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Throughout his career as an attorney, Vergès has primarily taken political cases, and his clients have included both left and right-wing terrorists, war criminals and militants. He defended the Nazi war criminal Klaus Barbie (1987) (the Butcher of Lyon), Ilich Ramirez Sanchez a.k.a. Carlos the Jackal (1994), the Kelkal faction (1995), the Holocaust-denier Roger Garaudy (1996) and Slobodan Milosevic (2002).
Born in Thailand and brought up on the RéunionReunion is an overseas departement departement d'outre-mer or DOM of France, located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar. As the other DOMs, Reunion is also a region of France and an integral part of the Republic. La Reunion Region Reunion Number 974 island, he is the son of Raymond Vergès, a French diplomat, and a Vietnamese woman. He joined the Communist party on Reunion and in 1942 he became part of the Free French Forces under Charles de GaulleCharles Andre Joseph Marie de Gaulle ( November 22, 1890 November 9, 1970), in France commonly referred to as general de Gaulle , was a French general and politician. Prior to the Second World War, he was mostly known as a tactician of tank battles and an. After the war, while his brother Paul was imprisoned for murdering a political rival to their father, Jacques went to the SorbonneLa Sorbonne was the name of the former University of Paris in Paris, France, one among the most ancient in Europe. History It was founded in 1257 by Robert de Sorbon, after whom it is named. It is also the name of its main campus in the 5th arrondissement to study law. In 1949 he became president of the AEC (Association for Colonial Students), where he met and befriended Pol PotSaloth Sar ( May 19, 1925 April 15, 1998), better known as Pol Pot was the leader of the Khmer Rouge and the Prime Minister of Cambodia (officially Democratic Kampuchea during his rule) from 1976 to 1979. His government is widely blamed for the deaths of. In 1950 at the request of his Communist mentors he went to Prague to lead a youth organization for four years.
Returning to France he became an attorney and took controversial cases. During the struggle in AlgiersAlgiers (Fr. Alger Arab. El-Jezair i. The Islands), is the capital and largest city of Algeria, North Africa. It is situated on the west side of a bay of the Mediterranean Sea, to which it gives its name, in 36 deg. and is built on the slopes of the Sahel he defended many accused of what the French government considered to be terrorism. He was a supporter of the Algerian armed independence struggle against France, comparing it to French armed resistance to the Nazi German occupation in the 1940s. He also left the French Communist PartyThe French Communist Party Parti Communiste Francais or PCF was founded in 1920. The party publishes a daily newspaper called L'Humanit which was started in 1904 as the paper of the Socialist Party. In fact the PCF, originally known as the French Section following their political move towards the Fourth Republic.
Vergès became a nationally-known figure following his defense of suspected anti-French Algerian guerrilla Djamila Bouhired on terrorism charges (she was accused of blowing up a café, a civilian target). She was condemned to death but pardoned and freed following public pressure and married Vergès. Vergès himself was sentenced to sixty days in 1960 and lost his license to officially practice law for "anti-state activities".
Just out of prison he used his publicity tactics to defend the Jeanson network. It was during a ferocious cross examination that Paul Teitgen , commander of the Algerian police, publicly admitted to the use of torture.
Following Algiers, Vergès moved onto IsraelThis article discusses the State of Israel. For other meanings of Israel see Israel (disambiguation). The State of Israel Medinat Yisrael in Hebrew, Daulat Israil in Arabic) is a country in the Middle East on the eastern edge of the Mediterranean Sea. - he saw Israel as a base for neo-imperialism in the Middle East and when the wave of PFLP civilian hijackings started in 1968 Vergès often appeared in court to defend them. Then from 1970-78 he disappeared from public view without explanation. He returned with the same anti-France and anti-Israel agenda as before, defending any militants with a political cause, almost all of whom were found guilty. As well as attacking governments, in 1999 Vergès sued Amnesty International on behalf of the government of Togo.
Recently, after the US-led occupation forces invaded Iraq (March 2003), Vergès was asked to represent Tareq Aziz in court. On December 13, 2003, the United States arrested Saddam Hussein (Iraq's President since 1979). Jacques Vergès also offered to defend Saddam if he was asked to. "If I have to choose between defending the wolf or the dog, I choose the wolf, especially when he is bleeding". As of March 27, 2004, Mr Vergès has been confirmed to defend Hussein. His tactic will apparently be to accuse US government officials such as Donald Rumsfeld, of complicity in Saddam's crimes. The governments of the US, France and Britain sold Saddam Hussein conventional, and illegal biological and chemical weapons to Saddam Hussein in the 1980s to support Saddam's war against Iran. Chemical weapons were also used on thousands of Kurdish civilians at Halabja.
Because of his tendency to represent some of the most infamous defendants, Vergès is sometimes referred to as " The Devil's Advocate".
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