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| One of the Tribunal's Chief Prosecutors Soviet Union Lieutenant-General Roman Andreyevich Rudenko |
Thoughts by Carolyn LaDelle Bennett
In a world, in a
nation under laws, ignorance, inexperience, stupidity do not excuse and may not
credibly be used to excuse violence, violent aggression against sovereign
states, their people, their cultures, institutions, infrastructures, indeed
(the young) their futures. Those who commit such crimes against humanity and
against the peace must be arrested and brought to stand before a court of
justice. No exceptions.
The endless cycle of violence manufactured and
sustained in a vicious pattern of making/naming/defining “terrorists” (var.
convenient names) - fighting “terrorists” - making/naming/defining “terrorists”
- fighting “terrorists” — this deadly harm and impunity perpetrated by U.S.
leaders and Western (NATO) leaders in the post-World War II (post-Nuremberg)
era must be stopped and there is no other way except through law.
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| One of the Tribunal's Chief Prosecutors United States Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson |
On November 19, 1945, at the Palace of Justice in
Nuremberg (Germany) was convened the International Military Tribunal its first
session presided over by Soviet Union Supreme Court Judge/Major-General Iona
Timofeevich Nikitchenko. The prosecution (represented by chief prosecutors
United Kingdom Attorney General Hartley Shawcross, United States Supreme Court
Justice Robert H. Jackson, Soviet Union Lieutenant-General Roman Andreyevich
Rudenko, and French politician and professor of law François de Menthon later
French politician and jurist Auguste Champetier de Ribes, France) brought
indictments for “Participation in a common plan or conspiracy for the
accomplishment of a crime against peace”; “Planning, initiating and waging wars
of aggression and other crimes against peace”; “War crimes”; “Crimes against
humanity.”_____________________________________________
A lifelong American writer and writer/activist (former academic and staffer with the U.S., government in Washington), Dr. Carolyn LaDelle Bennett is credentialed in education and print journalism and public affairs (PhD, Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan; MA, The American University, Washington, DC). Her work concerns itself with news and current affairs, historical contexts, and ideas particularly related to acts and consequences of U.S. foreign relations, geopolitics, human rights, war and peace, and violence and nonviolence. Dr. Bennett is an internationalist and nonpartisan progressive personally concerned with society and the common good. An educator at heart, her career began with the U.S. Peace Corps, teaching in Sierra Leone, West Africa. Since then, she has authored several books and numerous current-affairs articles; her latest book: UNCONSCIONABLE: How The World Sees Us: World News, Alternative Views, Commentary on U.S. Foreign Relations; most thoughts, articles, edited work are posted at Bennett’s Study: http://todaysinsightnews.blogspot.com/ and on her Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/carolynladelle.bennett.
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