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2008-08-09 Africa Subsaharan

France rejects Rwanda's genocide accusations

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Posted by Fred 2008-08-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 "Command Responsibility" as defined by The Hague tribunals, means: having the power to prevent war crimes and punish war criminals. The French had no such power.

Similarly, the US has been accused of holding "command responsibility" viz the alleged 3000 persons who were either murdered or allowed to die unnecessarily in the custody of the Northern Alliance. Accusations that NA troops killed captives held in containers, have been recorded by US Military Justice authorities. Further, numerous graves of bodies of captives have been found in a small section of Afghanistan. However, CIA operatives were furious when they heard of the deaths. Why? Each death prevented use of a potential intelligence asset. Further, NA operatives were captured on video selling captive Chechens, Uzbeks, Tajiks, and Uighars to states where they were probably tortured to death. Again, the CIA could have questioned same. The story, told as close to objectivity as leftists can get in "Taxi to the Dark Side," and "Afghan Massacre" isn't pretty but bad faith accusations against the CIA are unwarranted.

Attribution of "command responsibility" to US and French officials who didn't lead or direct ground operations, is ludicrous. If UN forces compel same, then that would be a good excuse to turn their East River structure into its destined form: condominiums.

Posted by McZoid 2008-08-09 03:01|| 2008-08-09 03:01|| Front Page Top

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