War Crimes: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on International Law, Immigration, and Refugees of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, March 13, 1991U.S. Government Printing Office, 1991 - 194 pages |
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... actions . If we fail to uphold this principle in the current situation , we run the risk of sanctioning future aggression . We would also diminish the values and principles that led us to take action in the first place . Mr. Chairman ...
... actions . If we fail to uphold this principle in the current situation , we run the risk of sanctioning future aggression . We would also diminish the values and principles that led us to take action in the first place . Mr. Chairman ...
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... actions . Without such a step , we will only be sanctioning future aggressive acts by offering no punishment or deterrence . " The last tribunais that were established to try war crimes , in Nuremberg , Germany , and Tokyo , Japan ...
... actions . Without such a step , we will only be sanctioning future aggressive acts by offering no punishment or deterrence . " The last tribunais that were established to try war crimes , in Nuremberg , Germany , and Tokyo , Japan ...
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... actions of the Iraqi military . We asked them to put their lives in harm's way to do what was right . Today , we are here to continue our Nation's effort to ensure the fulfill- ment of justice and the rule of law . We are here to see ...
... actions of the Iraqi military . We asked them to put their lives in harm's way to do what was right . Today , we are here to continue our Nation's effort to ensure the fulfill- ment of justice and the rule of law . We are here to see ...
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... actions which had not yet been declared to be criminal -- an ex post facto accusation . I am certainly not going to reargue this issue nearly half a century later , and I have brought it up now as a reminder that when the President ...
... actions which had not yet been declared to be criminal -- an ex post facto accusation . I am certainly not going to reargue this issue nearly half a century later , and I have brought it up now as a reminder that when the President ...
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... action , to simply bring a Saddam Hussein to justice ? To punish as we do in an American court when somebody has committed a crime like some of these Iraqis obviously did of stealing property from the Kuwaitis ? You saw all of the ...
... action , to simply bring a Saddam Hussein to justice ? To punish as we do in an American court when somebody has committed a crime like some of these Iraqis obviously did of stealing property from the Kuwaitis ? You saw all of the ...
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Page 172 - ... a) killing members of the group; b) causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
Page 65 - Each High Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts.
Page 172 - Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: "(a) Killing members of the group; "(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group...
Page 70 - Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it.
Page 74 - Prisoners of war are in the hands of the enemy Power, but not of the individuals or military units who have captured them. Irrespective of the individual responsibilities that may exist, the Detaining Power is responsible for the treatment given them. Prisoners of war may only be transferred by the Detaining Power to a Power which is a party to the Convention and after the Detaining Power has satisfied itself of the willingness and ability of such transferee Power to apply the Convention.
Page 179 - Observing that, in the Convention on the Non-Applicability of Statutory Limitations to War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity, "inhuman acts resulting from the policy of apartheid...
Page 76 - Prisoners of war shall have the right to make known to the military authorities in whose power they are, their requests regarding the conditions of captivity to which they are subjected. They shall also have the unrestricted right to apply to the representatives of the Protecting Powers either through their prisoners...
Page 75 - Prisoners of war shall be allowed to send and receive letters and cards. If the Detaining Power deems it necessary to limit the number of letters and cards sent by each...
Page 173 - Agreement for the Prosecution and Punishment of Major War Criminals of the European Axis...
Page 75 - ... hospital, every internee shall be enabled to send direct to his family, on the one hand, and to the Central Agency provided for by Article 140, on the other, an internment card similar, if possible, to the model annexed to the present Convention, informing his relatives of his detention, address and state of health.