One wants to engage the local judiciary and the local population. It is important that any kind of post-conflict justice be owned by the people affected.
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America has lost its capacity for being indignant, ... Where has our capacity for indignation gone When a nation loses its respect for the Constitution and its treaties, what is next And leaving even that aside, the next American serviceman who is being tortured -- and we can't go to his rescue -- will show us exactly what we have done.Cherif Bassiouni
It's a terrible irony to see somebody who has done so much for bringing war criminals to trial in the former Yugoslavia...is now being brought up on a charge that he may have embezzled funds in the account of the Mission and only on the basis of a yet unconcluded investigation, ... This has to be a purposeful, political vendetta.
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I'm sure he will keep them alive. The trial is designed to get the American media attention on that particular show that's being staged for us. (Milosevic) will use these men in an illegal way to detract attention from the ethnic cleansing and other crimes that he's committing.
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You will hear conflicting reports coming out of (Yugoslavia), all of it designed to get American attention away from the ethnic cleansing.
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The new judge, by muzzling Saddam and his people, gives the appearance that this is roughshod justice and he'll turn these guys into martyrs.
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