HUMAN RIGHTS
Dictators must be held accountable
BY ARYEH NEIER
Two men whose brutal dictatorships ended in the 1980s are in the news because courts in the countries they once ruled are considering whether to bring them to trial for their crimes while they held power. This continues an important trend of the past two decades in which more than 60 heads of government have been prosecuted by international and national courts, either for corruption or human rights abuses, or for a combination of these crimes.








