HISTORIC JUDGMENT

[Subramanian]

BREAKING: HISTORIC JUDGMENT

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[Subramanian]

 Tribunal hearing that had started on Monday, May 7th and the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered a guilty verdict on May 12, 2012.

[Alex Cortes]

Right Verdict.......Wrong Court.

 

I absolutely agree with what is said but am a little sketchy on some of the details because of how it was presented..... :

 

First they say,

The prosecution has also established beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused lawyers “knew full well their advice was being sought to be acted upon, and in fact was acted upon, and such advice paved the way for violations of international law, the Geneva Conventions and the Torture Convention.”   Are the lawyers on trial or is Bush/Chaney/Rumsfeld on trial or are all of the above on trial?

Second,

The prosecution had established beyond a reasonable doubt that the accused lawyers are criminally liable for their acts, and for participating in a joint criminal enterprise.   I assume this is because their advice was acted upon....

 

Third

I was going to ask what legitimizes this tribunal? No need.

While it is constantly mindful of its stature as merely a tribunal of conscience with no real power of enforcement, the Tribunal finds that the witnesses in this case are entitled ex justitia to the payment of reparations by the 8 convicted persons and their government.

President Lamin read, “As a tribunal of conscience, the Tribunal is fully aware that its verdict is merely declaratory in nature. The tribunal has no power of enforcement, no power to impose any custodial sentence on any one or more of the 8 convicted persons. What we can do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to recommend to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of conviction by the Tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.

A shame if you ask me?  That a third world back water little country did something we should have done 4 years ago, held a trial even if it were simply for show..... We do have a funny way as a nation of pointing the finger but never noticing the three pointing back in our direction...