On the other hand, the right to receive material compensation/reparations for crimes against humanity (and mass deportation/ethnic cleansing qualifies) should probably not expire.
Time for me to sue the British government for damages over the 1845 famine then? Not to mention the Germanic peoples for pushing the Celts out of mainland Europe. You should see the interest charges on those damages mount up. It has to expire: you can't make the living pay for the sins of the long-dead.
The commission also has "relaxed standards of proof" under which you only have to argue that it was likely that an insurance policy existed to receive a payment.
So, by analogy and without estatute of limitations Palestinian refugees or their descendants could claim material reparations from Israel with relaxed standards of proof, assuming that Israel and the refugees so agreed (including being forced by the international community to agree) and the refugees gave up their claim to the right of return. guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
Then again, my Catholic and Protestant ancestors were killing each other, so, at some point, I might end up suing myself. And my German ancestors killed my Celtic ancestors. It just gets to be too much of a headache.
If someone wouldn't mind phoning the House of Commons for me, let them know I'll settle for a couple million pounds (NOT DOLLARS!!!! This money's got to last!). Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
As far as Drew's ancestors, they were actually allowed to immigrate into a prosperous, democratic country and make a decent living for themselves and their descendants.
Plus, Ireland recognizes (and if not it did last time I heard) the right of grandchildren of emigrants to get Irish citizenship. So even the Irish who emigrated to the US between the two world wars (again, being allowed into a free country to make a living for themselves) escaping poverty in rural Ireland (viz. Frank Mc Court) have not lost their original citizenship.
Now tell me again how stateless third-generation refugee-camp dwellers of today are in any way comparable to the people of the British Isles...?
(Similar arguments apply to the Huguenots, the Pilgrims...) guaranteed to evoke a violent reaction from police is to challenge their right to "define the situation." --- David Graeber citing Marc Cooper
In all seriousness, I agree with Colman. You can't have an endless number of lawsuits floating around for every person whose great, great, great, great grandfather was executed by the government of some other ethnic group. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
