Citizen’s Tribunal Indicts President On War Crimes And Crimes Against Humanity
When: 1:30 p.m. January 10, 2006
Where: The White House, Washington, D.C.
www.bushcommission.org
Contact: Larry Everest or Janet Yip: 212-941-8086 or e-mail commission@nion.us
Indicments will be delivered at the front gate of the White House and a
press conference will follow in Lafayette Park following delivery of
the indictments to the White House. Present to answer questions will be
retired CIA analyst Ray McGovern, authors William Blum and Larry
Everest and Travis Morales, World Can’t Wait, Drive Out the Bush
Regime. The indictments will also be delivered to the Department of
Justice.
Named in the indictment 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, and others
These indictments result from preparatory work and testimony presented
in New York City on October 21 and 22, 2005, at the opening session of
the International Commission of Inquiry on Crimes Against Humanity
Committed by the Bush Administration, alleging illegal acts carried out
or approved by the above named individuals in relation to, or in the
conduct of, the following:
1) Wars of Aggression, particular reference to Iraq and Afghanistan;
2) Torture and Indefinite Detention;
3) Destruction of the Global Environment,
particular reference to systematic policies, contributing to the
effects of global warming;
4) Attacks on Global Public Health and
Reproductive Rights, particular reference to the genocidal effects of
forcing international agencies to promote “abstinence only” in the
midst of a global AIDS epidemic; and
5) Bush administration’s lethal response to Hurricane Katrina.
[See www.bushcommision.org for audio of session 1, read the chapters and
full indictments.]
The concluding sessions of the International Commission of Inquiry will
be at the Riverside Church and the Columbia University Law School in
New York on January 20-22.
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 many other
prominent individuals and organizations, including Former Sen. James
Abourezk, former British MP Tony Benn, authors Gore Vidal, Howard Zinn
and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and actor Edward Asner.
The above-named defendants are invited to appear or to send
representatives to speak in their defense before a panel of
distinguished jurors. This is the first opportunity in the United
States for a complete public hearing of the charges and the evidence
and testimony supporting them.
Charter, full indictments, standards for judgment, and audio and video coverage of the first session: http://www.bushcommission.org
First Session (Oct ’05) video and audio now available at: http://www.bushcommission.org