BY BOB HOLT
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
For some international human rights activists, justice was served on Friday in Kuala Lumpur court, Malaysia as former U.S. President George W. Bush and former top White House officials were convicted of war crimes related to military operations conducted during Bush’s presidency.
Bush and former U.S. vice president Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Choon Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II were all convicted as war criminals.
The international tribunal charged and convicted the men for torture and cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment of the complainant war crime victims, according to Fairfax, NZ News.
The conviction in Kuala Lumpur was the first of its kind anywhere in the world. The five-panel tribunal delivered a unanimous verdict of guilty.
Digital Journal reported that the trial was put together by the Kuala Lumpur Foundation to Criminalize War, a non-governmental organization. The court heard testimony from people who had their fingernails removed by pliers, another who had bare electrical wires attached to him and was electrocuted and hanged on a wall, and a man who was stripped and beaten.
