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Appalling crimes have been committed, but proving that a particular suspect is guilty of a specific atrocity, as is legally required, will be difficult. The Nuremberg tribunal was aided greatly by meticulous Nazi record keeping; no such paper trail of official orders and reports is likely to turn up in...
Legal scholars believe that a special tribunal, rather than any single nation's courts, would be the appropriate venue. Says Jochen Frowein, of the Max Planck Institute for International Law in Heidelberg: "A Security Council resolution setting out in detail how existing provisions on war crimes shall be applied is...
The new tricolor flag of democratic Russia looked as if it had been hastily tacked to the courtroom wall underneath a metal emblem with the Soviet hammer and sickle. The 13 judges, seated at a nearby tribunal, did not appear to be completely comfortable in their new black robes with...
The special tribunal concluded that prosecutors had not proved their case. They had charged that Papandreou ordered state companies to deposit funds in the private bank at a time when its owner was suspected of embezzlement. Papandreou was also accused of taking bribes from the bank owner.
"The vote in the Senate will be received by the American public as nothing more than a tribunal...passing judgement without any modicum of legal parameters guiding their proceedings," Dominguez said.