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- Hussein Execution: Curzon’s Two Cents
The controversy surrounding Hussein’s execution has been aggravated by a crude video of the hanging in the last hours of 2006. This probably goes without saying, but be warned that this is a poor-quality snuff film and shouldn’t be viewed by the faint of heart.
One theological commentator had this to say:
[Saddam Hussein] shouldn’t have [...]
- Hussein Execution Upheld: 30-day Countdown
An Iraqi appeals court has upheld a ruling that Saddam Hussein should hang for crimes against humanity.
Under the statute governing the Iraqi High Tribunal, the death sentence must be carried out within the next 30 days.
A number of commenters have come out for or against the execution of Hussein over the past two years. [...]
- Mengistu Guilty!
I’ve previously covered Mengistu’s exile in Zimbabwe, and the plight of his henchmen in the Italian Embassy. (Mengistu was the military dictator of Ethiopia for 15 years, instigator of the “Red Terror” and the devastating famine that ruined the country, and much more bloodshed.) Mengistu has finally been find guilty in absentia, more [...]
- French Judge issues warrant for Rwandan President
(Europe’s peculiar approach to “human rights” laws have been previously discussed here, here, and here.)
The West didn’t lift a proverbial finger to help Rwanda during the 1994 genocide that left 900,000 citizens dead. Yet now the Paris prosecutor’s office has approved warrants for the arrest of Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame and other military and [...]
- Korea admits Tokyo War Crimes Tribunals Void?
Via the Marmot (here and here), the Korean government Truth Commission on Forced Mobilization under the Japanese Imperialism has cleared 83 of 148 Koreans convicted by the Allies of war crimes during World War II. On what grounds? Turns out the Koreans were victims of Japanese imperialism, suffering the “double pain”Â? of [...]
- Abortion Laws, Worldwide
Click for enlarged map. Via Wikipedia.
- D.R. Congo “Justice”
The BBC has a pretty terrifying article about “justice” in the DR Congo:
“I’ve already paid the judge, so why should I pay you too?” is a question lawyers have to contend with from their clients.
Lawyer Octavius Nasena recounts a case when someone dared to question why his opponent in a property dispute had brazenly given [...]
- Debating dual-citizenship
After 30 years, Canada’s federal government is looking to review its dual-citizenship laws. About 90 countries, including the US, officially allow dual or multiple citizenship. Canada has 500,000 dual/multiple citizens within its borders now, and an unknown number living abroad. 200,000 people in Hong Kong alone have Canadian passports.
The debate over dual-citizenship was accelerated during [...]
- Kissinger Responds
At a speech at the Commonwealth Club in July 11, 2001, Kissinger was asked to comment on the then-recent article by Christopher Hitchens in Harpers, which said that Kissinger should be tried for war crimes. Kissingers responded:
On the one hand, the evolution of an international criminal court can represent a great progress in international [...]
- It Only Matters If You’re Dead - Europe
As usual, Europe ignores smaller problems like North Korea, the Sudan, Iraq, Iran and others to focus on more important things, such as warping history, making free speech a crime and generally overlegislating. If you haven’t guessed already, it’s France.
French Lawmakers Approve ‘Armenian Genocide’ Bill
PRAGUE, October 12, 2006 (RFE/RL)—France’s lower house of parliament, the [...]
