21st CENTURY DIARY: Universal Justice. The Court takes the first step to file the case against former Chinese presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao for the genocide in Tibet

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@DiarioSigloXXI
mars, 18 March 2014

MADRID, 18 (Servimedia)

The judge of the National Court Ismael Moreno has asked the Prosecutor's Office if, In light of the repeal of universal justice promoted by the PP, whether or not it files the open case against former Chinese presidents Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao as alleged perpetrators of the genocide perpetrated by the communist government in Tibet during the years 80 and 90.

Judge Moreno has carried out the same procedure for the half dozen cases that he had open under universal justice, as explained by sources from the National Court. The instructor, specifically, In all these cases, he asks the Prosecutor's Office to rule on whether or not it is appropriate to archive the investigations after the reform of the Organic Law of the Judiciary promoted by the PP and which repeals universal justice in Spain came into force this Saturday..

Moreno, in the case of the genocide in Tibet, Has issued search and arrest warrants against Jiang Zemin, Hu Jintao and four other former leaders of the country, who are accused of crimes of genocide, torture and crimes against humanity.

The head of the Court of Instruction number 2 of the National Court has also asked the Prosecutor's Office whether or not to archive the other cases that it has open through universal jurisdiction..

Among these causes are the investigation opened by the stops in Spain of the flights in which the CIA transported to the Guantanamo base. (Cuba) to alleged jihadists arrested through the world or the open case against the former members of the so -called ‘Calavera Battalion’ De Las Ss John Demjanjuk, Johan Leprich, Titthon Titthong Kipf, who worked as guards in concentration camps of Adolf Hitler's regime such as Mauthausen or Flossenbürg.

Moreno also carries the causes for the persecution in China of the Falung Gong religious group or for the death of the Saharawi with Spanish passport Baby Hamday Buyma during the assault on the Gdeym Izik camp of El Aaiún.

Guantanamo torture

Today Moreno has carried out the same procedures that Judge Pablo Ruz ordered yesterday. This magistrate asked the parties about relevance or not to file the five causes that have open under the universal jurisdiction: For torture to detained at the United States base in Guantanamo (Cuba), for the repression exercised in the Western Sahara by the Moroccan authorities after taking control of the region at the end of 1975, for the disappearances of dissidents in Algeria at the hands of members of the Polisario Front, For the murder in 1976 in Chile of the Spanish diplomat Carmelo Soria by Augusto Pinochet's secret police and by the Israeli Army's assault on the so-called 'Freedom Flotilla'’ that headed to Gaza in October 2012.

Judge Santiago Pedraz, For its part, He has refused to file the cause open for the murder of the José Couso Television, that took place in Baghdad (Iraq) he 8 April 2003, By understanding that the limitation of the universal jurisdiction promoted by the PP contravenes the Geneva Convention.

The other judge who at the moment has doubts about the application of the limitation of universal justice is Eloy Velasco in the framework of the open cause against 13 Military from El Salvador who accuses of having participated in the murder of six Jesuits -five of them Spanish- In November of 1989. Among the victims was the religious Ignacio Ellacuría

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