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tessarakt@GossiTheDog Enforced disappearance is a crime against humanity under the Rome Statute. El Salvador has ratified the Rome Statute.
zbrown@tessarakt @GossiTheDog El Salvador apparently doesn't care so long as paid though, perhaps more interestingly the flights seem to cross through Belize and Honduras who are also signatories and would in theory have the right if not duty to require future flights via their airspace land for inspection.
I'm not saying they are likely to, and certainly not that it would go well for them, but an interesting thought isn't it? And do they become complicit if they don't?
@zbrown @GossiTheDog well, my point was that the part of the crimes occurring in El Salvador enables the jurisdiction of the ICC, which could issue arrest warrants.
Maybe something https://www.ohchr.org/en/treaty-bodies/ced should investigate.
Andreas K@tessarakt @zbrown @GossiTheDog Do they?
The way I remember ICAO rules, there is a right to fly-over, in the sense a country can grant it or not, but then you have the right to fly-over, and that's basically is it.
That's why Belarus had to fake a terrorist bomb threat on an EU-to-EU (Greece-Lithuania) flight that was passing Belarus airspace (shortest == cheapest route) to get an airliner to land, so they could arrest a dissident.
Belarus scrambles fighter to force airliner to land, arrests opponent
Belarusian authorities scrambled a fighter jet and flagged what turned out to be a false bomb alert to force a Ryanair plane to land on Sunday and then detained an opposition-minded journalist who was on board, drawing criticism from across Europe.
@yacc143 @zbrown @GossiTheDog wasn't this a government flight? Those need to be approved. Sometimes the procedure is that they have to be announced as government flights in the flight plan, and are considered approved if there is no objection.
@tessarakt @zbrown @GossiTheDog The point is none of the South American countries want to really piss off the Glorious Leader, and draw his attention on themselves.
Belarus was able to do this, a) because they were already the villain under sanctions, b) under Russian protection
So the cost of this showing the middle finger to the west action was tiny for Belarus.