Michael Ratner: Prosecution of Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld will have to be done in other countries as Obama has refused to pursue it. PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay, coming to you…
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Michael Ratner: Prosecution of Bush Cheney and Rumsfeld will have to be done in other countries as Obama has refused to pursue it.
2000 Announcement for The Pinochet Papers The arrest of General Augusto Pinochet in October 1998 was a wake-up call to tyrants everywhere. The two subsequent rulings by the British House of Lords rejecting his claim of immunity forged legal history….
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http://www.democracynow.org/1998/12/9/debate_over_international_criminal_court The proceedings against former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet have sparked a debate within the human rights community about future actions against human rights abusers and the establishment of an international criminal court. At issue is how to treat officials…
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The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States (OAS) issued a land mark ruling in October 1993, declaring that it would hear the merits of the claims of 285 Panamanian civilians who were victims of the…
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