Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission

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The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission or short KLWCC (German: Kuala Lumpur -Kriegsverbrecherkommission ) was an especially active until 2013 Malaysian organization and was in the year 2007 by Mahathir Mohamad has been launched. Mahathir Mohamad explained the establishment of the KLWCC as an alternative to the International Criminal Court in The Hague , which he attributed to a bias in the selection of proceedings.

Chair

The KLWCC Presidency was established with the intent to review and monitor complaints from war victims of war and armed conflict relating to crimes against peace, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other similar offenses recognized under international law. The chair consists of:

Judgments on appeal to universal jurisdiction

In November 2011, citing universal jurisdiction in absentia, the court found former US President George W. Bush and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair guilty of crimes against peace on the grounds of the unlawful invasion of Iraq. The declared reason for war was the existence of weapons of mass destruction , none of which were found.

In May 2012, after hearing testimony from victims of torture from Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo , the arbitration tribunal unanimously approved former US President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney , former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld , former Assistant Attorney General John Yoo and Jay Bybee , the former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and former advisers David Addington and William Haynes II found guilty in the absence of conspiracy to commit war crimes, including torture . The court brought its findings to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Court of Justice in The Hague.

After this "verdict" there was no evidence of any activity, even if conspiracy theorist Michel Chossudovsky and others hoped to reactivate the organization to condemn Israel.

Legitimacy of the tribunal

Former UN special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, Param Cumaraswamy , said the court was a private company with no legal basis and questioned its legitimacy . The court has no UN mandate or recognition, no power to order arrests or to impose a sentence, and it is not apparent that its judgments are other than symbolic in nature.

A statement by the Tribunal on its website states: "In the event that this court convicts any of the accused, the only sanction is that the guilty person's name be entered in the Commission's war crimes register and published worldwide."

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ " Public papers used in mock war crimes trial of Bush and Blair ( Memento of the original dated November 24, 2011 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to instructions and then remove that notice. "November 21, 2011, The Malay Mail . @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mmail.com.my
  2. ↑ Wordpress . Nsnbc.wordpress.com. October 29, 2011. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  3. ^ Board of Trustees . Criminalisewar.org. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  4. ↑ International News ( fr ) Internationalnews.over-blog.com. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ KLWCC judges . Criminalisewar.org. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  6. ^ Symbolic 'war crimes' tribunal to try Bush, Blair . CBS News. November 15, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  7. ↑ Bush, Blair guilty in Malaysia 'war crimes trial' . Ottawa Citizen. November 22, 2011. Archived from the original on January 13, 2012. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved November 24, 2011. Item was removed. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ottawacitizen.com
  8. ↑ Richard Falk: Kuala Lumpur tribunal: Bush and Blair guilty . Al Jazeera. November 15, 2011. Retrieved September 25, 2013.
  9. ↑ Holt, Bob: Are George W. Bush and Dick Cheney were criminals? Malaysian court says 'yes' . NewJerseyNewsroom.com. May 15, 2012. Archived from the original on May 18, 2012. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 16, 2012. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.newjerseynewsroom.com
  10. ^ Ridley, Yvonne: Bush Convicted of War Crimes in Absentia . Foreign Policy Journal. May 12, 2011. Retrieved May 16, 2012.
  11. ↑ PGPF hopes to revive Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal on July 16, 2018
  12. ^ Brussels Tribunal . Brussellstribunal.org. Archived from the original on October 30, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved December 20, 2011. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.brussellstribunal.org
  13. ^ Hunt, Luke: Bush and Cheney on Trial . The diplomat. May 15, 2012. Retrieved May 17, 2012.