[Interviewer] Do you think that the Eichmann trial in the 1960s advanced the cause of
international punishment for criminals?
[Belle] Well, yes, because in the sense that it wasn't so much
a new thing in international law. It wasn't an addition of international law. It didn't set
any precedents that had not already been there. But it was terribly important to let people who
committed the kind of crimes Eichmann did that there was no statute of limitations appending
applying to murder and torture.
And that if it took a hundred years, these people would be hunted down.