(Sorry for simply copying this interesting wire story here; it explains better than my paraphrasing might.)
TOKYO (Kyodo News) A group of citizens in Japan said Monday they will launch a mock tribunal to try U.S. President George W Bush on war crime charges over military attacks on Afghanistan last year in retaliation for last year’s Sept 11 attacks on the United States.
The organizing committee for the “International Criminal Tribunal for Afghanistan” will hold public hearings in some locations in Japan, beginning with one in Tokyo next Sunday, before handing down a “ruling” on Dec 13 and 14 next year, the group said.
The group, co-chaired by Akira Maeda, professor of international criminal law at the Tokyo University of Art and Design, said it will deliver the ruling to the White House.
It said it has visited Afghanistan three times to look into war damage there.
Former U.S. Attorney General Ramsey Clark, who organized a similar tribunal in New York in 1992 against then U.S. President George Bush over the 1991 Persian Gulf War, is a special adviser to the upcoming tribunal, they said.
I am grateful to these courageous people for speaking out against war of any kind. We are living in frightening times.
Posted by: Jean on December 10, 2002 09:41 PMIt’s much more serious than war crimes. In his shortsighted effort to make his oil cronies rich with the spoils of an Iraqi war, he’s risking setting off WWIII between all Muslim and Christian states. We need to stop this guy.
Posted by: PickyPete on December 11, 2002 09:03 PM