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Libya’s Senussi smiles at injustice abroad

by Peter Speetjens

The International Criminal Court (ICC) on February 7 ordered the Libyan government to immediately hand over former intelligence chief Abdullah al-Senussi for his alleged role in orchestrating the 1988 Lockerbie bombing. Libya appealed, as it aims to try Muammar Qadhafi’s former right hand man in front of a home crowd.  “Libya’s rebel authorities need to understand that the days of show trials and summary executions are over,” said Senussi’s British defense lawyer Ben Emmerson, who is currently a judge on the international tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia and previously served as a Special Rapporteur on the Khmer Rouge Tribunal in Cambodia.  Emmerson’s vast experience makes his choice of words all the more ironic, as the original Lockerbie trial was anything but a showcase for international justice and, even today, makes embarrassing reading for anyone still cherishing a dash of hope for a legal procedure untainted by the murky

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