The Economist Comments on Garzon’s Moves
There is not much that hasn’t already been said by someone else in this recent Economist article, but it’s worth a quick read. One of the highlights is this brief and simple response to some of the questions I raise in an earlier post: “The judge has produced a fresh interpretation of [The 1977 Amnesty] laws. Where a victim’s body has never been found, he asserts, a crime of kidnapping continues to this day. So it is not covered by the amnesty. To those who argue that international laws on crimes against humanity did not exist when the civil war ended in 1939, he points to the precedent of the Nuremberg trials of top Nazis. ”
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=12470581
And for those of you who want to delve into source materials, I found a copy of the opinion here:
http://estaticos.elmundo.es/documentos/2008/10/16/auto_memoria_historica.pdf
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