Bush and Blair at 2011 Malaysian Tribunal
Bush Should Have Been Impeached
No Statute of Limitations
Nader:
President Obama
“Kill Anything”: Vietnam War
Hunt for Nazi War Criminals
ICC Warrant for Ntaganda
Contents of #3
Agent Orange
Hedges and Al Arian, Collateral Damage
Tirman, The
Deaths of Others
Haditha Massacre Unpunished
National, Official, Individual Memory of
Atrocities
Film: Al
Doura Atrocities
Greenwald: Why High US Officials Are Not
Prosecuted
Dixson: US
History of Military Atrocities
Global
Samuel Totten and Rafiki Ubaldo, eds. We
Cannot Forget: Interviews with Survivors of the 1994 Genocide in Rwanda Rutgers
UP, 2011.
END WAR CRIMES NEWSLETTER
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