----- Original Message ----- From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at bellatlantic.net> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2001 9:07 PM Subject: RE: universal jurisdiction
>
> >>.
> War Crimes
> NPR's Michele Kelemen reports on the new trend toward "universal
> jurisdiction," in which any country can try anybody for war crimes
committed
> anywhere. Prime Minister Sharon of Israel has put off plans to visit
Belgium
> because of a case in the works there that alleges Sharon allowed a
massacre
> of Palestinians 20 years ago. And several countries want to question
former
> US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about the US role in Chile 25
years
> ago. Kissinger says he's not a criminal. (7:30)
> <<
>
> Didn't America actually start this trend back in the 1790s or early
1800s?.
> I don't know about the U.S., but Israel
> is certainly on the hook for this, in
> light of the kidnapping and trial of
> Eichmann.
>
> mbs
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This stuff has got to be driving the various factions in the American
Bar Association and the American Society for International Law
slightly crazy; their Kantian premises are gonna haunt 'em....
Ian