United Nations Springs Into Action
Charles Johnson
Tue Aug 26, 2003 at 6:34 pm PDT • Views: 251
That’s telling ’em, guys. U.N. makes attacks on workers a war crime. (Hat tip: Yair.)
The 15-member Security Council passed the resolution one week after the United Nations’ Baghdad headquarters was destroyed by a truck bomb.
The resolution stresses that “attacks knowingly and intentionally directed against” humanitarian or peacekeeping personnel “constitute war crimes” — language that was a key goal of the sponsors of the resolution.
The final wording of the resolution was a compromise reached after the United States insisted that any reference to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court be removed.
Ooh, I bet the terrorists are scared now.
Frank says: