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Permanent world war crimes court set to open
Sac Bee ^ | 3/10/03 | Anthony Deutsch - AP

Posted on 03/10/2003 1:02:57 PM PST by NormsRevenge

Edited on 04/12/2004 5:48:41 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) - Locked away in the walk-in vault of the first permanent war crimes court are thick files filled with tales of rape, plunder and devastation from around the world.

One such folio is heavy with witness accounts of sexually abused children, looted homes and the expulsion of thousands of poor villagers from the Central African Republic.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: court; open; permanent; warcrimes; warcrimescourt; world

1 posted on 03/10/2003 1:02:58 PM PST by NormsRevenge
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To: NormsRevenge
We better drop out of this mess ASAP!
2 posted on 03/10/2003 1:04:13 PM PST by mabelkitty
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To: mabelkitty
Wait Please!! at least until the trial of Bill Clinton and Gen. Wesely Clark is held for their Christian Serbian massacre and atrocities.
3 posted on 03/10/2003 1:12:15 PM PST by drypowder
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To: NormsRevenge
As I have said before, the instant any American citizen is charged, a cruise missile should fly into the window.

--Boris

4 posted on 03/10/2003 6:16:28 PM PST by boris
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