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NCRI – On Saturday December 10, on the International Human Rights Day, and on the eve of U.S. President Barack Obama\u2019s meeting with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki in Washington DC, in a call to President Obama, American and European dignitaries urged annulment of the December 31 deadline on Ashraf and the forcible relocation of its residents inside Iraq, warning of an impending massacre and human catastrophe in Ashraf.(Click her for Video<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Speakers to the meeting were: Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance; Andr\u00e9 Glucksmann, author and a member of New France Philosophers; Andrew Card, President Bush Chief of Staff (2001-2006); Bill Richardson, New Mexico Governor (2003-2011) and former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations; Mitchell Reiss, U.S. State Department Head of Strategy Development (2003 \u2013 2005); Alan Dershowitz, one of the most prominent advocates of individual rights and the most well-known criminal lawyer in the world; Geoffrey Robertson QC, prominent British jurist and former appeal judge at the UN Special Court for Sierra Leone; Sid Ahmed Ghozali, former Prime Minister of Algeria; Patrick Kennedy, U.S. Congressman (1995-2011); Senator Ingrid Betancourt, Columbian presidential candidate; General David Phillips, U.S. Military Police Commander (2008-2011); Jean-Fran\u00e7ois Le Garrett, Mayor of Paris 1st District; Aude de Thuin, the founder of Women\u2019s Forum for Economics; Cynthia Fleury, West contemporary philosopher.<\/p>\n

Below is speech by Hon. Alan Dershwiz :<\/strong><\/p>\n

A human being can have no greater honor, privilege, or responsibility than to prevent the death of a fellow human being.\u00a0 Usually as lawyers, our job is to react to something that’s already happened.\u00a0 Here today we have an opportunity to proact, to act in a preventive capacity to do something to prevent a horrible, horrible crime from occurring.\u00a0 My religious tradition as well as the Islamic tradition share in common the statement that he who saves even a single human life, it is as if they have saved the entire world.\u00a0 Imagine what honor we would have here today if we could participate in the saving of more than 3000 innocent human lives.\u00a0 Now after the fact, when crimes have to be proven the way, for example, the past crimes that have been committed against the people in Camp Ashraf have to be proven, the rule is proof beyond a reasonable doubt.\u00a0 But when the issue is preventing a crime, when we’re seeking to act before the crime has been committed, then the criteria is not proof beyond a reasonable doubt, it’s substantial possibility or probably cause, and if anyone doubts that there is today probable cause for believing that a great crime is about to be committed unless we can act preventively, let them simply look at the reports done by others here on this panel, relating to the events of 1988 and relating more recently to the events of April 8th 2011.\u00a0 There is more than probably cause for believing that unless we act preventively a terrible crime against humanity will be perpetrated.\u00a0<\/p>\n

These rules are especially true when the crime is as great as the crime that’s potentially involved here and when the preventive steps are so obvious and so simple as was stated previously by people who know more than I do.\u00a0 What the United States can do is so simple and so obvious.\u00a0 We have the power to prevent this from happening.\u00a0 We have the power to prevent the camp from closing.\u00a0 We have the power to make the Iraqi government act responsibly.\u00a0 You know, this is not like the very difficult decision faced by the United States, Israel, and other countries of the world as to whether to take military preventive action to prevent the Iranians from developing nuclear weapons.\u00a0 Those are very, very difficult decisions because the cost of action and the cost of inaction are equally grave, but that’s not the case here.\u00a0 The case here is that the cost of inaction is monumental and the cost of action is relatively limited.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And so Elie Wiesel taught us that the major lesson of the Holocaust is always believe the threats of your enemies more than the promises of your friends.\u00a0 And we’re seeing that presented so dramatically here today, the threats of the enemies of the residents of Camp Ashraf are so clear they’re not trying to hide anything.\u00a0 Listen.\u00a0 Listen to the loudspeakers.\u00a0 Listen to what they’re saying.\u00a0 They’re not hiding their intentions.\u00a0 And then what about the promises?\u00a0 The United States made promises.\u00a0 Great countries keep their promises.\u00a0 Moral people keep their promises.\u00a0 We have an obligation to keep our promises that we made to those people who we disarmed when we told them that they had to give up any kind of arms.\u00a0 We promised them protection.\u00a0 There are obligations that come with promises\u2014obligations under law, obligations under diplomacy, obligations under morality.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And so with those considerations in mind, last Friday I traveled to The Hague and met with the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.\u00a0 And I presented him with a draft indictment against named and specific individuals in Iran for committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, [applause] incitement to genocide, solicitation of genocide.\u00a0 And he took the indictment from me and he looked at it and he read it.\u00a0 And then I said to him, “Mr. Ocampo, do you know who the witnesses to those crimes are?”\u00a0 He said, “You have witnesses?”\u00a0 I said, “Yes.”\u00a0 And I presented him with 24 witness statements\u2014statements of people in Camp Ashraf.\u00a0 And I said, “Do you know what’s happening to these witnesses?”\u00a0 Just like the mafia kills its witnesses, the Iranians (Mullahs), the Iranian mafia, have been killing the witnesses to the genocide that they’re planning, to the crimes against humanity they’ve committed, to the crimes that they have incited.\u00a0 And that’s one of the reasons why there is such a great interest among the Iranian Mullahs in making sure that the witnesses, the witnesses to murder, the witnesses to torture, the witnesses to genocide, the witnesses in Camp Ashraf are never allowed to leave there alive.\u00a0 And I said to him, “Mr. Ocampo, you have an obligation as a prosecutor to protect your witnesses.”\u00a0 His response, of course, was the one I fully expected and anticipated.\u00a0 “The International Criminal Court at this time does not have jurisdiction over individuals in Iran or the country of Iran ’cause Iran is not a signatory to the Rome Treaty.”\u00a0 But the Rome Treaty states that its purpose is “To contribute to the prevention of crimes against humanity.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

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And this Monday in New York, the signatory nations to the Rome Treaty are meeting and we’re trying very hard to get the Canadian government and the Canadian foreign minister to raise the issue under the treaty as to whether or not the treaty can be amended or expanded, whether or not other remedies can be taken, for example whether Iraq can be persuaded to become a signatory to the International Criminal Court.\u00a0 There are many, many other remedies as well that can be practiced and I can tell you that I was encouraged by the chief prosecutor in The Hague to do whatever was possible to expand the jurisdiction of the court, to include potential horrible crimes, nothing that the court could do would be more important than to prevent an imminent killing, mass killing and crime against humanity.\u00a0<\/p>\n

And so what are the options that are now available to the international community?\u00a0 The first and most obvious option is to persuade the United States to do the right thing.\u00a0 And it’s interesting that Ambassador (Reiss) correctly mentioned Samantha Powers’ great book, A Problem from Hell.\u00a0 Samantha was my student at Harvard Law School and I gave her leave to go off and go to various foreign countries when she was my student to gather the kind of information that she was gathering and I presented a copy of that book to President Clinton when it was first published.\u00a0 And it was after he read that that he came back and told me how much he regretted not having done more to prevent those genocides.\u00a0 And you know where Samantha Powers is now?\u00a0 She’s in the White House.\u00a0 She has the ear of the president of the United States.\u00a0 She has the ear of the secretary of state.\u00a0 And I promise you that when I leave here today, before Monday, before the meeting, I will call Samantha Power and I will remind her of her book.<\/p>\n

I will tell Samantha Power that I don’t want to have to write a book called, A Problem from Nowhere, because this is not a problem from hell.\u00a0 This is a problem that is easily solvable and the solution is in the hands of this administration.\u00a0 It is in the hands of the president of the United States, who is meeting with the head of Iraq, and if the president of the United States sits silent during that meeting, the head of Iraq will leave that meeting thinking he has an imprimatur to go ahead and close Camp Ashraf.\u00a0 Silence is not an option for the president.\u00a0 Silence is complicity.\u00a0 Silence is facilitation. Silence is permission.\u00a0 And silence in some contexts can be a crime.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Let me explain.\u00a0 The criminal law criminalizes omissions, criminalizes the failure to act when there is a responsibility to act.\u00a0 Crimes are not only actions\u2014they are inactions as well.\u00a0 International law has previously been applied to those who by their inaction have allowed or facilitated massacres and the United States government is in a position whereby its silence, it may become complicit in a crime.\u00a0 Our country doesn’t want to do that.\u00a0 We are a great country.\u00a0 We have a moral president, a moral secretary of state.\u00a0 We have moral people in positions of authority.\u00a0 We want to do the right thing.\u00a0 It’s easy not to act, but failure to act clearly is a responsibility.\u00a0 The Bible says, “Do not stand idly by the blood of your neighbor.”\u00a0 It could have been describing Camp Ashraf today.\u00a0 We cannot stand idly by [applause] the blood of the inmates of that camp.<\/p>\n

There are other remedies that can be taken in addition to going to the Security Council and asking the Security Council to give jurisdiction over Iran in this matter to the International Criminal Court that’s permitted under the Rome Treaty.\u00a0 And that would be encouraged, I believe, by the prosecutor in The Hague if that were to be requested by one of the signatory nations.\u00a0 There is also universal jurisdiction for certain kinds of crimes and omissions and even non-signatory nations can be held responsible.\u00a0 They can also be held responsible in their own domestic courts and I know there are lawsuits now being contemplated against the United States government in American courts, holding them responsible and asking them to comply with their legal obligations.\u00a0 There could be a potential suit in the International Court of Justice against the United States, Iran, and Iraq\u2014a preventive lawsuit seeking injunctive relief to require that the camp not be shut down.\u00a0 And then of course ultimately there’s why we’re here today, the court of public opinion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So we must not sit silently by.\u00a0 We said, “Never again,” many years ago and what we seen is again and again and again.\u00a0 We must not see it happen yet again.\u00a0 We must act to protect these vulnerable individuals.\u00a0 If we fail to do so, the blood of innocents will be on our collective hands.\u00a0 There is no time to wait.\u00a0 The clock of death is ticking.\u00a0 If not now, when?\u00a0 Thank you.<\/p>\n

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