Iraqis Met With War Crimes Experts
In an early step toward creating a war crimes tribunal, Iraqi lawyers and judges have visited international courts in the Netherlands to study the complex procedures, an organizer of the trip said Wednesday.
The March visits brought together Iraqi officials and experts from the International Criminal Court, based in The Hague, and war crimes tribunals for Rwanda, Sierra Leone, East Timor and the former Yugoslavia.
“They discussed practical and legal issues about how you establish a tribunal from the ground up,” said Laurel Miller of Washington-based Institute of Peace, which arranged the visit.
In December, Iraq’s Governing Council was authorized to set up a special tribunal to try war crimes, and U.S. investigators have begun gathering evidence against former President Saddam Hussein and others in his deposed regime.
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