Time runs out for Pinochet

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Mon Apr 19 17:50:14 PDT 1999


On Thu, 15 Apr 1999, Chris Burford wrote:


> The contemptible "Third Way" British Home Secretary, well-named man of
> Straw, ruled today that Pinochet could still be extradited to Spain
> despite the British Law Lords restricting his international
> vulnerability only to charges concerning crimes committed after 1988...
> This is an unprecedented, essentially imperialist, violation of national
> sovereignty . . . . clearly Straw's only motiviation is to
> bolster imperialism by giving [it] a veneer of respectability . . .

Judging from your posts on Kosovo, I felt sure you were for violating national sovereignty in the name of human rights, Chris. I'm interested in what you think is the crucial difference between the two cases.

Michael

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