Nuremberg prosecutor says Guantanamo trials unfair

By Jane Sutton
Reuters
Monday, June 11, 2007; 5:39 PM
MIAMI (Reuters) - The U.S. war crimes tribunals at
Guantanamo have betrayed the principles of fairness that
made the Nazi war crimes trials at Nuremberg a judicial
landmark, one of the U.S. Nuremberg prosecutors said on
Monday.
"I think Robert Jackson, who's the architect of Nuremberg,
would turn over in his grave if he knew what was going on
at Guantanamo," Nuremberg prosecutor Henry King Jr. told
Reuters in a telephone interview.
"It violates the Nuremberg principles, what they're doing,
as well as the spirit of the Geneva Conventions of 1949."
King, 88, served under Jackson, the U.S. Supreme Court
justice who was the chief prosecutor at the trials created
by the Allied powers to try Nazi military and political
leaders after World War Two in Nuremberg, Germany.

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