Ramsey Clark
William Ramsey Clark ( born December 18, 1927 in Dallas, Texas) is an American lawyer, politician of the Democratic Party and peace activist, from 1967 to 1969 the 66th Minister of Justice ( Attorney General ) under President Lyndon B. Johnson was.
Clark also received the Gandhi Peace Award.
Career
Born in 1927, Clark is the son of Tom C. Clark, who was also Minister of Justice and judges of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Clark served in the Army in the Marines in 1945 and 1946. Subsequently, he received a BA from the University of Texas at Austin in 1949 and the MA and JD from the University of Chicago, 1950.
He was admitted to the Supreme Court in 1956. From 1951 to 1961 he was an associate and partner in the law firm of Clark, Reed and Clark. From 1961 he worked under President John F. Kennedy as an Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department; In 1965 he became Deputy Attorney General and thus deputy minister Nicholas Katzenbach. As his successor he resigned on March 10, 1967 in the Cabinet of President Johnson, in which he remained until 20 January 1969. Since Katzenbach retire in October 1966, Clark had an interim basis exercised the business of the Minister of Justice. During his time in the Ministry of Justice of the Non-Proliferation Treaty there has been developed.
Under the direction of Ramsey Clark, a tribunal was formed in February 1992, which the United States accused in 19 counts of having committed crimes against humanity in the Gulf War against Iraq. The tribunal was composed of 21 judges of different ethnicities and religions.
On 27 November 2005 Clark announced that he would defend the former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. He took along with his Qatari counterparts Najib al - Nuaimi defending Hussein - the process was conducted under the chairmanship of Judge Rizgar Muhammad Amin.
On 18 March 2006, he attended the funeral of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milošević. Front of the parliament in Belgrade, where Milošević coffin was laid out, he made a speech: "History will prove that Milošević was right. Indictments are only accusations. The Tribunal had no proof. "
In 2008 he received the Human Rights Award of the United Nations.
Works
- Ramsey Clark: Desert Storm ( U.S. War Crimes in the Gulf ). Lamuv Verlag, Göttingen 1993, ISBN 3-88977-323-0