70 Murders, Yet Close to Going Free in Pakistan

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/world/asia/06justice.html?scp=1&sq=close%20to%20going%20free&st=cse

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From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 11:03 AM
Subject: re: 70 Murders, Yet Close to Going Free in Pakistan
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To the Editor:

The case of Malik Ishaq illuminates in miniature why establishing the rule of law must head all our diplomatic efforts around the world. A similar failing of law enforcement leaves Moqtada al-Sadr at large in Iraq, despite his role in the murder of his rival Sayyid Abdul Majid al-Khoei. Until the Iraqi government finds the spine to charge him and try him, neither Kurds nor Sunnis should believe that this government administers justice to all alike. There is no prospect of a free, peaceful, united and sovereign Iraq until all groups there can expect the rule of law.

Barry Levine