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Law and order are everyone's problem. Why should the North Korean government be allowed to torture, imprison and enslave large parts of its nation with impunity
by tehwalrus 12y ago
Law and order are everyone's problem. Why should the North Korean government be allowed to torture, imprison and enslave large parts of its nation with impunity? These things are international crimes (as are many actions of the CIA and the IDF, incidentally) and everyone in every country should be clamouring for justice for civilians attacked by their, or someone else's, governments.
- kushti 12y agoOk, so how the US could be punished for making international crimes on a regular basis (CIA actions, 150,000 civilian deaths in Iraq ( https://www.iraqbodycount.org/ https://www.iraqbodycount.org/ ) etc) ?
- tehwalrus 12y agoHow is a much bigger question. I have a much bigger answer, but I'm not typing it out here (the most recent version was on a server that died I'm afraid). Short version: international treaties building up to a "we will enforce international law" army, where everyone else in the treaty has to turn on one of its members if they are accused. The army's job isn't to wage wars, it is to forcibly arrest suspects, to be tried at the Hague. Suspects must be "members of a government" (any soldier, civil servant, elected official, spy, etc) the idea requires lots of definitions first (not least who is in a government), but that's the gist of it. This is not an idea I throw around lightly, as people tend to misunderstand it readily. I know that it is far-fetched, etc, no need to remind me :)