UK: CHILCOT INQUIRY ASKED TO CONSIDER WAR CRIMES

2009-11-19 | PRESS RELEASE On 18th November The Chilcot Inquiry was asked by 6 UK citizens to investigate whether grave breaches had been committed by Blair, his Ministers and “Kitchen Cabinet” between 2003 - 2009 under the Geneva and Hague Conventions, in order to uphold The United Nations Charter. This means that the Chilcot Inquiry is now the de facto instrument of the United Kingdom as High Contracting Party to these Conventions under Article 146 of 1949 Geneva Convention IV. The Inquiry will be before the scrutiny of the citizens of the UK. The Submission: SUBMISSION TO THE CHILCOT INQUIRY 18 TH NOVEMBER 2009 RE ANTHONY CHARLES LYNTON BLAIR AND OTHER MINISTERS OF THE UK CABINET AND "KITCHEN CABINET" 2003 - 2009
 WE CONSIDER THAT UK's ROLE IN THE IRAQ WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH HAS BEEN, AND IS IN BREACH OF The United Nations Charter, The 1998 Rome Statute of The International Criminal Court, The Hague and Geneva Conventions and the Rule of International Law. The following are our sample complaints relating to the Iraq War 2003-2009: 1: Illegally invading a sovereign state by starting a war. 2: Deceit and conspiracy for war, and providing false news to incite passions for war, causing in the order of one million deaths, 4 million refugees, countless maimings and traumas. 3: Employing radioactive ammunition causing long-term destruction of the planetary habitat. This is exemplified by reports coming from doctors in Fallujah and other cities about catastrophic increase in birth defects and child and adult cancers since 2004. 4: Causing the breakdown of civil administration, with consequent lawlessness, especially looting, kidnapping, and violence, and consequent breakdown of womens’ rights, of religious freedom, and child and adult education. 5: Failing to maintain the medical needs of the populace. 6: Despoliation of the cultural heritage of the country. 7: Supporting an ally that employs ‘waterboarding’ and other tortures. 8: Seizing assets of Iraq. 9: Using inhumane restraint and treatment on prisoners including dogs, hoods, cable ties, sleep deprivation and prolonged enforced stress positions. 10: Using Aggressive Patrolling indiscriminately, traumatising women and children and wrecking homes and property. 11: Marking bodies of prisoners with numbers, writing, faeces and other degrading treatment. 12: The use of cluster bombs and other indiscriminate weapons including white phosphorous on “shake and bake” missions. 13: Supporting indiscriminate rocket attacks from F16 fighter planes on women and children in Fallujah in Nov 2004 14: Supporting the shooting up of ambulances and medical personnel in Fallujah in Nov 2004 15: Supporting the expulsion of the entire population of Fallujah save for young men of military age, for a reprisal attack on that city in Nov 2004. Enclosures to follow by surface mail under separate cover 1: Copy of Sky Television Documentary 1 September 2009 “ The Deformed Babies of Fallujah”: 2: Copy of Sky Television Documentary June 2008 “ The Deformed Babies of Fallujah”. 3: Frieder Wagners’s film “ Deadly Desert Dust” 2006. 4: Report by doctors in Fallujah 4 March 2008 “ Prohibited Weapons Crisis” 5: Film the “Dying children of Iraq”,compiled by Nicholas Wood and Euan Donaldson 6: US Army briefing on the use of White Phosphorous in Fallujah on “Shake and Bake Missions” 7: Report “Who Can Forgive the Crime of using Depleted Uranium Against Iraq and Humanity” by Dr Haithem Alshaibani , September 2009 . 8: Written Answer by Mr Hilary Benn, Secretary of State, Department for International Development to Parliamentary Question . 10 March 2005. 9: Letter by Mr Hilary Benn, Secretary of State, Department for International Development to The Independent , 20 January 2007, in reply to the 98 Doctors’ letter to the Prime Minister. 10:Letter by Rt.Hon. Des Browne, M.P. UK Former Minister of Defence to Rt. Hon. Tony Benn, November 2008 11: Black Country Coroner’s District ( Sandwell, Dudley.and Walsall: ) Coroner’s Report into death of Stuart Raymond Dyson. 18 September 2009. 12: Copy of DVD " The Iraq War " submission by Tony Benn and others to Koffi Annan December 2005 Secretary General of the UN including gun film footage of US attack on Fallujah, the Destruction of Al Qaim Maternity Hospital, and interview with little Iraqi girl aged 8 held by Americans and asked to identify corpses. 13: Analysis of Attorney General's secret memo to PM dated 7th March 2003 and written answer to Parliament dated 14th March 2003 as included on "Military families Against War" web site. Nicholas Wood, Rikki Blue, Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, David Mathews, Dr. Chris Burns-Cox, Felicity Arbuthnot PO BOX 64656 NW3 9NG (UK) Please also see: New Evidence Jack Straw Guilty On Torture - A Smoking Gun Craig Murray http://www.uruknet.info/index.php?p=m60140&hd=&size=1&l=e