Re: War Crime

[Roger Burton West <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On or about Thu, Jul 26, 2001 at 10:55:57AM -0500, jericson@erinet.com typed:
>You can always charge, even if you don't have jurisdiction. The
>trouble is in enforcing your decision. (People get tried and convicted
>in absentia all over the world every day. If whatever court can't get
>a hold of them, it can't do much to enforce its decision.)
>
>
>Of course, one real question is, who decides what the court will do,
>and how are they held accountable? (Are they any less a despot than
>who they are supposedly trying?)

ObME...

The obvious: "go and get this guy, who's been accused of war crimes,
out of $TINPOT_DICTATORSHIP so that we can put him on trial".

The slightly less obvious: "this retired U.S. soldier has been
accused of war crimes by $TINPOT_DICTATORSHIP; make sure they
don't manage to kidnap him". Of course, the accusations might
or might not be true.

Roger