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Posted On: 07/19/2020 9:24:38 AM
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Nuremberg Prosecutor’s Warning About Trump’s War on the Rule of Law
IT NEVER ENDS
I was a prosecutor at Nuremberg. I know an attempt to thwart the law and flout international norms when I see one. And I see one.
Benjamin B. Ferencz
Published Jul. 19, 2020 5:03AM ET
Given the death toll from COVID-19 and the continuing public outcry over police brutality in the United States, it may have gone largely unnoticed that on June 11, President Trump issued an executive order targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hague-based war crimes tribunal that the United States has refused to join.
The order, which has prompted harsh condemnation from the international justice community and other concerned stakeholders, comes on the heels of a recent ruling by the ICC authorizing an impartial investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have been committed by the various parties to the conflict in Afghanistan.
IT NEVER ENDS
I was a prosecutor at Nuremberg. I know an attempt to thwart the law and flout international norms when I see one. And I see one.
Benjamin B. Ferencz
Published Jul. 19, 2020 5:03AM ET
Given the death toll from COVID-19 and the continuing public outcry over police brutality in the United States, it may have gone largely unnoticed that on June 11, President Trump issued an executive order targeting the International Criminal Court (ICC), the Hague-based war crimes tribunal that the United States has refused to join.
The order, which has prompted harsh condemnation from the international justice community and other concerned stakeholders, comes on the heels of a recent ruling by the ICC authorizing an impartial investigation into war crimes and crimes against humanity alleged to have been committed by the various parties to the conflict in Afghanistan.
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