Vatican’s International Criminal Court serves and protects US aggression

The majority of the World’s population want the leaders of the United States to be tried for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes for launching unprovoked wars of aggression against Afghanistan, Iraq and now Libya. Unfortunately the only court that is available today to preside over such trials refuses to do so against the United States. The International Criminal Court refuses because even though the United States signed the treaty they never ratified it. The ICC only has judicial jurisdiction over countries that have ratified the Roman Statue.

The United States government (the Clinton administration) insisted in 1998 that this treaty and court was needed to prevent World leaders from engaging in unprovoked wars of aggression against other states.  The treaty was supposedly created to try the crimes committed by wars of aggression.  The ICC was suppose to investigate and hold trials for the very serious crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes – the exact same very serious crimes that the United States government has committed against Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.   According to the ICC the United States and any other state that hasn’t ratified the treaty will never be tried for genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.  However, all countries who have ratified the treaty fall under the jurisdiction of their court and can be tried for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole, namely genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

Why create an international criminal court when not everyone will be held accountable for the crimes they have committed?  The answer is obvious, to serve as a tool to legitimize US foreign policy and to shield the United States government from being charged with the most serious crimes of concern to the international community -genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes.

The United States government made plans to start wars of conquest back in 1998.  This agenda has proven to be the sole purpose of the ICC.  The US wars of conquest began just one year after the ICC was officially adopted – with the United States bombing of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia on March 24, 1999.  Yugoslavia didn’t attack the US nor make any threats to the US people yet on March 24, 1999 US president Bill Clinton ordered the United States Air Force to start bombing Yugoslavia.  Immediately the International community denounced the US bombings as the US bombings were regarded by long stating international laws to be  crimes against humanity and war crimes. The US bombings were indiscriminate and thousands of civilians were killed as a direct result of those bombings.

Was the US government (people in the Clinton Administration) investigated or tried for crimes against humanity and war crimes by the newly formed ICC – for the bombing and killing of thousands of Yugoslavian civilians?  Noone in the US government has been investigated or tried for war crimes committed by the United States government against Yugoslavia and its people.

Instead the ICC tried the people who were illegally attacked by the United States government.  Former Yugoslav President Slobodan Miloševi? (overthrown by the US) was accused by the United States government (the belligerent) and brought to trial for alleged war crimes, but died an innocent man in ICC custody on March 11, 2006 after his defense counsel issued a subpoena for US president Bill Clinton to appear and provide information “of material relevance” for Milosevic’s defense.   The motion filed by assigned counsel noted that Bill Clinton had “a continuous role and unique knowledge” of the events relevant for all three indictments charging Milosevic with genocide in Bosnia and Herzegovina and crimes against humanity in Croatia and Kosovo.

Today the United States government has launched yet another unprovoked war of aggression, this time against the sovereign state of Libya.  Even though Libya has not attacked the US or any other country nor made any threats of armed attacks against the US, the US has launched air strikes and Tomahawk missiles against the territorial integrity and political independence of Libya.  Thousands of US bombs have been already been launched against Libya.  Those US bombs have no doubt destroyed thousands of civilian buildings and essential infrastructure.  Like the US aggression against Yugoslavia, US bombs are mass killing hundreds, even thousands of innocent civilians.  Again, like Yugoslavia, the US and its evil coalition of war criminals are calling for the ICC to put the victims of US aggression, Libyan political leaders, on trial for crimes against humanity and war crimes – crimes the United States and its coalition are guilty of.

Since its creation, the ICC has only put on trial the leaders of the countries who have legitimately fought in self-defense against armed attacks by the United States.  The ICC has only investigated cases that the US government has presented to them.  The ICC investigates only those cases where leaders of foreign countries oppose US foreign policies and aggression.  It refuses to investigate and try any crimes committed by the United Sates government or allies of the United States.

It is clear that the ICC has no legitimacy as it only serves and protects the United Sates government.  How can any court be fair and just when it only investigates cases that the US wants investigated?  How can there be justice when the victims of aggression are the ones who are tried?  Defending one’s country and one’s people from an armed attack by a foreign state is not a crime against humanity nor a war crime.   Unprovoked armed attacks against the territorial integrity and political independence of another country is a crime against humanity and war crimes.

An armed attack that is waged by one country against another, without the justification of self-defense, is called a war of aggression.  Waging such a war of aggression is a crime under the customary international law.  According to international laws and treaties the crimes committed by the belligerent are crimes against humanity and war crimes.

A letter from the ICC to the editor of Press Core, The Hague, Tuesday, 22 March 2011 states:

A fundamental feature of the Rome Statute is that the Court may only exercise jurisdiction over persons for the most serious crimes of concern to the international community as a whole, namely genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes, as defined in the Rome Statute (Articles 6 to 8). The Court may only exercise jurisdiction over crimes committed on or after 1 July 2002 (Article 11). In addition, the Court may only exercise jurisdiction over crimes committed on the territory of a State that has accepted the jurisdiction of the Court or by a national of such a State (Article 12), or where the Security Council refers the situation to the Court (Article 13).

Accordingly, I regret to advise you that your communication appears to relate to matters outside the jurisdiction of the Court. The Prosecutor has therefore confirmed that there is not a basis at this time to proceed with further analysis. The information you have submitted will be maintained in our archives, and the decision not to proceed may be reconsidered if new facts or evidence provide a reasonable basis to believe that a crime within the jurisdiction of the Court has been committed.

I hope you will appreciate that with the defined jurisdiction of the Court, many serious allegations will be beyond the reach of this institution to address. I note in this regard that the ICC is designed to complement, not replace national jurisdictions. Thus, if you wish to pursue this matter further, you may consider raising it with other appropriate national or international authorities. ~ M.P. Dillon , Head of the Information & Evidence Unit, Office of the Prosecutor

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