Information and Evidence Unit
Office of the Prosecutor
Post Office Box 19519
2500 CM The Hague
The Netherlands
otp.informationdesk.icc-cpi.int
facsimile to +31 70 515 8555.
To the Prosecutor:
For the last several weeks the Trump administration has followed a policy of separating children, some of whom are infants, from their families who are seeking asylum in the United States and placing them in detention centers. In some cases they are even placed in cages.
Please investigate as to whether this is a violation of Articles 6, 7, and 8 of the Charter of the International Criminal Court. We believe that this policy is a practice of Genocide, (Article 6), Crimes Against Humanity, (Article 7), and/or War Crimes, (Article 8.)
Specifically, we believe the charges of genocide in Article 6 are in this case:
1. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
2. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction
3. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
4. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group
5. Killing members of a group (Recently five individuals were pursued and killed by U.S. Border Guards)
We believe this administration is also guilty of crimes against humanity as specified in Article 7:
1. Deportation, or forcible transfer of population
2. Imprisonment or other severe deprivation of physical liberty
3. Persecution.
4. Enforced disappearance of persons
5. Apartheid
6. Other inhumane acts
We also believe that this administration is guilty of war crimes as defined in Article 8
1. Denying a fair trial
2. Unlawful deportation and transfer
3. Unlawful confinement
Specifically, we asked that the following individuals be charged:
1. Stephen Miller Assistant to the President and the person who is the architect of this policy.
2. Donald J. Trump President of the United States and the one who authorized this policy.
3. Jeffery Sessions, Attorney General who is currently executing this policy.
We thank you for your attention to this serious violation of human rights and urge expeditious investigation of these accusations.
Melvin Hathorn
Donald Trump, supported by so many in this country that seem to believe that separation from the rest of the world is a good thing, is likely to defy the Hague with some verbiage that they are "irrelevant" or "powerless" to do anything to him and his administration because he is in the process of making America great. That process requires some little sacrifices to get accomplished, like violating the human rights of some for the benefit of the many (his Americans). If the World Court wishes to prosecute anyone, it should be the liberal Democrats who are standing in the way of his grand vision for America.
Why do I sense, more and more, that Trump is using Mein Kampf as his playbook for a new America under his rule?
Ron