So was the war legal?
Julia | 19.01.2004 20:12 | Anti-militarism | London
The results of an investigation into the legality of the war in Iraq are to be announced on 20 January. Read on if you want to attend...
Tuesday 20 January 2004 at 17:00 hours Report of Legal Inquiry into Invasion of Iraq, Room U Portcullis House, House of Commons (Press Only)
Report of the Legal Inquiry into the Invasion and Military Occupation of Iraq, following the inquiry held at LSE on 8/9 November 2003, conducted by a panel of eight professors of International law will be launched on Tuesday 20 January 2004.
The panel were asked to examine the actions of the UK during its attack on Iraq in March and April 2003 in the context of the ICC Statute and to decide whether a recommendation to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate the actions of the UK under Article 15 of the ICC Statute is justified. Their conclusions will be presented at the meeting. Issues included: Civilian casualties, Choice of military targets, Use of cluster bombs and Conduct of Occupation
Panel members were: William Schabas: Professor of Human Rights Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Christine Chinkin: Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics Department of Law. Bill Bowring: Professor of Human Rights and International Law at London Metropolitan University Reni Provost: Associate Professor Faculty of Law McGill University Paul Tavernier: Professor at the Faculti Jean Monnet, and Director of the Centre de recherches et d'itudes sur les droits de l'Homme et le droit humanitaire at the Universiti de Paris Sud. Nick Grief: Professor of Law and Head of the School of Finance and Law at the University of Bournemouth. Guy Goodwin-Gill QC barrister and Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. Upendra Baxi: Professor of International Law at Warwick University.
RSVP: Felicity Williams on
felicity@publicinterestlawyers.co.uk
Report of the Legal Inquiry into the Invasion and Military Occupation of Iraq, following the inquiry held at LSE on 8/9 November 2003, conducted by a panel of eight professors of International law will be launched on Tuesday 20 January 2004.
The panel were asked to examine the actions of the UK during its attack on Iraq in March and April 2003 in the context of the ICC Statute and to decide whether a recommendation to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate the actions of the UK under Article 15 of the ICC Statute is justified. Their conclusions will be presented at the meeting. Issues included: Civilian casualties, Choice of military targets, Use of cluster bombs and Conduct of Occupation
Panel members were: William Schabas: Professor of Human Rights Law at the National University of Ireland, Galway and Director of the Irish Centre for Human Rights. Christine Chinkin: Professor of International Law at the London School of Economics Department of Law. Bill Bowring: Professor of Human Rights and International Law at London Metropolitan University Reni Provost: Associate Professor Faculty of Law McGill University Paul Tavernier: Professor at the Faculti Jean Monnet, and Director of the Centre de recherches et d'itudes sur les droits de l'Homme et le droit humanitaire at the Universiti de Paris Sud. Nick Grief: Professor of Law and Head of the School of Finance and Law at the University of Bournemouth. Guy Goodwin-Gill QC barrister and Senior Research Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford. Upendra Baxi: Professor of International Law at Warwick University.
RSVP: Felicity Williams on
felicity@publicinterestlawyers.co.uk
Julia
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Ooops
19.01.2004 20:27
Julia
NO it wasnt
20.01.2004 00:29
Stephen Jacobs
True, but ...
20.01.2004 13:27
Catherine Harris and Jeb Bush and Database Systems helped in the most vile crime of election fraud (Greg seems to explain it quite well:
Who can blame the people though? They do have a highly controlled mass media pumping them full of lies each day. Most of them have enough trouble trying to get through their daily "struggle" without the added stress of having to put their government back in order. I guess the Germans must have felt the same when Hitler was screaming "God bless Germany" while mudering non-Aryans. I can understand (to a point) and forgive the people of the USA for allowing their leaders to murder and terrorise (their leaders have perfected the art of lying) - but others will not be so sympathetic. Act now to stop the terrorist oil-"man" [chimp?] Bush (
"Of course the people don't want war. But after all, it's the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger."
Herman Goering at the Nuremberg trials
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