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From Abu Ghraib to the ICC?(Insider Report)
Amid new and increasingly shocking disclosures of torture and other abuses by U.S. personnel at Iraq's Abu Ghraib prison, "China delayed a UN Security Council vote on a controversial measure to extend the immunity of U.S. peace, keeping troops from prosecution for war crimes," reported France's AFP news service on May 22.
Immunity from prosecution by the UN's International Criminal Court (ICC) at The Hague must be renewed annually. In 2002, the Bush administration threatened to veto all UN peacekeeping operations unless the immunity measure was approved. (The appropriate policy, of course, would be not to get involved in such UN military ventures and withdraw from the world body outright.) In addition, Washington has induced 89 countries to sign bilateral immunity accords.
The ICC recognizes a principle called "complementarity," under which the UN's tribunal will forego a prosecution if the offense is adequately prosecuted by an existing national tribunal. This amounts to a tacit recognition of the ICC's primacy, and ...
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- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor June 15, 2004 700+ words
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- The Abu Ghraib scandal, JAKARTA POST.
- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire May 13, 2004 700+ words
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- News wire article from: The America's Intelligence Wire April 18, 2006 700+ words
...court martial of a dog handler in the Abu Ghraib prison scandal. The judge, Marine Lt...of using his dog to abuse inmates at Abu Ghraib, outside Baghdad in Iraq. McConnell...Rumsfeld to testify. Miller was sent to Abu Ghraib by Rumsfeld shortly after the U.S...
Source: HighBeam Research, From Abu Ghraib to the ICC?(Insider Report)