Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is reportedly closing a decades-old office in the State Department that has helped pursue justice for victims of war crimes.
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The ‘Office of Global Criminal Justice’ advises the secretary of state on issues surrounding war crimes and genocide. It was established by Bill Clinton’s secretary of state, Madeleine Albright, a woman who barely batted an eyelid while overseeing the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children.
According to Newsweek, the office has supported criminal courts in Rwanda, former Yugoslavia, Cambodia, and the Central African Republic. This alone should give one an idea of the office’s intentions and prerogatives: it is often concerned with punishing African nations – as the International Criminal Court (ICC) is often accused of doing – as well as America’s adversaries but also tends to ignore the actions of the United States and its allies.
This post was published at Zero Hedge on Jul 22, 2017.
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