'With yet another war breaking out in Europe, and people on both sides of the conflict pursuing, as opposed to diplomacy, a wider war, that this is exactly the moment in which we need to be talking about the realities of war.'
'War Is a Crime'—The Belmarsh Tribunal Demands Accountability for the War on Terror
The Belmarsh Tribunal, first held in London in October last year, was established to bare witness to the crimes of the"War on Terror," demand accountability for the war's architects, and demand justice for its victims. Its name comes from another one if its key demands—freedom for Julian Assange, the journalist who exposed U.S. war crimes during the"War on Terror.
Another speaker, the Marxist historian and member of Tricontinental and the International People's Assembly , Vijay Prashad put this same sentiment another way."You know, war itself is a crime. We shouldn't be talking about war crimes.
Though the new demand to close Guantanamo Bay was put forward, the demand to free Julian Assange remained central to the event. In fact, some of the most well-known figures to testify at the tribunal put Assange at the center of their speeches. This included renowned intellectual, Noam Chomsky, who explained that"Julian Assange committed a grave transgression. He's guilty of exposing severe crimes of the U.S.
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