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Bush, Blair found guilty of war crimes in Malaysia tribunal
Mahi Ramakrishnan, Press TV, Kuala Lumpur
Tue Nov 22, 2011 6:51PM GMT

Former US president George Bush and his former counterpart Tony Blair were found guilty of war crimes by the The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal which held a four day hearing in the Malaysia.

The five panel tribunal unanimously decided that Bush and Blair committed genocide and crimes against peace and humanity when they invaded Iraq in 2003 in blatant violation of international law.

The judges ruled that war against Iraq by both the former heads of states was a flagrant abuse of law, act of aggression which amounted to a mass murder of the Iraqi people.

In their verdict, the judges said that the United States, under the leadership of Bush, forged documents to claim that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.

They further said the findings of the tribunal be made available to members of the Rome Statute and the names of Bush and Blair be entered into a war crimes register.

Both Bush and Blair repeatedly said the so-called war against terror was targeted at terrorists.

Lawyers and human rights activists present here say the verdict by the tribunal is a landmark decision. And the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Foundation said it would lobby the International Criminal Court to charge former US president George Bush and Former British prime minister Tony Blair for war crimes.

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KL tribunal convicts two former leaders with ‘crimes against peace’

 PETALING JAYA: The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal unanimously found former United States president George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of “crimes against peace”.

The tribunal found that the two had planned, prepared and invaded the state of Iraq on March 19, 2003, in violation of the United Nations Charter and international law.

“The charge is proven beyond reasonable doubt. The accused are found guilty,” read an official media statement from Perdana Global Peace Foundation, organisers of the tribunal.

“War criminals have to be dealt with, convict Bush and Blair as charged. A guilty verdict will serve as a notice to the world that war criminals may run but can never ultimately hide from truth and justice,” the statement read.

The tribunal noted that the UN Security Council Resolution 1441 did not authorise any use of force against Iraq but the US proceeded to invade Iraq under the pretext of the Sept 11 attacks and weapons of mass destruction.

“Weapons investigators had established that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. Iraq was also not posing any threat to any nation at the relevant time that was immediate that would have justified any form of pre-emptive strike.”

With the findings, the tribunal has ordered that Bush and Blair’s names be included in the war register of the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission.

It also ordered the findings of the tribunal to be publicised to all nations who are signatories of the Rome Statute.

The tribunal, held for four days here, was initiated by former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad, who is also the Perdana Global Peace Foundation president.

The tribunal members were Datuk Abdul Kadir Sulaiman, Tunku Sofiah Jewa, Prof Salleh Buang, Alfred Lambremont Webre and Prof Emeritus Datuk Dr Shad Saleem Faruqi.

Prof Niloufer Bhagwat and Datuk Zakaria Yatim were recused as tribunal members.

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Comments

[Abdul Wahid Osman Belal]

What about others in NATO occupied Afghanistan, foreign occupied Iraq,Indian held Kashmir, Israeli occupied Palestine, etc?
Abdul Wahid Osman Belal
awobelal@yahoo.co.uk

[Jabar Al-Khatav]

I applaud Malaysia for taking such task and to convict these two Criminals. It must never be forgotten that Iraq now has one million widows, 2-3 millions orphans, about 2 million wounded and disabled citizens. That the Iraqi economics structure was
destroyed, millions of young children missed four years of schooling and there are over two million refugees and displaced
citizens. Iraq was severely punished by the U.S. war machines. Still thousands of babies are born deformed.
The Malaysian court gave a moral judgement. Let History records it now for generation to come and read.

[Taylor]

Thank god.

[Naomi Astral]

ffab news *grinning*

[Bo George]

At last, it begins. Truth will prevail.

[orion DeeJay]

they forgot all about John Howard as he to was playing war with Bush and Blair,he to should be charged with war crimes and crimes against humanity,then also do not forget Obama and Julia Gillard...

[farrad]

hmmm...ok charges are filed what is going to happen NEXT to these 2 murderers.......