Gaddafi death possible violation of international law
AB12:
U.N. rights office urges inquiry into Gaddafi death
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/10/21/us-libya-un-gaddafi-idUSTRE79K40X20111021
Gaddafi Moment of Capture Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEmt5Uo_MFM
Gaddafi's Libya threatened Africa's subordinate Role
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pki3N8WA1Po
Wildman78:
Alright, then what?
soflorattler:
Really...
AB12:
If Gaddafi was executed without a trial, our government, NATO, and the NTC have committed a serious war crime. If a group of kidnappers abducts someone and one of the kidnappers shoots and kills the abductee, all parties involved are culpable for the crime of murder (not simply kidnapping). This military escapade started out illegal under U.S. domestic law under the War Powers Resolution and it ended illegal under international law under the Geneva Conventions. There is a reason the government has attempted to distract us by announcing the end of the Iraq War a day later. Let us set aside political loyalties that so easily blind and examine this more closely. It is very serious.
The Geneva Conventions of 1949
http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/treaties-customary-law/geneva-conventions/index.jsp
War Powers Resolution
http://loc.gov/law/help/war-powers.php
Wildman78:
Quote from: AB12 on October 22, 2011, 08:32:55 AM
If Gaddafi was executed without a trial, our government, NATO, and the NTC have committed a serious war crime. If a group of kidnappers abducts someone and one of the kidnappers shoots and kills the abductee, all parties involved are culpable for the crime of murder (not simply kidnapping). This military escapade started out illegal under U.S. domestic law under the War Powers Resolution and it ended illegal under international law under the Geneva Conventions. There is a reason the government has attempted to distract us by announcing the end of the Iraq War a day later. Let us set aside political loyalties that so easily blind and examine this more closely. It is very serious.
The Geneva Conventions of 1949
http://www.icrc.org/eng/war-and-law/treaties-customary-law/geneva-conventions/index.jsp
War Powers Resolution
http://loc.gov/law/help/war-powers.php
I don't think any U.S. soldiers were involved in the execution of Muammar Gaddafi.
Please post the section of the Geneva convention or any other provision of international law that would make the U.S. or NATO vicariously liable for the alleged war crime of executing Muammar Gaddafi without a trial.
I've read a few articles about the call for an investigation into Gaddafi's death. However, I haven't read where anyone has suggested that U.S. or NATO would also be liable for any war crime committed.
Your logic appears to suggest that everytime a U.S. soldier commits a war crime, the president is liable because he's the commander in Chief. I don't think so.
But for the sake of argument, assume the United Nations does find the U.S. and NATO guilty of some wrongdoing in the death of Gaddaffi, I ask you again, then what?
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