Bush on Trial for Crimes against Humanity

Bush on Trial for Crimes against Humanity
By Marjorie Cohn
t r u t h o u t | Report
Tuesday 24 January 2006

The International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes against Humanity Committed
by the Bush Administration convened last weekend in New York City's
Riverside Church. Martin Luther King Jr.'s portrait hangs in the foyer. Dr.
King delivered his historic 1967 speech, "Beyond Vietnam: A Place to Break
the Silence," opposing the war and calling for the removal of all foreign
troops from Vietnam, in that same church.

Center for Constitutional Rights President Michael Ratner, who delivered a
keynote address to the commission of inquiry, invoked Dr. King's words from
1967: "A time comes when silence is betrayal." The following year, the
Bertrand Russell War Crimes Tribunal put the US government on trial for
"crimes without precedent" it was committing in Vietnam. In the tradition of
the Russell tribunal, the panel of judges at the commission of inquiry heard
evidence of George W. Bush's war crimes and crimes against humanity
committed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and elsewhere.

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