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World Court Prosecutor Seeks Gadhafi Arrest Warrant
[An Nahar] The U.N. war crimes court's chief prosecutor said Monday he would seek arrest warrants against Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi, his son Saif al-Islam and his intelligence head for crimes against humanity.Good idea! Toss 'em in the same cell as Omar al-Bashir... Oh. Wait. "Today, the office of the prosecutor requested the  International Criminal Court... where Milosevich died of old age before being convicted ... (issue) arrest warrants," Luis Moreno-Ocampo said at a presser in The Hague, where the International Criminal Court is based. The Argentinean prosecutor said there was evidence "that Moammar Gadhafi personally ordered attacks on innocent Libyan civilians". A panel of ICC judges will now have to decide whether to accept or reject the prosecutor's application, based on his case file. Moreno-Ocampo announced on March 3 he was opening an investigation into human rights ...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... abuses in Libya as the anti-regime revolt entered its fourth month in the North African country. His investigation targeted eight people, including Gadhafi and three of his sons. Protests against Gadhafi's four-decade rule began on February 15 with Moreno-Ocampo saying thousands of people have been killed in the violence and around 750,000 people forced to flee, according to U.N. figures. Posted by: Fred 2011-05-17 |
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