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Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) stopt na bedreigingen met onderzoek naar VS oorlogsmisdaden…..

Posted on by Telmo Claro
Ongelofelijk maar alweer waar: het Internationaal Strafhof (ICC) heeft het onderzoek stopgezet naar oorlogsmisdaden door de VS begaan in Afghanistan. De reden daarvoor zijn dreigementen en acties door de Trump administratie tegen het ICC, zoals een inreisverbod voor een ieder die meewerkt aan het onderzoek, bijvoorbeeld advocaten van slachtoffers…….
Hoe is het mogelijk dat de rest van de wereld en (vooral) Nederland na de dreigementen van de VS niet onmiddellijk zwaar protest hebben aangetekend??? Nederland dat zich ten onrechte keer op keer voordoet als het land van het internationale recht…
Domme vraag van mij, uiteraard geven andere landen hier geen commentaar op, daar een groot deel van de westerse landen in NAVO-verband heeft meegedaan aan de illegale oorlog van de VS tegen in feite de bevolking van Afghanistan……
Met deze beslissing van het ICC heeft dit strafhof haar eigen nek omgedraaid, al stond de geloofwaardigheid van het ICC al sterk onder druk na de eenzijdige vervolging van o.a. de oorlogsmisdaden begaan in voormalig Joegoslavië……..

In voormalig Joegoslavië werden vooral Serven hard aangepakt, waar tegelijkertijd de VS en NAVO zelfs zonder onderzoek wegkwamen met een fiks aantal grote oorlogsmisdaden……. Iets dat het ICC eigenlijk altijd deed als het om westerse oorlogsmisdaden ging, totdat het ICC besloot de VS te onderzoeken op oorlogsmisdaden in Afghanistan, iets dat nu dus is teruggedraaid…. Ongelofelijk!!

 Benieuwd hoe het staat met het ICC onderzoek naar oorlogsmisdaden door Israël begaan tegen het door haar vervolgde Palestijnse volk. Of is dat onderzoek na dreigementen uit de VS en Israël ook stopgezet??

Het volgende artikel is geschreven door Ian Cobain, werd eerder geplaatst op Middel East Eye (MEE) en door mij overgenomen van Anti-Media:

ICC Decides Against Afghanistan War Crimes Investigation After US Opposition

April 12, 2019 at 2:46 pm
Written by Middle East Eye
(MEE) — The International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague has decided against opening a formal investigation into war crimes committed in Afghanistan after the United States made clear that it would never co-operate.
In a decision that is likely to seriously undermine the future stature of the court, it announced that it would not be proceeding – despite believing that war crimes were committed and that they fell within its jurisdiction.
US soldiers patrol the streets of Kabul (AFP)


 The announcement by the court’s Pre-Trial Chamber came a week after the US revoked the entry visa of the senior ICC prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda.
Previously, US National Security Advisor John Bolton had made clear that his government would not only refuse to co-operate, but would seize the assets of Bensouda and her ICC colleagues and even prosecute them in the US criminal courts.
‘“We will let the ICC die on its own,” Bolton said last year. “After all, for all intents and purposes, the ICC is already dead to us.”
Human Rights Watch condemned the decision, calling it “a devastating blow for victims who have suffered grave crimes without redress”.
Had the court decided to proceed with a formal investigation, it would have examined the actions of the Taliban and Afghan government as well as the United States.
In a statement, the court said: “The Chamber believes that, notwithstanding the fact all the relevant requirements are met as regards both jurisdiction and admissibility, the current circumstances of the situation in Afghanistan are such as to make the prospects for a successful investigation and prosecution extremely limited.
“Accordingly, it is unlikely that pursuing an investigation would result in meeting the objectives listed by the victims favouring the investigation.
“Thus the Chamber concluded that an investigation into the situation in Afghanistan at this stage would not serve the interests of justice and rejected the Prosecutor’s request for authorization to investigate.”
The US has not ratified the Rome Statute, the piece of international law that established the ICC in 2002 in order to prosecute genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes and crimes of state aggression.
Afghanistan has ratified the statute, however, meaning the court has jurisdiction over crimes committed as a consequence of the war in that country since 1 May 2003.
In a preliminary report in 2017, Bensouda said there was a reasonable basis to believe that US forces personnel and CIA officers had been involved in the war crimes of torture and rape, and that the crimes committed at the agency’s so-called black sites in countries including Poland, Lithuania and Romania, had been “committed with particular cruelty.”
The evidence that the CIA and US forces had committed war crimes in Afghanistan includes the 2014 US Senate Intelligence Committee report, which drew upon the CIA’s own records to document human rights abuses that the agency committed in a global network of secret prisons; reports by the International Committee of the Red Cross; and findings by the European Court of Human Rights.
In the past, some African observers have accused the court of abandoning the pursuit of global justice in favour of the pursuit only of African leaders, and the failure to investigate the war in Afghanistan may provoke renewed calls for an African Union walkout.
Many African Union countries have expressed support for ousted Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir, who continued to travel widely in Africa and the Middle East despite being the subject of an ICC arrest warrant issued in 2009.
Sima Samar, the chair of Afghanistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, said the decision was a disappointment for victims.
She told the Associated Press that it risked emboldening the perpetrators of crimes in Afghanistan, who were “at least a little fearful” of facing justice.
“With this decision, people will lose hope of getting justice and they might take revenge, fueling conflict in the country,” she said.

By Ian Cobain / Republished with permission / Middle East Eye / Report a typo

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Zie ook:
‘Afghanistan: VS en Afghaans leger bombarderen bruiloftsstoet: 40 burgers vermoord‘ (en zie de links in dat bericht naar ander schrijven over de oorlog in Afghanistan)

‘VS wist al een paar weken dat zich op een later te bombarderen doel in Afghanistan (veel) burgers bevonden‘

‘BBC met uiterst hypocriete anti-Taliban propaganda‘

‘Trump spreekt veto uit over beëindiging genocide in Jemen en maakt zich daarmee tot hoofdverantwoordelijke voor die genocide‘

‘De Bundeswehr massamoord op 142 Afghanen >> 4 september 2009‘

Hier nog een paar voorbeelden van VS terreur:
VS vermoordde meer dan 20 miljoen mensen sinds het einde van WOII……..‘ (tot het jaar 2000)

‘VS buitenlandbeleid sinds WOII: een lange lijst van staatsgrepen en oorlogen……….‘

‘List of wars involving the United States‘

‘VS: openlijke militaire oefening met terreurgroep in Syrië……‘

‘Bang voor Amerika‘

‘NAVO gaat VS helpen in Zuid-Amerika terreur uit te oefenen: Colombia lid van de NAVO………‘

‘VS commando’s vechten o.a. in Midden- en Zuid-Amerika, aldus het VS ministerie van oorlog………‘

‘VS heeft Rusland al 3 keer met oorlog gedreigd, de laatste 2 keer in de afgelopen 1,5 week……‘ (bericht van 5 oktober 2018)

Jonge vrouw van 19 kreeg doodstraf opgelegd voor ‘moord’ op haar verkrachter… Lees en teken ajb de petitie voor haar vrijlating

Posted on by Telmo Claro

Mensen van sommige berichten wordt je letterlijk kotsmisselijk, zoals het volgende: Noura Hussein, een jonge Soedanese vrouw van 19, die tegen haar zin werd gedwongen te trouwen, werd door ‘haar echtgenoot’ verkracht terwijl ze werd vastgehouden door familieleden van de psychopaat die haar verkrachtte……..

De volgende keer dat haar zogenaamde man probeerde haar weer te verkrachten, heeft ze hem gedood….. De rechter oordeelde dat dit een moord was en veroordeelde haar tot dood door verhanging……… Uit zelfverdediging tegen één van de vreselijkste martelingen iemand ombrengen en dan durft een rechter te zeggen dat dit moord is…….
Mensen, lees de volgende tekst en teken ajb de petitie van het Care2 Team voor haar vrijlating en geeft het door! Hoe meer mensen meedoen hoe beter, wellicht dat men dan eindelijk de meer dan belachelijke en kromme wetgeving op Soedan zal bijstellen!
Demand justice for Noura Hussein, who is sentenced to death for killing her rapist in self defence.

Content warning: this story contains descriptions of rape.

Noura Hussein, 19, was raped by the man she was forced to marry in Sudan. Three of his relatives pinned her down whilst her husband forced himself on her. The next time he tried to rape her, she fought back and killed him in self defence. Last week, she was sentenced to death by hanging for murder. Her lawyers have 7 days left to appeal.

 Take action: sign the petition to demand justice for Noura.

 Badr Eldin Salah, an activist from the Afrika Youth Movement who was in the court says, “Noura’s lawyers say they plan to appeal against the decision, but we also need strong international support from organisations such as the African Union, the United Nations and the European Union to support her.”

 Marital rape and child marriage are not considered crimes in Sudan. But as Equality Now’s Global Director Yasmeen Hassan says, “Criminalisation of Noura for defending herself from assault and, in particular a death sentence, would violate her rights under the Sudanese Constitution and international law.”

 Please sign now to show your support for Noura. If there is enough international outcry, we can show the Sudanese courts that they must revoke her death sentence and hopefully we can save her life.
Thank you,


Beth G.
The Care2 Petitions Team

P.S. Nobody should be punished for defending themselves from rape. ign now and demand justice for Noura!

Justice For Noura Hussein, The Girl Who Is Sentenced To Death For Killing Her Rapist.

Noura Hussein, 19, was told she would be hanged after a Sharia court convicted her of premeditated murder of her husband who she had been forced to marry.
A teenage bride has been sentenced to death for killing her husband who raped her as male relatives pinned her down.


Noura Hussein, 19, says her father made her marry the man – who was also her cousin – when she was 16, but she refused to accept the union and sought refuge with a relative for three years. She returned to her family home on the outskirts of the Sudanese capital Khartoum in April this year after her father said the marriage was cancelled. But she found that she had been duped and preparations for her wedding ceremony were under way.


Hussein said that she refused to have sex with her husband after the ceremony, but on the sixth day, he raped her as three of his male relatives held her down to restrain her. The following day, he attempted to rape her again and as she struggled to stop him, she stabbed him, killing him. A Sharia court, which follows Islamic religious law, found Hussein guilty of premeditated murder last month and on Thursday officially sentenced her to death by hanging. Her lawyers have 15 days to appeal.


“Under Sharia law, the husband’s family can demand either monetary compensation or death. They chose death and now the death penalty has been handed down,” said Badr Eldin Salah, an activist from the Afrika Youth Movement who was in the court.


“Noura’s lawyers say they plan to appeal against the decision, but we also need strong international support from organisations such as the African Union, the United Nations and the European Union to support her.”

Sudan is ranked 165 out of 188 countries on the UN’s Gender Inequality Index, which measures how women fare compared to men when it comes to access to health, education, political participation and employment opportunities. UN Women says violence against women and girls is considered prevalent.

The country has not signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women and has weak policies in place to protect them. Marital rape and child marriage, for example, are not considered crimes in the predominately Muslim African nation. Sudanese law allows for the marriage of a girl once she hits puberty. It also says a 10-year-old girl can be married by their guardian with the permission of a judge. One in three Sudanese women are married before the age of 18, says UN Women.


Campaign groups such as Equality Now say they are writing to Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir to plead for clemency, arguing that the judgement is against the Sudanese constitution.


“Noura is a victim, not a criminal, and should be treated as such. In many countries, victims like Noura would be provided services to ensure that they overcome the trauma of their experiences,” said Equality Now’s Global Director Yasmeen Hassan.


“Criminalisation of Noura for defending herself from assault and, in particular a death sentence, would violate her rights under the Sudanese Constitution and international law.”

Please sign now to show your support for Noura. If enough people sign, we can show the Sudanese courts that they must revoke her death sentence and hopefully we can save her life.