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  • Lawyers ponder US, UK 'war crimes'

    04/14/2003 2:25:40 PM PDT · by Oldeconomybuyer · 18 replies · 276+ views
    Agence France-Presse via The News - Australia ^ | 4-15-03 | From correspondents at the United Nations
    LAWYERS from British and US organisations are looking at the possibility of an international inquiry into war crimes that their governments might have committed in Iraq. "We want to establish regular and impartial procedures to establish whether war crimes have been committed," said Phil Shiner, of the British group Public Interest Lawyers. Shiner spoke at a news conference where Michael Ratner, president of the US Centre for Constitutional Rights, warned that the principle of "victor's justice" was legally unacceptable. "It is not only Saddam's crimes that have to be examined," he said today. The regime of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein...