Time to refer Syrian war crimes to ICC, U.N. inquiry says http://money.msn.com/business-news/article.aspx?date=20130218&feed=OBR&id=16132187
GENEVA (Reuters) - United Nations investigators said on Monday that Syrian leaders they had identified as suspected war criminals should face the International Criminal Court (ICC).The investigators urged the U.N. Security Council to "act urgently to ensure accountability" for violations, including murder and torture, committed by both sides in a conflict that has killed an estimated 70,000 people since a revolt against President Bashar al-Assad began in March, 2011."Now really it's time...We have a permanent court, the International Criminal Court, who would be ready to take this case," Carla del Ponte, a former ICC chief prosecutor who joined the U.N. team in September, told a news briefing in Geneva.
[ed notes:backround on this wench! In late December 1999, in an interview with The Observer in London, Del Ponte was asked if she was prepared to press criminal charges against NATO personnel for alleged war crimes in Kosovo by NATO pilots and their commanders. She replied "If I am not willing to do that, I am not in the right place. I must give up my mission".[4]This was followed by various negative official responses, military and civilian, from the US and Canada. Del Ponte's office subsequently issued a statement, dated four days later: "NATO is not under investigation by the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY. There is no formal inquiry into the actions of NATO during the conflict in Kosovo".[5] NATO accused of human rights violations in Kosovo War - World ...
[ed notes:backround on this wench! In late December 1999, in an interview with The Observer in London, Del Ponte was asked if she was prepared to press criminal charges against NATO personnel for alleged war crimes in Kosovo by NATO pilots and their commanders. She replied "If I am not willing to do that, I am not in the right place. I must give up my mission".[4]This was followed by various negative official responses, military and civilian, from the US and Canada. Del Ponte's office subsequently issued a statement, dated four days later: "NATO is not under investigation by the Office of the Prosecutor of the ICTY. There is no formal inquiry into the actions of NATO during the conflict in Kosovo".[5] NATO accused of human rights violations in Kosovo War - World ...
Carla Del Ponte investigated over illegal evidence | Law | The ... "Some of the witnesses had referred to pressure and intimidation to which they were subjected by investigators for the prosecution," said a statement from the judge in the Seselj case. "The prosecution allegedly obtained statements illegally, by threatening, intimidating and/or buying [witnesses] off."
"The statements mention sleep deprivation during interviews, psychological pressuring, an instance of blackmail (the investigators offered relocation in exchange for the testimony they hoped to obtain), threats (one, for example, about preparing an indictment against a witness if he refused to testify), or even illegal payments of money."
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The inquiry, led by Brazilian Paulo Pinheiro, is tracing the chain of command to establish criminal responsibility.
[ed notes;the Brazilian, paulo pinheiro is closely tied to the ziocons at the national endowment for democracy(CIA FRONT) CSW Sponsors Burma Conference Latin America’s Growing Security Gap .... PINHEIRO HAS ZERO CREDIBILITY AND HIS OWN BACKROUND PROVES THIS... Pinheiro is one of the seven commissioners of the Organization of American States's Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, for the 2004-2011 period. Staff of the IACHR Domestically, he served asfederal Secretary of State for Human Rights under President Fernando Henrique Cardoso.[3] [ED NOTE:HUGE PROBLEMS HERE...FOR THOSE WHO DONT KNOW WHO EX PRESIDENT OF BRASIL CARDOSO IS,ILL TELL YOU,HE WAS A RIGHTWING EX PRES. TIED TO NEOCON CIRCLES IN WASHINGTON AND A BIG PROMOTER OF NEOLIBERALISM IN BRASIL..HES ALSO TIED TO ROCKEFELLER ... Thomas J. Healey and Fernando Henrique Cardoso join Rockefeller ... SECONDLY, AND THE BIGGEST PROBLEM IS PINHEIRO IS TIED TO OAS ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES WICH IS A SUBVERSIVE ORGANIZATION CONTROLLED BY WASHINGTON TO ATTACK AND DISCREDITT LIBERAL PROGRESSIVE GOVERNMENTS IN LATIN AMERICA,,FOR EXAMPLE TWO NOTABLE REPS FROM OAS WERE OTTO REICH,AND ROGER NORIEGA,BOTH ZIONAZIS AND BOTH CHAMPIONS OF SCHOOL OF ASSASSINS(AMERICAS),ALSO CHAMPIONS OF US GENOCIDE FOR DECADES UNDER OPERATION CONDOR!!! http://thenakedfacts.blogspot.com/2011/11/un-commission-syrian-forces-committed_4445.html
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The investigators' latest report, covering the six months to mid-January, was based on 445 interviews conducted abroad with victims and witnesses, as they have not been allowed into Syria.[ed notes:translation:paids and exiles,not citizens..
"The ICC is the appropriate institution for the fight against impunity in Syria. As an established, broadly supported structure, it could immediately initiate investigations against authors of serious crimes in Syria," the 131-page report said.[ed notes:initiative investigations lol except ones investigating the gulf monarchies and western intelligence agencies (wich work hand and hand)wich fund,and coordinate the destabilization of syria that is..
Pillay, a former ICC judge, said on Saturday Assad should be probed for war crimes, and called for outside action on Syria, including possible military intervention.
"The ICC is the appropriate institution for the fight against impunity in Syria. As an established, broadly supported structure, it could immediately initiate investigations against authors of serious crimes in Syria," the 131-page report said.[ed notes:initiative investigations lol except ones investigating the gulf monarchies and western intelligence agencies (wich work hand and hand)wich fund,and coordinate the destabilization of syria that is..
Pillay, a former ICC judge, said on Saturday Assad should be probed for war crimes, and called for outside action on Syria, including possible military intervention.
[ed notes:see Navi Pillay Targets Syria by Stephen Lendman She - thenakedfacts
Rebels fighting to topple Assad have also committed war crimes including murder, torture, hostage-taking and using children under age 15 in hostilities, the U.N. report said."They continue to endanger the civilian population by positioning military objectives inside civilian areas" and rebel snipers had caused "considerable civilian casualties", it said."The violations and abuses committed by anti-government armed groups did not, however, reach the intensity and scale of those committed by government forces and affiliated militia."
Foreign fighters, many of them from Libya, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt, have radicalised the rebels and helped detonate deadly improvised explosive devices, it said.
Rebels fighting to topple Assad have also committed war crimes including murder, torture, hostage-taking and using children under age 15 in hostilities, the U.N. report said."They continue to endanger the civilian population by positioning military objectives inside civilian areas" and rebel snipers had caused "considerable civilian casualties", it said."The violations and abuses committed by anti-government armed groups did not, however, reach the intensity and scale of those committed by government forces and affiliated militia."
Foreign fighters, many of them from Libya, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Iraq and Egypt, have radicalised the rebels and helped detonate deadly improvised explosive devices, it said.
[ed notes;notice no mention of rebels using child soldiers as young as ''6''! mind you,they say 15,however a detailed report shows not just children as young as 6 bing used,but actual children ''brigade units'',something ICC wont mention..see..International Annual Report 2013 "in Syria armed... - thenakedfacts ...
where are these frauds on NATO war crimes?Where are these frauds on GCC crimes?Where are these frauds on western genocide in Congo?Where are these frauds on western crimes in Iraq and Afghanistan?Where are these frauds on the 9/11 terror sponsored by US/MOSSAD?Where are these frauds on the drone wars?What about israhelli holocoust against Palestinians?i should also note that Colombias ex president (war criminal and narco drug lord)is supposedly being investigated by ICC(icc has jurisdiction over Colombia but not Syria),but have not called for his arrest,and his crimes are well documented,from leading paramilitary deathsquads,to attacking unions,courts,spying,and mass campaigns promoting illegal and forced displacement.where is ICC on that case?silent as can be..why?because Uribe was part of the neocon club in north,the ICC takes no real action against him,proving their status as a kangaroo court..meanwhile ivan cepeda who introduced the evidence dossier against uribe to ICC has his life under threat( a very real threat i should mention)
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