Do you agree with conservatives that Rumsfeld is immune to prosecution in the International Criminal Court?
Rumsfeld’s presence on French territory gives French courts jurisdiction to prosecute him for having ordered and authorized torture and cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of detainees in Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and elsewhere.
In addition, having resigned from his position of U.S. Secretary of Defense a year ago, Rumsfeld can no longer try to claim immunity as a head of state or government official. Nor can he claim immunity as former state official, as international law does not recognize such immunity in the case of international crimes including the crime of torture.
http://ccrjustice.org/newsroom/press-releases/donald-rumsfeld-charged-torture-during-trip-france
http://ccrjustice.org/get-involved/action/demand-rumsfeld-be-charged-torture
2007-11-11 02:54:32 · 5 answers · asked by Enigma 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
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2007-11-11 02:55:29 · update #1
Donald Rumsfeld no longer has immunity from prosecution in an international court. Depending on the nations visited by former presidents and vice presidents, the same lack of immunity can apply. The real question is whether or not French courts would order his arrest and trial.
2007-11-11 03:04:38 · answer #1 · answered by fangtaiyang 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
who're the French to guage Rumsfeld? I basically watched a historic movie "The Algerian conflict" (1965) very last nighttime. that is a eu movie with subtitles. The French as depicted in this movie were brutal in controlling the Algerian inhabitants. a fave word utilized through the French protection force changed into "dirty Arabs". there have been resistance communities between the Algerians. To get training as to the whereabouts and plans of the resistance communities the French used all technique of torture that made waterboarding look like a frat prank. Attaching electrodes to each and each and every ear of a prisoner and frying his mind. Shoving a backyard dampen a prisoners throat. wonderful a prisoner from the ceiling in a horizontal position utilising fishhooks pushed via parts of the body. those were lots of the approaches shown in this movie. They even had a scene the position one prisoner changed into marched to a guillotine set up contained in the reformatory courtyard and decapitated to extra intimidate and cow the prisoners.
2016-10-24 00:59:29 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt it will take down Bush and Cheney because the democrats haven't got the guts to take on the consevatives!
as for him being immune to prosecution.....if his hands are so clean why are the cons so worried about him being prosecuted?
2007-11-11 03:05:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I hope so!
2007-11-11 03:05:00 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
never going to happen......
2007-11-11 10:02:34 · answer #5 · answered by jerry z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋