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The quest to criminalise war

Not something widely remembered, but it’s 20 years since former Malaysian Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed led the Kuala Lumpur Initiative to Criminalise War. To mark this milestone anniversary, a panel convened in Malaysia to explore how far the campaign has travelled and the prospects for the future.

Among the speakers at the event was James Corbett, the Canadian-born, Japan-based investigative journalist who hosts and produces long-standing independent alternative news source The Corbett Report.

In his speech, Corbett highlighted what he described as ‘the moral clarity — the moral sanity’ found in the Kuala Lumpur Initiative’s 2005 declaration that ‘united in the belief that peace is an essential condition for the survival and well being of the human race’, we must affirm that ‘since killings in peace time are subject to the domestic law of crime, killings in war must likewise be subject to the international law of crime’, and that ‘this should be so irrespective of whether these killings in war are authorised or permitted by domestic law’.

Corbett also spoke one-to-one with Dr Mahathir Mohamed — now aged 100 — who discussed the Kuala Lumpur initiative, his own decades-long quest to criminalise war, why world leaders are so reluctant to move on from war, and the secret to his personal longevity.

Watch Corbett’s speech:

Watch Corbett’s interview with Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamed:

 


Original author: The Corbett Report
Publication date: 08.09.2025

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