An interesting news item for all interested in the struggle for international human rights, from the
Sydney Morning Herald:
The public confession by Australian citizen Htoo Htoo Han, that he personally executed at least 24 people on behalf of the Burmese military in their 1988 crackdown on protesters in that country, exposes unnecessarily parlous gaps in Australian criminal law.
Han claims that he expects to be tried, convicted and sentenced in his adopted country of Australia for the crimes he perpetrated in Burma and, in my view, that is precisely what should happen.
Tragically, we lack a legislative basis for prosecuting him and others like him, who have come to live in Australia from countries of conflict where they allegedly perpetrated war crimes, crimes against humanity or acts of genocide.
