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WORLD TRIBUNAL ON IRAQ DEMANDS BUSH AND BLAIR INDICTMENT AT INTERNATIONAL
CRIMINAL COURT


1 August 2005, Istanbul, Turkey ­  The Final Statement by the Jury of
Conscience of the World Tribunal on Iraq calls for the International
Criminal Court (ICC) to indict, prosecute, and punish the perpetrators and
collaborators for the aggression against Iraq and the related international
crimes arising from the subsequent occupation of the country. The statement
lists the violations in international law committed during and after this
war and also provides recommendations for the prevention of future illegal
and illegitimate action.

The Statement relies upon the extensive testimony given in written and oral
form by international law experts during the Culminating Session of the
World Tribunal on Iraq (WTI) in Istanbul between 23-27 June 2005. It also
reflects the testimony and submissions on related issues of war crimes and
the failure of the United Nations to protect Iraq against aggression.

The Chair of the Jury of Consience in Istanbul, Arundhati Roy, said in India
³We, the Jury of Conscience, hope that the scope and specificity of these
recommendations will lay the groundwork for a world whose future cannot be
shaped by multi-national corporations and Heads of State in violation of the
explicit and stated will of the people they claim to represent, where
journalists and intellectuals will not remain mute, where human security
will prevail over the drive for political, economic and cultural hegemony,
the insatiable greed of the military-industrial complex and the quest for
corporate profit.²

In the Istanbul session, members of the Jury of Conscience from 10 different
countries heard the testimonies of 54 members comprising the Panel of
Advocates who came from across the world, including Iraq, the United States
and the United Kingdom. The session in Istanbul was the culminating session
of commissions of inquiry and hearings held around the world over the past
two years (1). 


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Notes:
1. Sessions on different topics related to the war on Iraq were held in
Barcelona, Brussels, Copenhagen, Genoa, Hiroshima, Istanbul, Lisbon, London,
Mumbai, New York, Östersund, Paris, Rome, Seoul, Stockholm, Tunis, various
cities in Japan and Germany.