Uncivil Rights

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Friday, December 03, 2004

This is from a German newspaper:
Claim against Rumsfeld filed
U.S. activists turn to German court for investigations of Abu Ghraib

03. Dezember 2004 By Kristina Merkner


Germany's federal prosecutors have been asked to launch investigative proceedings against members of the U.S. cabinet.
A U.S. human rights group filed war crime charges against U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other senior U.S. officials and military officers early this week, saying they were responsible for the torture and humiliation of Iraqi prisoners by U.S. soldiers at Abu Ghraib.
Even though both the plaintiffs and the suspects are American, the complaint was filed on Tuesday with federal prosecutors at the Bundesgerichtshof in Karlsruhe. The human rights organization, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), led by its president Michael Ratter, said the case could be tried in Germany based on a law passed in 2002. It stipulates that human rights violations and war crimes can be prosecuted in Germany regardless of where they took place and where the perpetrators are from...

It's kind of pathetic when Americans turn on Americans in other countries...
totalkaosdave, 6:08 PM
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