War Crimes in Afghanistan Her experience has been dreadful, her situation is appalling, all of it unnecessary and the reasons for it disgusting and shameful.
War Crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq
"As a citizen I regard it not only as a right but as a moral duty to help shape the destiny
of my country, to uncover and oppose manifest evils. What I aimed to do was to rouse my students to an ethical
understanding of the grave evils of our present political life; a return to definite ethical principles, to
the rule of law, to mutual trust between man and man. This is not illegal rather it is the establishment of
legality."
Professor Huber. Munich University 1943
Shortly before he was condemned to death with five of his students for spreading sedition.
From Humanising Hell by George Delf.
"Under the influence of politicians, masses of people tend to ascribe the responsibility for wars to
those who wield power at any given time. In World War I it was the munitions industrialists; in World War II it was the
psychopathic generals who were said to be guilty. This is passing the buck.
The responsibility for wars falls solely upon the shoulders of these same masses of people, for they have all the necessary
means to avert war in their own hands. In part by their apathy, in part by their passivity, and in part actively, these same
masses of people make possible the catastrophes under which they themselves suffer more than anyone else."
Wilhelm Reich, The Mass Psychology of Fascism
This site serves to facilitate the attainment of prosecutions for war crimes in relation to the aggressive,
illegal wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Defining the War Laws
The site provides information about the Laws of War, how and why they are applicable to the UK
and how they are (or should be - and can be - and will be) enforced.
Information Gathering
The site provides for people who have information about war crimes (Evidence, Knowledge of Events, Legal Analysis etc.) to
enter this information, stores it in an organised manner and makes it available to others interested in
the prosecution of war criminals.
Case Development
The site provides convenient access to information allowing interested legal professionals to contribute
legal analysis and associate events and case material with legal grounds for prosecution. It also makes this
analysis available to others interested in developing cases for prosecution of war criminals.
Political Process
The site provides information and support for the necessary political processes and provides a means
for convergence and communication among those interested in bringing about the prosecution of war criminals.
The prosecution of war criminals (particularly in relation to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq) is probably
the most important issue of our time.
In the years since 2002 two unnecessary wars have been waged in Afghanistan and Iraq resulting in the deaths
of hundreds of thousands of people, the vast majority of them civilians, more than half of them children.
These were extremely violent wars that were both aggressive and illegal and, particularly in view of the
consequences, consequences that were predictable, highly immoral. These wars were waged by governments acting
against opposition from their constituencies greater in proportion than that of the support they had in winning
office. What support they had for war was achieved by gross deception; a fraud of the most serious kind.
In undertaking these wars the governments of the countries that initiated them defied the opposition of the
United Nations, whose sanction they had sought ardently and failed to obtain. These wars were also undertaken
in defiance of international law.
The United Nations and the system of international laws relating to war were both established in consequence of
the disastrous wars that afflicted humanity in the first half of the last century. They are profoundly important
institutions, which represent the only real hope of humanity of saving itself from the catastrophic disaster
that it will inevitably inflict upon itself and the planet in the absence of measures to avoid it. Human capability
and capacity for killing other human beings and wreaking destruction on the planet has multiplied dramatically
since the middle of the last century.
The leader of one government at the forefront of these wars has already presumed to declare these institutions
irrelevant. It is clear that governments are working internationally to undermine these institutions and
domestically to erode our political capacity to defend them and demand their continued and strengthened existence.
Allowing governments to flout the resolutions of the United Nations and the statutes of international law by waging
violent, aggressive and illegal wars on fraudulent grounds, torturing and murdering civilians, destroying nations
and plundering their wealth with impunity will end the already damaged credibility of these institutions.
With governments actively undermining them and our political capacity to defend them being eroded we have a critical
imperative to act now to turn the tide. A failure now to assert the authority of international law and the United
Nations would be a dereliction of collective and individual responsibility, the consequences of which will
profoundly impact the future of human kind.
This is unquestionably the most important issue of our time.
War Crimes in Afghanistan