World Tribunal on Iraq Meeting the week, no coverage from Media *LINK*

[NAO]

The World Tribunal on Iraq is meeting this week in Istanbul, Turkey. People are giving testimony of what may be found to be war crimes.

There has been no mention of these proceedings, which history may see in the same category as the Nuremberg Trials, in the US Media, AFAIK.

No coverage on MSNBC, CNN, or even the "liberal" CBS News.

Website of the World Tribunal on Iraq
http://www.worldtribunal.org

[rpannier]

1. A good reason why it shouldn't and isn't

This is hardly a tribunal in the traditional sense. There is little-to-no partiality in this at all and many members who are taking part have made claims that are spurious at best.
Prominent individuals involved in the tribunal are Jo Chol Ryong from the Korean Democratic Lawyers Association (North Korea). I work in Korea and have for quite some time. Mr. Ryong reperesents the most oppressive government on this planet and represents a government that starves its own people.
Kim Il Bong, also of the Korean Democratic Lawyers Association, is also going to be featured prominately. Mr. Bong constantly repeats the discredited assertion that the US Massacred the Korean People in 1952. That the PDK (North Korea) is the real victim in world affairs and is being treated uinfairly by the International Community. He has repeatedly attempted to deflect criticism of his governments policy of arresting three generations of a persons family for a political crime committed by a member of the family as an Internal PDK Affair.
Many active members of this tribunal also promote the outrageously silly notion that "All modern genocidal military technology including nuclear, chemical, biological and bacterial research are creations of the United States." Gilberto Guiterrez Valdez has asserted that position.

[Oversea Visitor]

2. Its the facts that matters

Dont care who the shits these people are just read the facts and decide for yourself.

Massive Surreal Mentality (MSM) The Media Curtain surrounding USA
Talk about modern technology. Iron Curtain Bamboo Curtain gee Media Curtain.

[rpannier]

3. I did read their website and I find it unconvincing

To begin with, they do not appear to be interested in true fact finding. They appear to have already made up their minds and will be looking at "evidence" that fits their mold.
Secondly, it is important who sits on these "juries' or "committees" because it goes to the heart of the "evidence" they'll produce and how they'll "interpret that evidence."
Example: A trubunal where the key figures were Sean
Hannity, Ann Coulter, Paul Wolfowitz and Condi
Rice means little to me. I know their "evidence"
will be presented in a scewed fashion. They will only
address facts they want to talk about.
This tribunal will more than likely be conducted in
the same fashion.
Third and final point. As I stated in my first posting "I live in Korea (Repubic) and I speak Korean. I watch Korean TV for the most part and get my news mostly from Korean sources." If your "Massive Surreal Mentality" comment was directed at me, I suggest you point it elsewhere, as I get little-to-none of your "media"

[Oversea Visitor]

5. Ok ignore it

then.

[ConsAreLiars]

4. Thanks. This is an important resource

As Arundhati Roy points out in the opening statement, this is an effort to compile the evidence that is ignored by the corporatist media:

The testimonies at the previous sessions of the World Tribunal on Iraq in Brussels and New York have demonstrated that even those of us who have tried to follow the war in Iraq closely are not aware of a fraction of the horrors that have been unleashed in Iraq.

The Jury of Conscience at this tribunal is not here to deliver a simple verdict of guilty or not guilty against the United States and its allies. We are here to examine a vast spectrum of evidence about the motivations and consequences of the U.S. invasion and occupation, evidence that has been deliberately marginalized or suppressed. Every aspect of the war will be examined - its legality, the role of international institutions and major corporations in the occupation, the role of the media, the impact of weapons such as depleted uranium munitions, napalm, and cluster bombs, the use of and legitimation of torture, the ecological impacts of the war, the responsibility of Arab governments, the impact of Iraq�s occupation on Palestine, and the history of U.S. and British military interventions in Iraq. This tribunal is an attempt to correct the record. To document the history of the war not from the point of view of the victors but of the temporarily - and I repeat the word temporarily - vanquished.

Before the testimonies begin, I would like to briefly address as straightforwardly as I can a few questions that have been raised about this tribunal.

The first is that this tribunal is a Kangaroo Court. That it represents only one point of view. That it is a prosecution without a defense. That the verdict is a foregone conclusion.
Now this view seems to suggest a touching concern that in this harsh world, the views of the U.S. government and the so-called Coalition of the Willing headed by President George Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair have somehow gone unrepresented. That the World Tribunal on Iraq isn�t aware of the arguments in support of the war and is unwilling to consider the point of view of the invaders. If in the era of the multinational corporate media and embedded journalism anybody can seriously hold this view, then we truly do live in the Age of Irony, in an age when satire has become meaningless because real life is more satirical than satire can ever be.

[freedomburn]

6. GD, can I marry this woman? Or at least become a devotee?

She speaks so eloquently that I just about freaking worship her. Everyone should hear what she has to say. She is so right on every time I hear her. She moves me.