Friday, December 09, 2005

Trying Bush and Blair for War Crimes

The governments of Tony Blair and George Bush have been charged with war crimes by a distinguished group of anti-war campaigners, who are calling for an investigation by the UN secretary general, Kofi Annan, into breaches of international law.

Harold Pinter, the playwright, Tony Benn, the former Labour MP, Michael Mansfield QC and Professor Richard Dawkins were among the signatories to 28 charges against the Blair and Bush administrations, covering ministers, officials and generals who were a party to the decisions that led to war on Iraq and the chaos in its aftermath.

More:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines05/1208-04.htm

The Nobel prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter has called for Tony Blair to be tried for war crimes, in his acceptance speech to the Nobel committee. The 5,000-word speech excoriates the US government over Guantánamo Bay and its attempts to destabilise Nicaragua in the 1980s. But he saves his most savage comments for the UK, described as “pathetic and supine” and a “bleating little lamb” tagging along behind the US in its support for the Iraq war.

More
http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,2763,1661531,00.html