The London session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine. Flickr/Tribunal Russell. Some rights reserved.
After the second world war a legal and moral threshold was crossed. Leaders of Germany and Japan were held individually responsible for their contributions to state crimes committed by their governments in the course of the war. These trials in Nuremberg and Tokyo were heralded at the time as the start of a new era for the rule of law, which meant that political and military leaders could no longer benefit from impunity merely by covering their alleged criminality with a thick blanket of sovereignty, effectively …read more
Source: Iranian.com
