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American judge in Hague pushes for war crime acquittals
The United Nations war crimes tribunal in The Hague president, an American, pressured other judges into approving the recent acquittals of top Serb and Croat commanders. Judge Meron, a United States citizen who was formerly an Israeli diplomat, applied “tenacious pressure” on his fellow judges in such a way that it “makes you think he […]
ICC releases more political violence suspects
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has dropped charges against Francis Muthaura, a co-accused of Kenya’s presidential election winner Uhuru Kenyatta. Mr Muthaura, a former cabinet secretary, was on the same side as Mr Kenyatta during the disputed 2007 election, following which more than 1,000 people were killed and about 600,000 were left homeless. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-21742410 Mr […]
Manning admits leak “to make the world a better place.”
Pfc. Bradley Manning, hero among antiwar and whistle-blower advocacy groups, confessed in open court to providing vast archives of military and diplomatic files including videos of airstrikes in Iraq and Afghanistan which killed civilians http://youtu.be/GOWMRJM945I to the antisecrecy group WikiLeaks, saying that he wanted the information to become public “to make the world a better […]
Dirty Babylon 