KL War Crime Commission investigates Bush, Blair, Howard 

Charged several times by People's Tribunals...

Malaysia’s former Prime Minister, Tun Mahathir Mohamad chaired a conference-cum meeting of the newly launched anti-war tribunal under the aegis of the Perdana Global Peace Organization. The organization is campaigning for war to become a crime that is punishable by international laws. However, the task to criminalize war is monumental and the leaders targeted by the Kuala Lumpur War Crime Commission are almost untouchable.

They were formally charged and sentenced for major war crimes by The Peoples Court of Christchurch in Australia in 2004. They were also charged and sentenced by an Egyptian, Philippines and a host of other such public or peoples courts across the world. Yet they are still free to visit all those countries without any arrest warrants delivered to them. This makes them bolder and untouchable

On 7^th February, 2007 the Kuala Lumpur War Crime Commission chaired by Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad heard nine charges against US President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair as well as Australian Prime Minister John Howard for the sufferings of the people in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine. There were no representatives from Afghanistan where the US and the Nato are reigning supreme.

The charges against the US and its allies were presented by legal counsel on behalf of the war crimes victims, Barrister (Inner Temple) & Advocate & Solicitor High Court of Malaya, Matthias Chang before Dr Mahathir and the other five commission members at the last day of the three-day war crimes conference.

Chang said Bush, Blair and Howard through a deliberate plan of deception, falsehood, forgery and outright lies misled their respective Congress and Parliament to wage war against Iraq which was a "crime against peace,"

Most of the people’s tribunals heard the same accusations against the trio, though at times instead of Howard, Ariel Sharon the former Premier of Israel was included.

What is different from the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Commission and the previous people’s war crimes courts is the processes of the war crimes tribunal and the method it will use to ‘confer’ the tag of criminal against Bush, Blair and Howard.

The obvious suggestion is that the KL War Crimes Commission urges the governments of the Muslim world and the friendly nations in the non-Muslim world to put the three leaders on their list of wanted war criminals, said one observer who visited the exhibition at the Putra World Trace Center (PWTC).

Countries that refuse to do so will be seen as harboring criminals in the event of a visit by Bush-Blair-Howard on their soil. Once it is made clear to the three leaders they are wanted as war criminals in at least 57 Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) nations, they will not travel to these countries. This is equivalent to a travel sanction against them.

Among the charges brought against the trio, the most significant is the charge regarding the lies they put forward to mislead their respective Congress and Parliaments to wage war against Iraq in 2003, which was a "crime against peace."
The Iraq invasion by the US and its allies Britain and Australia remains an illegal invasion until today. No amount of resolutions at the UN will change that. The only way to compensate the victims of the war will be formal arrest warrants against the three and their incarcerations whenever they travel to any of the nations that would support such warrant of arrests.

Other than that, said the observer, the trio will make a foul of the charges and will defy the victims of their crimes by traveling to the Muslim countries – even after they leave office – in all impunity.

“The KL war crimes commission would have served no purpose and would have been reduced to that of the many people’s courts we have seen since 2004,” added the observer who hails from Indonesia.

Bush-Blair-Howard remains the main actors in a terrible war against Islam, a war that the West crafted right after the collapse of communism in Russia. After the fall of the wall of the wall of Berlin, it was clear that the Muslims will be targeted as the next opponent to American democracy and capitalism.

The peak of the war against Islam came with the arrival of George W. Bush as President of the US thanks to a superb trick that allowed him to win despite losing to Al-Gore in numbers and percentages in national votes.

The KL war crimes commission has also heard charges against them for ordering the destruction of vital facilities essential to civilian lives in Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine while the fourth one for the bombing of schools, hospitals, mosques, churches, residential areas, historical sites and conveniently labeling the destruction as "collateral damage".

Unfortunately they are not the last of the Western leaders that would be tempted to use cluster bomb, napalm bomb, phosporous bomb, and depleted uranium ammunition and other chemicals or heavy weaponry against Muslims. Once Bush-Blair-Howard is out of office, it will be up to the next American, British and Australian and now NATO leaders to ‘smoke the Muslims out’.

Unless the KL war crimes commission is given total support by the Muslim populace world wide, by the OIC itself and other NGO’s across the Islamic world. Such support will mean a public approval of the actions of the KL war crimes commission and the total condemnation of the existing trio and the future trio to come.

Dr Mahathir said the commission was to respond to several petition of war crime victims and investigate into their complaints.

"We appreciate there are other tribunals but there are so many complaints, the other tribunals perhaps are not being able to hear the complaint. We feel there is a need for the setting up this tribunal (Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal) and give an opportunity for those war crimes victims to voice out their complaints and to seek redress," he said.

The commission would investigate complaints of war crimes and thereafter to submit and report to the tribunal that would be set up, which are still at a protem stage.

The interesting part will be the investigation – though it is obvious that sufficient proof exist as was displayed during the concurrent exhibition held at the PWTC.

There are no indications that the commission will invest itself in sending the charge sheet officially to Bush-Blair-Howard. If that is done, it will mean a step ahead in the commission’s work and a clear warning to the criminal trio, World Futures was told.

Suggestions are that the killing of Saddam Hussein by the Iraqi government should also be condemned as part of the war crimes committed by allies of the Bush-Blair-Howard group.

Others said they hoped the exhibition on the war crimes by the US and its allies since World War 2 should be extended for another month in order to allow more people to see with their own eyes what the trio is capable of.

The exhibition gives a vivid imagery of the atrocities the people of Japan, Vietnam, Iraq and Palestine went through thanks to the military attacks their countries has been subjected to by the US and its allies.

It is a must to visit the exhibition. College and University students should be given a chance to see with their own eyes and hear with their own ears the terrible atrocities of the wars led by the US.

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