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Posts Tagged ‘genocide’

The wheels of justice are turning

By Fred • Jul 22nd, 2008 • Category: Articles

As the International Criminal Court reviews its Chief Prosecutor’s request for an arrest warrant against Sudanese President al-Bashir, another genocide suspect was finally arrested this week - in Serbia.
Radovan Karadžic - a former poet, psychiatrist, politician, ally of Slobodan Miloševic and (from December 1992) Supreme Commander of the Serbian armed forces - is charged with [...]



ICC and al-Bashir

By Will • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: Articles, Opinions

The following was in yesterday’s New York Times. Interested to hear views on this debate.
July 17, 2008
Op-Ed Columnist [link]
Prosecuting Genocide
By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF
Many aid workers and diplomats suffered a panic attack when the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court sought an arrest warrant this week for the president of Sudan, Omar Hassan al-Bashir, for [...]