SADDAM: GUILTY - AND QUICKLY.
The article discusses the outlook for former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein, who is going on trial to answer for his crimes. The U.S. President George W. Bush administration has been determined to show that international courts are not needed. Human rights activists worry about evenhandedness, becaus...
| Publicado en: | New Statesman Vol. 134; no. 4763; pp. 24 - 26 |
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10/24/2005
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