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Article: WAR CRIMES: The legal process continues for Sharon trial in Belgium

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January 31, 2003
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Israelis have scoffed at Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's war crimes trial in Belgium, but, despite it all, the legal process continues. Indeed, on Tuesday it received a valuable shot in the arm.

Belgium's prime minister, Guy Verhofstadt, declared that he would not oppose a broadening of his country's war crimes law to reconfirm its "universal jurisdiction." Last June, universal jurisdiction was dealt a blow when an appeals court concluded that only suspects living in Belgium could be pursued for war crimes perpetrated outside its borders.

A new law aims to strike this interpretation down and allow Belgian courts to pursue suspects residing abroad. It was backed by all parties in the Senate, ...

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