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Criminal Charges Filed Against George H.W. Bush (Sr.) in Iceland |
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from The Brussels Tribunal
Entered into the database on Wednesday, July 05th, 2006 @ 10:22:08 MST |
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A group of ten Icelandic citizens filed yesterday at the Office of
the State's Police Chief criminal charges against George H.W. Bush, former U.S.
President, who is expected in Iceland this evening at the invitation of Icelands's
President Olafur R. Grimsson. The group accuses former President Bush for participation in war crimes, crimes
against humanity, crimes against the peace, and crimes against internationally
protected persons. It demands that former President Bush be detained by the
Icelandic authorities and investigation on these charges. Should the investigation
conclude that legal proceedings against him are warranted, the group requests
that he be tried before an Icelandic court or extradited to an international
criminal tribunal which possesses the requisite jurisdiction to deal with his
case. Icelandic courts are, under international law, qualified to try individuals
suspected of having committed international crimes. George H.W. Bush is charged of initiating a war of aggression against Panama
in 1989, in breach of international law and the UN Charter, constituting a crime
against the peace, and of ordering the kidnapping of Panama's President Noriega
in violation of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Crimes Against
Internationally Protected Persons. George H.W. Bush is furthermore charged for
his command responsibility for the multiple war crimes committed by US forces
in the Gulf War in 1991, including the policy of deliberately bombing civilian
targets and the massacre of soldiers hors combat. His command responsibility
for these crimes is equivalent to those of other heads of states who have been
charged, indicted and convicted for international crimes, including torture,
war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide. George H.W. Bush is also charged
for inducing an uprising of Kurds and Shi'ites in Iraq during the Gulf War and
then ordering US forces to withhold aid from those who risked the uprising,
thus leaving unarmed uprising masses unprotected against Saddam Hussein's brutal
forces. By such policies, he knowingly facilitated the commission of crimes
against humanity by Saddam Hussein. He is finally accused for conspiring in
imposing deadly economic sanctions against the people of Iraq, with the intent
to harm the well-being, health and lives of the Iraqi civilian population, with
foreknowledge of the likely consequences and with the subsequent knowledge of
the sanctions' devastating consequences. Such conduct is considered to be a
crime against humanity under international customary law. About one million
persons are believed dead as a result of the economic sanctions, thereof half
a million children below five years of age. The group holds that Icelandic courts can assert subject-matter, territorial
and personal jurisdiction over former President Bush, on the base of the provisions
of the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949 and of the Convention on the Prevention
and Punishment of Crimes Against Internationally Protected Persons. In addition,
the group argues that Icelandic courts can assert their jurisdiction to any
person who is suspected of having planned, directed or committed crimes against
humanity under international customary law, as well as for planning and carrying
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