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Old April 24th, 2003, 03:17 AM
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Default Re: [OT] Another heated discussion about the Iraq siutation, war and politics.

Here is a link to an article from BBC on war crimes regarding Yugoslavia:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1420133.stm

For those who are lazy:
Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva convention defines war crimes as: "Wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including . . . wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial, . . . taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly."

I do not claim to be capable of judging GWB on those charges. But I would certaninly like to see an investigation.

But there won't be any, cause "the rules don't apply for Americans":
(Quote from the article) "In 1998, 120 countries signed up to a resolution in Rome calling for the formation of an International Criminal Court.
Only seven members of the United Nations voted against the resolution. The most prominent of these being the United States which argued that the court might be ineffective and become a tool for politically motivated prosecutions of Americans."

And AFAIK "the President got imunity", so its not possible to raise a civil case in the US either.
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