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Abstract
On Thursday, July 1, 2004, the Iraqi public and audiences around the world were transfixed by the image on their television screens: Saddam Hussein, the former dictator of Iraq, sitting in the dock in a courtroom, listening to charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for which he is to be prosecuted. Yet the first images of the court proceedings against Saddam Hussein were also a reminder that symbolism is in the eye of the beholder. What to some might appear as a triumph for the enforcement of international standards of justice and the transition to the rule of law in Iraq, may to others seem a show trial adding insult to the injury of the U.S. occupation of Iraq.
Recommended Citation
Ash U. Bali,
Justice Under Occupation: Rule of Law and the Ethics of Nation-Building in Iraq,
30
Yale J. Int'l L.
(2005).
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https://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/yjil/vol30/iss2/7