Jacques Verges Quotes

• You know, I am against lynching and lynching is a tendency of the people.

  Jacques Verges

• Well, I know that 500,000 children died in Iraq because of the embargo.

  Jacques Verges

• This mass destructive weapons were sold to Iraqi government by the United States. And Mr. Rumsfeld has been one of the man responsible for this sale, for this bargain, for this market.

  Jacques Verges

• The links between the American government and the Iraqi government are so close that you cannot judge one without asking at least the other what he has done by this time.

  Jacques Verges

• In a democratic country, when a man is accused, he’s accused from a document issued by the public attorney.

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• I am waiting for the decision, which is not depending of me, to know if the trial will be in Iraq, in the states, or in international court. Of course, the decision is not mine.

  Jacques Verges

• I am not able of hating. I am not able of hating.

  Jacques Verges

• Here, I am looking for a document issued by a public attorney. I don’t find. He is accused by the political leaders of the coalition, by his enemies, who said that he is guilty. That he deserves to be killed.

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• Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.

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• It is good for society to have this introspection.

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Jacques Verges (10)

Birth:	5th March, 1925
Death:	15th August, 2013
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Lawyer

About

Jacques Verges was born in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. He was a French lawyer who earned fame continually from the 1950s, first as an anti-colonialist communist figure and then for defending a long string of well-known clients, from an anti-colonialist Algerian militant, Djamila Bouhired in 1957–1962 to former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan in 2008. His clients included both left wing and right wing terrorists, war criminals, and militants. In 1945, he joined the French Communist Party. After the war he went to the University of Paris to study law. He has been elected as Secrétaire de la Conférence du barreau de Paris.

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