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International-UN-NGOs
ICC war crimes trial still not in sight
2008-10-23
(SomaliNet) The beginning of the first, historic, trial by the International Criminal Court in The Hague is still not in sight.

The court's Board of Appeal has ruled that the case against Thomas Lubanga, the Congolese man suspected of war crimes, was correctly adjourned in June. Mr Lubanga is suspected of recruiting and deploying child soldiers in the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

The court adjourned the trial in June due to concerns that Mr Lubanga would not receive a fair hearing. Procedural regulations had prevented his defence lawyers from viewing all the evidence.

Mr Lubanga remains behind bars while steps are taken to determine how the trial can proceed.
Posted by:Fred

#2  For citizens of the world, they take ten years. For citizens of the United States, ten minutes, tops.
Posted by: Skunky Glins 5***   2008-10-23 22:12  

#1  Wait, what? We've had that damned ICC for the last what, ten years or so? IT TOOK THEM TEN YEARS TO PRODUCE A TRIAL?

Fuck.

Bush was wrong; nobody that incompetent is worth wasting political capital to oppose. Yeah, they might talk about trying American servicemen and politicians, but at the rate they move, they'd be bringing up those individuals' heirs and descendants in lieu of the actual victimsdefendants, since they'd have long since died of old age in the interim.
Posted by: Mitch H.   2008-10-23 08:09  

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