GUANTÁNAMO
Centuries — nay, eons — to hone an accepted and viable judicial system set on a foundation of developed law and precedent, all but ground underfoot by the ‘make it up as we go along, the King cannot be wrong’ presumptions of the woebegone G. Walker administration. The world screams “Nay.”
The United Nations has registered its unease over the military trial of Canadian terror suspect Omar Khadr.
Radkhika Coomaraswamy, the UN Special Representative for Children in Armed Conflict, complained Tuesday to the secretary of state’s top legal adviser, John Bellinger.
“She raised her concerns about the creation of an international precedent where an individual is being tried for war crimes with regard to alleged acts committed when he was a child,” said spokeswoman Laurence Gerard.
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Human rights groups say his military trial contravenes the Optional Protocol of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which the United States has signed.
The protocol says youths under the age of 18 in armed conflict are entitled to special protection. Article
guantanamo is ahell..dont ever dream to go there
Comment by doshdosh — May 20, 2008 @ 11:07 pm on Tuesday the 20th