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To: kronos77; Bokababe; Fred Nerks

Remember, this is the old World Court, originally founded under the League of Nations, to try cases between nations.

It is NOT the ICTY or the ICC, both of which are completely illegitimate kangaroo "courts", devised by the islamist fifth columnst Charif Bassiouni.

It is too bad that that illegitimate entity known as "Bosnia" is considered to have standing to bring cases before the World Court, however!


9 posted on 02/15/2007 7:34:16 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb
It is NOT the ICTY or the ICC, both of which are completely illegitimate kangaroo "courts", devised by the islamist fifth columnst Charif Bassiouni.

HEADLINE: United Nations Human Rights Monitor Loses Mandate, Claims U.S. Pressure

INTRO: A university law professor says his position as an independent U.N. human rights investigator in Afghanistan was abolished under diplomatic pressure from Washington. The United States denies the charge, saying the human rights situation in Afghanistan has sufficiently improved to the point that a special monitor is no longer needed. VOA correspondent Gary Thomas reports from Washington.

TEXT: Charif Bassiouni says his job as a U.N. independent expert on human rights in Afghanistan was not renewed late last month because of his attempts to look into alleged rights abuses by U.S. forces.

Mr. Bassiouni, a professor of law at DePaul University in Chicago, had expected a routine two-year renewal by the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights when his mandate expired last month. But, talking from his Chicago office, Mr. Bassiouni, who had previously served as chairman of the U.N. Security Council's commission investigating war crimes in the former Yugoslavia, says he was warned that there was diplomatic pressure not to extend his Afghan mandate...

http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/library/news/2005/05/mil-050503-3b7d7ae9.htm

21 posted on 02/15/2007 2:38:37 PM PST by Fred Nerks (Read THE LIFE OF MUHAMMAD free pdf download. Link on my bio page.)
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