From: Technotranscendence (neptune@mars.superlink.net)
Date: Thu Sep 05 2002 - 05:04:20 MDT
US War Crimes During the Gulf War
by Francis Boyle
The following paper was presented to a symposium held by the Albany Law
School. The symposium, held on February 27, 1992, was titled:
International War Crimes: The Search for Justice. This paper documents
the numerous occasions that international laws were broken and
disregarded during the Gulf War.
Introduction
1. For the past year I have been working with the International
Commission of Inquiry into United States war crimes that were committed
during the Persian Gulf War. This Commission has conducted the largest
independent world-wide investigation of war crimes in history. Since
last May [1991], the Commission has held thirty hearings across the
United States and in twenty countries across five continents to expose
the war crimes that the United States government inflicted upon the
People and State of Iraq.
2. On Saturday, February 29, 1992 in New York City, at the Martin
Luther, Jr. Auditorium, the Commission will publicly present its
evidence before an International War Crimes Tribunal consisting of
distinguished jurists and human rights activists drawn from around the
world. In the brief space that has been allotted to me, I would like to
present the basic gist of the charges that will be brought before the
Tribunal against President George Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle,
Secretary of State Jim Baker, Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, National
Security Assistant Brent Scowcroft, CIA Director William Webster,
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Colin Powell, General
Norman Schwarzkopf, and other members of the High Command of the United
States military establishment who launched and waged this brutal,
inhumane, and criminal war. Hereinafter, these individuals will be
collectively referred to as the Defendants.
For the whole story, see http://www.counterpunch.org/boyle0902.html
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