International Justice Group Takes Aim at Bush Officials

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Source: Washington Independent

International Justice Group Takes Aim at Bush Officials
Digg Tweet By Daphne Eviatar 11/16/09 10:53 AM

The International Center for Transitional Justice usually focuses on bringing to light and holding perpetrators accountable for such heinous crimes as genocide, mass murder and systematic torture, often in far-off war-torn countries with dismal human rights records.

So it’s significant that today they’ve released a report calling on the United States to follow its legal obligation to prosecute the leaders in the U.S. government responsible for the “torture, cruel and inhuman treatment” of detainees during its own “war on terror.”
http://www.ictj.org/static/Publications/ICTJ_USA_CriminalJustCriminalPolicy_pb2009.pdf

“Investigations and prosecutions should focus on the engineers of official policies that were the basis of illegal abuses, to send a clear signal that the absolute prohibition of torture and the ban on cruel and inhuman treatment will be respected by the United States,” the report said, adding that if the U.S. government fails to initiate prosecutions, then other countries will take up the cause. Italy, for example, recently convicted 23 Americans for their involvement in “extraordinary renditions.”

“Failing to hold accountable the architects and overseers of a policy of abuse undermines the U.S. justice system and the fundamental idea that law provides a check on power,” Alex Boraine, acting president of ICTJ, said in a statement today. “As we have seen in countless examples around the world, abuse of power by allowing torture and cruel treatment can tear down what the law and democracy have built.”

Read more: http://washingtonindependent.com/67888/international-justice-group-takes-aim-at-bush-officials

[meow2u3]

1. K&R

:kick:

[ixion]

2. big the war criminals to justice

that's the only way we'll ever start to restore our international standing.

[Vincardog]

5. Bring the architects of the war crimes to Justice. That is the only way to regain our reputation

[Soylent Brice]

3. K&R

[Vidar]

4. K&R

[Bitwit1234]

6. Well we participated in the Trials of the Nazi's

for doing almost the same thing the Bush Administration did. Why are we holding off.

[ooglymoogly]

7. The good ol' boys do not prosecute one another. kr nt

[alllyingwhores]

8. Uh...yeah, what was a major point in Obama's recent speech in China?...

oh yeah, that's right...holding government accountable...

It should be pretty obvious to everyone by now that it's NEVER GOING TO F__KING HAPPEN!...maybe if we just HOPE more...that will CHANGE, right?

[yurbud]

10. it makes us look stupid and hypocritical. I wonder if the Chilean gov't after Pinochet did that too

[Solly Mack]

9. K&R

[slay]

11. Oh how I would love to see the Bush admin answer for all their crimes

but since i have come to the conclusion that at the very least they knew about 9/11 and let it happen - they will never stand trial. it would destroy the country. bah. :shrug:

[ClayZ]

12. K and R

[SpiralHawk]

13. "It was all the fault of The Clenis. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

[SpiralHawk]

14. "Who cares about justice? Sneer." - xVP Dickie 'Five-Military-Deferments' Cheney (R)

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