Cherif Bassiouni Quotations

One wants to engage the local judiciary and the local population. It is important that any kind of post-conflict justice be owned by the people affected.

America has lost its capacity for being indignant, ... Where has our capacity for indignation gone? When a nation loses its respect for the Constitution and its treaties, what is next? And leaving even that aside, the next American serviceman who is being tortured -- and we can't go to his rescue -- will show us exactly what we have done.

It's a win-win situation for Saddam and his cronies. He either goes in there and he takes over the proceedings, or he stays out and he turns out to be a martyr, which is an absolute tragedy for the victims.

The new judge, by muzzling Saddam and his people, gives the appearance that this is roughshod justice and he'll turn these guys into martyrs.

I'm sure he will keep them alive. The trial is designed to get the American media attention on that particular show that's being staged for us. (Milosevic) will use these men in an illegal way to detract attention from the ethnic cleansing and other crimes that he's committing.

You will hear conflicting reports coming out of (Yugoslavia), all of it designed to get American attention away from the ethnic cleansing.