Franjo Tudjman Quotes

I think that you are a war criminal, and I am going to do everything in my power to see that you will be tried as one.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

If Bush and Blair are eventually put on trial for war crimes, I shall not be among those pressing for them to be hanged.

The United States normally punishes war crimes as such only if their committed by enemy nationals.

My government believes that those who commit crimes against humanity should be brought to justice.

Until now, when powerful men committed crimes against humanity, they knew that as long as they remained powerful, no earthly court could judge them.

Why is it that we go to immense lengths getting the Serbs who were responsible for the massacre of 7,000 at Srbrenica-that's slightly more than the total figure for New York 9/11-and we take them to a tribunal in The Hague, and one after another, we arraign them, try them, convict them, and punish them in front of the world, but no plans have been brought forward to get Osama bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial.

The thing that's most uppermost in my mind and will continue to be until I hit a brick wall is that I am dead serious, dead serious about going after George Bush, trying to get him into an American courtroom and prosecute him for what happened in Iraq.

There cannot be any greater challenge to the law than trying to adjudicate mass crimes like war crimes.

The NATO forces will, to the extent that they have capacity, assist the war crimes tribunal.

Nearly 60 years ago, the international community made a commitment to put an end to the crime of genocide by ratifying the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.

Henry Kissinger is the greatest living war criminal in the world today, with the blood of millions of people in Vietnam and Cambodia and Laos and Chile and East Timor on his hands. He will never appear in a court or be behind bars.

Institutions can eventually overcome all the legal barriers erected to shield perpetrators of crimes against humanity Justice was finally done where it needed to be done – in Argentina itself.

They have been waiting for eight years to tell me that I am a war criminal and now they do it.

There can be no deal, no amnesty for war crimes.

Had there been the threat of Nuremburg-style trials for members of the apartheid state security establishment we would never have undergone a peaceful change.

Saddam Hussein is a serial offender -- major crimes against humanity - it's calculated that he's killed about a million people in the Iran-Iraq war, the invasion of Kuwait; gassed tens of thousands of his own Kurdish Iraqi citizens because they happen to disagree with him. Everyone knows that the case against Saddam Hussein is utterly proven. He should be on trial in the international court for crimes against humanity.

I know people have tried to make citizens' arrests on Tony Blair and so on, but really it's time the international criminal court has some guts and charges white war criminals. They need to face justice just like other war criminals.

In the case of non-signatory states like Syria and Iraq, the U.N. Security Council is mandated with enforcement of the International Criminal Court's jurisdictions in matters of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

We have to work together in order to prove that genocidal campaigns will fail and lead to accountability of the perpetrators and bring justice for survivors.

If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.

War crimes will be prosecuted. War criminals will be punished. And it will be no defense to say, 'I was just following orders.'

W. Bush, this man is a war criminal, and we will see that he is brought to trial.

The Nuremburg trials were attacked at the time as 'victor's justice'. And this is precisely what they were - and were intended to be.