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Punishing the Wicked
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The World Today
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August 1, 2008
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Punishing the Wicked A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein by John Laughland (Peter Lang Oxford, 2008 £12.99)
jOHN LAUGHLAND MUST BE A HAPPY MAN. IN JUNE, judges of the International Criminal Court, suspending the court's first trial, called a deal between Luis-Moreno Ocampo, the Chief Prosecutor, and the United Nations a 'wholesale and serious abuse' of the rights of the defendant. A leading British commentator invited him to resign.
In July, Ocampo's application to the Court for the arrest of the President of Sudan, Omar Bashir, on charges of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in the Darfur region led the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon to request ...