Also was man das neue UN Update liest erschüttert einen das dann doch nochmal. Die unterschiedslosen Bombadierungen von Dörfern mit weißen Phosphor durch die Russen und andere Gräultaten waren ja schon eine Sache aber so Sachen wie die Folgenden haben dann doch noch eine andere Qualität.
"The Commission has found that some Russian Federation soldiers committed such crimes. These acts amounted to different types of violations of rights, including sexual violence, torture, and cruel and inhuman treatment. There are examples of cases where relatives were forced to witness the crimes. In the cases we have investigated, the age of victims of sexual and gendered-based violence ranged from four to 82 years."
Wie hier in nächster Zeit ein Versöhnungsprozess aussehen soll ist für mich leider nicht vorstellbar.
The dangerous myth of American innocence: Only our enemies commit "war crimes"
America's massive hypocrisy makes a mockery of international law, and threatens to lead our planet to apocalypse (Chris Hedges - Salon, 24.03.22)
"[...] as in Putin's Russia, those who expose these crimes are silenced and persecuted. Julian Assange, even though he is not a U.S. citizen and his WikiLeaks site is not a U.S.-based publication, is charged under the U.S. Espionage Act for making public numerous U.S. war crimes. Assange, currently housed in a high security prison in London, is fighting a losing battle in the British courts to block his extradition to the United States, where he faces 175 years in prison.
One set of rules for Russia, another set of rules for the U.S. Weeping crocodile tears for the Russian media, which is being heavily censored by Putin, while ignoring the plight of the most important publisher of our generation speaks volumes about how much the ruling class cares about press freedom and truth.
If we demand justice for Ukrainians, as we should, we must also demand justice for the one million people killed — 400,000 of whom were noncombatants — by our invasions, occupations and aerial assaults in Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen and Pakistan.
We must demand justice for those who were wounded, became sick or died because we destroyed hospitals and infrastructure.
We must demand justice for the thousands of soldiers and marines who were killed, and many more who were wounded and are living with lifelong disabilities, in wars launched and sustained on lies.
We must demand justice for the 38 million people who have been displaced or become refugees in Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia, the Philippines, Libya and Syria, a number that exceeds the total of all those displaced in all wars since 1900, apart from World War II, according to the Watson Institute for International & Public Affairs at Brown University.
Tens of millions of people, who had no connection with the attacks of 9/11, were killed, wounded, lost their homes and saw their lives and their families destroyed because of our war crimes. Who will cry out for them?
Every effort to hold our war criminals accountable has been rebuffed by Congress, by the courts, by the media and by the two ruling political parties. The Center for Constitutional Rights, blocked from bringing cases in U.S. courts against the architects of these preemptive wars, which are defined by post-Nuremberg laws as "criminal wars of aggression," filed motions in German courts to hold U.S. leaders to account for gross violations of the Geneva Convention, including the sanctioning of torture in black sites such as Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib.
Those who have the power to enforce the rule of law, to hold our war criminals to account, to atone for our war crimes, direct their moral outrage exclusively at Putin's Russia. "Intentionally targeting civilians is a war crime," Secretary of State Anthony Blinken said, condemning Russia for attacking civilian sites, including a hospital, three schools and a boarding school for visually impaired children in the Luhansk region of Ukraine. "These incidents join a long list of attacks on civilian, not military locations, across Ukraine," he said.
Beth Van Schaack, an ambassador-at-large for global criminal justice, will direct the effort at the State Department, Blinken said, to "help international efforts to investigate war crimes and hold those responsible accountable."
This collective hypocrisy, based on the lies we tell ourselves about ourselves, is accompanied by massive arms shipments to Ukraine. Fueling proxy wars was a specialty of the Cold War. We have returned to the script.
If Ukrainians are heroic resistance fighters, what about Iraqis and Afghans, who fought as valiantly and as doggedly against a foreign power that was every bit as savage as Russia? Why weren't they lionized? Why weren't sanctions imposed on the United States? Why weren't those who defended their countries from foreign invasion in the Middle East, including Palestinians under Israeli occupation, also provided with thousands of anti-tank weapons, anti-armor weapons, anti-aircraft weapons, helicopters, Switchblade or "Kamikaze" drones, hundreds of Stinger anti-aircraft systems, Javelin anti-tank missiles, machine guns and millions of rounds of ammunition?
Why didn't Congress rush through a $13.6 billion package to provide military and humanitarian assistance, on top of the $1.2 billion already provided to the Ukrainian military, for them?
Well, we know why. Our war crimes don't count, and neither do the victims of our war crimes. And this hypocrisy makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.[...]"
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Aber wir haben ja einen Internationalen Strafgerichtshof für solche Fälle. Okay, weder die USA noch die Russische Föderation erkennen den als legitime Institution an, aber hier in Westeuropa sind wir doch zivilisiert und haben #Werte.
SITUATION IN IRAQ/UK - FINAL REPORT
9 December 2020
(International Criminal Court - The office of the Prosecutor)
"[...] The preliminary examination has found that there is a reasonable basis to believe that various forms of abuse were committed by members of UK armed forces against Iraqi civilians in detention. In particular, as set out below, there is a reasonable basis to believe that from April 2003 through September 2003 members of UK armed forces in Iraq committed the war crime of wilful killing/murder pursuant to article 8(2)(a)(i) or article 8(2)(c)(i)), at a minimum, against seven persons in their custody.
The information available provides a reasonable basis to believe that from 20 March 2003 through 28 July 2009 members of UK armed forces committed the war crime of torture and inhuman/cruel treatment (article 8(2)(a)(ii) or article 8(2)(c)(i)); and the war crime of outrages upon personal dignity (article 8(2)(b)(xxi) or article 8(2)(c)(ii)) against at least 54 persons in their custody.
The information available further provides a reasonable basis to believe that members of UK armed forces committed the war crime of rape and/or other forms of sexual violence article 8(2)(b)(xxii) or article 8(2)(e)(vi), at a minimum, against the seven victims, while they were detained at Camp Breadbasket in May 2003. 3.
These crimes, while not exhaustive, were sufficiently well supported to enable a subject-matter determination on crimes within the jurisdiction of the Court. In this respect, the Office recalls the wider body of findings by other public authorities and institutions in the UK that hundreds of Iraqi detainees were subjected to conditions of detention and practices which amounted to inhuman or degrading treatment. Although the Office’s findings may not be fully representative of the overall scale of the victimisation, they appear to correspond to the most serious allegations of violence against persons in UK custody.[...]
The Office’s findings that some members of UK armed forces subjected Iraqi detainees to forms of abuse are not new or unique. Other public bodies and judicial reviews examining the body of evidence relating to the conduct of members of British forces have reached the same conclusion. Nor is it controversial to conclude that the initial response of the British Army in theatre at the time of the alleged offences was inadequate and vitiated by a lack of a genuine effort to carry out relevant investigations independently or impartially.
The institution of public inquiries and the subsequent creation of IHAT were a response to the admitted failures of the British army at the time to conduct effective investigations into allegations of wilful killing and abuse of detainees in Iraq.4 As such, one of the key areas of focus for the Office’s preliminary examination into the situation in Iraq/UK, which was re-opened on 2014, was to examine the relevance and genuineness of subsequent investigations into historical allegations by Iraq Historic Allegations Team (IHAT), and later the Service Police Legacy Investigations (SPLI), and of decisions by the Service Prosecuting Authority (SPA) on the submission of cases for prosecution.
The outcome of the more than ten year long domestic process, involving the examination of thousands of allegations, has resulted in not one single case being submitted for prosecution: a result that has deprived the victims of justice. [...]"
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Aber Utan! Was soll denn schon wieder dieser whataboutism, diese schändliche Putinistentechnik aus dem alten KGB-Playbook?
Das ist ja alles hässlich und schlecht schön und gut, aber es geht doch nicht um das was früher falsch gemacht wurde, sondern darum, dass man es jetzt richtig machen, und einem tapfer um seine Existenz kämpfenden Volk helfen muss, das sich gegen die Invasion durch einen brutalen Aggressor zur Wehr setzt!
Why is the White House stealing $7bn from Afghans?
To take Afghan money to pay grieving Americans in order to punish the Taliban is nothing less than larceny as collective punishment (The Guardian - 16.02.22)