[Marxism] More "posturing" from Bolivia over Gaza massacre

["Fred Fuentes" <fred.fuentes@xxxxxxxxx>]

Bolivia to take Israel to The Hague
http://boliviarising.blogspot.com/2009/01/bolivia-to-take-israel-to-hague.html

Bolivia is seeking to take Tel Aviv to International Criminal Court
over the brutal atrocities the Israeli forces have committed in Gaza.

The Andean state says it is intended to make regional allies take a
unified stance against "the Israeli political and military leaders
responsible for the offensive on the Gaza Strip" and make it to stand
trial at the international body in the Hague, said Sacha Llorenti,
whose portfolio covers civil society.

Moves to begin the legal process will begin "probably next week,"
Bolivia's deputy justice and human rights minister Wilfredo Chavez
told journalists during the visit to Geneva, AFP reported on Friday.

Bolivia followed in the steps of its ally Venezuela and severed
diplomatic ties with Israel over its massacre of the Gazans and
snubbing the international calls for an 'immediate' and 'durable'
truce, said the Latin American governments.

The Bolivian president Evo Morales told a group of diplomats in the
administrative capital of La Paz that he will request the
International Criminal Court (ICC) to file genocide charges against
Israeli President Shimon Peres and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert.

The ICC is competent to adjudicate war crimes, crimes against humanity
and genocide committed after 2002.

Israel and its closest ally, the United States, are not among the 108
signatories of the Rome Statute creating the Hague-based court in 2000
to investigate and prosecute war crimes.

After 21 days of non-stop bombardment and aggression, the Israeli
invasion of Gaza has left 1,133 Palestinians killed and more than
5,200 wounded.


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