In May 2012 Charles Taylor, warlord in Sierra Leone, was sentenced to 50 years in prison for atrocities committed by his Revolutionary United Front.
He was the first former head of state convicted in an international court since Nuremberg.
This "sends a strong signal that no one is above the law," reports Human Rights Watch. "It puts all leaders on notice that the world is increasingly intolerant of those who exploit their positions of power to commit serious crimes."
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/30/sierra-leone-50-year-sentence-charles-taylor
May the leaders of the Islamic State in northern Syria and Iraq soon be arrested and prosecuted for their beheadings of journalists.
May the US have the courage to cease military intervention against ISIL and instead support efforts to gather evidence and capture the leaders in order to bring them before the International Court.
http://www.trackingterrorism.org/content/isis-visuals-leadership-structure-islamic-state-isilisis
When did our intervention in the Middle East ever prove helpful?
Never.
US bombing and invasion there only facilitate the recruitment of more extremists.
Let's get serious about the International Court in The Hague.
For an analysis of US unhelpful intervention--even terrorist intervention--in other countries, listen to World Focus by Blase Bonpane on KPFK on November 9, 2014:
He was the first former head of state convicted in an international court since Nuremberg.
This "sends a strong signal that no one is above the law," reports Human Rights Watch. "It puts all leaders on notice that the world is increasingly intolerant of those who exploit their positions of power to commit serious crimes."
http://www.hrw.org/news/2012/05/30/sierra-leone-50-year-sentence-charles-taylor
May the leaders of the Islamic State in northern Syria and Iraq soon be arrested and prosecuted for their beheadings of journalists.
May the US have the courage to cease military intervention against ISIL and instead support efforts to gather evidence and capture the leaders in order to bring them before the International Court.
http://www.trackingterrorism.org/content/isis-visuals-leadership-structure-islamic-state-isilisis
When did our intervention in the Middle East ever prove helpful?
Never.
US bombing and invasion there only facilitate the recruitment of more extremists.
Let's get serious about the International Court in The Hague.
For an analysis of US unhelpful intervention--even terrorist intervention--in other countries, listen to World Focus by Blase Bonpane on KPFK on November 9, 2014:
- South Africa
- Cuba
- Chile
- Iraq
- and other countries
- Medea Benjamin, winner of the 2014 Distinguished Peace Leadership Award from the International Nuclear Age Peace Foundation, and co-founder of Code Pink,
- Noam Chomsky,
- Ramzy Baroud "Another failed war to rearrange the Middle East" in Counterpunch http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/19/another-failed-war-to-re-arrange-the-middle-east/
- and others.
No comments:
Post a Comment