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We Accuse: |
- G.W. Bush, T. Blair, and E. Olmert, the chief executives of the
imperialist, colonialist, belligerent policies and actions of the
US-British-Israeli coalition,
- of perpetrating the composite crimes of war of annihilation,
occupation, and the premeditated mass murder of children and civilians
in Palestine and Lebanon,
- following their atrocities in Afghanistan and Iraq and foreboding
the same in Syria and Iran,
- sinking into utter barbarity in transgression of all universal
norms of human morality.
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The Following Are Also
Responsible: |
- All government employees and agents, advisors, civil and military
functionaries who partake in collective and individual responsibility in
these states;
- the legislative and judicial branches that have not curbed the
criminal activities of their governments as they violate basic human
rights, most significantly the right to live, and as they trample
international legal norms and commit crimes against humanity;
- universities, media, intellectuals, workers and citizens who do
not restrain and sanction their governments through domestic democratic
channels;
- UNITED NATIONS and other national and international bodies that
actively or passively support, aid and abet this illegality, crude
force, and aggression –all bear responsibility for the catastrophe that
is taking place.
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We Demand: |
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An immediate cessation of this horror,
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the due trial, in international tribunals, as well as in the
courts of conscience and history,
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of, above all, Bush, Blair, and Olmert as perpetrators of crimes
against humanity,
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of their respective government agents and supporters,
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of the chief executives and state personnel in all countries that
have been accomplices to these crimes against humanity,
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and their removal from office by the lawful and democratic
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And We Declare: |
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We stand at a critical
juncture in human history.
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These aggressive,
colonialist, exploitative, and militarist practices are negating the
achievements of humanity, destroying the basic pillars of international
law, and thus, threatening the present and the future of this
planet.
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We refuse to submit to
this brutal force and be accomplices to its crimes.
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We refuse to give in to
the (il)logic of blood-fed economies and lethal war machines.
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We declare that we will
continue to struggle for a different
world.
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