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War Crimes: A Report on U.S. War Crimes Against Iraq

Ramsey Clark and Others

Library of Congress Catalog Number DS79.736.W37

285 pages

Photos, Appendices

Publication date Septenber 1, 1992

Paperback $14.94 ISBN 0-944624-15-4 or ISBN-13 9780944624159

“War Crime” is an inflammatory charge. While U.S. media have demonized leaders of other nations for alleged war crimes (Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Iraq, etc.) this is the first sustained argument to dare point out U.S. violations of international law in subverting peace initiatives, corrupting the UN, destroying the civilian economy of Iraq, and using excessive force against retreating soldiers. Former U.S. Attorney General Clark traveled to Iraq four times gathering evidence and preparing his case. This book sets out the charges and presents the evidence and judgment of an international war crimes tribunal held in February 1992. Contains excerpts from relevant international law as well as UN reports.

“War Crimes is a witness of human consciousness from a country in which human life has lost its value.”

— Mustafa Tell, Jordan Times.

 

 “This book contains all of the drama of a well-written novel. The U.S. government that emerges from this book is an institution so morally depraved that it has engaged in the destruction of a vital developing nation. The testimony is well documented . . . oral testimony includes eye-witness accounts of people who lived in or visited Iraq.”

— Ken Schubert, The Brass Check.

 

Incinerated body of an Iraqi soldier on the "Highway of Death," a name the press has given to the road from Mutlaa, Kuwait, to Basra, Iraq. U.S. planes immobilized the convoy by disabling vehicles at its front and rear, then bombing and straffing the resulting traffic jam for hours. More than 2,000 vehicles and tens of thousands of charred and dismembered bodies littered the sixty miles of highway. The clear rapid incineration of the human being [pictured above] suggests the use of napalm, phosphorus, or other incindiary bombs. These are anti-personnel weapons outlawed under the 1977 Geneva Protocols. This massive attack occurred after Saddam Hussein announced a complete troop withdrawl from Kuwait in compliance with UN Resolution 660. Such a massacre of withdrawing Iraqi soldiers violates the Geneva Convention of 1949, common article 3, which outlaws the killing of soldiers who "are out of combat." There are, in addition, strong indications that many of those killed were Palestinian and Kuwaiti civilians trying to escape the impending seige of Kuwait City and the return of Kuwaiti armed forces. No attempt was made by U.S. military command to distinguish between military personnel and civilians on the "highway of death." The whole intent of international law with regard to war is to prevent just this sort of indescriminate and excessive use of force.
(Photo Credit: © 1991 Kenneth Jarecke / Contact Press Images)

"It has never happened in history that a nation that has won a war has been held accountable for atrocities committed in preparing for and waging that war. We intend to make this one different. What took place was the use of technological material to destroy a defenseless country. From 125,000 to 300,000 people were killed... We recognize our role in history is to bring the transgressors to justice." — Ramsey Clark

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