Re: War Crime

[Roger Burton West <roger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 03:58:49PM -0400, CamaroGen1@aol.com wrote:
>    How about having the cell acused of "crimes against humanity"? LOL
>        Would they stand up to the charges? or never go to that country again?

On Sat, Jul 28, 2001 at 10:30:02AM +0100, Mike Fortey wrote:
>Court of human rights is cross-juristictional AFAIK...
>ie 'not going there again' isn't going to help.. they
>can be arrested elsewhere.

Depends on the context - if Iraq makes the accusation, it's unlikely to
be taken very seriously. To get a major country to make the accusation
would take a hell of a balls-up on the mission... they're not even going
to start unless they can be reasonably sure of a conviction, after all.

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Roger Burton West - roger@firedrake.org - gamer since 1984
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