{"id":3685,"date":"2008-06-02T08:16:37","date_gmt":"2008-06-02T07:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/howard-accused-of-war-crimes\/3685\/"},"modified":"2008-06-02T08:16:37","modified_gmt":"2008-06-02T07:16:37","slug":"howard-accused-of-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/politics\/howard-accused-of-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard accused of war crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/stories\/2008\/06\/02\/2262414.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" vspace=\"3\" align=\"left\" src=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/johnhoward.jpg\" hspace=\"3\" alt=\"johnhoward.jpg\" title=\"johnhoward.jpg\" \/>ABC News<\/a> | A legal brief has been sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging former prime minister John Howard committed a war crime by sending troops to Iraq. A loose alliance of peace activists, lawyers, academics and politicians is behind the brief, organised by the ICC Action group in Melbourne.<\/p>\n<p>Organiser Glen Floyd says Mr Howard should be held accountable for sending troops to a war not sanctioned by the United Nations.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have produced a 52-page brief of evidence which states to the chief prosecutor of the criminal court that we allege John Howard&#8217;s actions are war crimes under article 8 of the Rome Statute,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats Senator Lyn Allison says the legal brief sent to the ICC is justified.<\/p>\n<p>Senator Allison, who is one of several eminent people supporting the move, says accountability is important.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This action has been taken to hold those accountable for their action, so it&#8217;s essentially our prime minister &#8211; he was the one at the time [who] was the executive of government, made the decision,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It wasn&#8217;t put to the Parliament and as we all know, it turned out to be unjustified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A similar brief has been sent by a group from the United Kingdom regarding former prime minister Tony Blair. The United States is not a signatory to the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News | A legal brief has been sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) alleging former prime minister John Howard committed a war crime by sending troops to Iraq. A loose alliance of peace activists, lawyers, academics and politicians is behind the brief, organised by the ICC Action group in Melbourne. Organiser Glen Floyd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[64,38],"class_list":{"0":"post-3685","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-politics","7":"tag-world-news","8":"tag-iraq"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}