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In addition, Australia and Japan have launched a major international
commission
on nuclear non-proliferation and disarmament.
Meanwhile, a
commission
that the government charged with investigating the state-condoned massacres of Muslim citizens in Gujarat in 2002 produced only a whitewash, absolving the perpetrators of any wrongdoing – and fueling a further rise in homegrown terrorism by deeply disaffected Indian Muslims.
After Israel’s inability last summer to achieve a conclusive victory over Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, public pressure forced Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s government to appoint a
commission
to examine the causes of this surprising failure.
The commission, headed by retired Supreme Court judge Eliyahu Winograd, has just published its interim report.
Thus, instead of investing in the energy industry – the lifeblood of the economy – in order to reverse declining output, the Kremlin is devoting its energy to a presidential
commission
to “counteract attempts to falsify history to the detriment of Russia’s interests.”
When a senior defense expert recently testified before a US Congressional
commission
on China's military capability, he detailed the extraordinarily robust weapons program the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has been pursuing.
Several multilateral development banks have already recognized the value of this mechanism and are working with the
commission
to develop the facility further.
Some 42 agreements were reportedly penned at the meeting, on issues ranging from outstanding trade and economic matters to the launch of a human rights
commission.
He also vowed to rid his administration of Habre's security agents and to grant access to the files of a truth
commission
that investigated Habre's rule.
For example in Guatemala, where the findings of a UN truth
commission
has at last sparked a serious judicial investigation of former President Rios Montt for crimes against humanity committed during his scorched-earth attacks on perceived rural opponents in 1982-83.
Most people, and murderers in particular, fear death, especially when it follows swiftly and with considerable certainty following the
commission
of a murder.
No independent
commission
or task force has been created to examine the problem, either.
The Guilt Fallacy confuses “guilt,” which is a legal concept, with the
commission
of a forbidden act.
A government-appointed
commission
recently concluded that managers have generated high gross real returns on investments: from 1981 to 2013, the annual average was 8.6%; but high fees cut net returns to savers to around 3% per year over that period.
When a future British prime minister, Clement Attlee, traveled to India as part of a constitutional
commission
and argued the merits of a presidential system over a parliamentary one, his Indian interlocutors reacted with horror.
This body, which became known as a “truth commission,” was the forerunner of similar efforts in more than 40 countries around the world.
I was a member of an international commission, the Independent
Commission
for the Reform of International Corporate Taxation, examining ways to reform the current tax system.
All members of the presidential election
commission
are Mubarak appointees, and the new election rules eliminated any independent challengers.
Thus far, a standoff looks likely, as the head of the presidential election
commission
has stated publicly on Egyptian television that he refuses all citizen monitoring of the election process.
Then there are the errors of
commission
– cases in which economists’ fixation on one particular model of the world makes them complicit in the administration of policies whose failure could have been predicted ahead of time.
The head of the Kremlin-appointed Chechen administration, Akhmad Kadyrov, is already discussing this with the president of the federal election
commission.
The university authorities described Hartman’s statement as “undermining the dignity of the profession of a university teacher” and referred the matter to a disciplinary
commission.
He has appointed Anand Panyarachun, a former Thai prime minister who recently headed a United Nations reform panel, to select and direct a blue-ribbon national
commission
to seek reconciliation with the southern separatists.
The combined assault has, among other things, killed hundreds of people and wounded more than a thousand, put the city’s remaining hospitals out of commission, and deprived the population of drinking water.
It was a blunder that was quickly revealed by the press, triggering several judicial investigations and police inquiries, as well as a parliamentary
commission
requiring the appearance of the interior minister himself.
His arrest follows that of General Xu Caihou, who served on the
commission
from 2007 to 2012, in June of last year.
As mass layoffs became reality, the radical Korean Confederation of Trade Unions withdrew from the
commission.
After the de-Baathification order was issued (by a
commission
that does not actually have any sitting members) a panel of the Iraqi Court of Appeal essentially invalidated it.
Operation Condor, the Riggs, Frei, and Prats affairs, and many other crimes are documented in the recent report on torture and political imprisonment written by the special
commission
established by President Ricardo Lagos.
Within eight days of the rape, a special commission, led by former Supreme Court Chief Justice J.S. Verma, was established.
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