world-wide citizens' petition to Hague/ALL War Criminals Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit ............................................................... source - hariette WAR: JUSTIN - DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES WHO IS JUSTIN? We are Justice International - Justin for short. We stand for Justice Fair and Equal for All Peoples and Nations. We are currently engaged in a campaign to demand Justice for the People of Yugoslavia. We demand: 1) Indictment of all those who may be responsible for crimes against the people of all nationalities in Yugoslavia. 2) Justice and full compensation for all the victims and damage inflicted during the recent war. Our organisation has collected tens of thousands of witness statements regarding the commission of war crimes. This is a world-wide citizens' petition directed to the International War Crimes Tribunal of the United Nations in The Hague. From that Tribunal we demand full, fair and unbiased application of international law, the United Nations Charter, and particularly, of the Nuremberg Trials criteria, for all war crimes committed within the territory of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, including Kosovo by any parties whatsoever. According to the criteria established at the 1945-46 Nuremberg Trials of the Nazi war criminals, the main culprits for all the war crimes committed in Yugoslavia are William Jefferson Clinton and Anthony Blair. They are responsible, together with all other NATO leaders, foreign and defence ministers, and all other officials and individuals involved in the launching of the recent war of aggression. The Judgement of the International Court at Nuremberg declared: "To initiate a war of aggression. is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole". Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson - the Chief American Prosecutor at Nuremberg - put this even more clearly: "Launching a war of aggression is a crime that no political or economic situation can justify". Justice Jackson stated: ".. if certain acts in violation of treaties are crimes, they are crimes whether the United States does them or Germany does them.. we are not prepared to lay down a rule of criminal conduct against others which we would not be willing to have invoked against us". The NATO media which is today continuing its aggression by bombing the Yugoslav people with spurious - even racist - allegations has not even bothered to read the Judgement at Nuremberg it so frequently and vulgarly invokes. NATO is now trying vainly to justify its own conduct by shifting its own responsibilities for all the crimes committed in Yugoslavia during its war of aggression on to others. However, as the text of the Nuremberg Judgement itself makes plain, even the crimes charged against the Milosevic regime, fall in fact squarely into NATO's own sphere of legal responsibility. As the initiators of aggression in this war, NATO's actions cannot be justified by any political or economic situation whatsoever, as stated by the Judgement at Nuremberg. We welcome the indictments so far handed down by the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal for Yugoslavia, including the indictment of President Milosevic and others. We think that nothing can justify the wilful violation of the laws of war, and that no one, however high the office he/she occupies, or the nation he/she may belong to, should be above the law. However, we demand that this tribunal should act fairly and consistently. That this Tribunal should proceed forthwith to indict principally, also the politicians, officials, journalists, military chiefs, etc., of NATO, and all others responsible of what the Tribunal at Nuremberg establishes as "the supreme war crime containing within itself all others": Warmongering and the launching of war of aggression. IF YOU SHARE THESE PRINCIPLES, AND HAVE A GRAIN OF SAND TO CONTRIBUTE IN BUILDING A JUST WORLD ORDER, THEN JUSTIN IS YOU! Help develop Justin's campaign: "Justice for the People of Yugoslavia", contact, in London, with Graham Bender: 0181 621 5773 (mobile: 0793 210 5907), or Sanja Parsons: 0171 813 0872, in Scotland, Alessandra: 0131 556 4370 - in USA, (Rhode Island Justin Committee), Louis Godena: (401) 334 - 4296 - cell phone (508) 930 - 7079. ------------------------------------------------ Justin needs contact names and telephone numbers of people or organisations willing to act as local organisers of our campaign of Justice for the People of Yugoslavia in every corner of the world. If you agree with the principles and demands ennunciated in Justin's declaration of principles and aims (above)you should join up with all those who hold the same views in this respect, and therefore put this call for the mobilisation of the world's people directly into practice. There is no point in making big sounding declarations of great ideological commitment to the revolutionary cause, to Marxism, to the proletariat, etc. if when a revolutionary cause stares you in the eye, you would stay happily twirling your thumbs on the sidelines! Please circulate this call as widely as you can. If you want to add your locality as a Justin Committee - like Louis Godena has now done offering himself as organiser for Rhode Island USA - please send your name and a contact telephone to be included in the final copy of this declaration of principles, to this account. Local Committees of Justice International can be organised in small or large localities all over the world. We need to give this campaign a truly international dimension. There is no other requirement to be part of 'Justin' than agreement on the basic points laid out in the above declaration and a desire to put these principles into practice, struggling to make them prevail the world over. There is no need to subscribe to any other ideology, party or organisation to join-up with Justice International. ================================================================= NY Transfer News Collective * A Service of Blythe Systems Since 1985 - Information for the Rest of Us 339 Lafayette St., New York, NY 10012 http://www.blythe.org e-mail: nyt@blythe.org ================================================================= nyteeu-06.23.99-18:10:16-22673