7 years later, 2019, the USA and RUSSIA complimenting each other for the Holocausts they orchestrated all throughout their recent History - all for Apartheid ISRAEL!
DECADENT JEWISH CHRISTIAN HOLOCAUST OF AFGHANI MUSLIMS CONTINUES
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Afghan Refugee Children Perish (MURDERED*) in Harsh Winter
KABUL, Afghanistan — After a
harsh winter killed children in refugee camps around the Afghan capital
and brought attention to poor conditions there, a new study by a French
aid agency said the disaster was more extensive than originally thought,
with at least 100 young children claimed by the cold.
The study, carried out in March by the French aid group
Solidarités International, sought to collect information from families
at all of the 45 camps in or near Kabul, according to Julie Bara, who
conducted the survey for the group, one of few international relief
agencies that have long been active in the camps.
The group’s survey came to light on Wednesday, as a result of a visit by Valerie Amos, the United Nations’
humanitarian coordinator, who toured one of the camps, officially known
as the Kabul Informal Settlements. In all, they have more than 35,000
residents, mostly refugees from rural areas hit hard by the war.
Visits to the camps during February by The New York Times found 28 cases of children younger than 5 whose parents said they had died of exposure to the cold in
the previous month, when there was unusually severe weather with heavy
snows and nighttime temperatures in the low teens. Since residents
typically bury their dead quickly, in line with Afghan custom and
Islamic practice, precise details on the deaths have been difficult to
compile. In addition, most do not take their children to hospitals
because they cannot afford the cost.
At the end of the winter,
Solidarités went from camp to camp, asking parents who had lost children
to sign declarations giving details of the loss, including apparent
causes of death, Ms. Bara said.
While the data from the survey is
still being compiled, she said, Ms. Bara expects the number of children
under 5 who died to total 120. “I would say 100 of them for sure were
due to cold weather — despite our help,” she said. “Nobody saw it
coming.” That worked out to a mortality rate of 2.5 per 10,000 children
per day, establishing it as a full-fledged humanitarian disaster, she
said.
An example was the Parwan-e-Se camp,
not far from downtown Kabul, where camp leaders last February reported
two deaths of children from the cold, but on Wednesday said the final
total had been eight, according to Abdul Samad, the camp representative.
Two died in a hospital, but the other six died in the camp, he said.
“One of them was my own granddaughter,” he said. One of the smaller
camps, Parwan-e-Se is home to 100 families, about 600 to 700 residents,
he said.
On Wednesday, Ms. Amos, who is on
a three-day visit to Afghanistan, toured that camp, largely mud huts in
a former vacant lot, walking between open rivulets of sewage and pools
of waste and garbage. “Clearly there’s a lot of work we need to do,” Ms.
Amos said, acknowledging that the camps’ problems had been chronic and
long-term. “The real issue is finding land and helping them to
relocate.”
The Afghan government has tried
to encourage people in the camps to return to their homes, saying in
most places it is now safe enough to do so, but it says that many of the
refugees remain because there are better economic opportunities in the
capital. Residents disagree and claim their home areas are still too
unsafe, and many have asked the Afghan government for land and
assistance to build homes here.
Revelations about the deaths in
the heart of Kabul, despite a 10-year, $60 billion humanitarian effort
in Afghanistan, caused an outpouring of public reaction, both in
Afghanistan and internationally.
Camp residents have been caught
in a conundrum of international and government policy. Since the Afghan
government insists the camps should be disbanded, they do not generally
qualify for development aid since they are temporary facilities. So
programs that would provide safe housing, education or jobs are often
unavailable.
At the same time, since the poor
conditions in the camps are chronic and longstanding — most of the camps
are more than five years old now — they do not qualify for many types
of humanitarian aid earmarked for crises, which are by definition not
chronic. In addition, the Afghan government is concerned that if camp
conditions are improved too much, it will turn them into magnets for
even more refugees.
In response to the concern
generated over the deaths of children last winter, however, the United
Nations and aid groups have banded together to prevent a recurrence if
bad weather returns next year.
The results of the Solidarités
survey were shared with the Kabul Informal Settlements Task Force, which
includes United Nations agencies and aid groups, and donors have
already earmarked funds to prevent a similar disaster from recurring
next year, making sure there is sufficient fuel and other resources to
protect the camp populations.
“I think it will be better now, we will be better prepared,” Ms. Bara said. “It’s the least we can do.”
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By Yvonne Ridley
May 11, 2012 "Information Clearing House" -- Kuala Lumpur -- IT’S OFFICIAL - George W Bush is a war criminal.
In what is the first ever conviction of its kind anywhere in the world, the former US President and seven key members of his administration were today (Friday) found guilty of war crimes.
Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld and their legal advisers Alberto Gonzales, David Addington, William Haynes, Jay Bybee and John Yoo were tried in absentia in Malaysia.
The trial held in Kuala Lumpur heard harrowing witness accounts from victims of torture who suffered at the hands of US soldiers and contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan.
They included testimony from British man Moazzam Begg, an ex-Guantanamo detainee and Iraqi woman Jameelah Abbas Hameedi who was tortured in the notorious Abu Ghraib prison.
At the end of the week-long hearing, the five-panel tribunal unanimously delivered guilty verdicts against Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld and their key legal advisors who were all convicted as war criminals for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment.
Full transcripts of the charges, witness statements and other relevant material will now be sent to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.
The Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission is also asking that the names of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Gonzales, Yoo, Bybee, Addington and Haynes be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals for public record.
The tribunal is the initiative of Malaysia's retired Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, who staunchly opposed the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003.
He sat through the entire hearing as it took personal statements and testimonies of three witnesses namely Abbas Abid, Moazzam Begg and Jameelah Hameedi. The tribunal also heard two other Statutory Declarations of Iraqi citizen Ali Shalal and Rahul Ahmed, another British citizen.
After the guilty verdict reached by five senior judges was delivered, Mahathir Mohamad said: “Powerful countries are getting away with murder.”
War crimes expert and lawyer Francis Boyle, professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law in America, was part of the prosecution team.
After the case he said: “This is the first conviction of these people anywhere in the world.”
While the hearing is regarded by some as being purely symbolic, human rights activist Boyle said he was hopeful that Bush and Co could soon find themselves facing similar trials elsewhere in the world.
“We tried three times to get Bush in Canada but were thwarted by the Canadian Government, then we scared Bush out of going to Switzerland. The Spanish attempt failed because of the government there and the same happened in Germany.”
Boyle then referenced the Nuremberg Charter which was used as the format for the tribunal when asked about the credibility of the initiative in Malaysia. He quoted: “Leaders, organizers, instigators and accomplices participating in the formulation or execution of a common plan or conspiracy to commit war crimes are responsible for all acts performed by any person in execution of such a plan.”
The US is subject to customary international law and to the Principles of the Nuremberg Charter said Boyle who also believes the week-long trial was “almost certainly” being monitored closely by both Pentagon and White House officials.
Professor Gurdial Singh Nijar, who headed the prosecution said: “The tribunal was very careful to adhere scrupulously to the regulations drawn up by the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal Courts”.
He added that he was optimistic the tribunal would be followed up elsewhere in the world where “countries have a duty to try war criminals” and he cited the case of the former Chilean dictator Augustine Pinochet who was arrested in Britain to be extradited to Spain on charges of war crimes.
“Pinochet was only eight years out of his presidency when that happened.”
The Pinochet case was the first time that several European judges applied the principle of universal jurisdiction, declaring themselves competent to judge crimes committed by former heads of state, despite local amnesty laws.
Throughout the week the tribunal was packed with legal experts and law students as witnesses gave testimony and then cross examination by the defence led by lawyer Jason Kay Kit Leon.
The court heard how
· Abbas Abid, a 48-year-old engineer from Fallujah in Iraq had his fingernails removed by pliers.
· Ali Shalal was attached with bare electrical wires and electrocuted and hung from a wall.
· Moazzam Begg was beaten, hooded and put in solitary confinement.
· Jameelah was stripped and humiliated, and was used as a human shield whilst being transported by helicopter.
The witnesses also detailed how they have residual injuries till today.
Moazzam Begg, now working as a director for the London-based human rights group Cageprisoners said he was delighted with the verdict, but added: “When people talk about Nuremberg you have to remember those tried were all prosecuted after the war.
“Right now Guantanamo is still open, people are still being held there and are still being tortured there.”
In response to questions about the difference between the Bush and Obama Administrations, he added: “If President Bush was the President of extra-judicial torture then US President Barak Obama is the President of extra judicial killing through drone strikes. Our work has only just begun.”
The prosecution case rested on proving how the decision-makers at the highest level President Bush, Vice-President Cheney, Secretary of Defence Rumsfeld, aided and abetted by the lawyers and the other commanders and CIA officials – all acted in concert. Torture was systematically applied and became an accepted norm.
According to the prosecution, the testimony of all the witnesses exposed a sustained perpetration of brutal, barbaric, cruel and dehumanising course of conduct against them.
These acts of crimes were applied cumulatively to inflict the worst possible pain and suffering, said lawyers.
The president of the tribunal Tan Sri Dato Lamin bin Haji Mohd Yunus Lamin, found that the prosecution had established beyond a “reasonable doubt that the accused persons, former President George Bush and his co-conspirators engaged in a web of instructions, memos, directives, legal advice and action that established a common plan and purpose, joint enterprise and/or conspiracy to commit the crimes of Torture and War Crimes, including and not limited to a common plan and purpose to commit the following crimes in relation to the “War on Terror” and the wars launched by the U.S. and others in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
President Lamin told a packed courtroom: “As a tribunal of conscience, the Tribunal is fully aware that its verdict is merely declaratory in nature. The tribunal has no power of enforcement, no power to impose any custodial sentence on any one or more of the 8 convicted persons. What we can do, under Article 31 of Chapter VI of Part 2 of the Charter is to recommend to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission to submit this finding of conviction by the Tribunal, together with a record of these proceedings, to the Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, as well as the United Nations and the Security Council.
“The Tribunal also recommends to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission that the names of all the 8 convicted persons be entered and included in the Commission’s Register of War Criminals and be publicised accordingly.
“The Tribunal recommends to the War Crimes Commission to give the widest international publicity to this conviction and grant of reparations, as these are universal crimes for which there is a responsibility upon nations to institute prosecutions if any of these Accused persons may enter their jurisdictions”.
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