WAR
CRIMES TRIBUNAL TO HEAR WITNESSES IN COPENHAGEN
The International War Crimes Tripbunal, initiated by Bertrand Russell, is scheduled to hold its second session in Copenhagen from November 20 to December 1.
Laurent Schwartz, an internationally famous mathematician, told the press in Paris November 8 that the session would take up the following questions: Are the Americans utilizing new weapons or weapons banned by the rules of war? Have there been unjustified reprisals against the civilian population? How are prisoners treated? Have acts of genocide been conmitted?
Roger Pic, Dr. Krivine and Francis Kahn, who returned from a recent investigation in zones controlled by the Liberation Front, gave a résumé of the depositions they will make in Copenhagen.
Dr. Krivine, a well-known Paris surgeon, said that in the areas which he visited in the countryside, most of the houses were destroyed, work in the open fields was impossible, and planes fired
at everything that moved -- both men and
animals. "What is involved is the destruc-
tion of a population and its means of ex-
istence," he said.
Francis Kahn said that he regret-
ted that scientists whose views differed
from those of the team he was on had not
participated in order to check what had
been discovered. He said that Paris lab-
oratories had analyzed.the chemical pro-
ducts gathered in the zones in the south-
ern part of North Vietnam under American
bombardment.
J.P.Vigier, another member of the
tribunal, reported on his recent trip to
North Vietnam. "Two-thirds of Haiphong
has been razed," he declared.
The Copenhagen session will hear
a number of witnesses concerning war
crimes being committed in Vietnam. The
tribunal has invited both the Vietnamese
and the Americans to participate in the
inquiry.
U.S. SENATE