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The Week Vol. 7, No. 21, c. 25 May 1967 · p. 17 of the scan · 255 words

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1. - Has the government of the United States committed acts of aggression

against Vietnam under the terms of international law?

- YES (Unanimously)

2. - Has there been, and if so, on what scale, bombardment of purely

civilian targets, for example, hospitals, schools, medical estab-

lishments, dams, etc?

- YES (Unanimously)

We find that the government and armed forces of the United States are guilty of the deliberate, systematic and large scale bombardment of civilian targets, including civilian populations, dwellings, villages, dams, dykes, medical establishments, leper colonies, schools, churches, pagodas, historical and cultural monuments. We also find tmanimously, with one abstention, that the government of the United States of America is guilty of repeated violations of the sovereignty, neutrality and territorial integrity of Cambodia, that it is guilty of attacks against the civilian population of a certain number of Cambodian towns and villages.

3, -- Have the governments of Australia, New Zealand and South Korea

been :ccomplices of the United States in the aggression against

Vietnam in violation of international law?

- YES (Unanimously) The question also arises as to whether or not the governments of Thailand and other countries have become accomplices to acts of aggression or other crimes against Vietnam and its populations. We have not been able to study this question during the present session. We intend to examine at the next session legal aspects of the problem and to seek proofs of any incriminating facts.

Endorsed "ne variatur"

The President of the Tribunal

Jean Paul Sartre.

Stockholm, 10 May 1967.

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