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Garzon was instrumental in arresting Augusto Pinochet for war crimes and currently serves in Julian Assange’s legal team.
How the US government perverted the course of justice to avoid war crimes prosecutions
Source: The Canary
Above is Part One of a video interview with Baltasar Garzón, the renowned jurist, which includes observations about the attempted prosecutions of Bush officials regarding torture allegations and war crimes – and how the US secretly pressurised the Spanish Government to ensure no such prosecutions took place. (Part Two of the video is given below.)
Part 4: ‘The Other Chilcot’
The US strategy from the beginning of the second Iraq War has been to deflect criticism and prosecution by blaming others. The war began with a lie: that Saddam Hussein had WMD (the true reason for invasion was, of course, oil and an attempt at geo-strategic takeover). During the course of the war the US government ensured it was not charged for war crimes or torture.
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