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Excerpt from Persian Gulf: The Question of War Crimes: Hearing Before the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate, One Hundred Second Congress, First Session, April 9, 1991The committee convened, pursuant to notice, at 9:30 a.m., in room SD-419, Dirksen Senate Office Building, Hon. Claiborne Pell (chairman of the committee) presiding.Present: Senators Pell, Dodd, Simon, Robb, Helms, and McConnell.The Chairman. The Committee on Foreign Relations will come to order.This morning, we are holding a hearing on the Persian Gulf and the Question of War Crimes. We will be hearing first from a distinguished member of our committee, Senator Mitch McConnell, who has introduced legislation on this particular subject.We will then have testimony presented from the well-known philosopher, teacher, and author, Elie Wiesel. Then we will hear from Dr. Robert Woetzel, who has been advising the United Nations on this subject, and from international law professor Anthony D'Amato from Northwestern University.Over 40 years ago, after the Nuremberg trials that followed World War II, Justice Jackson wrote, "If the nations which command the great physical forces of the world want the society of nations to be governed by law, the Nuremberg principles may contribute to that end."A few years earlier, in his opening speech as chief Nuremberg prosecutor, Justice Jackson had said that, "the principle of personal liability is a necessary and logical one if international law is to render real help to the maintenance of peace."From the early days of the Persian Gulf conflict, the question of war crimes has been the subject of attention both in the Senate and at the U. N. In September of last year, our late distinguished colleague, Senator John Heinz, offered a provision which was overwhelmingly adopted by the Senate, expressing the sense of the Senate that Saddam Hussein and other Iraqi leaders and perpetrators should be brought to justice as war criminals.In October, the U. N. adopted a resolution calling on all nations to put together information on "grave breaches by Iraq" of various provisions of international law.In January, the Senate unanimously condemned Iraq's failure to treat prisoners of war in conformity with our international law.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.