June 10 War Crimes Tribunal:
Judges & prosecutors
1. BEN DUPUY Haiti--former Ambassador at
Large for Haiti under the first government of Jean-Bertrand
Aristide and currently secretary general of the Popular
National Party (PPN) of Haiti.
2. ANGELES MAESTRO MARTIN
Spain--elected member of Spanish parliament from
Madrid and a leader in the movement to end sanctions against
Iraq.
3. CIMILE CAKIR Turkey--journalist for
newspaper serving Kurdish community and member of Turkish
Human Rights Association. Imprisoned four years in Turkey for
human rights activity.
4. REV. KIYUL CHUNG Korea--chairperson of
the Executive Committee of the Congress for Korean
Unification in North America.
5. JOHN NICKELS Roma--U.S. representative of
the International Romani Union and also a judge in the Romani
community in the U.S.
6. JORGE FARINACCI Puerto Rico--leader of
the Socialist Front of Puerto Rico and a long-time leader of
the independence movement in Puerto Rico.
7. RAY LAFOREST Haitian-American--labor
unionist in the American Federation of State, County and
Municipal Employees and a leader of the Haitian Coalition for
Justice, an organization that fights police brutality in New
York.
8. UMA KUTWAL United States, originally from
India--president of Local 375 of the Civil Service
Technical Union District Council 37 of American Federation of
State, County and Municipal Employees.
9. DR. CHRISTA ANDERS Germany--doctor of
medicine and an organizer of the German/European
Tribunal.
10. RANIERO LA VALLE Italy--former senator
who has served 14 years in the Italian parliament, an
anti-war leader in Catholic circles and spokesperson for the
Italian War Crimes Tribunal movement.
11. DR. WOLFGANG RICHTER
Germany--Chairperson of the Society for the Protection
of Civil Rights and Human Dignity and a leader of the War
Crimes Tribunal movement in Germany.
12. MARTHA GREVATT United States--National
Secretary of Pride at Work, the AFL-CIO organization for
lesbian/gay/bi/trans workers' rights, and active in the
United Auto Workers.
13. MICHAEL RATNER United States--civil
rights attorney on the National Board of the Center for
Constitutional Rights who took the U.S. government to court
for violating the War Powers Act in its undeclared war
against Yugoslavia.
14. YOLE STANESIC Yugoslavia &
Russia--Montenegrin poet and writer living in Russia,
member of the tribunals in Yaroslav, Kiev and Belgrade.
15. JOHN BLACK United States--retired
President of the Health and Hospital Workers Union in
Pennsylvania, responsible for bringing many thousands of
hospital workers into the union. As a teenager in Germany he
was active in the anti-Nazi underground resistance.
16. DR. BERTA JOUBERT-CECI Puerto Rico &
U.S.--psychiatrist working in public health and organizer
of Puerto Rican and African American anti-racist activities
in Philadelphia.
THE PROSECUTOR
TEAM
n RAMSEY CLARK, former U.S. attorney general and
founder of the International Action Center.
n PAT CHIN, Jamaican-American, International Action
Center spokesperson for solidarity with Haiti and Yugoslavia
and other issues.
n SARA FLOUNDERS, International Action Center
national co-director, participant in numerous tribunal
hearings.
n GLORIA LA RIVA, a leader of International
Peace for Cuba Appeal, producer of video "NATO Targets."
All were in Yugoslavia, either during the war or as
participants in seminars or meetings after the war.
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