Sweden requires ICE-tribunal to judge terrorists

In connection with a ministerial meeting in Brussels on Thursday discussed the Mikael Damberg, among others, the nordic ministers how to handle the IS-terrorists who have been arrested by kurdish forces.

Sweden is one of several european countries that do not have plans to ”take home ICE-terrorists”, as Damberg puts it.

– the Starting point for the Swedish government is that we want to judge these people for the rough and vidrigare crimes they have committed. It would be best to have an international tribunal in place in the region, " he says.

a growing interest in an international tribunal. There are examples of such, for example, after the wars in the Balkans, in Rwanda and in Cambodia.

From the Swedish side if you want to have a court in Syria, in order to facilitate the collection of testimony and evidence and to hold hearings. It is doubtful whether Syria is ready to say yes, and some of the contacts with the country, have the Democrats not had.

"It's quite a rush to put in the time, but we are not naive and think that it is quick or should be easy," said Mikael Damberg

– It is one of the most important issues to agree on in the case, you should create a tribunal.

– It is also a question that needs to be sorted out. There are several such difficult questions, but today was the moment when we are lifted if there is an interest to have a discussion. It is understood that several countries showed, replies Mikael Damberg.

" I should not judge something out, but I don't think so. There are blocking powers that would allow it to be impossible. I think we need to be realistic and look at a new structure.

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in an interview in dagens nyheter that it is important to ask the terrorists to justice.

– If this is not done the danger of the confidence for the rule of law to be undermined further, and it is a very, very dangerous development, " he says to DN.

Hans Corell was between 1994-2004 responsible for the UN legal issues as under-secretary general. He laid the foundation of the International criminal court (ICC) in the Hague, and he has participated in the establishment of the tribunals for Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone and Cambodia.

with the ICE he would not, however, speak categorically about how a tribunal would be organized, the situation is complicated and if it would be under the UN or the international criminal tribunal in the Hague directing, so can the countries in the UN security council use their veto.

– It is unlikely that the security council can agree on a Syrientribunal. Russia and China have repeatedly used their veto right and blocked resolutions on Syria in the security council, " says Hans Corell.

" Yes, but a commission of inquiry appointed by the UN investigate all war crimes committed in Syria, not just the ICE behind. And there are people on the very high level in the country (Syria), among the suspects. They are likely not interested in, for example, all these gasattackerna that the nra is suspected to be investigated, " says Corell in the interview.

available and investigating the war crimes and abuses in Syria have faced great difficulties in their work.

In the discussion about a possible future ICE-the tribunal, it has been said that the EU would be able to be the guarantor and initiator.

about Kosovo in the Hague as an example of a EUROPEAN initiative. Where, however, has the work been slow, because of strong domestic political forces in Kosovo, which puts a spanner in the works.

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Relative to the IS-terrorist: ”Skråmos Swedish children are in safety.”