BRASÍLIA, Brazil — A Brazilian congressional panel is set to recommend that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity,” asserting that he intentionally let the coronavirus rip through the country and kill hundreds of thousands in a failed bid to achieve herd immunity and revive Latin America’s largest economy.
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If Bolsonaro can be indicted, what does this precedent mean for other high officials in other countries who may have mismanaged Covid, concealed it or possibly funded its development, as mounting evidence suggests?
It would seem that mismanaging the public health response would be a far smaller offense than cooking up the virus, if that occurred, and covering up the outbreak.
If the world has just unwittingly endured history’s first accidental biological war there ought to be a new Nuremberg trial with more defendants than just Bolsonaro.
Books: Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice by Chris Wallace. On August 27, 2010, three CIA officers ask for a private meeting with CIA Director Leon Panetta. During that secret session, they tell Panetta that agents have tracked a courier with deep Al Qaeda ties to a three-story house at the end of a dead-end street in Abbottabad, Pakistan. But they say it’s more than a house—it’s a heavily protected fortress. No one in the meeting says the name bin Laden. They don’t have to. Everyone understands that finally, after nearly a decade, maybe, just maybe, they’ve found the world’s most wanted man.
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