Petition: Make Suicide/Homicide Bombing a War Crime

[abu afak]

http://www.petitiononline.com/bombings/petition.html

A Call for UN & World Leaders to Prosecute Organizers of Suicide/Homicide Bombings Against Civilians as War Criminals



To: UN and World Government Leaders
We, the undersigned, petition the United Nations, its Security Council and World Government Leaders to join Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch to declare that homicide/suicide bombings and acts of terror against civilians are "war crimes against humanity."

Furthermore, we insist that the United Nations, its Security Council and World Government Leaders declare that raising infants and children to become suicidal/homicidal bombers is a violation of fundamental human rights, a breach of the Geneva Convention and a war crime. We ask that those political, governmental, military and religious organizations and their leaders and supporters be prosecuted by the International War Crimes Tribunal to the fullest extent of International Law.

It is our firm belief that when these genocidal war crimes cease, populations will not have to conduct defensive actions against terrorism. When that happens, there stands to be improved chances of peace in the world through negotiation and civilized conflict resolution. The petitioners firmly believe that conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere can and must be resolved by diplomatic, political and negotiated means, but that when civilians are attacked by terrorists, there is no recourse but for defensive measures.

We have signed this position and sent it to people of all faiths, ethnic backgrounds and political beliefs with the hopes that the UN and World Leaders will not only vote to divest countries of their weapons of mass destruction, but upon the immorality and criminality of raising of innocents to kill other innocents.


Sincerely,

The Undersigned

[abu afak]

We the undersigned, endorse the following petition:
Suicide Bombings A Crime Against Humanity

Target: Bill Graham Minister of Foreign Affairs Government of Canada

Sponsor: David Kornhauser

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/236404835?ts=1069626794&sign[/url][partnerID]=1&sign[memberID]=812486133&sign[partner_userID]=812486133[/url]

Link seems to be breaking despite putting - around it...
so just copy and paste the whole thing.

[humus_sapiens]

http://www.wiesenthal.com/ec.cfm?m=13774L18244756s

JOIN THE SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER'S WORLDWIDE CAMPAIGN TO MAKE SUICIDE BOMBINGS A CRIME AGAINST HUMANITY

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The Simon Wiesenthal Center is initiating a worldwide campaign to make suicide bombings a crime against humanity.

Such a move in the international community should be a simple task, but tragically in these troubled times it is no easy task. It seems that only United Nations resolutions hostile to Israel, such as the recent ones on the Road Map and condemning the security fence are adopted. But recent attempts to introduce straightforward U.N. resolutions condemning antisemitism and the murder of innocent Israeli children were withdrawn because of lack of support.

We cannot allow such a dangerous double standard to go unchallenged, especially since the scourge of international terrorism and suicide bombings have reached far beyond the United States and Israel to include civilians even in Arab and Moslem nations including Saudi Arabia and Iraq.

Still, in spite of the horrific mounting toll of innocent victims from Bali to Nairobi to Istanbul, no country has yet shown the courage to come forward and introduce a resolution branding such attacks as crimes against humanity. It seems that fear of an automatic veto from sixty Moslem nations and possible negative economic consequences in relations with those regimes, outweigh the dangers that terrorism poses to us all.

We must work together to overcome this dangerous moral and diplomatic inertia. And, an important new legal development shows that international law can be harnessed in the struggle against crimes against humanity and genocide when just last week an international court convicted three Rwandans for crimes against humanity for using their newspapers and radio stations to incite genocide against the Tutsi minority in Rwanda. Is there any doubt that all those directly tied to suicide bombings – those which have murdered thousands of men, women and children around the world on buses, in schools and restaurants, and which endanger all civilized societies, should be held equally accountable?

That is why the world desperately needs a legal mechanism that will help bring before the bar of justice the agencies that dispatched suicide bombers and those who inspired young people to embrace a culture of death. That is why last week a delegation of the Simon Wiesenthal Center raised the issue with Pope John Paul II in a special audience at the Vatican.

AND WE KNOW THAT OUR EFFORTS CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE! Just twenty-four hours following our meeting with the Pope, he told participants in a Catholic-Islamic meeting, "I appeal to you, and to all men and women of good will, to join your voices with mine as I repeat that the holy name of God must never be used to incite violence or terrorism, to promote hatred or exclusion."

In the coming weeks, the Wiesenthal Center will be meeting with leaders in Europe, Canada, Turkey, Germany, France, and Argentina who have the power to designate suicide bombings as crimes against humanity. This is the most important international initiative that will be undertaken by the Wiesenthal Center in 2004 and as we prepare to approach every nation that is threatened by terrorism on every continent - we need your help and solidarity!

Please join the Simon Wiesenthal Center’s campaign by sending an initial message to U.S. President George Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, and French President Jacques Chirac urging them to take the lead in making every suicide bombing - whoever the perpetrator and wherever the victim - a crime against humanity.

They must act now! Failure to do so would be at the expense of untold innocent lives the world over.

[Piquante]

I am new here to this forum. I would like to say Thank-You for
allowing me to read and participate as well as learn.
I find this thread to be of great interest and value.

I will continue to read and read......... :cool:


Piquante.

[gorin002]

the U.N is a great ehhhhh i know how to say great organzasion
or great department
what can the U.N do.
resoloution 1009 stop suicide bomps
think arafat and al qada stop,
U.N can do if both partys want peace
allright i signed again in

[ilyadvi]

Hey im sorry for intruding on your petition but this forum wont let me start a thread and this petition spoke the most to me so ill be happy to sign it. but as i cannot start my own thread please go to:

http://www.petitiononline.com/542fs6f

its a petition asking the united states government to recognize Hezbollah as solely a terrorist group. thank you

[John Maszka]

Absolutely.

[Mediocrates]

The problem with attempting to do such a thing is you can't reliably find anyone to charge. I don't mean in an ironic way, in that all the successful bombers are dead, but in the strategy of using un-organized civilians to do it and using non-state militias and terrorist armies to lead them. I supposed on paper you can make it a crime though for what it's worth.

[Mediocrates]

But the probability of using the one technique that's actually effective against the west stands almost no chance of being banned by the very people who employ it.

[serdar]

Dame your a bullshitter,learn your facts,read crime's against humanity by Israel on the Palastinian's..U.N.READ and learn.
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[pizza4theidf]

I'd agree with this, but there's just a small problem ... how do you punish people for war crimes if they're dead?

[dayag]

I'd agree with this, but there's just a small problem ... how do you punish people for war crimes if they're dead?

The people who arm, train, and otherwise help them are also war criminals.

[kozzol]

I'd agree with this, but there's just a small problem ... how do you punish people for war crimes if they're dead?

Got to admit that was a funny question :rofl: