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Hague tribunal under scrutiny Proponents of permanent international court aim to deter war atrocities
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Mass murderers run for political office. Accused masterminds of
genocide run countries. And the rank-and-file war criminal is likely
to run a local police station.
Such is the state of war crimes prosecution in the world's halls
of justice. Plenty of crimes, few convictions. And then more
crimes, torture, rape, forced labor. It is a bleak picture, human
rights advocates say, one that is giving rise to demands for a
permanent institution to hold the guilty accountable.
The mov...
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Lasting war crimes court urged // Advocates cite Bosnia, Rwanda
Chicago Sun-Times
; THE HAGUE, Netherlands Mass murderers run for political office. Accused masterminds of genocide run countries. And the rank-and-file war criminal is likely to run a local police station. Such is the state of war crimes prosecution in the world's halls of justice. Plenty of crimes, few convictions.
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U.N. Conference to Draft War Crimes Treaty
The Washington Post
; After a century cursed by genocide, the world's nations are preparing to begin a new century equipped to punish and perhaps deter mass human extermination. Beginning in Rome Monday, diplomats and jurists from about 150 countries will meet for five weeks to write a sweeping treaty on international
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War crimes tribunal adopted as US votes `no'
The Boston Globe
; ROME -- Rebuffing US objections, United Nations delegates from 120 countries yesterday resoundingly approved a treaty establishing a permanent international criminal court in what was hailed as a historic step toward ending impunity for the world's most heinous crimes. Delegates from European,
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CLINTON BACKS TREATY FOR JUSTICE TRIBUNAL HELMS TO FIGHT WAR-CRIMES PACT
The Boston Globe
; NEW YORK - In what human rights advocates hailed as a "historic step forward for global justice," President Clinton yesterday authorized the United States to sign a treaty creating the first permanent international criminal court to hold the world's tyrants accountable for genocide and other
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U.N. War Crimes Tribunal Limping Along
The Washington Post
; Another war crimes trial came thudding to a halt last Saturday morning when Milan Kovacevic, a major Bosnian Serb genocide suspect accused of looking the other way as hundreds of Bosnian Muslims and Croats were butchered in death camps he commanded, died of a heart attack at the U.N. detention
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World Court Goes to Trial.(the United Nations is having difficulty investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda because of noncompliance of the governmente, in particular Serbian leader )(Brief Article)
Insight on the News
; The United Nations has established courts to investigate war crimes in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Whether nations can create a permanent world court remains unclear. Louise Arbour, the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, or ICC, is fed up with the absolutely unambiguous,
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WAR CRIMES INQUIRIES.(England accused of dragging it's feet in prosecuting war criminals)
History Today
; Jon Silverman asks whether Britain sporadic and tardy efforts to pursue Nazi war criminals reflects a lack of skill or a lack of will. IN THE LAST DECADE of the twentieth century, the names of some 400 suspects were investigated by British police officers under the 1991 War Crimes Act. Detectives
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GBP 11m bill - and it's still rising WAR CRIMES INVESTIGATION
Evening Standard - London
; It has already cost Britain GBP 11 million to convict one old man of war crimes in the Second World War - as the illustrations on these pages detail. But the investigations - and the spending - are still going on in an effort to bring at least one more suspect to court. From the start, there were
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A LOOK AT. . . War Crimes and Punishment; IT'S A RISKY BUSINESS. What can we gain by prosecuting Serbia's Milosevic and other wartime killers?; Tribunals Are Flawed, but Not Futile
The Washington Post
; Even at the height of his power and influence, Slobodan Milosevic hated the idea of war crimes indictments for Serbian atrocities. In a 1995 meeting with American officials, he went out of his way to ask them to postpone a decision on whether indicted war criminals could hold high office in Bosnia.
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Back permanent court to prosecute war crimes
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
; An article in the Journal Sentinel recently reported the apprehension in Yugoslavia of one indicted alleged criminal under international criminal law; several others have surrendered and one actually has been tried. Also reported was the capture of Pol Pot, and the request of the Cambodian
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