[ppi] Re: [ppiindia] Liberian Seized to Stand Trial on War Crimes [update]

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ANDREAS MIHARDJA" <mihardja@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ppiindia@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 31, 2006 12:57 AM
Subject: Re: [ppiindia] Liberian Seized to Stand Trial on War Crimes 
[update]


> Suharto memang melanggar HAM = begitupun Pinochet dan juga Mao atau Chiang 
> dari China.  Penghukuman mereka semua tergantung dari rakyat. Rakyat 
> Chili - ini termasuk pem. sekarang tidak bersedia menghukum dia - tetapi 
> oleh karena desakan international yah proforma mereka diadili. Rakyat 
> China semua tahu betapa kejamnnya Mao dan Chiang tetapi mereka tidak 
> mungkin akan dihukum. Saya kira Suharto juga sama. Menghukum Presiden 
> sampai sekarang masih dianggap memalukan negara. [Suatu negara besar 
> diperintah seorang despote] Saya atau kel. saya termasuk yg dirugikan oleh 
> Suharto - saya kira menghukum dia -- is not in the interest of the nation. 
> Jangan lupa kalau sekarang dia dihukum - nanti banyak presiden2 yad dpt 
> dihukum oleh karena melanggar sesuatu dan yg mungkin nothing.
>  Kita tidak boleh bikin permulaannya. Presiden Marcos juga sama dan juga 
> korrup - selain dia hidup dlm ecile dia tidak dihukum, meskipun rakyat 
> memang menjerit. Jikalau asa genocide pembunuhan suatu suku seperti di 
> Serbia Montenegro nah ini UN yg menghukum bukan rakyat sendiri.
>  Andreas
>
> Ambon <sea@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>  REFLEKSI: Perbedaan antara Pak Harto dengan mereka yang dituntut ialah 
> Pak Harto dilindungi oleh maha kuasa makanya bisa bebas dari tuntutan 
> hukum.
>
> http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/30/international/africa/30liberia.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
>
>
>
> Liberian Seized to Stand Trial on War Crimes
> By LYDIA POLGREEN
> Published: March 30, 2006
>
> FREETOWN, Sierra Leone, March 29 - Charles G. Taylor, the warlord who 
> became Liberia's president, was captured Wednesday after a dramatic 24 
> hours in which he disappeared from the villa in Nigeria where he had lived 
> in exile and then was recognized at a remote outpost as he tried to leave 
> the country.
>
>
> Michael Kamber for The New York Times
> Charles Taylor, on steps, ex-president of Liberia, arriving Wednesday in 
> Sierra Leone after being caught in Nigeria while fleeing war crimes 
> charges.
>
>
>
> Sierra Leone, Liberia and Nigeria
> Video Report
> Enlarge This Image
>
> European Pressphoto Agency
> Charles G. Taylor as he was led off a Nigerian plane yesterday in 
> Monrovia, Liberia, his first stop en route to a jail cell in Sierra Leone.
>
> He was brought here to face war crimes charges for his role in a brutal 
> decade-long civil war in Sierra Leone, one of a series of conflagrations 
> that he set off, killing at least 300,000 people. He is the first African 
> head of state to face such charges in an international court.
>
> Mr. Taylor's arrival by helicopter under extraordinary security capped a 
> saga that began nearly three years ago, when he fled his nation in the 
> face of a rebel onslaught. He was captured Wednesday morning after a 
> customs official recognized him as he tried to escape into Cameroon.
>
> He arrived unshaven and dressed in a white tunic covered by a bullet-proof 
> vest, tan pants and slip-on shoes. His appearance was in stark contrast to 
> his dapper look in his last public appearance, in 2003, when he went into 
> exile after a 14-year civil war that killed a quarter million of his 
> countrymen, defiantly declaring, "God willing, I will be back."
>
> He did return to Liberia, briefly, on Wednesday, but only to be handed 
> over to United Nations troops who promptly flew him here, where he was 
> read the indictment from a United Nations-backed court dealing with war 
> crimes in Sierra Leone - 11 counts of crimes against humanity - then 
> jailed.
>
> Desmond de Silva, the prosecutor who will try the case, said Mr. Taylor's 
> arrival "sends out the clear message that no matter how rich, powerful or 
> feared people may be, the law is above them."
>
> The trial is sure to resonate on a continent where dictators have ruled 
> with ruthless impunity. From Idi Amin, the soldier whose murderous rule in 
> Uganda gave way to comfortable exile in Saudi Arabia, to Haile Mengistu 
> Mariam, whose 14-year Communist rule in Ethiopia brought political purges 
> that killed more than a million people but who is now living quietly in 
> Zimbabwe, African leaders who brutalize their citizens have faced few 
> consequences.
>
> "The current perpetrators of serious human rights crimes should be put on 
> notice that international courts take the crimes they commit very, very 
> seriously," said Corinne Dufka of Human Rights Watch.
>
> Mr. Taylor's arrival here was a dramatic turn in the already complicated 
> saga of the effort to bring him to justice after he ignited a series of 
> civil wars in the 1990's that engulfed much of West Africa.
>
> In the early 1980's, Mr. Taylor was a senior government procurement 
> officer in Liberia. Charged in 1983 with embezzling nearly $1 million, he 
> fled. He was arrested in Massachusetts in 1984, then escaped from jail in 
> 1985. He resurfaced in Liberia in 1989 as a Libyan-trained warlord, 
> leading a rebel force. He was elected president in 1997, in a vote 
> overshadowed by fears of what might happen if he lost.
>
> A warrant for his arrest was issued in March 2003. But as part of an 
> agreement to remove him from power and halt a bloodbath in Liberia, 
> Nigeria offered him asylum and refused to hand him over to the court in 
> Sierra Leone, where he was accused of fomenting a civil war.
>
> Though under intense pressure by the United States to arrest him, 
> President Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria had insisted he would hand over Mr. 
> Taylor only to an elected Liberian government. Earlier this month, Ellen 
> Johnson Sirleaf, Liberia's new president, herself facing pressure from the 
> United States, made the request, and Mr. Obasanjo agreed.
>
> But Nigeria insisted that it was Liberia's responsibility to go and arrest 
> him, with Mr. Obasanjo's spokeswoman declaring that Mr. Taylor was "not a 
> prisoner," which seemed almost to taunt Mr. Taylor into trying to escape 
> from his lightly guarded compound in Calabar.
>
> Late Monday night the Nigerian government said he had vanished. He was 
> found more than 600 miles north, in an ash-colored Land Rover with a large 
> quantity of dollars, in the company of a woman and a driver, Haz Iwendi, a 
> spokesman for the National Police, said by telephone.
>
> A customs official spotted Mr. Taylor, whose vehicle had diplomatic 
> license plates, early Wednesday morning in the border town of Ngala, Mr. 
> Iwendi said.
>
> The escape was an acute embarrassment for Mr. Obasanjo, who arrived 
> Tuesday in Washington for a visit to the White House to discuss security 
> in the volatile Niger Delta, where attacks by militants on oil facilities 
> and kidnappings have slashed output. Nigeria is the United States' 
> fifth-largest supplier of oil.
>
> Skip to next paragraph
>
> Pool photo by Brendan Smialowski
> President Bush met with the President of Nigeria, Olesegun Obasanjo, today 
> in the Oval Office.
>
>
>
> Video Report
>
> Nic Bothma/EPA
> Charles G. Taylor, the former president of Liberia, had disappeared 
> Monday.
>
> Outraged American lawmakers called on President Bush to cancel his meeting 
> with Mr. Obasanjo, with whom Mr. Bush has had a warm relationship, based 
> in part on their shared Christian faith and bolstered by Mr. Obasanjo's 
> role as a regional problem solver.
>
> But internal problems have eroded the Nigerian's status. Militants in the 
> Niger Delta, sectarian violence that killed more than 100 people last 
> month and a political crisis stemming from plans to try to extend his rule 
> to a third term have roiled Nigeria.
>
> Mr. Bush met with him on Wednesday, and at a joint news conference, hailed 
> the arrest of Mr. Taylor. "The fact that Charles Taylor will be brought to 
> justice in a court of law will help Liberia," Mr. Bush said, "and is a 
> signal, Mr. President, of your deep desire for there to be peace in your 
> neighborhood."
>
> Mr. Taylor was flown on a Nigerian government jet from Borno State, in 
> northeastern Nigeria, where he was captured, to Monrovia, Liberia's 
> capital. There he was handed over to Liberian officials, who promptly 
> turned him over to United Nations peacekeepers, who arrested him. After a 
> brief medical checkup, he boarded a helicopter for Sierra Leone.
>
> The reaction to Mr. Taylor's arrival here was muted and fearful.
>
> J. B. Jenkins-Johnson, a human rights lawyer in Freetown, worried that Mr. 
> Taylor's arrival would cause unrest in a country still reeling from the 
> long civil war. "Let them not bring that man here," Mr. Jenkins-Johnson 
> said. "This man will bring us nothing but problems."
>
> Indeed, many Sierra Leoneans wonder if the court's work will do much to 
> help them improve their lives. "The Taylor case doesn't have a lot of 
> resonance," said Olu Gordon, a political analyst and journalist in 
> Freetown. "It is abstract, while the problems they face are concrete: what 
> to feed their children, how to pay for school, and so on."
>
> The loudest calls for Mr. Taylor's arrest came not from his victims but 
> from the United States, which has backed the international court here 
> financially and diplomatically.
>
> Ms. Johnson Sirleaf, the Liberian leader, had been hesitant to act on Mr. 
> Taylor, saying that the peace in Liberia was still fragile and that any 
> action could stir up his allies, several of whom hold seats in Liberia's 
> new legislature. Several of his commanders remain in Liberia, and news of 
> Mr. Taylor's arrest caused immediate fears of a coup attempt.
>
> But removing him from the scene could also help stabilize the region, said 
> Mike McGovern, an analyst for the International Crisis Group, by 
> demoralizing Mr. Taylor's supporters.
>
> "The arrest closes an ugly chapter in Liberian history and gives people 
> the confidence to look to the future," Mr. McGovern said in an interview 
> in Monrovia. "A lot of people are still sitting on the fence. Once they 
> have a clear idea of where Taylor is and what's likely to happen to him, 
> they're likely to really turn their backs on that period and move 
> forward."
>
> In Liberia, human rights advocates exulted in the news. "This is a great 
> day," said Jerome J. Verdier Sr., head of the country's Truth and 
> Reconciliation Commission. "It's a fundamental triumph for the rule of law 
> both in Liberia and the sub-region."
>
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> Katharine Houreld contributed reporting from Monrovia for this article, 
> and Steven R. Weisman from Washington.
>
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