Ironically the biggest opponents to this treaty are the USA and Israel because they are afraid Sharon will be the first case for his latest war crimes and genocide in Jenin yesterday. He is reported to have participated in the april 10 2002 ( yes april 10) massacre of almost 375 palestinians including women and children . He personally gave the orders to open fire to his reserve solders to retaliate against the killing of 13 of them three days ago in what we all know as an unfair occupation struggle which resulted in those deaths while they were attempting to capture the residents of Jenin defending their town
I hope it passes and I hope America reconsiders or else their credibility will soon be history
HDG
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>Subject: New court makes global justice a reality-Gambia to sign in next few weeks
>Date: Thu, 11 Apr 2002 08:47:42 -0700
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>Guardian Thursday April 11 2002
>According to Guardian an international criminal court
>able to prosecute human rights abusers any where in
>the world will become a reality today despite the
>fierce opposition of US.
>The treaty needs the ratification of 60 countries.The
>court will come into existance on July 1.Seven
>countries due to ratify today are
>Bosnia,Bulgaria,Combodia, Ireland,Monogolia,Romania
>and Slovkia.They will bring the total to 66.
>Acoording to the report, Jordan,Niger,The Democractic
>republic of Congo and Gambia are expected to sign in
>the next few weeks.The tribunal will be based in
>Netherlands and will police abuses worldwide.`
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