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Article: Clinton on path to world tribunal.
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- May 6, 1998
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NEW YORK - The Clinton administration hopes a new war-crimes tribunal for Cambodia will not only bring Khmer Rouge leaders to a long-delayed justice, but underscore its argument for a permanent court to try crimes against humanity.
"It reinforces the view that we need to establish a more permanent court," America's ambassador to the United Nations, Bill Richardson, said in an interview last week. "Human rights violators and perpetrators of . . . the most profound genocide in history need to be tried."
But congressional leaders in Washington complained they were not consulted about a tribunal for Cambodia and said the United States would bear a ...