{"id":4658,"date":"2019-03-16T07:55:57","date_gmt":"2019-03-16T06:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/?p=4658"},"modified":"2019-03-16T11:28:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-16T10:28:21","slug":"americas-rule-of-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4658","title":{"rendered":"America&#8217;s rule of law, M\u1ef9 Lai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2019\/mar\/15\/mike-pompeo-us-war-crimes-investigation-international-criminal-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Guardian<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The United States has announced it will revoke or deny visas to members of the International Criminal Court involved in investigating the actions of US troops in Afghanistan or other countries.<\/p>\n<p>The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said Washington was prepared to take further steps, including economic sanctions, if the war crimes court goes ahead with any investigations of US or allied personnel.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ICC is attacking America\u2019s rule of law,\u201d Pompeo told reporters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/ausland\/usa-mitarbeiter-des-strafgerichtshofs-duerfen-nicht-einreisen-a-1258121.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Spiegel<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Angeh\u00f6rige der US-Streitkr\u00e4fte auf afghanischem Boden mindestens 61 Gefangene mit Folter, Misshandlungen oder durch Verletzung ihrer Menschen&shy;w\u00fcrde\u00a0<a class=\"text-link lp-text-link-int\" title=\"Strafgerichtshof: US-Armee beging wom\u00f6glich Kriegsverbrechen in Afghanistan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.spiegel.de\/politik\/ausland\/afghanistan-us-armee-beging-womoeglich-kriegsverbrechen-a-1121288.html\">gequ\u00e4lt haben k\u00f6nnten<\/a>. Die Mehrheit der Vorf\u00e4lle habe sich wahrscheinlich zwischen 2003 und 2004 ereignet. Wom\u00f6glich seien au\u00dferdem mindestens 27 H\u00e4ftlinge von CIA-Agenten misshandelt worden, nicht nur in Afghanistan, sondern auch in Geheim&shy;gef\u00e4ngnissen in Polen, Rum\u00e4nien und Litauen. Auch diese F\u00e4lle sollen sich gr\u00f6\u00dftenteils in dem besagten Zeitraum abgespielt haben. Einige der Vorw\u00fcrfe beziehen sich demnach aber auch auf die j\u00fcngere Vergangenheit bis hin zum Jahr 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4665\" src=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/My-lai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1319\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/My-lai.jpg 2000w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/My-lai-300x198.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/My-lai-768x506.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mwehle.eu\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/My-lai-1920x1266.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The M\u1ef9 Lai Massacre was March 16, 1968 \u2014 fifty-one years ago today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guardian: The United States has announced it will revoke or deny visas to members of the International Criminal Court involved in investigating the actions of US troops in Afghanistan or other countries. The US secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, said &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/?p=4658\">Weiterlesen <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4658\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wehle.ee\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}