AN ARTICLE BY AMITAKH

ALL IN THE NAME OF JUSTICE?

The incessant call for the indictment of Slobodan Milosevic by the USA and NATO is a blatant excuse to put all the blame of mass destruction, of all the suffering, of the genocide and all the problems in Kosovo onto him and the Serbs.

It is an obtuse, hypocritical, barbaric act, employed by these accusers to hide their own gross injustice and evilness. It is a cowardly action to be condemned in any court of true justice.

The images of war are never pretty or pleasant. The search for justice in this realm of Evil, run by Evil, and supported by the archons and minions of Evil, is always far from satisfactory. In fact, true justice never really exists in this world of evil creation.

Can we really expect people like Presidents Saddam Hussein and Slobodan Milosevic to have a fair trial in a so-called Court of Justice controlled by the very people who are their enemies, who have cried out for their blood? Of course not. The real motives behind these two-faced bullies with double-standards are far from the real pursuit of justice.

History has shown that the US had committed the worst atrocities and the most war crimes than any other nation in this century. Yet, it pretends it is the one with a clean slate, the one who champions the weak and defenceless. It is quick to condemn and punish (illegally and unjustly) those it has targeted for its own selfish ends. By playing the judge and executioner it hopes to distract from its own crimes.

The way the USA and NATO carried on with their propaganda about the plight of the Kosovars and the atrocities and various crimes allegedly committed by Milosevic, and his regime, is a shameless disregard for justice and as always, a hypocritical act of monstrous intent.

What had, and is, occurring in Kosovo is almost nothing in comparison to the countless war crimes committed by the USA and some of its allies against various nations.

* Have the US and NATO forgotten the long list of chilling war crimes committed against Vietnam and its people?

* Have they forgotten the crimes committed by the UK in the Falklands War, the Bloody Sunday massacre of 13 unarmed civilians by the British Army 1971 in Northern Ireland?

* Have they forgotten the war crimes committed by Japan against the people in China, in Malaysia and other South East Asian countries?

* Have they forgotten about the illegal invasion of Panama in 1989 and the war crimes committed by the Bush regime?

* What about the war crimes by the Zionists against the Palestinians and other innocent people caught up there?

* What about the war crimes committed by various governments against their own people, as the USA in Waco, Texas, and Jonestown, etc.?

* What about the war crimes committed by the USA during the Persian Gulf War against the people and state of Iraq?

* Why aren't people like Bush, Powell, Baker, General Schwarzkopf, etc. indicted for war crimes? On the contrary, these have been hailed as heroes. The wanton extermination of more than 250, 000 people in Iraq by the US Army is certainly definitive proof of US War Crimes against the Iraqi people. So why aren't the US leaders being charged with War Crimes?

Scenes of atrocities and senseless destruction of rice harvests, of homes, villages and public amenities including the temples, wells, and the use of napalm to wipe out all in vast areas, of villages, and of forests and to turn them into instant huge wastelands are crimes committed by the USA in Vietnam. Did the US soldiers not rape the Vietnamese women, after they bound the Vietnamese men like wild animals to each other? Did they not massacre children, men and woman of all ages?

Scenes of war crimes in Vietnam captured on camera depict acts of brutality of the worst kind committed by US soldiers and would send anyone, with the tiniest droplet of love and compassion in their being, into cries of anguish for those helpless victims of a war, a war the USA had absolutely no right to start!

It seems to be the case that as long as such crimes do not occur in their own land, to the USA war is a game to be played out as freely as it wishes in someone else's country. These so-called rescuing war efforts by the USA, Britain and NATO are not Christian acts of love and compassion.

Mass graves were found everywhere in war-torn Vietnam, and US soldiers were captured on camera exhuming the skulls of their victims from those graves, and with stupid grins on their faces those despicable US soldiers, like blood-thirsty ghouls, proudly displayed the skulls on trees as Christmas decorations.

Survivors of the Vietnam war have told stories of massacres, torture, and wanton destruction of property. Water was poisoned and tons and tons of rice were destroyed in order to starve those whom the USA suspected were the enemy or sympathetic to the Viet-cong. Many of their victims were young boys and old people.

No other war has left so many illegitimate children as those fathered by the US soldiers in Vietnam. Even if that war was a case of one ideology fighting another, the crimes committed were unacceptable and unjust. Yet the USA and its allies are playing the role of world police, judge and executioner. Is this the flawed definition of justice in this evil dimension?

The deliberate, blatant destruction of facilities essential to civilian life and economic productivity throughout Iraq and now Yugoslavia is genocidal, illegal, and immoral. Weeks and weeks of systematic aerial bombardment of these two countries constitute war crimes against humanity. The USA and those in charge of the bombing should be the ones indicted for trial.

Both Bill Clinton and Britain's Tony Blair, in reference to the recent shooting at Columbine High School in Denver, in their usual arrogant, self-righteous manner, stated that people should not use violence to resolve conflicts. What hypocrisy! What they are doing in Yugoslavia is exactly that!

The arrogance of Albright, Blair, Shea, Clinton, etc., is a reflection of their own evil nature, their self-illusions of grandeur. Indeed, these beings and their accomplices are smiling assassins.

The following extracts, taken from a paper presented by Francis A. Boyle, Professor of International Law at the University of illinois at Urbana-champaign, to a symposium held by the Albany Law School, are worth repeating here for they give insights into the war crimes committed by the US during the Gulf War:

"... The United States Intentionally Bombed and Destroyed Defenceless Iraqi Military Personnel; Used Excessive Force; Killed Soldiers Seeking to Surrender and in Disorganised Individual Flight, Often Unarmed and Far from Any Combat Zones; Randomly and Wantonly Killed Iraqi Soldiers; and Destroyed Material After the Cease-Fire

In the first hours of the aerial and missile bombardment, the United States destroyed most military communications and began the systematic killing of Iraqi soldiers who were incapable of defence or escape, and the destruction of military equipment. The U.S. bombing campaign killed tens of thousands of defenceless soldiers, cut off from most of their food, water and other supplies, and left them in desperate and helpless disarray. Defendant Schwarzkopf placed Iraqi military casualties at over 100,000. Large numbers of these soldiers were "out of combat" and therefore not legitimate targets for military attack.

When it was determined that the civilian economy and the military were sufficiently destroyed, the U.S. ground forces moved into Kuwait and Iraq attacking disorientated, disorganised, fleeing Iraqi forces wherever they could be found, killing thousands more and destroying any equipment found. In one particularly shocking manoeuvre, thousands of Iraqi soldiers were needlessly and illegally buried alive. This wholesale slaughter of Iraqi soldiers continued even after and in violation of the so-called cease-fire.

The Defendants' intention was not to remove Iraq's presence from Kuwait. Rather, their intention was to destroy Iraq. The disproportion in death and destruction inflicted on a defenceless enemy exceeded 100 to one. The Defendants conducted this genocidal war against the Male Population of Iraq for the express purpose of making sure that Iraq could not raise a substantial military force for at least another generation.

The United States Used Prohibited Weapons Capable of Mass Destruction and Inflicting Indiscriminate Death and Unnecessary Suffering Against Both Military and Civilian Targets

Fuel air explosives were used against troops in place, civilian areas, oil fields and fleeing civilians and soldiers on two stretches of highway between Kuwait and Iraq. One seven mile stretch called the "Highway of Death" was littered with hundreds of vehicles and thousands of dead. All were fleeing to Iraq for their lives. Thousands were civilians of all ages, including Kuwaitis, Iraqis, Palestinians, Jordanians and other nationalities.

Napalm was used against civilians and military personnel, as well as to start fires. Oil well fires in both Iraq and Kuwait were intentionally started by U.S. aircraft dropping napalm and other heat intensive devices.

Cluster bombs and anti-personnel fragmentation bombs were used in Basra, and other cities and towns, against the civilian convoys of fleeing vehicles and against military units.

"Superbombs" were dropped on hardened shelters with the intention of assassinating Iraqi President Saddam Hussein - a war crime in its own right.

The United States Intentionally Attacked Installations in Iraq Containing Dangerous Substances and Forces in Violation of Article 56 of Geneva Protocol I of 1977

The U.S. intentionally bombed alleged nuclear sites, chemical plants, dams and other dangerous forces. The U.S. knew such attacks could cause the release of dangerous forces from such installations and consequently severe losses among the civilian population. While some civilians were killed in such attacks, there are no reported cases of consequent severe losses. Presumably, lethal nuclear materials, and dangerous chemical and biological warfare substances, were not present at the sites bombed.

The United States Waged War on the Environment

Before the war started, the Pentagon had developed computer models that accurately predicted the environmental catastrophe that would occur should the United States go to war against Iraq. These Defendants went to war anyway knowing full well what the consequences of such an environmental disaster would be. Attacks by U.S. aircraft caused much if not all of the worst oil spills in the Gulf. Aircraft and helicopters dropped napalm and fuel-air explosives on oil wells throughout Iraq and many, if not most, of the oil well fires in Iraq and Kuwait.

Defendant Bush Encouraged and Aided Shiite Muslims and Kurds to Rebel Against the Government of Iraq Causing Fratricidal Violence, Emigration, Exposure, Hunger and Sickness and Thousands of Deaths. After the Rebellion Failed, the U.S. Invaded and Occupied Parts of Iraq Without Lawful Authority in Order to Increase Division and Hostilities Within Iraq

Without authority from the U.S. Congress or the United Nations, Defendant Bush encouraged and aided rebellion against Iraq, failed to protect the warring parties, encouraged mass migration of whole populations placing them in jeopardy from the elements, hunger and disease. After much suffering and many deaths, Defendant Bush then without authority used U.S. military forces to distribute aid at and near the Turkish border, ignoring the often greater suffering among refugees in Iran. He then arbitrarily set up bantu-like settlements for Kurds in Iraq and demanded for Iraq to pay for U.S. costs. When Kurds chose to return to their homes in Iraq, he moved U.S. troops further into northern Iraq against the will of the government and without any legal authority to do so. As Defendant Baker correctly put it when he visited the area, these atrocities constituted a Nuremberg "crime against humanity."

Defendant Bush Intentionally Deprived the Iraqi People of Essential Medicines, Potable Water, Food and Other Necessities

A major component of the assault on Iraq was the systematic deprivation of essential human needs and services, to terrorise and break the will of the Iraqi People, to destroy their economic capability, and to reduce their numbers and weaken their health. Towards those ends, the Defendants:

- imposed and enforced embargoes preventing the shipment of needed medicines, water purifiers, infant milk formula, food and other supplies;

- froze funds of Iraq and forced other nations to do so, depriving Iraq of the ability to purchase needed medicines, food and other supplies;

- preventing international organisations, governments and relief agencies from providing needed supplies and obtaining information concerning such needs;

- failed to assist or meet urgent needs of huge refugee populations and interfered with efforts of others to do so, etc.

As a direct result of these cruel and inhuman acts, thousands of people died, many more suffered illnesses and permanent injury. For these actions, the Defendants are guilty of Nuremberg Crimes Against Humanity and the Crime of Genocide as recognised by international law and U.S. domestic law.

Defendant Bush, Having Destroyed Iraq's Economic Base, Demands Reparations Which Will Permanently Impoverish Iraq and Threaten Its People with Famine and Epidemic

Defendant Bush seeks to force Iraq to pay for damages to Kuwait largely caused by the U.S. and even to pay U.S. costs for its violation of Iraqi sovereignty in occupying northern Iraq to further manipulate the Kurdish population there. Such reparations are neo-colonial means of expropriating Iraq's oil, natural resources, and human labour. Meanwhile, the United States government dominates and controls the respective governments and oil resources of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Qatar.

The United States government has successfully carried out its long-standing threat and war plan to seize and steal the oil resources of the Persian Gulf for its own benefit. The United States now directly controls the natural energy resources that fuel the economies of Europe and Japan. Acting with their de facto allies in Israel and Great Britain, the Defendants are today consolidating their control over the entire Middle East in a blatant bid to establish worldwide hegemony..."

In conclusion, the truth of the matter is that Nato, like the United Nations Organisation are puppets of evil.

Both organisations failed to deliver what they have proposed to do because their real intentions have never been what they hypocritically claim publically. This confirms what I have said, that justice, in this evil dimension run by Evil, will never and can never be dispensed.