Day Three

Public Opinion is the world’s new superpower.

That was the main proposal of International Conference on “Expose War Crimes and Criminalise War” organised by Perdana Global Peace Organisation.

The Chairman of the organisation, Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad, on his closing speech, said that he agreed with the call for the public opinion to unify to reject and to fight the America hegemony on this very world of post-cold war.

The three-day conference agreed that the best way to achieve global peace by unifying the public opinion to reject war as a method to put the conflict to its end and declared war as a crime towards humanity.

The conference had developed three institutions to put the war criminals on try and will hear its first case of US President, George W. Bush, Premier Blair and Howard.

The first institution is the War Crimes Commission, lead by Dr. Mahathir, comprising Datuk Dr. Yaacob Hussain Merican (Lawyer), Zinur Zakaria (ex-President of Malaysia Lawyer Council), Musa Ismail (ex-magistrate), Prof Dr. Mohd Akram Shair Mohamed (Law professor of International Islamic University) and Prof Gurdial Singh Nijar (Law Professor of University of Malaya).
Second, War Crimes Tribunal led by Datuk Abdul Kadir Sulaiman (ex-Federal Court Judge) comprising Tunku Datuk Dr. Sofiah Jewa (lawyer), Datuk Mohd Saari Yusoff (ex- Appeal Court Judge), Prof Shad Faruqi (Law Professor of Mara University of Technology), Mohamad Arif Md Yusof (lawyer). Also on the Tribunal are Mohd Noor Yahya (ex- President of Session Court and ex- Chairman of Malaysia’s Industrial Court), Datuk Abu Mansor Ali (ex- Federal Court Judge), Prof Francis Boyle (PLO advisor on the development of Palestine) and Prof Salleh Buang (Law lecturer and lawyer).

Third, War Crimes Lawyers comprising Mathias Chang, Jacqueline Chang, Megat Shaharuddin Merican, Elaine Zarina Zainur, Avtaran Singh, Nizam Bashir and Jamal Ridzuwan.

The Petition that wanted the three main war organisers and the invasion of Iraq to be put on try as the war crimes against human being. It been presented on behalf of war victims by Mathias Chang.

“Please don’t let them down. They have no place to go. This is their last destination to put on hope,” Chang pleaded.

Dr. Mahathir told the press at the end of the conference, which the participation of those institutions can be amend to strengthen its standard as the international bodies.

The conference also believes that the public opinion is the best weapon to lead into the global peace, to ban war and to punish the war criminals.

Even though the defendant might not come to the trial or be put on punishment, by the way, on public opinion, they are the criminals.

The label of War Criminal will be used every time their name being called, to humiliate them before the global citizens. Surprisingly, this year conference had attracted so many youngsters from inside and outside Malaysia whom represented the NGOs and civil societies.

I believe that, anyone who love peace and rejecting the war should make a decision to only support the political parties and the organisation which using the theme of peace and ban the war as a part of the main agenda and their manifesto.

And as proposed by Dato’ A. Kadir Jasin, he would like to see every bloggers should unite under the name of peace and promoting it as a part of their agenda to make this world as a better place to live. Come and support global peace by making this logo visible on your blog. And don’t forget to put the element of peace and rejecting war on every posting. Come support peace. Unite under the Bloggers for Peace.

As Ms Cynthia McKinney stated, "Kuala Lumpur is now, the capital for Peace".