Kinniken
Riding with William
Originally posted by rmsharpe
Just see how that SOB Melosevic is playing his little circus games there.
He is exerting his right to a fair defense. It won't stop him from being found guilty and sentenced to a life in prison; it will just ensure that his trial is perceived as fair.
I hope that whatever trial Saddam gets has a comparable standards.
What I would prefer would be an ICC-organised trial with a mixture of international judges and local ones, something similar to the East Timor trials. Since the involvement of the ICC is extremely unlikely, a trial run by Iraqis is the best option. I would prefer it to be held in a few years though - Iraq simply does not have the legal infrastructure necessary to hold it now.
Originally posted by SeleucusNicator
Such international organizations declined to aid the war. As with France or Germany, they should not be given any share of its benefits.
The ICC is a court... How could they have aided the war? By sending the judges in the front lines with their little hammers?
All in all, I hope that the trial lives up to the Nuremberg ones.