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2004-01-29 Africa: East

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Posted by Steve White 2004-01-29 1:39:28 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Striking lawyer Christopher Black told the BBCâs Network Africa programme that the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was being used as a political tool for the United States.

Huh? How?

Posted by Patrick Phillips 2004-1-29 2:23:37 AM|| 2004-1-29 2:23:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 This is exactly the kind of circus you get with "international tribunals."

These people are war criminals, genocidal monsters, not some guy who killed his wife. Layout the evidence. If the defence lawyers don't want to do the trial, get rid of them and get some who will.

Fair trial. Then execute the bastards

Posted by RMcLeod 2004-1-29 3:21:21 AM|| 2004-1-29 3:21:21 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 Too bad the reavers didn't strike while the genocide was in progress. Maybe the deathtoll would have been smaller if the war-criminals had been more organized.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-1-29 1:06:59 PM|| 2004-1-29 1:06:59 PM|| Front Page Top

#4 Might have gotten the goods on Kofi and Chiraq.

I just ran across this:

Rwanda May Indict French Military for Their Role in 1994 Genocide
By Brian Carnell
Monday, September 16, 2002
Last month Reuters reported that Rwanda may try to indict several French military officers for their alleged role in aiding the 1994 genocide in that country as well as providing protection for the former Rwandan government as it fled the country in the summer of 1994.
In 1998, a French parliamentary commission looked into the charges and found that there had been "errors of judgment" but no direct French participation in genocide.
Beginning in 1990, the French government had been a major supporter of the Hutu-led government, supplying it with large amounts of military aid and training, including the loaning of French officers. The charges surrounding the French involvement with the genocide include:

Found at brian.carnell.com 9/25/02

Posted by Anonymous2U 2004-1-29 1:17:10 PM|| 2004-1-29 1:17:10 PM|| Front Page Top

#5 Well, when they resolve this strike and finish with the Rwanda backlog....and Milosevic.....they should be ready to deal with Saddam, right? It will only take about another 500 years or so....

Posted by Desert Blondie 2004-1-29 1:55:11 PM|| 2004-1-29 1:55:11 PM|| Front Page Top

#6 These yoyos make the 9th Circus look good. I thought that was impossible, but gee...

Like Shakespeare said, "shoot all the lawyers". We'd have a much more peaceful world afterwards.

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