Robert Fisk Quotes

I haven't mentioned another argument, The Hague tribunal. It is clear our generals and all of you who are sitting here now with me could end up there, too.

I don't share the view that the ICC is anti-African. The ICC is not putting Africa on trial. The ICC is fighting impunity and individuals who are accused of crimes.

We need to keep examining evilness. For instance, I'm totally against the fact that Osama bin Laden was shot. I think that he should have been put on trial and exposed as that human being he was. I think he should've been standing mentally naked in front of the rest of us and stand to justice for what he did.

Justice for crimes against humanity must have no limitations.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Justice has been done.

The chemical massacre of Damascus, should not, and shall not go unpunished.

We will not give immunity to any terrorist anywhere.

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

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 - 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 bin Laden and his friends and put them on trial?

It's better to choose the culprits than to seek them out.

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.

On the subject of Osama bin Laden... we will track him down. We will capture him. We will bring him to justice, and I will follow him to the gates of hell.

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.