US Cuts Military Aid to Friendly Nations
Published on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 by OneWorld.net
by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration today cut over $89 million in
military aid to 32 friendly countries because they refused to exempt
U.S. citizens and soldiers from the jurisdiction of the new
International Criminal Court (ICC)--the world's first permanent
tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against
humanity and genocide.
RH wrote:
US Cuts Military Aid to Friendly Nations
Published on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 by OneWorld.net
by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration today cut over $89 million in military aid to 32 friendly countries because they refused to exempt
U.S. citizens and soldiers from the jurisdiction of the new
International Criminal Court (ICC)--the world's first permanent
tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide.
Poor reporting. It not accurate to describe any nation which
would subject an United States citizen to an international
kangaroo court as being friendly to the United States.
David
RH wrote:
US Cuts Military Aid to Friendly Nations
Published on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 by OneWorld.net
by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration today cut over $89 million in
military aid to 32 friendly countries because they refused to exempt
U.S. citizens and soldiers from the jurisdiction of the new
International Criminal Court (ICC)--the world's first permanent
tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against
humanity and genocide.
Poor reporting. It not accurate to describe any nation which
would subject an United States citizen to an international
kangaroo court as being friendly to the United States.
US Cuts Military Aid to Friendly Nations
Published on Wednesday, October 1, 2003 by OneWorld.net
by Jim Lobe
WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration today cut over $89 million in
military aid to 32 friendly countries because they refused to exempt
U.S. citizens and soldiers from the jurisdiction of the new
International Criminal Court (ICC)--the world's first permanent
tribunal to prosecute the perpetrators of war crimes, crimes against
humanity and genocide.
Among the countries whose aid was cut were a number of new democracies
in Central and East Europe--some of which have contributed troops to
bolster the U.S.-led occupation in Iraq--as well as Brazil, Costa
Rica, Peru, Venezuela, Ecuador, South Africa, and several other Latin American and African countries.
"This is the first sanction in U.S. diplomatic history targeted
exclusively at democracies," said Heather Hamilton of the World
Federalist Association (WFA), one of hundreds of non-governmental
groups around the world that have joined in a global coalition in
support of the ICC.
"The administration's ideological opposition to the ICC is
compromising other vital U.S. foreign policy priorities and putting
allies and friendly nations in a difficult position. These nations
cannot be expected to put U.S. nationals above the law that their own
leaders abide and live by." -- Heather Hamilton
... Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International, and the Lawyers
Committee for Human Rights, as well as U.S. allies, including Britain,
which has some 15,000 troops in Iraq, say these fears are greatly
exaggerated and that Washington should ratify the Statute in the
interest of expanding the rule of law and making particularly serious
human rights atrocities punishable by an international tribunal.
the whole article is here:
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines03/1001-01.htm
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