From: joedees@bellsouth.net
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 11:29:33 MDT
On 4 Aug 2002 at 7:55, rhinoceros wrote:
>
> [rhinoceros 1]
> So many questions and no answers.
>
> <snip>
>
> [rhinoceros 2]
> I forgot two question. Doesn't the UN and its reports stand ridiculed
> and irrelevant when one accused party just dismisses an investigation
> or a request "to submit information" and the international community
> just nods knowingly?
>
Good question, considering that the UN report largely exonerated Israel
of the charges of a massacre in Jenin without Israel even participating
in it.
>
>Is there any historical experience of periods
> characterized by a negation of the established legal structures, or is
> this the first time?
>
It happens all the time in different places. Was it legal for France to
employ commandoes to sink Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior in the
Pacific so it could not interfere with their nuclear tests? Was it legal for
Nigeria to engineer the murder of democratic opposition leader Ken
Sara-Wiri? Was it legal for Myanmar's military junta to hold Aung San
Suu Kyi, Nobel peace Prize winner, under house arrest for years for the
unforgiveable offence of willing a democratic election? And what about
what Vaclav Havel underwent before the Velvet Revolution in
Czechoslovakia?
>
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