Iraqi Council to Set Up Tribunals

[DUreader]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-2910377,00.html



BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq's first postwar national
political body said on Tuesday it would set up a
high commission to run a special court system to
try former members of Saddam Hussein's regime
and others accused of crimes against humanity.

A Human Rights Watch official, however,
challenged the plan saying it would put former
victims of Saddam and his regime in the position
of judging their tormentors and might not result in
justice.

Entifadh Qanbar, spokesman for the Iraqi National
Congress - whose leader Ahmad Chalabi is a
member of the 25-seat Governing Council, said
bringing members of the former regime to justice
was among the most pressing issues facing the
newly established council.

[TahitiNut]

1. Totally wrong-headed!

We have an excellent and effective model for such endeavors. South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission set the bar for post-overthrow "justice". Kangaroo courts serve only further repression.

[Enraged_Ape]

2. Tribunals - AKA Kangaroo courts - Another great American legacy

I tell you, it's getting harder and harder for me to come here every day. It's just so overwhelmingly depressing.

[lanlady]

3. great--start by putting Rummie and Bush Sr. on trial--

--as the folks who sold Saddam the bad shit in the first place and propped him up in the 80s.

[dArKeR]

6. Would they have the authority to charge anyone? Bush, Cheney, Perle...

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[NNN0LHI]

4. Think about this for a moment

We are going to have an illegal hand picked bunch of crimminals giving tribunals to members of the legal government that was in power? Hmmm. Something ain't right here.

Don

[I AM SPARTACUS]

5. doesn't seem the sorta thing that Iraqis would cotton to, does it?

'course, when you consider that Amurhikkkans have had more-or-less exactly that since Selection 2000...