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scubadiver
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 Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 8:42 am Post subject: Could G.W.Bush be next on the ICC list? |
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Too much to hope I suppose...
New Zealand Herald
| Quote: | David Crane, an international law professor at Syracuse University, said the principle of law used to issue an arrest warrant for Omar al-Bashir could extend to former US President Bush over claims officials from his Administration may have engaged in torture by using coercive interrogation techniques on terror suspects.
Crane is a former prosecutor of the Sierra Leone tribunal that indicted Liberian President Charles Taylor and put him on trial in The Hague.
Richard Dicker, director of the International Justice Programme at Human Rights Watch, said the al-Bashir ruling was likely to fuel discussion about investigations of possible crimes by Bush Administration officials.
Congressional Democrats and other critics have charged that some of the harsh interrogation techniques amounted to torture, a contention that Bush and other officials rejected.
The prospect of the court ever trying Bush is considered extremely remote, however.
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| Posted: Sun Mar 08, 2009 9:30 am Post subject: Re: Could G.W.Bush be next on the ICC list? |
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| scubadiver wrote: | | Too much to hope I suppose... |
Yeah probably but you never know there might just be enough clever people in this world one of whom who will have a go
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