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Nightslantern Suppressed News // July 7, 2018 - #Iraq

8.7.18

 
Gerald and Maas 2018 Suppressed News
 
      Iraq, historical note: “Fallujah - the Hidden Massacre.” This Italian documentary provides evidence of use of a napalm-like chemical weapon, MK-77, in the U.S. bombardment of Iraq, as well as use of white phosphorous as a weapon against civilians in Fallujah. The photographs may help explain why use of these chemical weapons is a crime and those responsible should be held to account. Legal actions against U.S. and U.K leadership for multiple crimes in Iraq have been avoided through the sheer power of the perpetrators. A case against the genocide of Iraq, crimes against humanity and war crimes, was attempted in Spain, October 9, 2009 (see Narration of Facts by the Ad Hoc Committee for Justice for Iraq). In 2010 the case was rejected by the court. So was the appeal. The charges remain relevant. Possibly to avoid litigation most major powers (except Russia and India) and most European countries (except Germany) have avoided signing or ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity,  which came into force in 1970 and claims instances of war crimes and crimes against humanity are chargeable forever. A European Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to Crimes against Humanity and War Crimes (Jan. 25, 1974, Strasbourg) and laws and codes of some individual countries already insist on this, as does the U.S. Naval Code. More to the point the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court refuses statutory limitations (a cut off date for prosecution) on any of the crimes which fall under its jurisdiction (Article 29). Awaiting its day in the court of history the case remains applicable.     Partial sources online:"Practice Relating to Rule 160. Statutes of Limitation," IHL Database, current, International Committee of the Red Cross; portion of "Fallujah, the Hidden Massacre," Sigfrido Ranucci & Maurizio Torrealta, Nov. 8, 2005, RAI Italia / Youtube [access:< https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yalyCk4kK-8 >] apprec. Aboriginal News Group .
N.B.: there's evidence white phosphorous as a weapon and sometimes sourced to the U.S., was also used by Ethiopian forces in Somalia, Kagame's forces in the invasion of Rwanda, Israeli forces in Gaza and Lebanon, U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Syria, Saudi Arabian forces in Yemen.

-J.B.Gerald, Gerald and Maas Night’s Lantern

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