Kadyrov against setting
up int'n tribunal for Chechnya
Interfax. Friday, Mar. 7, 2003, 4:19 PM Moscow Time
GROZNY. March 7 (Interfax) - Akhmad Kadyrov, the head of the Chechen civil
administration, strongly criticized a proposal voiced by a number of PACE
members suggesting that an international tribunal for war crimes in Chechnya
be set up. "I am highly negative about this idea. We have seen a lot of
tribunals of late, including international ones. But none of them have resolved
any problems. They become over-politicized and play into the hands of certain
political forces," Kadyrov told the press in Grozny on Friday.
Participants in a March 3 PACE Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights session
in Paris considered a draft resolution and recommendations drafted by PACE member
Rudolf Bindig of the German Bundestag. Among other things, the documents called
on the international community to set up an international tribunal for investigating
war crimes and crimes against humanity in Chechnya, similar to the existing International
Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia