Dear Dion:
In answer to your post of 13:37 14/11/98 +0800, repeated in full below, all
I can say is taht I agree adn did not propose anything else. I racted to
the sense of priority for the USA which I eprceived in the frtist mesage.
Otehrwise, whoever caqn judge MR Pinochet ina regular ccriminal court is
welcome. I said taht I regret and want to repeat it here, that the
International Crimial Court of Justice project of the UN was stalled by the
USA..
All the ebst,
Yves.
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>Dear Yves,
>
>You queried the right of the US to bring Pinochet to justice, considering
>that the US had condoned or masterminded criminal acts itself. Spain's
>right to try Pinochet has been queried as the Spanish Government had failed
>to punish the Franco thugs. The right of South Africa to try butchers like
>P.W. Botha has been questioned because ANC murders may have gone
>unpunished. Israel's right to try Eichmann was challenged. The Nuremburg
>trials have been dismissed as victors' revenge.
>
>The real fact is that any totally unblemished people's court with power to
>apprehend and punish butchers is a pipe-dream. So is the dream of every
>last criminal being caught and punished. Usually they are punished only
>when it suits someone to punish them, and when it becomes physically
>possible to bring them to justice (e.g. by winning the war in 1945).
>
>However, it suits all humanity for those who violate our rights to be
>punished, and wherever the real-world possibility to do this occurs it is in
>our interests to applaud the process and where possible bring to bear
>pressure on the agents of punishment to get on with it as in the case of
>Pinochet, no matter who the agents are or what they are like, and no matter
>what other criminals remain (so far) unpunished.
>
>Demanding that the British State hand Pinochet over to justice isn't about
>the British or Spanish or any other State judging him, it's *us* judging him
>and his ilk.
>
>Regards, Dion
>-------------------
>Dion Giles
>Fremantle, Western Australia
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