According to the Associated Press:
The complaint was filed with the Paris prosecutor's office as Rumsfeld arrived in France for a visit, according to the New York-based Center for Constitutional Rights, the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights and two Paris-based groups, the International Federation of Human Rights and the League of Human Rights.French prosecutors will now determine if the charges have any merit, and if Rumsfeld is still protected by any sort of diplomatic immunity, before actually hauling him in.
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The rights groups say their complaint could go forward because people suspected of torture can be prosecuted in France if they are on French soil.
So, if you happen to be at a French airport over the next few days, and you see Rumsfeld trying to sneak out, do what you can to stall him.
Read more about Rumsfeld's charges.
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CRIMES AGAINST PEACE
ReplyDeleteCrimes against peace have been committed,
And would that they were tried,
Condemned, so be it, or acquitted
Defendants as would hide:
If there were justice in the world,
The men behind the deed
Ought have complacency imperiled,
Justice delivered, as would herald
Ghosts of the past be freed.
It was aggression unprovoked
And crime against world peace--
Though much of subterfuge was smoked
So to conceal, appease
The consciences of those involved;
But, I declare again,
With criminal intent resolved
They, wolves not easily out-wolved,
To cheat their fellow men.
Lord, even to the highest reach
Of power´s apparatus,
Let a just judgement, so to teach
Diminishment of status
Be retribution´s recompense
For what they have enacted,
Crimes contrary to common sense,
Crimes against peace, which this day hence
Shall never be redacted.
This people led by charlatans
Yet knew how to discern
The wrong from right, as any man´s
A boy who does not learn;
While this aggressive rape against
The peace be not excused
So easily--be recompensed
With justice, not of wrath incensed
But principle abused.
The quantity of victims need
Not an explicit counting,
Yet let the weight of separate deed
In aggregate amounting
Reveal the clear and present guilt
Of them--cloaked in "preemption"--
That did transgress; no pardon wilt
Though bond were paid by Vanderbilt--
How can there be redemption?
Lord, even criminals as do
Commit crimes against peace
May in repentance come to you--
Nor let such acts as these
By any man prevented be:
However let be made
Explicit verdict, that we see
From heinous trespass none is free
Though he may hide in shade.
The public good will not allow
The crimes to go unnoticed or
Unpunished--cries for justice now
Are heard from victims of this war.