Manchester Guardian | 05Dec2009 | Corrections editor
http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2009/dec/05/corrections-clarifications
Corrections and clarifications
• The Guardian issued this statement yesterday: "We published a letter
by John Mortl in the Guardian of 03 December 2009 [page 37, and
guardian.co.uk] relating to the case of John Demjanjuk, who is accused
of assisting in the murder of 27,900 people in Poland. Unfortunately,
we misread the letter. The underlying meaning, we now realise, implied
Holocaust denial. As soon as we realised our mistake, we removed the
letter from the website. It should never have been published and we
apologise unreservedly that it was."
Manchester Guardian | 03Dec2009 | John Mortl
http://modernityblog.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/the-guardian-holocaust-denial-and-john-mortl/
What kind of justice is it that proscribes the normally
accepted right of the accused to challenge the assumption that a crime
had, in fact, occurred? Normally the prosecution is obliged to prove
beyond reasonable doubt that the crime of murder had taken place. This
is not the case in the trial of Demjanjuk. The court
will, without proof, arbitrarily accept that the crime took place.
Being stripped of his most powerful defence, the accused is reduced to
pleading mistaken identity or that he had nothing to do with an
unproved murder.
John Mortl
London
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