Comments on: War Crime Tribunals – A Primer

By: ed

ed — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 02:18:35 +0000

August 2009, the possibility seems still in the air:

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheRealNews#p/search/3/Em6pY3DfFbM

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=4102

By: ed

ed — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 01:06:33 +0000

Francis Boyle, a familiar, petitions the Hague to open a case against baby Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Gonzales and hapless Tenet, even though (as discussed in main post above) the US is not a party to the Rome treaty.

The crimes — kidnapping and torture of 100 people.

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/WO1001/S00386.htm

By: ed

ed — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 02:24:16 +0000

Radovan Karadzic will go on trial next week. A Guardian piece looks forward to that -- and back to Srebrenica. Very much worth reading. See the topmost above for a primer on War Crime law, such as it is. And see here for a reminder of what all the shooting was about. A new thread, to follow the trial.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:46:43 +0000

A bit of a stirring on the top, two months into the Obamarama. The NYKer reports on the Brit barrister who wrote a book naming the six Bush-Cheneyites who should be prosecuted. The overseas approach rhymes with what our friend outlined in main post above. Feith. Yoo. Addington. For some reason these three stir my bloodlust the most. Hang them high.

By: ed

ed — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:36:24 +0000

Karadzic at the Hague, running his own defense, refuses to plead to the 11 counts against him. Meanwhile the Belgrade government insists it is wholeheartedly cooperating with western investigators in the search for Ratko Mladic, the general who led the Bosnian Serb forces during the war. Cooperation is a condition to EU membership, which rump Serbia seeks.

By: ed

ed — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:19:28 +0000

Bush is being petitioned by CIA et al to pardon people who committed torture in pursuit of Bush-Cheney truth, justice & american way.

By: ed

ed — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:40:16 +0000

In the wake of Obama's election, thoughts are stirring. The weekend before the election, PBS broadcast its Frontline documentary on the Bush-Cheney torture program: Torturing Democracy. The website for the film (see link above) includes a portion of the sizeable archive of Bush-Cheney documents that have been unearthed by various journalists documenting the regress of the torture program thru the administration's bowels. Is the archive the basis of criminal prosecution, perhaps, once the principals are out from behind the White House fence? And much talk is in the air of shutting down the Guantanamo prison ASAP. Obama of course is a lawyer, and taught some constitutional law. He may be concerned not only to set things aright, but to prevent his own administration from being tainted by the prison. I've wondered elsewhere if Robert Gates may not be kept on at Defense -- rumor has it he may -- to oversee the "dirty work" of shutting the prison down and purging the Pentagon of those responsible for it. I can't think of anything Obama might do on Day One that would more effectively set the tone and set the country back on its course. Gitmo Got to Go!