[wvns] Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest
Rumsfeld flees France fearing arrest
Sat, 10/27/2007
http://wor.ldne.ws/node/8596
Former US Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld fled France today fearing
arrest over charges of "ordering and authorizing" torture of detainees
at both the American-run Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and the US
military's detainment facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, unconfirmed
reports coming from Paris suggest.
US embassy officials whisked Rumsfeld away yesterday from a breakfast
meeting in Paris organized by the Foreign Policy magazine after human
rights groups filed a criminal complaint against the man who
spearheaded President George W. Bush's "war on terror" for six years.
Under international law, authorities in France are obliged to open an
investigation when a complaint is made while the alleged torturer is
on French soil.
According to activists in France, who greeted Rumsfeld shouting
"murderer" and "war criminal" at the breakfast meeting venue, US
embassy officials remained tight-lipped about the former defense
secretary's whereabouts citing "security reasons".
Anti-torture protesters in France believe that the defense secretary
fled over the open border to Germany, where a war crimes case against
Rumsfeld was dismissed by a federal court. But activist point out that
under the Schengen agreement that ended border checkpoints across a
large part of the European Union, French law enforcement agents are
allowed to cross the border into Germany in pursuit of a fleeing fugitive.
"Rumsfeld must be feeling how Saddam Hussein felt when US forces were
hunting him down," activist Tanguy Richard said. "He may never end up
being hanged like his old friend, but he must learn that in the
civilized world, war crime doesn't pay."
International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH) along with the Center
for Constitutional Rights (CCR), the European Center for
Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR), and the French League for
Human Rights (LDH) filed the complaint on Thursday after learning that
Rumsfeld was scheduled to visit Paris.
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