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| (From left to right) Donald Rumsfeld, George W. Bush, Dick Cheney. |
Asia One News (http://news.asiaone.com) has reported
that George W. Bush and seven of his cohorts, including Richard ‘Dick’ Cheney, former U.S.
Vice President; Donald Rumsfeld, former Defence Secretary; Alberto Gonzales,
then Counsel to President Bush; David Addington, then General Counsel to the
Vice-President; William Haynes II, then General Counsel to Secretary of
Defence; Jay Bybee, then Assistant Attorney General; and John Choon Yoo, former
Deputy Assistant Attorney-General, have been tried and found guilty in absentia
by unanimous vote as war criminals for Torture and Cruel, Inhumane and
Degrading Treatment of the Complainant War Crime Victims.
Five former Iraqi detainees, who were tortured while
being detained in various prisons including Guantánamo Bay, were called to give
their testimonies before the Kuala Lumpur war crimes tribunal which began May
7, 2012. Professor Gurdial Nijar, who headed the prosecution said, “The
tribunal was very careful to adhere scrupulously to the regulations drawn up by
the Nuremberg courts and the International Criminal Courts.” The United States
is subject to international law which makes this trial significant outside the jurisdiction of of Malaysia.