Nuremberg Prosecutor says Guantanamo Military Commissions Don’t Measure Up
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The first time the Supreme Court had struck down the first incarnation of Guantanamo military commissions for lacking the most basic judicial guarantees which are recognized as indispensable by civilized peoples was in 2006. Still nowadays the outgoing Chief Prosecutor for the military commissions, Gen. Mark Martins, has repeatedly invoked a section of then-U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert opening statement for the prosecution at the Nuremberg trials following World War Two. Benjamin B. Ferencz, the last living Nuremberg prosecutor, acknowledges that some criticize Nuremberg as a case of “victor’s justice,” but affirms even by that standard the Guantanamo military commissions don’t remotely measure up, which means that despite the efforts made at Nuremberg, which marked the birth of international criminal law, the United States decided that power would subjugate reason and the rule of law at Guantanamo.
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