“To initiate a war of aggression, therefore, is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.”
- Judgment of the International Military Tribunal for the Trial of German Major War Criminals – Nuremberg, Germany 1946
A Selection of 21st Century War Criminals: no trials yet...
See, for instance:
- A Supreme International Crime by Mark Littman, published in The Guardian, March 10th 2003
- Blix: Iraq War Was Illegal by Anne Penketh and Andrew Grice in The Independent, March 5th 2004
- War Crimes and Lebanon, letter in The Guardian by Tariq Ali, Noam Chomsky, Eduardo Galeano, Howard Zinn, Ken Loach, John Berger and Arundhati Roy, 3rd August 2006
- CIA Torture and other War Crimes by Philip Giraldi in The Huffington Post, December 26th 2007
- Incriminating Evidence of Israeli War Crimes in Gaza by Stephen Lendman in Global Research, March 25th 2009
Voltaire had the measure of men like this:
“They use thought only to justify their injustices, and speech only to disguise their thoughts.”
