US Presidents Charged with Crimes Against Humanity as Universal Jurisdiction Dies in Spain
In October 2009, under strong U.S. pressure, the government of Spain decided to limit its jurisdiction in cases of genocide and crimes against humanity, closing a window, the ultimate responsibility for crimes the most serious crimes committed by the most powerful nations on Earth. Under international law, these crimes of universal jurisdiction of any nation, whether his own people are victims or not. The logic is that crimes against humanity are crimes against each member of the human species, a crime against all. Spain had been an outbreak of heavy charges of crimes against the violators of human rights in Guatemala, Argentina, China, Israel and elsewhere. Most cases were against individuals linked to the right politically untouchable, like Chile's Augusto Pinochet, the Argentine military officer Adolfo Scilingo, former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, the Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, the Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and six of his principal advisers and...