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International Effort to Criminalize War

At the end of August 2010, prosecutors from international tribunals met in Jamestown, NY, for the 2010 International Humanitarian Law Dialogs. The conference debated the issue of defining the crime of aggression. If the International Criminal Court is given jurisdiction to prosecute it, it would essentially make all acts of aggressive war illegal.

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The secrets in Israel's archives
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The Israeli government has extended the period for releasing classified documents from 50 to 70 years. The move is the government's response to Israeli journalists who have been seeking through courts to gain access to documents that should already be declassified.

The documents in question relate, among other events, to the 1948 war, which established Israel, and the 1956 Suez crisis. The state’s chief archivist says many of the documents "are not fit for public viewing" and raise doubts about Israel's "adherence to international law."

Had Germany's archives remained secret for 70 years, we would only have documentary proof of Nazi war crimes until 1940. Those responsible would be largely unknown to the general public, and Simon Wiesenthal would have spent his days idly by until his death in 2005.

http://aljazeera.com/news/articles/39/The-secrets-in-Israels-archives.html

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