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Forgiveness for War Criminals?
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Item Title Forgiveness for War Criminals?
Guest Abram, Morris B.
Host Buckley, William F., Jr. (1925-2008)
Date CreatedJanuary 19, 1998
Description

"The decision of the Clinton Administration," Mr. Buckley leads off, "is not to instruct NATO troops in Bosnia to round up indicted war criminals and dispatch them to trial by the special court set up by the United Nations." A leading opponent of this decision is Mr. Abram, who first appeared on the public scene as a young prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials, and who brings that perspective to bear in this thoughtful conversation, full of chiaroscuro. MBA: "My question to you is: What is a world to do which knows that about eight thousand people were assembled ... in a safe haven around Srebrenica and were executed? Now we know that, and we know who gave the orders, and they have been indicted.... It's the same question that was put to the Allied powers after World War II. What are you going to do if you catch Hitler, Kaltenbrunner, Himmler, and Ribbentrop and Goering? Churchill said, 'Let's shoot them.' Now that didn't go over with many people." WFB: "He wanted summary justice." MBA: "Yes, sir. Right in the field. Others said, 'Well, we let the Kaiser get away with it, maybe we should let him get away with it.' The decision of the Allied powers, then called United Nations, was to hold trials under the rubric of law and the rule of law."

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Place RecordedNew York City, New York, United States
DimensionsDuration: 30 minutes
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Medium television programs
Aspect Ratio
4:3
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color
Soundtrack
sound
Hoover IDProgram S1154
Record Number80040.1435
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