2nd International People's Tribunal

December 12th Movement

International Secretariat

456 Nostrand Avenue

Brooklyn, NY 11216

Phone [718]398-1766

D12M@aol.com or PASHC2012@gmail.com

Press Release

For Immediate Release

Contact: Media Relations

[917]495-6979

2nd International People's Tribunal

ICC: We Charge  War Crimes & Crimes Against Humanity

On January 25, 2014, a distinguished panel of international Jurists will hear the people's prosecutors and testimony on war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Canada and NATO allies.  The 2nd International People's Tribunal will be held at Columbia University Law School, 435 West 116th Street [off Amsterdam Avenue], New York, NY at 12:00 PM.

The eminent panel of judges include Mr. Courtenay Griffiths, QC [Queen's Counsel of UK], who has appeared before the Special Court for Sierra Leone representing President Charles Taylor. Mr. Lennox Hinds, Esq.,  has appeared before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. And Ms. Ashanti Chimurenga, Esq., has appeared before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.

The Jurists will update the criminal indictment delivered to the International Criminal Court [ICC] in The Hague by the Pan African Solidarity Hague Committee, organized by the December 12th Movement International Secretariat in June 2012. The original People's Tribunal held at Columbia Law School in January 2012,  focused on human rights abuses against Libya, Cote d'Ivoire, Zimbabwe, Haiti, and Black people in the United States. 

The Jurists will hear developments in these nations and critique the response of the ICC to the indictment to date. The people's prosecutors will also investigate the ICC's collaboration in the West's re-colonization of Africa and African people.

"Malcolm X taught us that our struggle is not only on a local level or a national level. Ours is an international struggle inextricably tied to African people on the continent and the Diaspora.  We are committed to exposing western political and economic racism and all of its inhuman atrocities. This 2nd International People's Tribunal will put the ICC itself on trial," states Roger Wareham, Esq., Secretary General of the International Association Against Torture [IAAT-AICT].

Sponsors are the December 12th Movement International Secretariat, International Association Against Torture, Pan African Solidarity Hague Committee, and Africans Helping Africans. For more information call [718]398-1766.

VIDEO LINK: 
PASHC DELIVERING PETITION TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) IN THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS  ON JUNE 18, 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47t3X289KM&feature=youtu.be

Pan Africanism Vs International Criminal Court

Pan Africanism Vs International Criminal Court

by Amadi Ajamu

The International Criminal Court has made it its mission to depose African leaders who have dared to move their nations towards greater political and economic sovereignty. Western financiers have manufactured an international judicial policy of destabilization and recolonization in order to gain control of Africa's human and natural resources.

So far, the ICC has eight African nations under investigation: The Democratic Republic of Congo, Central African Republic, Uganda, Sudan, Republic of Kenya, Libya Arab Jamahiriya, Republic of Cote d'Ivoire, and Mali.

At the same time, western nations have accelerated their vicious assault on African nations on the continent and in the Diaspora with impunity.

The United States overthrow and kidnapping of Haitian President Jean Bertrand Aristede; NATO forces assault on Libya and the assassination of President Muammar Gaddafi; French military intervention resulting in the capture and arrest of Cote d'Ivoire President Laurent Gbagbo; French military intervention in Mali; US, UK, Canada, France etc. deadly economic sanctions imposed on the Republic of Zimbabwe; and the institutional racism inside the United States inflicted upon its Black population are just a few of the heinous crimes they've committed.

The New York based Pan African Solidarity Hague Committee delegation, led by the December 12th Movement and the International Association Against Torture travelled to the International Criminal Court in The Hague, Netherlands, to deliver their own communication against United States, Britain, France, Canada, Italy and NATO for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed by these nations.

The communication was delivered on June 18, 2011, to The Office of the Prosecutor, the first day of work for the new Prosecutor, Mrs. Fatou Bensouda of The Gambia. Attorneys Roger S. Wareham (US) and David Commissong (Barbados) requested a meeting with her, to no avail.

Nevertheless, the communication awaits the ICC's investigation and indictment of these western nations whose war crimes and atrocities are world renowned.

“We are crystal clear that this court is a weapon for western nations. A weapon of mass destruction when you examine all of its ramifications. We dared to take these criminals before their own court to prove its illegitimacy,” stated Attorney Wareham.

“The Rome Statute that so many African nations signed on to was “unsigned” by the United States and Israel in 2002, both citing infringement on their national sovereignty.  Yet the US is still a principal player in ICC policy.

We hope our effort in the ICC will catalyze an international campaign for Pan African unity and development," Wareham concluded.

When Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir was indicted in 2008, several African states, including Comoros, Djibouti, and Senegal called on African states parties to withdraw en masse from the Rome Statute in protest that the Court targets Africa.

The sword of national sovereignty and the shield of Pan Africanism are the only defense to the International Criminal Court's relentless onslaught on African leadership. One by one, the Western nations intervene in the internal affairs of African nations. These acts  must end. Pan Africanism or perish.

Pan African Solidarity Hague Committee - Harlem Rally Aug 15

Harlem Pan African Unity Day!
March & Rally on August 15


The Pan African Solidarity Hague Committee (PASHC), led by the December 12th Movement International Secretariat, will sponsor Harlem Pan African Unity Day march and rally on Wednesday, August 15, 2012. The rally will assemble at 4:30 PM in front of the Harlem State Office Bldg on the corner of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. Blvd & 125th Street. “Africans Unite! Pan Africanism Rising Up,” is the clarion call to action.

In June the PASHC delegation traveled from NYC to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague Netherlands to deliver a petition to indict the United States, Britain, France, and all NATO countries for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The legal document submitted focused on the crimes committed against Libya, Haiti, Zimbabwe, Cote d'Ivoire and the Africans in the United States.

Heretofore the ICC has only prosecuted African leaders who have struggled for self determination in their nations. President of Cote d'Ivoire, Laurent Gbago, is currently being held in a ICC detention center awaiting trial. At the Harlem Pan African Unity Day rally PASHC will focus on the case of President Gbagbo whom they consider a Prisoner Of War. PASHC asserted in their petition to the ICC that the institution itself being is used as a tool for western nations to recolonize Africa.

For more information call (718) 398-1766.

Pan African Solidarity Hague Committee (PASHC)

456 Nostrand Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11221

pashc2012@gmail.com 

VIDEO LINK: 
PASHC DELIVERING PETITION TO THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT (ICC) IN THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS  ON JUNE 18, 2012.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y47t3X289KM&feature=youtu.be

Pan African Solidarity Hague Committee

Communication submitted to 

Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court 

The Hague, Netherlands.

June 18, 2012