History and My Story » Hariri http://buell.edublogs.org Mary Lou Buell Mon, 30 Nov 2009 21:38:05 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 Hague Tribunal http://buell.edublogs.org/2009/03/02/hague-tribunal/ http://buell.edublogs.org/2009/03/02/hague-tribunal/#comments Mon, 02 Mar 2009 23:48:27 +0000 buell http://buell.edublogs.org/?p=115 A few of you mentioned this in class.  The trial is being run by the U.N. world court on behalf of Lebanon—so it’s a little different from what the world court normally does, but obviously still a very important function of a world court.

This CNN video provides some background info:

Edited to add: Also, on March 4th BBC reported:

The International Criminal Court in the Hague has announced that it has issued an arrest warrant against the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, for war crimes and crimes against humanity. It is the court’s first indictment of a serving head of state.

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