RICHARD J. GOLDSTONE

To have a body of humanitarian law, built up over decades and accepted by the great majority of U. N. member states, without an enforcement mechanism is a fruitless exercise.

It doesn't take hours after human rights violations for the denials to begin, for the fabricators to begin their dirty work of covering up what happened.

It doesn't take hours after human rights violations for the denials to begin, for the fabricators to begin their dirty work of covering up what happened.

To have a body of humanitarian law, built up over decades and accepted by the great majority of U. N. member states, without an enforcement mechanism is a fruitless exercise.