Crime Against Humanity: a widespread and systematic attack directed against a civilian population that involves murder, enslavement, torture, rape, arbitrary detention, extermination, hostage taking or ethnic cleansing.
Friend, In the last hundred years more than 60 million people have been victims of crimes against humanity. To this day these crimes are occurring in places like Darfur, Sudan and loopholes in U.S. law has allowed these criminals to seek safe haven in the United States. Click here to demand these loopholes be closed.
According to the Department of Homeland Security, over 1,000 criminals have found safe haven in the United States. Under current law these individuals, like Marko Boskic, an alleged player in the murder of 7,000 boys and men in the Srebenica massacre in Bosnia, cannot be prosecuted for the grave human rights violations they have committed. Click here to ensure that another criminal like Boskic is never allowed to be shielded from prosecution in the United States.
But there is hope, last June Senators Dick Durbin (D- IL), Patrick Leahy (D-VT), and Russ Feingold (D-WI) introduced the 2009 Crimes Against Humanity Act which closes the loopholes in U.S. law that allows perpetrators of these crimes to seek safe haven here. Please click here to send a message to your Senators asking them to support and co-sponsor the 2009 Crimes Against Humanity Act.
Thanks for all you do,
Anu Joshi
National Outreach Coordinator
National Outreach Coordinator
P.S. As Senator Dick Durbin states: "The United States led the first prosecutions for crimes against humanity in the Nuremberg trials, following the Second World War. These horrible crimes, however, are still taking place. Our promise to hold accountable those who commit the most unspeakable crimes will ring hollow unless we lead the world in punishing those responsible for the gravest human rights violations." Please ask you Senator to stand with Senator Durbin in passing the 1009 Crimes Against Humanity Act.