Contact: Nick Mottern, Consumers for Peace
nickmottern@earthlink.net
Howard Zinn joins Kathy Kelly, Dahr Jamail, Ann Wright and Neil MacKay in endorsing “War Crimes Committed by the United States in Iraq and Mechanisms for Accountability.”
The report was published internationally by 10 organizations in October.
“This report on the war crimes of the current administration is an invaluable resource, with a meticulous presentation of the evidence and an astute examination of international law. – Howard Zinn.
The 37 page report, written by Consumers for Peace with the consultation of international humanitarian law expert Karen Parker, JD, is available for free download at http://www.consumersforpeace.org/pdf/war_crimes_iraq_101006.pdf
It is also available through the websites of:
Association of Humanitarian Lawyers
http://www.humanlaw.org
Traprock Peace Center
http://www.traprockpeace.org
Voices for Creative Nonviolence
http://www.vcnv.org
Uruknet.info
http://www.uruknet.info
Information Clearing House
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info
AfterDowningStreet.org
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org
Socialist Worker newspaper
http://www.socialistworker.org
The Brussells Tribunal
(for International Anti-Occupation Network)
http://www.brusselstribunal.org
Stop the War Coalition (UK)
http://www.stopthewar.co.uk
Nick Mottern, Director of Consumers for Peace.org, noted that Professor Zinn, in an interview with Tom Engelhardt published in 2005, said that the American people believe in certain American principles, such as justice for all, and “they are very reluctant to accept the fact that they (these principles) have been crassly and consistently violated. This is the only way I can account for the stopping short when it comes to looking at the president and people around him as war criminals”.
“Our purpose in publishing U.S. War Crimes Committed by the United States in Iraq and Mechanism of Accountability,” Mottern said, “is to help breach this barrier, not only so that justice can be done but so that the war crimes will stop.”