MCW News, Canada
Oct 13 2007
Turkey, US & Israel Genocide Commission
Editorial
By Gideon Polya
Translation
Carlos Latuff/ MWC NEWS
Ninety years late, the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs
Committee voted 27-21 to recognise "the systematic and deliberate
annihilation of 1.5 million Armenians as genocide", despite intense
lobbying by Bush, Dr. Rice, the Zionist Lobby, the Turkish
Government. (see: ).
The bipartisan-backed Armenian Genocide resolution calls upon the
President to ensure that the foreign policy of the United States
reflects appropriate understanding and sensitivity concerning issues
related to human rights, ethnic cleansing, and genocide documented in
the United States record relating to the Armenian Genocide.
The hope is that this bi-partisan Resolution will pass the House of
Representatives despite the opposition by Bush, Turkish governments
and their supporters.
George Bush and Dr. Rice (aka Dr. Death) are concerned over US-Turkey
relations and because Turkey is a major strategic partner in the Iraq
War. Turkey has denied the Armenian Genocide for 90 years – for a
scholarly condemnation of this denial see the opinion of one of the
World’s top expert on genocide, Australia’s Professor Colin Tatz .
Apartheid Israel also refuse to describe the Armenian Holocaust as an
Armenian Genocide out of concern to not offend Turkey, the only
Middle Eastern country with which it has close, cordial, strategic
relations. Genocidal birds of a feather flock together.
Denial of the Jewish Holocaust (6 million victims) is punishable by
10 years’ imprisonment in Austria and by lengthy prison terms in some
other Western European countries and Israel. France and Belgium have
recently extended holocaust denial criminalization to include denial
of the Armenian Genocide. Indeed Germany has proposed that the EU
criminalize denial and minimization of any recent genocides and
holocausts.
Some people are concerned with possible constraints on free speech
and scholarly research – however I have proposed "no-penalty
criminalization" of genocide denial i.e. the punishment would simply
be the public ignominy from public judicial conviction for the
repugnant crime of genocide denial (see MWC News:
).
Malaysia’s outstanding humanitarian and former prime minister, Dr
Mahathir Mohamad, adopted a similar approach to war crimes and
genocide commission by Bush, Blair and their confrères (such as
Australia’s Bush-ite PM John Howard) at the Kuala Lumpur Initiative
to Criminalise War, organised by the Perdana Global Peace
Organisation and which advocated setting up a War Crimes Tribunal
recognized by and on behalf of the Victims (see: here):
"We should not hang Blair if the tribunal finds him guilty but he
should always carry the label as a war criminal, killer of children,
liar. And so should Bush and the pocket Bush of the bushland of
Australia [referring to Australian PM John Howard]… they should be
literally hounded.
They should have full frontal and profile pictures put up everywhere
as war criminals. And historians should always refer to them as war
criminals in history books… the media is owned and controlled by
warmongers…
We have to build a base for spreading the word, the idea that wars
are crimes against humanity, that those who resort to wars in
furtherance of their ideology or agenda are common criminals and must
be labelled as such and punished …
We are seeing today examples of the form of punishment that can be
meted out. Bush and Blair are now totally reviled and condemned by
the world and by their own people … The tribunal that we set up can
conduct a proper trial even if the accused is not present. A
respectable and totally impartial tribunal applying recognised laws
will surely find its findings respected by the world just as the
world respects the Nobel laureates, for example."
The holocaust committers, genocide committers, and child killers must
be exposed, tried in absentia if necessary and punished, at the very
least by public exposure of their crimes.
It is notable that Bush administration, Turkish and Israeli
Governments are involved in not only Genocide Denial in relation to
the Armenian Genocide but also are involved in the current ethnic
cleansing of Palestinians and Iraqis.
Genocide is defined very precisely by the UN Genocide Convention as
follows,
Article I. The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether
committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under
international law which they undertake to prevent and punish.
Article II. In the present Convention, genocide means any of the
following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part,
a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing
members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to
members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group
conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births
within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to
another group.
Article III. The following acts shall be punished: a) Genocide; b)
Conspiracy to commit genocide; c) Direct and public incitement to
commit genocide; d) Attempt to commit genocide; e) Complicity in
genocide.
Article IV. Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts
enumerated in Article III shall be punished, whether they are
constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private
individuals.
The US is involved with its allies (notably Turkey, UK, and
Australia) in the violent occupation of Iraq. The post-invasion
excess deaths in Occupied Iraq now total 2.0 million but the overall
excess death toll from 1990-2007 is 3.9 million and there are 4
million Iraqi refugees.
Turkey has been involved in genocidal violence and discrimination
against its Kurdish minority, is party to the US Iraqi Genocide and
is now threatening to bring the carnage of war to relatively peaceful
Northern Iraq.
Israel supports the US "war on terror" that is in horrible reality a
War on Asian Women and Children: the excess deaths in the Bush I and
Bush II Asian Holocaust totals 8 million (see "United State Terror. 8
millions Deaths & Media Holocaust denial" MWC News:
). Israel’s slow
Palestinian Genocide has involved 50,000 Palestinian violent deaths,
post-1967excess deaths total 0.3 million and there are 7 million
refugees. (see "Zionism, Occupation, Palestinian Genocide. "Jerusalem
Madonna". Mother & Child" on MWC News:
).
Armenian Genocide-denying Bush administration, Turkey and Apartheid
Israel are involved in ongoing Genocide. History ignored yields
history repeated. Genocide ignored yields genocide repeated.
Decent folk are obliged to inform everyone they can of atrocities
against humanity and to have no avoidable dealings with those
complicit in the awful crimes of genocide commission and genocide
denial.
Dr Gideon Polya, MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130
works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge
pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant
Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London,
2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality —
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