From:
International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed
by the Bush Administration
TRIBUNAL INDICTS
BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST HUMANITY
INDICTMENTS TO BE DELIVERED TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON TUESDAY JAN. 10th
When:
1:30 p.m. January 10, 2006 Where: The White House, Front
Gate
www.bushcommission.org
Contact:
Connie Julian 917-449-9064, or Janet Yip 212-941-8086, or e-mail:
commission@nion.us
An
unprecedented series of indictments alleging war crimes and crimes
against humanity, in five separate areas, will be delivered to
President Bush at the front gate of the White House this Tuesday,
January 10th.
Named
in the indictments are:
President
of the United States George W. Bush, Vice President Richard Cheney,
Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Army Lieutenant General
Ricardo Sanchez, U.S. Army Major General Geoffrey Miller,
Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales, et al.
The
indictments will be delivered to the White House by:
Retired
CIA analyst Ray McGovern, authors William Blum and
Larry Everest, Code Pink, Mike Hersh (Progressive
Democrats of America/After Downing Street), Kevin Zeese (Director,
Democracy Rising; candidate for U.S. Senate in Maryland), Travis
Morales (World Can9t Wait--Drive Out the Bush Regime) and others TBA.
A press
conference will follow delivery of indictments, which will also be
delivered to the Department of Justice.
The
indictments result from preparatory work and testimony presented in New
York City in October 2005, before the International Commission of
Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush Administration
which featured former UN envoy to Iraq Denis Halliday, Guantanamo
prisoners9 lawyer Michael Ratner, and former State Department
officer Ann Wright. The Commission's second tribunal will be held
at Riverside Church and the Columbia University Law School in New York,
January 20-22. Witnesses will include Brig. Gen. Janis Karpinski,
former British ambassador Craig Murray, and former arms inspector
Scott Ritter, among many more. The indictments allege illegal acts
authorized by the Bush Administration in relation to:
1) Wars
of Aggression, particular reference to Iraq and Afghanistan;
2)
Torture and Indefinite Detention;
3)
Destruction of the Global Environment, particular reference to
distortion of science and obstruction of international efforts to stem
global warming;
4)
Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights, particular
reference to the potentially genocidal effects of enforcing abstinence
only, global gag rule, distortion of science, and restriction of generic
drugs; and
5) Failure
of Bush administration, despite foreknowledge, to protect life during
and after Hurricane Katrina.
Appended
to these indictments will be the demand for investigation of the war
crimes of Tony Blair and George Bush submitted by prominent British
citizens to the UN Secretary General and the UK Attorney General.
The
commission was organized by the Not in Our Name Statement of
Conscience and is endorsed by: Center for Constitutional Rights,
National Lawyers Guild, After Downing Street.Org and others,
including Former Sen. James Abourezk, former British MP Tony
Benn, authors Gore Vidal and Howard Zinn, poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and actor Edward Asner.
Charter,
full indictments, standards for judgment, and audio and video coverage
of the first session:
http://www.bushcommission.org
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