Symbolic Malaysian trial finds Bush, Blair guilty of ‘crimes against peace’ over Iraq invasion

Symbolic Malaysian trial finds Bush, Blair guilty of ‘crimes against peace’ over Iraq invasion
Washington Post/Associated Press, November 22, 2011
Posted: 2011-11-29 11:24:30
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia-pacific/symbolic-malaysian-trial-fin...

A tribunal formed by Malaysia’s former leader has convicted former President George W. Bush and Britain’s ex-prime minister Tony Blair at a symbolic trial for “crimes against peace” in Iraq. Malaysia’s outspoken former leader Mahathir Mohamad founded a peace organization that set up the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal specifically for trying Bush and Blair. Mahathir’s son, Mukhriz Mahathir, said international judges and lawyers convicted the men Tuesday for crimes against peace over the 2003 Iraq invasion. It plans to hear symbolic war crimes charges against them later. Malaysian activists say they sent information about the charges to Bush and Blair but received no response.

Note: This story sadly received very little press in the major media. For an earlier Associated Press story on the background to the Kuala Lumpur War Crimes Tribunal, click here. For more on the results in Canada's conservative National Post, click here. For a press release from the Tribunal, click here. To visit the Tribunal website, click here.