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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... effective . I want to congratulate you and your committee again for commencing your subcommittee's ac- tivities for this Congress with your oversight into this topic . It's certain to produce beneficial results for the Congress , for ...
... effective . I want to congratulate you and your committee again for commencing your subcommittee's ac- tivities for this Congress with your oversight into this topic . It's certain to produce beneficial results for the Congress , for ...
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... effective system of international cooperation for the prevention and control of international criminality . For too long , such roadblocks have allowed ruthless dictators and tyrannical regimes to carry out shocking 26.
... effective system of international cooperation for the prevention and control of international criminality . For too long , such roadblocks have allowed ruthless dictators and tyrannical regimes to carry out shocking 26.
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... effectively repress a number of international and transnational crimes like terrorism and drug trafficking . The idea of such a court , however , is not new . The first was established as long ago as 1474 , in Breisach , Germany . There ...
... effectively repress a number of international and transnational crimes like terrorism and drug trafficking . The idea of such a court , however , is not new . The first was established as long ago as 1474 , in Breisach , Germany . There ...
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... effective international cooperation against drug trafficking and terrorism . In Congressional hearings , however , Secretary of State Baker indicated his interest in the idea . The American Bar Association has also expressed support for ...
... effective international cooperation against drug trafficking and terrorism . In Congressional hearings , however , Secretary of State Baker indicated his interest in the idea . The American Bar Association has also expressed support for ...
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... effective way of doing it , provided the regional court would also have , by collateral agree- ments with other countries , the assistance necessary to obtain evi- dence . As you know , today terrorism and drug crimes are crimes that ...
... effective way of doing it , provided the regional court would also have , by collateral agree- ments with other countries , the assistance necessary to obtain evi- dence . As you know , today terrorism and drug crimes are crimes that ...
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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.