PREPAK greets people on International Justice Day 2015
Source: Hueiyen News Service
Imphal, July 16 2015 :
On the occasion of International Justice Day 2015 the proscribed PREPAK has greeted the people of Kangeleipak (Manipur) as well as international community on Thursday.
In a message by Leibak Ngakpa Luwang, Assistant Secretary, Publicity and Propaganda, PREPAK gave an account on the circumstances that led to the setting up of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the first prosecution for crimes against humanity took place at the Tokyo and Nuremberg Trials after the World War II.
It said the Convention on the Prevention of the Crime and Genocide organised by the UN General Assembly on December 9, 1948 laid the foundation of Criminal Tribunal of Genocide at the international level.
Consequently, the 52nd UN General Assembly held from June 15 to July 17 at Rome led to the establishment of the "International Criminal Court" and crimes against humanity have since been tried there, PREPAK stated.
It evoked when leaders of the Khmer Rouge regime Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan, Leng Sary and Leng Thritin faced genocide charges ever since the International Criminal Court was set up.
It recalled that more than 17 lakh Cambodians were killed during the Khmer Rouge regime (1975-1979) .
Former Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda was given life sentence by the International Criminal Court for Rwanda (ICTR) on genocide charges in 1994, PREPAK said, adding during Kambanda"s regime some 8 lakh people were killed.
It said former Yugoslav President Slovodan Milosevic was prosecuted for crimes against humanity and war crimes by the International Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) in 2001. Milosevic was brought to the court on the charges of ethnic cleansing in Kosovo against Albanians.
Thus, the privilege of impunity ended finally, the outfit said.
Likewise, Liberia"s head of State General Pinochet and former President Charles Taylor were sentenced to 50 years behind bars by the International War Crime Court in 1090, it added.
National Liberation Movement leader of Congo, Thomas Lubanga Dyilo was finally sent to prison for 14 years for committing war crimes and recruiting child soldiers, PREPAK reminded.
Besides these leaders, former Sudan President Omar Hassan Al-Bashir, Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi, Libyan top Intelligence officer Abdullah Al-Senussi, Banglasdesh"s Jamat leaders were prosecuted and given punishment, it further said.
India has been continuing Crime of Aggression, Genocide, War Crime and Crime against Humanity in Manipur, PREPAK said and appealed to the people to join together in the fight against such crimes against humanity and seek justice before the ICC with the coming of the International Justice Day 2015 .