After the bombing of the twin towers America
and Her allies such as Britain
and France
embarked on an ambitious war on terror. Using the power of media houses such as
CNN, BBC, FOX News, Washington post etc
neo-liberal elites propelled the propaganda that Iraq had weapons of mass
destruction and therefore must be attacked. Dr. David Christopher Kelly, a British Weapons Expert who led the
inspection mission that was tasked to establish whether Iraq had weapons of
mass destruction was found dead in the woods outside his Oxford shire home days after he intimated to a BBC journalist
that the British government claims about Iraq were false. On September 24, 2002, Blair told
the British Public "(Saddam) has existing and active military plans for
the use of chemical and biological weapons, which could be activated within 45
minutes."[1]Tony Blair's
government set up the Hutton Inquiry, a public inquiry into the
circumstances surrounding the death. This determined that Kelly had committed
suicide, the pathologist who conducted the postmortem examination giving the
cause of death as "haemorrhage due to incised wounds of the left
wrist" in combination with "coproxamol ingestion and coronary artery
atherosclerosis"[2].
On Tuesday 27 January 2004, a group medical
experts dissipated Lord Hutton Inquiry as follows:
’’As specialist medical professionals, we do not consider the evidence given at the Hutton inquiry has demonstrated that Dr David Kelly committed suicide. Dr Nicholas Hunt, the forensic pathologist at the Hutton inquiry, concluded that Dr Kelly bled to death from a self-inflicted wound to his left wrist. We view this as highly improbable. Arteries in the wrist are of matchstick thickness and severing them does not lead to life-threatening blood loss. Dr Hunt stated that the only artery that had been cut - the ulnar artery - had been completely transected. Complete transection causes the artery to quickly retract and close down, and this promotes clotting of the blood. The ambulance team reported that the quantity of blood at the scene was minimal and surprisingly small. It is extremely difficult to lose significant amounts of blood at a pressure below 50-60 systolic in a subject who is compensating by vasoconstricting. To have died from haemorrhage, Dr Kelly would have had to lose about five pints of blood - it is unlikely that he would have lost more than a pint. Alexander Allan, the forensic toxicologist at the inquiry, considered the amount ingested of Co-Proxamol insufficient to have caused death. Allan could not show that Dr Kelly had ingested the 29 tablets said to be missing from the packets found. Only a fifth of one tablet was found in his stomach. Although levels of Co-Proxamol in the blood were higher than therapeutic levels, Allan conceded that the blood level of each of the drug's two components was less than a third of what would normally be found in a fatal overdose. We dispute that Dr Kelly could have died from haemorrhage or from Co-Proxamol ingestion or from both. The coroner, Nicholas Gardiner, has spoken recently of resuming the inquest into his death. If it re-opens, as in our opinion it should, a clear need exists to scrutinise more closely Dr Hunt's conclusions as to the cause of death’’[3].
In a surprising move :
‘…Lord Hutton, the peer who chaired the
controversial inquiry into the Dr Kelly scandal, has secretly barred the
release of all medical records, including the results of the post mortem, and
unpublished evidence. The move, which will stoke fresh speculation about the
true circumstances of Dr Kelly’s death, comes just days before Tony Blair
appears before the Chilcot Inquiry into the Iraq War. It is also bound to
revive claims of an establishment cover-up and fresh questions about the verdict
that Dr Kelly killed himself. Tonight, Dr Michael Powers QC, a doctor
campaigning to overturn the Hutton findings, said: ‘What is it about David
Kelly’s death which is so secret as to justify these reports being kept out of
the public domain for 70 years?’ Campaigning Liberal Democrat MP Norman Baker,
who has also questioned the verdict that Dr Kelly committed suicide, said: ‘It
is astonishing this is the first we’ve known about this decision by Lord Hutton
and even more astonishing he should have seen fit to hide this material away.[4]’’
[5]
Justice Mugamba was appointed by Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki.
Justice Mugamba to head Cerinah
Nebanda inquest
Publish Date: Jan 08, 2013
Chief Justice Benjamin Odoki has appointed the Anti-Corruption Court head, Justice Paul Mugamba, to conduct the inquest into the death of Butaleja MP Cerinah Nebanda.
The appointment followed a request by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the Chief Justice to name a judge to conduct the inquest after Parliament asked for it and the President okayed it.
An inquest is a judicial inquiry to determine the cause of death of a person who dies under unclear circumstances. The inquest is conducted by a judge, a government official or a jury in countries that have the jury system.
Inquests use eyewitnesses, but suspects are not permitted to defend themselves unlike in the courts of law.
At the end of the inquiry, the inquest would determine whether the death was due to natural causes, accidental, misadventure, suicide or murder.
If the verdict is murder or culpable accident, criminal prosecution in the courts of law may follow where suspects would be allowed to defend themselves.
According to the Principal Judge, Justice Yorokamu Bamwine, the Ministry of Internal Affairs will determine when the inquest will commence its work.
The names of the other members are yet to be established.
[1]
Sarah Hall, "No. 10 Knew Iraq Posed No Threat" Guardian Weekly, Aug.
21-27, 2003 p. 1., quoted from Steve Moore, Suicide or Murder? The Dr. David
Kelly Affair http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/MOO401A.html
[2]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Kelly_%28weapons_expert%29
[3] The Guardian,
Tuesday 27 January 2004, Our Doubts About Dr.Kelly’s Suicide, http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2004/jan/27/guardianletters4
[4] Miles Goslett, David Kelly post mortem to be kept secret for 70 years as doctors accuse Lord Hutton of concealing vital information, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1245599/David-Kelly-post-mortem-kept-secret-70-years-doctors-accuse-Lord-Hutton-concealing-vital-information.html#ixzz1ilgNtkqk
[5]
We need
to recall a similar incidence where the documents of the Warren Commission that tasked to investigate
the assassination of President J.F.Kennedy were sealed for 75 years(up 2035) in
order to protect the innocent persons
who could otherwise be damaged because of their relationship with participants
in the case. See, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_Commission
