Gegen John Ashcroft laufen auch in den USA Justiz Ermittlungen wegen
Folter, Mord, Vergewaltigung in Burma bei der Verlegung der Gas
Pipeline seiner damaligen Fima Unocol in 1995 und Völkerechts
Verletzung usw.
Andere kriminelle Dinge von Ashcroft in anderern Ländern findet man
hier ebenso und anscheinend gehört die gesamte Bush Verbrecher
Mannschaft ins Gefängnis und es wird verständich, warum die USA den
Strafgerichtshof verhindern will.
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Ashcroft Sides with Torturers
Unocal and the Crimes of Burma
By JOANNE MARINER
Given the chance to protect corporate interests, the Bush
administration is predictably happy to take it. Ditto for the
prospect of undermining international justice.
But it's not every day that the opportunity arises to accomplish both
objectives at once. It takes a case like John Doe I v. Unocal Corp.,
a civil damages action currently pending in U.S. federal court.
In a brief recently filed in the Unocal case, the administration--in
the person of Attorney General John Ashcroft--sets out to defend an
oil company, reaffirm the president's untrammeled power over foreign
policy, and eviscerate a law that has provided a modicum of justice
to victims of rights abuses from around the world.
All that, and more. In an added plus, the brief also gives the
administration a vehicle for highlighting the wit and wisdom of
Robert Bork. Bork, the right wing's original judicial martyr, is very
much in the thoughts of an administration that is currently fighting
bruising confirmation battles in Congress.
Forced Labor, Murder, Rape and Torture
The plaintiffs in the Unocal case are Burmese villagers who claim
that they were subjected to forced labor, murder, rape, and torture
during the construction of a gas pipeline through their country.
Soldiers allegedly committed these abuses while providing security
and other services for the pipeline project.
Jane Doe I, one of the plaintiffs in the case, testified that when
her husband tried to escape the forced labor program, he was shot at
by soldiers, and that, in retaliation for his attempted escape, she
and her baby were thrown into a fire. Her child died and she was
badly injured.
http://counterpunch.org/mariner06072003.html
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/
Folter, Mord, Vergewaltigung in Burma bei der Verlegung der Gas
Pipeline seiner damaligen Fima Unocol in 1995 und Völkerechts
Verletzung usw.
Andere kriminelle Dinge von Ashcroft in anderern Ländern findet man
hier ebenso und anscheinend gehört die gesamte Bush Verbrecher
Mannschaft ins Gefängnis und es wird verständich, warum die USA den
Strafgerichtshof verhindern will.
-------------------------------------
Ashcroft Sides with Torturers
Unocal and the Crimes of Burma
By JOANNE MARINER
Given the chance to protect corporate interests, the Bush
administration is predictably happy to take it. Ditto for the
prospect of undermining international justice.
But it's not every day that the opportunity arises to accomplish both
objectives at once. It takes a case like John Doe I v. Unocal Corp.,
a civil damages action currently pending in U.S. federal court.
In a brief recently filed in the Unocal case, the administration--in
the person of Attorney General John Ashcroft--sets out to defend an
oil company, reaffirm the president's untrammeled power over foreign
policy, and eviscerate a law that has provided a modicum of justice
to victims of rights abuses from around the world.
All that, and more. In an added plus, the brief also gives the
administration a vehicle for highlighting the wit and wisdom of
Robert Bork. Bork, the right wing's original judicial martyr, is very
much in the thoughts of an administration that is currently fighting
bruising confirmation battles in Congress.
Forced Labor, Murder, Rape and Torture
The plaintiffs in the Unocal case are Burmese villagers who claim
that they were subjected to forced labor, murder, rape, and torture
during the construction of a gas pipeline through their country.
Soldiers allegedly committed these abuses while providing security
and other services for the pipeline project.
Jane Doe I, one of the plaintiffs in the case, testified that when
her husband tried to escape the forced labor program, he was shot at
by soldiers, and that, in retaliation for his attempted escape, she
and her baby were thrown into a fire. Her child died and she was
badly injured.
http://counterpunch.org/mariner06072003.html
http://writ.news.findlaw.com/