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>>The court will now launch an investigation into events surrounding
the killing
> of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children at the Sabra and
> Shatila
> refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982, Le Soir reported.
> The complaint was filed under a 1993 law allowing Belgian courts to
> prosecute foreign officials for human rights violations committed outside
> Belgium.<<
>
I'm assuming that this means if Sharon or Hussein are ever on
Belgium soil. Otherwise it is hard to see where Belgium would have the
authority to arrest them. Even if they were on Belgium soil its a little
presumptuous for Belgium to take it upon itself to take on the role of the
international law giver. This is the reason the Hague, despite its
misgivings and lack of real judicial power, was established.
>>Will Milosevic soon have a cell mate?<<
Doubtful. The only reason Slob is on trial at the Hague is that
Yugoslavia needs Western cash. According to a report on NPR polls taken in
Yugoslavia show people think Milosevic is a criminal (bear in mind not a war
criminal) for embezzeling money from the government and extortionist
practices against Yugoslavian and international businesses. For that reason
they feel he should be tried and imprisoned in Yugoslavia for these crimes.
=================================
From CNN.com, April 2, 2001
=================================
The U.S. secretary of state has decided that Yugoslavia qualifies
for $50 million aid, following the arrest of Slobodan Milosevic. The U.S. had
threatened to cut off the aid if Yugoslavia did not co-operate
with a U.N. war crimes tribunal request that Milosevic be handed over by the
end of March. A senior U.S. official told CNN that Milosevic's arrest on Sunday was a
"significant factor" in Colin Powell's decision -- although further
co-operation with the war crimes tribunal would be expected. The tribunal wants
Milosevic to be handed over to face the charges over
atrocities committed against ethnic Albanians in Kosovo...
...It is not yet clear that the former president -- arrested on
charges of stealing state funds during his 13-year rule -- actually will be
sent to the tribunal.
Yugoslav President Vojislav Kostunica has repeatedly refused to
extradite Milosevic -- who was overthrown in a popular revolt last year --
insisting he should be tried at home for corruption and other alleged
crimes.
================================
End of article
================================
The only way Sharon or Hussein could face trial in Belgium is if
they ever stepped foot on Belgium soil or if the government of those two
countries arrested them and sent them there. The international community has
no leverage on either state nor are either of these leaders, despite their
current and past hardships, in danger of some internal faction arresting
them and sending them to Belgium.
Steve
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> Will Milosevic soon have a cell mate?
> flw
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> THE COURIER MAIL
> Belgian trial for Sharon
>
> 02jul01
>
> A BELGIAN judge has ruled that a complaint against Israel's Prime
> Minister Ariel Sharon, accusing him of crimes against humanity, would
> be admissible in a Brussels court, a Belgian newspaper reported yesterday.
>
> The court will now launch an investigation into events surrounding the
> killing
> of hundreds of Palestinian men, women and children at the Sabra and
> Shatila
> refugee camps in Lebanon in 1982, Le Soir reported.
> The complaint was filed under a 1993 law allowing Belgian courts to
> prosecute foreign officials for human rights violations committed outside
> Belgium.
>
> Also a complaint against Iraqi President Saddam Hussein for alleged
> crimes against humanity was ruled admissible in Belgium.
>
> In Jerusalem, the fate of a Middle East peace plan hung in the balance
> yesterday as fresh violence stymied efforts to establish a seven-day
> period of calm supposed to precede the key steps of an agreement.
>
> Israeli soldiers killed two Palestinians trying to plant a bomb along a
> West Bank road, while an Israeli-Arab motorist was injured slightly
> when Palestinian gunmen fired on his car.
>
> The violence followed a meeting between Palestinian leader Yasser
> Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres at the Socialist
> International
> meeting in Lisbon in a bid to calm tensions.
>
> Palestinian witnesses said a dawn gunbattle between Israeli soldiers
> and Palestinian gunmen ensued after the two Palestinians, one of whom
> served as a policeman in Mr Arafat's security forces, were killed near
> the West Bank town of Jenin.
>
> Officials said the two planned to set off the bomb as Jewish settlers
> passed by later in the day in a procession. In other West Bank violence
> the army said shots were fired from a Palestinian village of Sheikh
> Shiban at an Israeli truck driven by an Israeli-Arab.
>
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