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One effect of the Brexit vote that has already emerged in the US as well is a surge in hate crimes, including an alarming number of incidents being reported at schools and on college campuses.
No feeling of victimhood can justify, under any conditions, such crimes against innocents, and no theology can accept the negation of the human essence that we all share.
But, on the issue of mass-atrocity crimes – where the international community has long had good reason for shame – real optimism is now justified.
Whether or not the use of the word “genocide” is appropriate, Turkey should recognize that it is not alone among great states with a history of committing great crimes.
These countries have taken different approaches in facing up to the crimes of their past.
Memorials to the genocide and other war crimes have been given prominent placement in Berlin, the country’s capital, ensuring that residents of the city and visitors alike are constantly reminded of the atrocities committed by the Nazis.
The angry reaction – combined with the government’s diplomatic reprisals against those who use the word – has the perverse effect of stigmatizing present-day Turks as deniers of one of the great crimes of the twentieth century.
Turkey would be far better off facing up to the crimes of the past, as Germany has done.
Insofar as guilty individuals were concerned, on the other hand, we believed that people responsible for crimes should be judged by the courts, and the government, which stood for the independence of the judiciary, could not interfere with this.
If Assad and his murderous cronies agree to relinquish power, they will undoubtedly seek amnesty for their crimes.
We can thus comprehend why children born into such circumstances have more problems in school, are more likely to commit crimes, and are more prone to heart disease, diabetes, and a host of other physical and mental illnesses later in life.
Both government and rebel forces have committed atrocity crimes.
Inaction would ignite fires throughout the Middle East, and would violate the international community’s now-accepted responsibility to protect, through timely and decisive collective action, populations at risk of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and other major crimes against humanity and war crimes.
It is too late now for non-military tools of coercion to have much effect, although Security Council threats of International Criminal Court prosecution for atrocity crimes – including any use of chemical weapons – must remain on the table .
The tightrope turns that characterized the last several years of his encounter with the West (threats of sanctions for non-cooperation with the Hague war crimes tribunal, holding back Western assistance – EU aid programs, Partnership for Peace, etc.) reflect this bitter antagonism.
Fourth, laws are often arbitrarily applied, and sharia (Islamic law) frequently takes precedence over civil legislation, resulting in widespread impunity for crimes of violence against women.
Furthermore, Gul’s case, and others like it, should be studied in order to understand the roots of such crimes.
This includes women subjected to beatings, forced marriage at an early age, sexual assault, “honor” crimes, and female genital mutilation.
Seventy-five percent of crimes are not reported due to lack of trust in the authorities, and 98% of crimes are never resolved or punished.
His voice breaking, he apologized on behalf of the state for the crimes committed.
China’s “Double-Freeze” ConCLAREMONT, CALIFORNIA – North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un says the United States will pay a “thousand-fold for all the heinous crimes” it has committed against his country.
For example, Colombian opponents of the peace deal appealed to universal norms of justice for war crimes committed by the military and the FARC, not to national particularism, as in the UK and the Netherlands.
Senior US officials, including Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, have recently suggested that Saddam Hussein and his top henchmen might be given an amnesty for their past crimes in exchange for leaving Iraq and averting war.
How should it be judged by those attempting to end the practice of exempting from punishment government officials guilty of monstrous crimes?
First, one should consider the severity of the crimes committed by those who would escape punishment.
An incomplete list of his crimes includes:using chemical weapons against Iranian troops during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that he started in 1980;murdering about 5,000 residents of the predominantly Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 through the use of chemical weapons, after using these weapons in previous months against Kurdish villages in the vicinity;murdering about 100,000 Kurds during the "Anfal" campaign between February and September 1988, mainly by transporting the victims to a desert area where they were forced into trenches, machine-gunned, and then covered with sand by bulldozers;destroying the ancient civilization of the Marsh Arabs in southeastern Iraq, followed by the forced resettlement and murder of the region's former residents;his actions in Kuwait when Iraq invaded in 1990, including the disappearance--still unresolved--of hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens;savage reprisals against the Shiites in southern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War;and persecution of any and all Iraqis suspected of dissent or disloyalty.
It cannot consider crimes committed prior to July 1, 2002.
His crimes would neither be forgiven nor forgotten.
Since returning to democratic rule in the 1980s and 1990s, many Latin American countries have been quietly working to strengthen their political systems’ checks and balances, from enhancing the legislature’s authority to analyze budgets and monitor spending to reinforcing the judiciary’s capacity to prosecute complex financial crimes.
Above all, Swedish politicians must speak out when minorities become the target of hate crimes.
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