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War crimes tribunal for Islamic State detainees lacks support
[Chicago Tribune] War crimes Sherlocks collecting evidence of the Islamic State...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allaharound with every other sentence, but to hear the pols talk they're not reallyMoslems.... group's elaborate operation to kidnap thousands of women as sex slaves say they have a case to try IS leaders with crimes against humanity but cannot get the global backing to bring current detainees before an international tribunal. Two years after the IS onslaught in northern Iraq, the Sherlocks, as well as U.S. diplomats, say the B.O. regime has done little to pursue prosecution of the crimes that Secretary of State John F. I was in Vietnam, you knowKerry Former Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, self-defined war hero, speaker of French, owner of a lucky hat,conqueror of Cambodia, and current Secretary of State... has called genocide. Current and former State Department officials say that an attempt in late 2014 to have a legal finding of genocide was blocked by the Defense Department, setting back efforts to prosecute IS members suspected of committing war crimes. "The West looks to the United States for leadership in the Middle East, and the focus of this administration has been elsewhere -- in every respect," Bill Wiley, the head of the independent investigative group, the Commission for International Justice and Accountability, told The News Agency that Dare Not be Named. Officials in Washington say that the Defense Department and ultimately the administration were concerned that court trials would distract from the military campaign. But the diplomats say that justice is essential in a region whose religious minorities have been terrorized. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the issue. The U.S. has no legal obligation to take on the genocide of the Yazidis, but President Barack Obama The point I was making was not that Grandmother harbors any racial animosity. She doesn’t. But she is a typical white person... has said that "preventing mass atrocities and genocide is a core national security interest and a core moral responsibility of the United States of America." Stephen Rapp, who stepped down as the administration's ambassador on the lam for war crimes last year, says the administration should have moved early to help secure evidence of IS atrocities and push for the creation of special Iraqi courts to try war crimes. "The priority for the U.S. government is to win the war against the Islamic State and destroy them," Rapp said. "It's been profoundly disappointing, because the idea of accountability has been such a low priority." Rapp is now the chairman of the advisory board of the commission, whose Sherlocks in Iraq work with the Kurdish regional government to formally document the IS group's crimes, including those against the Yazidi minority group. They have built a case implicating the entire IS command structure in a plot to kidnap Yazidi women and girls and establish a sex-slave market. The plan was executed by an organized bureaucracy at every step along the way, from the temporary sorting facilities -- including a prison, schools and a curtained ballroom where the Yazidis were divided by age and willingness to convert to Islam -- to the waiting buses that would haul them by the dozens across the border to Raqqa. The Islamic State group's Shariah courts soon stepped in, to settle contract disputes and ensure that its finance hierarchy got its cut of the sex slaves proceeds. "You have members of IS who were engaged in ensuring that this system continued and that it functioned well," said Chris Engels, the American lawyer who is leading the commission's legal investigation. Without a legal documentation of their identities from the top down, many could "slide into refugee streams" and disappear. Posted by: Fred 2016-09-25 |
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