INDICTMENTS TO BE DELIVERED TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON TUESDAY JAN. 10th

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INDICTMENTS TO BE DELIVERED TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON TUESDAY

JAN. 10th

 

 

 

 

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PRESS ADVISORY; URGENT

January 9, 2006

 

International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity

Committed by the Bush Administration

 

TRIBUNAL INDICTS BUSH ADMINISTRATION FOR WAR CRIMES AND CRIMES AGAINST

HUMANITY

 

INDICTMENTS TO BE DELIVERED TO THE WHITE HOUSE ON TUESDAY JAN. 10th

 

When: 1:30 p.m. January 10, 2006

Where: The White House, Front Gate

 

http://www.bushcommission.org

Contact: Connie Julian 917-449-9064, or Janet Yip 212-941-8086, or

e-mail: commission

 

An unprecedented series of indictments alleging war crimes and crimes

against humanity, in five separate areas, will be delivered to

President Bush at the front gate of the White House this Tuesday,

January 10th.

 

Named in the indictments are:

President of the United States George W. Bush, Vice President Richard

Cheney, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, U.S. Army Lieutenant

General Ricardo Sanchez, U.S. Army Major General Geoffrey Miller,

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, et al.

 

The indictments will be delivered to the White House by:

Retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, authors William Blum and Larry

Everest, Code Pink, Mike Hersh (Progressive Democrats of America/After

Downing Street), Kevin Zeese (Director, Democracy Rising; candidate

for U.S. Senate in Maryland), Travis Morales (World Can't Wait--Drive

Out the Bush Regime) and others TBA.

 

A press conference will follow delivery of indictments, which will

also be delivered to the Department of Justice.

 

The indictments result from preparatory work and testimony presented

in New York City in October 2005, before the International Commission

of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity Committed by the Bush

Administration which featured former UN envoy to Iraq Denis Halliday,

Guantanamo prisoners' lawyer Michael Ratner, and former State

Department officer Anne Wright. The Commission's second tribunal will

be held at Riverside Church and the Columbia University Law School in

New York, January 20-22. Witnesses will include Brig. Gen. Janis

Karpinski, former British ambassador Craig Murray, and former arms

inspector Scott Ritter, among many more.

 

The indictments allege illegal acts authorized by the Bush

Administration in relation to:

 

1) Wars of Aggression, particular reference to Iraq and Afghanistan;

2) Torture and Indefinite Detention;

3) Destruction of the Global Environment, particular reference to

distortion of science and obstruction of international efforts to stem

global warming;

4) Attacks on Global Public Health and Reproductive Rights, particular

reference to the potentially genocidal effects of enforcing abstinence

only, global gag rule, distortion of science, and restriction of

generic drugs; and

5) Failure of Bush administration, despite foreknowledge, to protect

life during and after Hurricane Katrina.

Appended to these indictments will be the demand for investigation of

the war crimes of Tony Blair and George Bush submitted by prominent

British citizens to the UN Secretary General and the UK Attorney

General.

The commission was organized by the Not in Our Name Statement of

Conscience and is endorsed by: Center for Constitutional Rights,

National Lawyers Guild, After Downing Street.Org and others, including

Former Sen. James Abourezk, former British MP Tony Benn, authors Gore

Vidal and Howard Zinn, poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and actor Edward

Asner.

 

Charter, full indictments, standards for judgment, and audio and video

coverage of the first session: http://www.bushcommission.org