Blinken, Antony

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Name: Antony John Blinken

Born: April 16, 1962, Yonkers, New York

Profession: War planner

Positions:

• National Security Council staff 1994-2001
• Staff Director, Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2002-2008
• National Security Adviser to Vice President Biden 2009-2013
• Deputy National Security Adviser 2013-2015
• Deputy Secretary of State 2015-2017
• Secretary of State 2021-2025

War crimes charges:

• Crimes against Peace: planning, preparation, initiation and waging of wars of aggression, wars in violation of international treaties, agreements and assurances, and participation in common plans and conspiracies for the accomplishment of the foregoing.
• War Crimes: violations of the laws or customs of war. Such violations include, but are not limited to: murder, ill-treatment and deportation of civilian population of occupied territory, murder and ill-treatment of prisoners of war, taking of hostages, plunder of public and private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns and villages, and devastation not justified by military necessity.
• Crimes against Humanity: murder, extermination, enslavement, deportation, and other inhumane acts committed against civilian populations, before and during war, and persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds in execution of and in connection with international crimes.
• Genocide: all of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; including conspiracy, incitement and complicity to commit all of the foregoing.

Summary of Blinken\’s crime charges:

• In 1999, as Senior Director for European Affairs in the National Security Council, Blinken played a leading role in planning and waging an aggressive war against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, in violation of Articles 2 & 33 of the UN Charter.
• In 2002, as Staff Director of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Blinken helped Biden to plan and manage hearings to provide legislative cover for war on Iraq in violation of Articles 2 & 33 of the UN Charter. They called 18 witnesses to give false and misleading testimony that Iraq was supporting Al-Qaeda and developing nuclear weapons, and who favored “regime change as the stated US policy.”
• As Vice President Biden’s “national security” adviser and then U.S. Deputy National Security Adviser, Blinken was complicit in illegal overt and covert uses of force against Libya and Syria in violation of Articles 2 & 33 of the UN Charter. As Deputy Secretary of State, he played a leading role in the U.S.-Saudi war on Yemen and war crimes in Iraq in flagrant violation of the 4th Geneva Convention.
• Blinken blocked negotiations for peace in Ukraine in April 2022, and repeatedly rejected and prevented the pacific settlement of the conflict required by Articles 2(3) and 33 of the UN Charter.
• Blinken is an active leader of the genocide in Palestine, providing weapons and leading U.S. diplomatic efforts to ensure the extermination of the Palestinian population, in whole or in part, in flagrant violation of the UN Charter, the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention.

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