Word: nuremberg
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...West German President Richard von Weizsacker was accompanied by an extended controversy. Professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz declared that he would protest the decision because he believed that the president had continually denied that his father knew about German war atrocities. Weizsacker had defended his father in the Nuremberg trials...
...years. At issue was the fate of an unknown number of Nazi collaborators who immigrated to Britain after World War II. Previously they could only be charged with war crimes in Britain if they were British citizens when they committed their offenses. Lord Shawcross, Britain's chief prosecutor at Nuremberg, railed against the bill when it was sent to the Queen above the peers' protest. "This is not a house of wimps," he declared. "It is the House of Lords. We are expected by the public to express our view honestly and clearly...
Last week Lord Hartley Shawcross, who was the chief British prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg, warned that "international law will be a dead letter unless we give criminal jurisdiction to the International Court of Justice and set up a mechanism for enforcing its judgments." The use of force against monster regimes will be easier to justify if sanctioned and undertaken by a multilateral body, presumably the U.N. As Desert Storm showed, the U.S. is as well suited to the role of a sheriff leading a posse as to that of the Lone Ranger...
International-law specialists suggest several possibilities for convening a war-crimes tribunal -- each with drawbacks. One would be via the U.N., whose General Assembly endorsed the Nuremberg principles in 1946. The U.N. could designate a panel of judges drawn from the allied coalition as well as from nations that were not involved in the gulf crisis. Such a scheme, however, might face a veto in the Security Council by the Soviet Union or China...
...second option would see the coalition partners convene their own tribunal, using Nuremberg as a model. As in 1945, the judges would be drafted from among the victor nations. Experts caution that this approach might look like "victors' vengeance" and might offend those Arabs who still lionize Saddam. Procedure could also become a sticking point since the coalition partners have different legal systems. A third scheme would have members of the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council convene trials, possibly under Islamic...