Persian Gulf: The Question of War Crimes : Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, April 9, 1991, Volumul 4

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 51 pagini

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Pagina 31 - Rights says that all human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and to act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.
Pagina 33 - POWs — all these acts of barbarism reaffirmed the need for a new resolve in dealing with war crimes. certain inhumane acts while ensuring the performance of other fundamental guarantees. The four Geneva conventions provide for the protection of the sick and wounded on land, the protection of the sick and wounded at sea and of those who become shipwrecked, the treatment of prisoners of war, and the protection of civilians in times of war. Currently US aid is conditioned on a country's respect for...
Pagina 48 - Iraq accept in principle its liability under international law for any loss, damage or injury arising in regard to Kuwait and third States and their nationals and corporations, as a result of the invasion and illegal occupation of Kuwait.
Pagina 51 - There shall be established after consultation with the Control Council for Germany an International Military Tribunal for the trial of war criminals whose offenses have no particular geographical location whether they be accused individually or in their capacity as members of organizations or groups or in both capacities.
Pagina 15 - President of the Foundation for the Establishment of an International Criminal Court of Santa Barbara, accompanied by Dr.
Pagina 18 - It is significant that both the Nuremberg and Tokyo tribunals dealing with the leading war criminals finally arrived at lists of between 20 and 30 persons. I think that was a wise decision and ought to be followed. The international criminal court should similarly accept indictments against no more than 30 Iraqi leaders, I would think. The coalition partners have already compiled interview and affidavit evidence against various named individuals who could be indicted. Under United Nations Security...
Pagina 4 - Elie Wiesel has emerged as one of the most important spiritual leaders and guides in an age when violence, repression and racism continue to characterize the world.
Pagina 19 - The enormity of the crimes committed by various Iraqi leaders in the Persian Gulf War is a lesson that has to be brought home to the world day after day and week after week as the trial proceeds in its slowly deliberative way. A war crimes trial should not be today's news forgotten tomorrow. Rather, it should be one of the most fundamental lessons in civics that can be taught to the people of the world, especially young people. The lesson is that there is nothing glamorous about wars of aggression;...
Pagina 1 - Charter] may contribute to that end. If those who have the power of decision revert to the concept of unlimited and irresponsible sovereignty, neither this nor any charter will save the world from international lawlessness.
Pagina 50 - Prior to the World War it was the custom for belligerents to insert in their treaties of peace an amnesty clause creating an immunity in relation to one belligerent for all persons who had committed wrongful acts on behalf of or in the service of the other belligerent during the course of the war. Even in the absence of treaty stipulation, an amnesty was one of the legal effects of the termination of war.

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