Word: tribunale
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Posada's is a quintessential Cold War story. As a CIA operative in the 1960s, he worked unsuccessfully to overthrow the communist regime of then Cuban leader Fidel Castro (who officially ceded power to his younger brother Raúl last year because of failing health). At the time of...
So engaged was Fujimori in the details of operating the government he had taken over in 1990, in fact, that a special Peruvian tribunal has now concluded that it's hard to believe he didn't also give the nod to a military death squad that massacred civilians during his...
Fujimori insists he's innocent, and his attorneys announced his intention to appeal. In his impassioned testimony last week, he said of the tribunal, "From an ice cube they have tried to find an iceberg." Human rights watchdogs, however, say the evidence presented at Fujimori's 16-month trial, held...
Although the more than 80 witnesses and 500 documents submitted to the tribunal offered no smoking-gun evidence of direct orders to the Colina Group death squad by Fujimori, Judge Cesar San Martin concluded there was "no question" that Fujimori had sanctioned the killings during massacres in 1991 and '92...
Jenny S. Martinez, a professor at Stanford Law School, called these courts the first “international human rights tribunals” in a recent article. As such, they preceded a line of famous international courts, including the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg (1945) and the International Criminal Tribunal...