Though today the issue of the unjust and brutal unto murderous treatment of the victims of Western (US/UK/EU/Israeli) military adventurism, which since the Korean 'police action' in 1950 (2.5 million victims) has been fronted by the United Nations, is global in reach and involves everyone of the 171 nations where Western militarism has established its bases; this Committee intends to concentrate on two particular post-Cold War theatres of conquests that, from the beginning, have been effectively jointed in a uni-cephalic command, control and administrative structure: The two counter-revolutions initiated at the debut of the 1990s against Yugoslavia and Rwanda.
The media are seldom visited by individual horror stories about the bloody crimes against those who have been persecuted and prosecuted by the illegal ad hoc Tribunal system, the International Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR in Arusha, Tanzania) and Yugoslavia (ICTY in The Hague).
But recently the shanking at Wakefield prison in Britain, by a trio of supposed Bosnian Muslim sympathizers, of General Radislav Krstic, who was working off a 35 year bid on humbug (and frequently amended) charges of having had something (anything) to do with the (unproven, though universally stipulated to) genocide at Srebrenica in July 1995, has gained significant public attention.
This incident is gory and sensational with its implications that the attack by Muslim sex criminals was in retribution for the mass murder (and implied rape) of Muslims at Srebrenica, and an understandable response to the on-going religious or ethnic conflicts supposed to have driven the Balkan wars (to have driven, in fact, all the 'post Communist' wars in both Yugoslavia and Rwanda), but, like so many of its ilk (the murders in custody of Presidents Milosevic and Babic, or the extra-judicial assassination and mutilation of an uncooperative ICTR witness, Juvenal Uwilingiyimana, at the order of current US Ambassador for War Crimes Stephen Rapp), it tends to distract from the banal, near quotidien occurence of such monstrous crimes against those whose sole real offense was to defend their homes, their families and their national revolutions against NATO/UN wastage.
The first effort of this Committee will be to reunify the Yugoslav and Rwanda tragedies in the public's considerations. The Western aggressors, in their military and judicial actions, already consider them two fronts of the same war against what remains of the rational and popular governments of the bi-polar Cold War world. We feel we can be most effective in correcting the on-going injustices of these commercial, financial and military occupations, if we consolidate our efforts into one movement.
You can join the Committee or express your views for or against its positions by commenting on this blog or sending an email to CirqueMinime/Paris at cirqueminime@gmail.com.
The Prisoners' Defense Committee
The Founding Members of The Committee
1. Christopher Black
International Defense Attorney--Toronto
2. Ramsey Clark
Former US Attorney General; Founder of the International Action Center--NYC
3. Edward Herman
Professor Emeritus in Finance at the Wharton School, U of Pennsylvania--USA
4. Ljubodrag Simonovic
Master of Law, PhD; former basketball legend with the Yugoslav Olympic team and Red Star Belgrade--Serbia
5. Faustin Ntilikina
Major in the ex-Rwandan Armed Forces [FAR], author of "La prise de Kigali et la chasse aux réfugiés par l'Armée du Général Paul Kagame"--Strasbourg, France
6. Jean-Christophe Nizeyimana
Chairperson, African Survivor International--Wilnis, The Netherlands
7. Dr. Patrick Barriot, MD
Former Colonel in the UN Forces in the ex-Yugoslavia--Montpellier, France
8. June Kelley
Stenographer, Irish Representative to the ICDSM--Mullingar, County Westmeath, Ireland
9. Gregory Elich
Historian, author of 'Strange Liberators'--USA
10. Sara Flounders
Writer, co-Director the International Action Center--USA
11. Tatyana Collins-Lehman
Film Industry Organizer--NYC
12. Alan Mandell
Theatre Artist & Film/TV Actor--NYC, LA
13. Joseph Goodrich
Playwright & Actor--NYC
14. John Steppling
Theatre and Film Artist, Educator--LA
15. David Barouski
Africanist, Political Analyst--Wisconsin, USA
16. Mick Collins
Artistic & Pedagogical Director, CirqueMinime/Paris--France
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