I asked this last night and got no replies... Re: Concentration Camps on Border

[FirstLight]

So what do we do now? Obviously the US Govt is incapable to rectify this situation on its own...


According to the 1998 Rome Statute, what is being done at the border falls under the criteria for Crimes Against Humanity

According to Article 7 (1) of the Rome Statute, crimes against humanity do not need to be linked to an armed conflict and can also occur in peacetime, similar to the crime of genocide. That same Article provides a definition of the crime that contains the following main elements:

A physical element, which includes the commission of “any of the following acts”:
Murder;
Extermination;
Enslavement;
Deportation or forcible transfer of population;
Imprisonment;
Torture;
Grave forms of sexual violence;
Persecution;
Enforced disappearance of persons;
The crime of apartheid;
Other inhumane acts.
A contextual element: “when committed as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population”; and
A mental element: “with knowledge of the attack”

(link)https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/crimes-against-humanity.shtml

So, how do we get the damn UN to step in and help? Do we sign a fucking petition as citizens of the US having atrocities done in our name?
I'm so damn angry and hope the fucking plane falls out of the sky on His Orangeness tomorrow...how dare they party like that when this is happening?!! (but the reality is that they are partying because it is part of the "plan&quot

[BKDem]

1. The U.S. Government is perfectly capable of rectifying this situation.

It's called impeachment and removal, but our elected officials are looking away.
CHICKENSHIT ASSHOLES.

[FirstLight]

2. exactly... they have the tools, but aren't USING them

...Then again, it shouldn't matter....

The US Executive Branch and ICE and DOJ should be in trouble INTERNATIONALLY!!!

[alwaysinasnit]

4. We have consistently refused to be bound by the Rome agreement, obviously because we are

the worst violators.

https://www.globalpolicy.org/international-justice/the-international-criminal-court/us-opposition-to-the-icc.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Criminal_Court

[FirstLight]

5. fuuuuuck!

I'm still calling the ACLU tomorrow and asking someone what they think...

[alwaysinasnit]

8. Please share with us after your call. I hope they do have something to say that we can hang on to.

[malaise]

3. I've been asking this for weeks

Where are the Latin American and Caribbean governments, where are the other Western Powers - where is Civil Society?
These are Crimes Against Opportunity

[FirstLight]

6. right?

It's a disgrace against humanity that somehow we "can't do anything"

[FirstLight]

7. thanks for pointing that out...

(alwaysinasnit) That site also has some other interesting articles...

America's refusal to extradite Bolivia's ex-dictator...

"His military forces reportedly killed 67 individuals and injured over 400 of the nation’s indigenous Aymara community, and the outrage which led to the “Gas Wars”, drove the president into exile in the US. Although a US-Bolivia extradition treaty currently exists, the US refused to accept this particular extradition request on the grounds that “a civilian leader cannot be tried for crimes committed by the military.”

https://www.globalpolicy.org/international-justice/universal-jurisdiction-6-31/51903-americas-refusal-to-extradite-bolivias-ex-president-to-face-genocide-charges.html?itemid=id#675