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University of Michigan Law School

Michigan Law Review

1998

Military justice

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Did Military Justice Fail Or Prevail?, Robinson O. Everett May 1998

Did Military Justice Fail Or Prevail?, Robinson O. Everett

Michigan Law Review

The subject of war crimes is now receiving significant attention. On March 13, 1998, the United States Senate, by a vote of 93-0, adopted a resolution urging the President to call on the- United Nations to create a tribunal to indict and try Saddam Hussein for his "crimes against humanity." In the recent past, United Nations tribunals have tried crimes against humanity perpetrated in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. With Administration backing, Congress has also recently enacted legislation intended to confer jurisdiction on the federal district courts to try certain war crimes of which American nationals are perpetrators or …