Berlin - Many world leaders welcomed the U.S. operations in Pakistan that killed Osama bin Laden. But in Europe, it was thought that the U.S. government had been wrong to act as policeman, judge and executioner all at once.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder defended the raid as a legal matter. However, a number of parties in Europe think, Osama should be arrested and tried, not assassinated.
"Quite clearly it is violation of international law," said former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told Germany TV station as reported by the Reuters news agency on Wednesday (04/05/2011).
"The operation can also be incalculable consequences in the Arab world in relation to all the unrest there," he added.
Similar leveled Ehrhart Koerting, Minister of Home Affairs in Berlin. "As a lawyer, I prefer to see him tried in the International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court or ICC)," he said.
According to international law expert Gert-Jan Knoops who lived in the Netherlands, Osama should be arrested and extradited to America. Knoops exemplifies the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, on trial on war crimes in Denhaag pengadialn, Netherlands after being arrested in 2001.
"Americans say they're at war with terrorism and could finish off their enemies on the battlefield," said Knoops. "But formally, this argument was untenable," he said.
According to Reed Brody, counsel at a leading human rights organization, Human Rights Watch based in New York, USA, is too early to say whether the U.S. operation was legal. Because only a few details are known. It says Brody, the U.S. has no right to violate human rights or international law protocol even with the aim to make the world safer.
source detik.com
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder defended the raid as a legal matter. However, a number of parties in Europe think, Osama should be arrested and tried, not assassinated.
"Quite clearly it is violation of international law," said former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt told Germany TV station as reported by the Reuters news agency on Wednesday (04/05/2011).
"The operation can also be incalculable consequences in the Arab world in relation to all the unrest there," he added.
Similar leveled Ehrhart Koerting, Minister of Home Affairs in Berlin. "As a lawyer, I prefer to see him tried in the International Criminal Court (International Criminal Court or ICC)," he said.
According to international law expert Gert-Jan Knoops who lived in the Netherlands, Osama should be arrested and extradited to America. Knoops exemplifies the former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic, on trial on war crimes in Denhaag pengadialn, Netherlands after being arrested in 2001.
"Americans say they're at war with terrorism and could finish off their enemies on the battlefield," said Knoops. "But formally, this argument was untenable," he said.
According to Reed Brody, counsel at a leading human rights organization, Human Rights Watch based in New York, USA, is too early to say whether the U.S. operation was legal. Because only a few details are known. It says Brody, the U.S. has no right to violate human rights or international law protocol even with the aim to make the world safer.
source detik.com
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