U.N. Threatens Prosecution of Rumsfeld, Bush Over Gitmo
GENEVA — Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld could be in trouble soon for the role he played in human rights abuses committed in the Guantanamo prison, a United Nations expert said Wednesday.
“In a year or two, his responsibilities will be established. Wherever he goes, he will face difficulties,” Leandro Despouy, who is special rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers, told journalists in Geneva.
A bipartisan Senate report released late last year found Rumsfeld and other top administration officials responsible for abuse of Guantanamo detainees.
It said Rumsfeld authorized harsh interrogation techniques on Dec. 2, 2002, at the Guantanamo prison, although he ruled them out a month later.
Despouy said the “strong resistance” of the Bush administration to President Barack Obama’s decision to close the detention center has nothing to do with the officially cited reason of “national security” considerations.
Rather, they fear they may be taken to task once the detention centre is closed, said Despouy.
The U.N. expert urged the international community to back Obama’s decision to close the prison.
“If we act in the perspective of human rights, we should support the efforts of those who want these responsibilities to be established,” he added, referring to the harsh interrogation techniques used on the detainees.
The international community should take in former detainees to help the United States.
Obama has said he would close the notorious “war on terror” prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba by January 2010 and is seeking host states for up to 60 of the 245 inmates.
The Obama administration faces a series of legal and political hurdles in its efforts to close the base, with strong opposition against releasing detainees into the United States.
In January, the U.N.’s special torture rapporteur called on the United States to pursue Rumsfeld and former President George W. Bush for torture and bad treatment of Guantanamo prisoners.
“Judicially speaking, the United States has a clear obligation” to bring proceedings against Bush and Rumsfeld, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture Manfred Nowak said, in remarks broadcast on Germany’s ZDF television.
He noted Washington had ratified the UN convention on torture which required “all means, particularly penal law” to be used to bring proceedings against those violating it.
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I’d tell the UN to lick nuts like they were stamps.
I welcome the prosecutive efforts. Bring it on. But be ready for evidence that will damn the UN, like malfeasance in the face of genocide over 30 years of Sadaam’s reign; how about the genocide of white farmers in Africa??? Thought I forgot, huh?
Don’t forget the Oil-for-food scandal
And the 17 resolutions that they wouldn’t stand up to.
Fuck you leonardo despot.Foreign mofo trying to arrest an American citizen,IN AMERICA.Light the fires boys.
Its time to terminate the UN’s lease.
The UN is the epitome of evil. I was just reading about that fat ass D’Escoto and how alike he and Obamofuck are.
Amazing how UN employees in Africa rape, pillage and plunder, while their “peace-keepers” in the Middle East facilitate terrorist activity through inaction.
To top it off, their so-called leaders enjoy filthy rich junkets and seminars with the best food and service in the world, while literally outside the doors people are falling down with starvation. 
Rummy and GWB have done more to help this world than any of these sanctimonious bastards… screw them, let them try to prosecute, they will reap the whirlwind 
It’s past time that these motherfuckers are taken down. They have NO BUSINESS telling Americans how to live!!! They should all be hung!
I’ll support any politician that initiates the withdrawl of UN financial sponsorship.
Enough with this ineffective and overbearing peice of shit org.
Screw the UN and screw NWO.
The UN is a plague in our country. It needs to be kicked out and completely ignored.
In past wars, armed combatants who were not in uniform and who did not report to a centralized command structure, i.e., Armed forces of a legally constituted state, were put up against a wall and shot. Compared to that, Gitmo is a resort.
I vote for a return to past traditions.
Sirs,
We are overjoyed to notify you that in response to overwhelming complaints and evidence from various sources, the city of New York has determined that it is in their best interest to immediately condemn and take possession of the properties now leased to your organization at 3 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017 as of Midnight, June 3rd, 2009.
You will cease and desist in your operations and all business dealings and operations from this address and vacate the premises immediately to ensure that you are not harmed when the current building is demolished for the safety of the local citizens.
It has been determined that the building located at this address has become a filth-infested rat hole and not suitable for human habitation or use in any form.
Samples from the local area have indicated that the bovine fecal pollutant levels in the air surrounding this location are far above acceptable levels and we have deemed it in the public interest to demolish the building as soon as possible to ensure that the contamination from the infestation at that location is no longer a threat to public health.
In response to this obvious infestation by undesirable individuals, your visas and all diplomatic privilege has been revoked and you are to exit the country within 24 hours or be subject to vigorous body cavity searches by the homeless windshield washers that frequent mid-town Manhattan every morning.
Have a nice day and get the hell out before we sick cousin Vito on you with his garbage collector’s union from Jersey.
Amen!
Shouldn’t the UN stick to raping peasant children?
Why settle for raping children when you can rape entire countries?
Say what you will about the UN, they made it VERY difficult (though not impossible) to “offload liquids” on the gun sculpture (Nonviolence) in the plaza back in March. The NY Times building was MUCH easier. Not that I would do that sort of thing, mind you…I’m just saying…
Recycling beer is very patriotic.They should have had a 24 hour “OFFLOAD” deposit portal.
U.S.out of the UN, UN out of the U.S. !!!
Bout fucking time these criminals see justice!
You are refering I assume to the U.N. peckerwoods.
commodo aufero vestri caput capitis ex vestri puga pyga~~~asshole
well….if Obama’s Justice department said that US citizens can’t hold Saudi Kings responsible for the part they had in 9-11….how can the UN prosecute Bush and Cheany?
“VeritasLuxMea
June 3, 2009 at 4:27 pm
Bout fucking time these criminals see justice!”
Are you kidding me? GTFO.
The cultural Marxists are emboldened by Obonga in the White House. They have some nerve, in view of the behavior of the U.N. in Africa and other places. No prosecutions of those animals. The French got away with the Rwandan genocide.
My solution is for the U.N. to get out of New York. Go to Brussels, the new capital of the E.U.S.S.R. Or maybe they could locate to Moscow or Beijing.
I dare the UN to send their blue-helmet lackies to Texas. I double dare them.
What a bunch of fucking right-wing nutjobs
you all are! If this represents the sort of extremists who are in our military today, we’re in big trouble. Bush/Rumsfeld/Cheney/et al. are all war criminals and deserve to be prosecuted. Fucking torture-loving, law-flouting idiots!