1. And as Clark showed Monday, the tribunal will try to put what happened in historical context. 2. But foreign countries and many Cambodians are pressing hard for a tribunal to try them for crimes against humanity. 3. But the tribunal cannot try defendants in absentia. 4. In the past, military tribunals could only try combatants. 5. Later, Seromba worked as a priest in Italy under an assumed name and then went into hiding after the tribunal tried to have him extradited. 6. Natural justice demands that these war criminals should be brought to book, which is what the international tribunal in The Hague is trying to do. 7. President Bush signed an order on Tuesday allowing special military tribunals to try foreigners charged with terrorism. 8. The tribunal tried and sentenced to death a number of the German saboteurs who were caught when they landed off our coast. 9. The tribunal is trying to accomplish in court what United Nations peacekeepers could not do on the ground. 10. This fall, the tribunal will try Dusan Tadic, a Bosnian Serb accused of war crimes who is now in German custody. |