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...Chilean court's decision may be the ultimate vindication of Judge Balthazar Garzon, the Spanish activist prosecutor who authored Pinochet's arrest pending extradition in Britain two years ago. Until then, putting Pinochet on trial in Chile had seemed unthinkable, with the military having only allowed a return to civilian rule in exchange for immunity. But the general's detention in Britain for 18 months, followed by the election of center-left prime minister Ricardo Lagos, who had once been a political prisoner under Pinochet, emboldened his accusers. Indeed, the general eluded a Spanish courtroom only by convincing a panel...
...atop the human-rights wave right now is Baltazar Garzon, 43, a hard-charging investigative judge of Spain's National Court. Two years ago, he began looking into human-rights abuses against Spanish citizens in Argentina, which were linked to Chile by a scheme called Operation Condor. With this plan, Pinochet and other South American junta leaders pooled their deadliest secret-police units to crush resistance to their rule. Garzon concluded that Pinochet is not covered by the traditional legal tenet, called sovereign immunity, one aspect of which protects national leaders from prosecution. Garzon argues that it does not apply...
...soon-to-be-born international criminal court. Washington refused to sign on last summer out of fears that overzealous prosecutors might launch frivolous or malicious war-crimes cases against American troops abroad, or even decision makers at home. Now, if courts around the world begin to step in as Garzon has done, the U.S. could decide that a well-designed tribunal with established procedures would be better than worrying about that midnight knock on the door...
Booby Trap. In Hayward, Calif., cops grabbed Burglar Marcus Garzon after he tried to break into the police station because he thought it was closed for the night...