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Tony Towner's Fridge

Tony Towner's Fridge

Well-known member
Aug 22, 2003
5,384
GLASGOW,SCOTLAND,UK
Gets 40 years...hanging would have been too good for the b*****d! To think he will be out of prison when he is 110 is worrying. What atrocities would he be capable of then I ask? Apart from soiling his own underwear.....


TNBA

TTF
 






glasfryn

glasfryn

cleaning up cat sick
Nov 29, 2005
20,261
somewhere in Eastbourne
when captured he was working as a faith healer...........................................................WTF
 


















Everest

Everest

Me
Jul 5, 2003
20,741
Southwick
Sussex Nomad said:
:thumbsup: I'm not doing thumbs up because it always goes red and shows thumbs down
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It only goes red for you in case you want to take the thumbs up away again.
 










Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Aug 18, 2009
65,388
Beside the seaside, beside the sea
Leekbrookgull said:
What is the accepted definition of a war crime ?
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1420133.stm


Article 147 of the Fourth Geneva Convention defines war crimes as: "Wilful killing, torture or inhuman treatment, including... wilfully causing great suffering or serious injury to body or health, unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement of a protected person, compelling a protected person to serve in the forces of a hostile power, or wilfully depriving a protected person of the rights of fair and regular trial, ...taking of hostages and extensive destruction and appropriation of property, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly."
This, international lawyers say, is the basic definition of war crimes.
The statutes of The Hague tribunal say the court has the right to try suspects alleged to have violated the laws or customs of war in the former Yugoslavia since 1992. Examples of such violations are given in article 3:
Wanton destruction of cities, towns or villages, or devastation not justified by military necessity
Attack, or bombardment, by whatever means, of undefended towns, villages, dwellings, or buildings
Seizure of, destruction or wilful damage done to institutions dedicated to religion, charity and education, the arts and sciences, historic monuments and works of art and science
Plunder of public or private property.
The tribunal defines crime against humanity as crimes committed in armed conflict but directed against a civilian population. Again a list of examples is given in article 5:
Murder
Extermination
Enslavement
Deportation
Imprisonment
Torture
Rape
Persecutions on political, racial and religious grounds.
Genocide is defined by the tribunal as "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".
But the law on war crimes is continually evolving.
In February 2001, the tribunal in The Hague delivered a ruling that made mass systematic rape and sexual enslavement in a time of war a crime against humanity.
Mass rape, or rape used as a tool of war, was then elevated from being a violation of the customs of war to one of the most heinous war crimes of all - second only to genocide.
 










Thunder Bolt

Thunder Bolt

Silly old bat
Aug 18, 2009
65,388
Beside the seaside, beside the sea
GT49er said:
Whoosh yourself.

There is no mention of, or reference to, Adam Johnson in "Would he have got such a harsh sentence if he wasn't a famous politician?"
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There is within the AJ thread although you could be forgiven for not knowing.
Of course 8,000 people dead in a genocide is ripe for scoring points on a messageboard and having 'fun'.
 




Eeyore

Eeyore

Colonel Hee-Haw of Queen's Park
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