war crimes

With the completely illegal attack on Yugoslavia it destroyed the post-WWII order it created itself. Since then, a long stream of devastation was caused by an urge to prolong the "unipolar moment" after the self-destruction of the Soviet Union into eternity. It's time to admit that the attempt...

US bars entry to International Criminal Court investigators The behaviour of these thugs is a pretty breathtaking thing to watch...

Last night I watched an amazing film about the clearing of German mines laid around Denmark during WWII. German POWs were used, many of them youths who had been drafted into the German army during the last months of the fighting. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3841424/ The film is called "Land...

It was suggested on another thread that there hasn't been a President who didn't commit war crimes. That was part of a derail that has since been shuttled off to hangar #AAH. I thought it an interesting topic, so I shall give it it's own thread. According to wikipedia the definition of a war...

Book title is "The Phoenix Program: America's Use of Terror in Vietnam" I didnt know there was a book written about the CIA Phoenix Program. If anyone hasn't seen it, this is from intro:

During World War 2 both sides committed war crimes and atrocities. The propaganda that the Allies were the "good guys" and the Axis were the "bad guys" belongs in a comic book. Everything is not so black and white. The new documentary Hellstorm shows the crimes of the victors - saturation...

Not an easy thing to do as a soldier if you have ample evidence of US war crimes but nobody has the cojones to act on it. Watch André Shepherd report about his journey which lasts almost a decade now: qG8Ittmfloo The tired old question: Hero or Traitor?

Okay, it's only Malaysia. I'm sure I could mount a good rhetorical defense if I were still a W. supporter. I'll grant this premise up front. If this is the only conviction it will be at most a footnote of little import, in the least it will be ignored by historians. I think the latter unlikely...

During world war 2 the red army of Joseph Stalin raped one million German women. This rape was condoned by Stalin and the other communist leaders. Soviet soldiers also raped tens of thousands of other women from countries they claimed to be "liberating". Many Poles, Balts, Romanians, Hungarians...

An issue I myself don't know a ton about, even with the 20th anniversary revival and constant cited parallels in current events ... but an interesting news item, from a couple months ago now, and some intriguing thoughts: War crimes, 'not genocide' in Srebrenica says Serbian President...

I'm back! Today I'd like to open a discussion into one particular, horrendouns incident of the Libyan Civil War. I call it "the Khamis Brigade shed massacre," while Physicians For Human Rights call it "the 32nd Brigade Massacre" in their fancy December report (PDF link). It was, as far as I...

Some massacres in the Abu Salim area of Tripoli get running in-depth coverage of pretty much nothing. Consider the reported discovery of a the mass grave of 1,270 victims of the prison massacre from 1996. The actual evidence this ever happened is less than conclusive, but either way the evidence...

Quick question that came to me just then: If members of Al Quaeda are classed as unlawful combatants, and can't be tried under the rules of war, (no POW status etc), does that mean they can't be charged with War Crimes under the Geneva Convention? Or are there specific rules within the...

I would like to ask everybody to discuss about why usually (always?) people of one nation do not ask for war criminals to be put on trial as war criminals if such war criminals are their own soldiers and the victims citizens of another (poor) country. A country may put their own war criminals on...

It seems that Ratko Mladic, general of Bosnian civil war infamy, was arrested in northern Serbia today. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13561407 This was one piece of news I personally never expected to hear. I think this is good news. Not only does this close a chapter of the nineties...

Just wondering what other JREF'ers think of the Demjanjuk case. Does he deserve to die in prison because of his participation in the Nazi death camp system? (Please note that we're not in the CT forum... Holocaust deniers, please start another thread.) Does he deserve to go free because he...

Words cannot express my feelings about this :mad: http://www.theage.com.au/world/politicians-bloody-background-20101027-173sk.html?autostart=1 Snipped for compliance with Rule 4. Please do not copy & paste lengthy tracts of text available elsewhere. Instead, post a short quote and a link to the...

The Shrub screwed up part of the war on terror by being a barbarian. Seems that the Europeans do not want to extradite some suspected heavy-weight terrorists because the suspects might be treated inhumanely before and after any conviction for a crime...

Charles Taylor: Pat Robertson was my man in Washington Foreign Policy

The Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article5470047.ece quotes an expert (Neil Gibson, technical adviser to Jane’s Missiles and Rockets) saying that shells marked with M825A1 are white phosphorus shells. The IDF says that the shells photographed near an Israeli...

So Cheney admits to approving it for KSM. If we had Japanese leaders executed for this action as a warcrime, are we now saying that it is no longer a war crime? Or just one that we, the US, are only allowed to use? Thoughts?

Do you consider General Eisenhower to have been a war criminal? He executed 300 SS camp guards after their surrender at Dachau concentration camp. I say shooting prisoners is a war crime. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dachau_concentration_camp

I am against torture. I am against beating a man senseless just cause he is an enemy. I am against causing someone terribly physical pain just to attempt to get information. But waterboarding is simulated drowning. No one drowns or dies from waterboarding. The point of waterboarding is to...

Because the existing ones aren't doing the job. Or aren't "international" enough? Or ... ? I suggest reading the whole article. It's not long. Iran wants world Islamic court for war crimes (Indian Express via Yahoo) He's run it up the flagpole. Let's see who salutes.

We have seen several times, where JREF's "Israel cheerleaders" are scolded because they (we/I) don't voice criticism openly here, and are biased, and refuse to recognize the terrible injustices that the Israelis commit. In the main, I refrain from Israel-bashing (there is a fine line between...

So the Iranians blindfolded, shackled, isolated, and used psychological pressure on the 15 Brits. Now, how exactly is this so different from how the Americans or the Brits treat "enemy combatants"? What could we possibly say to Iran? "Only we can declare people enemy combatants and withhold...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070112/ap_on_re_as/cambodia_khmer_rouge My first thought is "he's ******* me, right?" My second thought is "Noam Chomsky, please write a column about this." (He wrote quite a bit about the Cambodia problem of the late 1970's, known to some as "Killing Fields" and...

Hussien death penalty upheld

Friend IM'd me the news, but I haven't found any major news source to back it up yet. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/12/wrums12.xml Anyone else heard this?

I guess it's a really bad week for Rumsfeld. :) Thursday, November 9th, 2006 War Crimes Suit Prepared against Rumsfeld The president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, is heading to Germany today to file a new case charging outgoing Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld...