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Friday, April 01, 2005
FRIDAY'S NATIONAL NEWSPAPERS
War Crimes is the theme of the day.
From the NY Times: U.N. Votes to Send Any Sudan War Crimes Suspects to World Court ("The Security Council voted Thursday night to send any war crimes suspects from the Darfur region of Sudan to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, after the United States obtained amendments to exempt Americans from the tribunal's jurisdiction. The vote of the 15-member Council was 11 in favor, with four abstentions- Algeria, Brazil, China and the United States. The withdrawal of American opposition to sending the cases to the court represented a significant diplomatic change of course for the Bush administration, which vehemently opposes the court and has been insisting for two months that it would block any Security Council move legitimizing it."); Bosnian Serbs Report 900 Under Investigation ("The Bosnian Serb authorities said Thursday that they were investigating nearly 900 officials of their own government to determine whether they had a role in the killings of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys from the town of Srebrenica in 1995 during the war in Bosnia. A commission of inquiry has given Bosnian state prosecutors the names of 892 people accused of some responsibility in the killings, considered the worst mass killing in Europe since the end of World War II.").
From the Washington Post: U.N. Council's Resolution on Atrocities in Sudan is Passed; U.S. Soldier Convicted in Iraqi Shooting Death (another CPT Maynulet story); and this story about coke-head Army pilots ("Five U.S. Army soldiers are under investigation for allegedly trying to smuggle 32 pounds of cocaine out of Colombia aboard a U.S. military aircraft, American officials said. The soldiers were detained Tuesday as a result of the investigation, said Lt. Col. Eduardo Villavicencio, a spokesman for the U.S. military's Southern Command in Florida.").
From the NY Times: U.N. Votes to Send Any Sudan War Crimes Suspects to World Court ("The Security Council voted Thursday night to send any war crimes suspects from the Darfur region of Sudan to the International Criminal Court in the Hague, after the United States obtained amendments to exempt Americans from the tribunal's jurisdiction. The vote of the 15-member Council was 11 in favor, with four abstentions- Algeria, Brazil, China and the United States. The withdrawal of American opposition to sending the cases to the court represented a significant diplomatic change of course for the Bush administration, which vehemently opposes the court and has been insisting for two months that it would block any Security Council move legitimizing it."); Bosnian Serbs Report 900 Under Investigation ("The Bosnian Serb authorities said Thursday that they were investigating nearly 900 officials of their own government to determine whether they had a role in the killings of more than 7,000 Muslim men and boys from the town of Srebrenica in 1995 during the war in Bosnia. A commission of inquiry has given Bosnian state prosecutors the names of 892 people accused of some responsibility in the killings, considered the worst mass killing in Europe since the end of World War II.").
From the Washington Post: U.N. Council's Resolution on Atrocities in Sudan is Passed; U.S. Soldier Convicted in Iraqi Shooting Death (another CPT Maynulet story); and this story about coke-head Army pilots ("Five U.S. Army soldiers are under investigation for allegedly trying to smuggle 32 pounds of cocaine out of Colombia aboard a U.S. military aircraft, American officials said. The soldiers were detained Tuesday as a result of the investigation, said Lt. Col. Eduardo Villavicencio, a spokesman for the U.S. military's Southern Command in Florida.").
