Washington Post

The Inquisition, Part II?

Published 05/24/2009
There's no judicial activism quite like Spain's judicial activism. Since the late 1990s, Spanish judges have launched criminal cases involving human rights abuses committed in more than a dozen countries, including Argentina, Chile and Rwanda. Dashing "superjudge" Baltasar Garzon has garnered worldwide headlines by leading many of these cases, most famously moving to indict ex-Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998 and sparking a months-long, multi-jurisdictional dispute that finally ended with Pinochet back in Chile, under investigation by national authorities.

Crimes of Crimes

Published 03/01/2005
Does It Have to Be Genocide for the World to Act?

A Duty NATO is Dodging in Afghanistan

Published 11/01/2006
Not only is NATO forfeiting the intelligence benefits that can come with real-time interrogation, it's sending detainees into an Afghan prison system poorly equipped to handle them and rife with abuse.

Ten Years On, Something Holds Bosnia Together

Published 12/01/2005
Nation-building in Bosnia -- one-fifth the size of Iraq -- is really just beginning. It's a convoluted process, and the absence of blood keeps the camera crews away. Yet the thankless diplomatic slog is making a unified state possible.
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