just curious, but what business does a Belgian court have in judging Sharon? Did some of the massacred Palestinians come from Belgium?
In fact, we know that you are not curious. You don't want to know any information that opposes your political beliefs. Had you truly been curious, you would have searched for the answer to your question.
<<< ... In fact the decisions of Belgium's independent judiciary in the Sharon matter are neither political nor arrogant, but based solidly in law and morality. Belgium, like Israel, is a signatory to the 1949 Fourth Geneva Convention Relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War. Belgium, one of the original signatories, is a "High Contracting Party." Article 1 of this Convention states that: "The High Contracting Parties undertake to respect and to ensure respect for the present Convention in all circumstances."
Article 146 elaborates further, and in no uncertain terms that: "The High Contracting Parties undertake to enact any legislation necessary to provide effective penal sanctions for persons committing, or ordering to be committed, any of the grave breaches of the present Convention defined in the following Article. Each High Contracting Party shall be under the obligation to search for persons alleged to have committed, or to have ordered to be committed, such grave breaches, and shall bring such persons, regardless of their nationality, before its own courts." These provisions flow from the world's consensus after the Second World War that matters of crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide are not internal affairs of sovereign states, but a matter of the highest concern to humanity and the international community ... >>>
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Yes, once again Israeli is running afoul of laws that were inspired by the Nazi Holocaust. How tragically ironic!
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