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The second major issue for the meeting concerned the civil war in Sri Lanka and whether both the government and the Tamils had committed war crimes in the conflict’s final years.
A United Nations Human Rights Commission report suggests that there is substantial evidence of major war crimes by both the government and the Tamil Tigers, especially in the last 2-3 years of the conflict.
They were convicted for financial crimes in a 2004 trial, but in August faced a fresh round of charges, including tax evasion and embezzlement.
But how serious are these policy-political crimes to which Greenspan now pleads guilty?
For punishment of systematic, historical human rights crimes as a matter of government policy is only morally justified if it is designed to protect society from greater evils in the future.
Human rights crimes, though fostered by states, are committed by individuals acting according to their own wills.
It is not rational to impose such punishment when the consequences, far from preventing future crimes, may incite or cause greater or new social damage.
Only then will history’s crimes receive the response they demand, which first and foremost is not punishment, but the certainty that such crimes will not reoccur.
Crimes like those in Paris, New York, London, and Madrid – attacks on countless cafes, malls, buses, trains, and nightclubs – affront our most basic human values, because they involve the deliberate murder of innocents and seek to spread fear throughout society.
More than that, the arrest of DSK was supposedly revenge for France’s protection of another man accused of sexual crimes, Roman Polanski, and for the French ban on the burqa.
Others looked at crimes against Palestinians in the wake of our self-defensive War of Independence.
To be sure, Khrushchev’s uncovering of Stalin’s crimes and cult of personality in 1956 made a huge impression both in the Soviet Union and abroad.
Mikhail Gorbachev continued to uncover the crimes of Stalinism, shedding light on dark pages that Khrushchev lacked the courage to open to public view.
Its core idea – countering centuries of treating sovereignty almost as a license to kill – is that states must protect their own people from genocide and other mass atrocity crimes.
But everyone understands that the alternative to Security Council cooperation is a return to the bad old days of Rwanda, Srebrenica, and Kosovo: either total inaction in the face of mass atrocity crimes, or action outlawed by the UN Charter.
Indeed, hate crimes began to proliferate almost immediately after June’s Brexit referendum – even before May took power.
And the surge in hate crimes shows that the emerging cosmopolitan majority cannot simply sit back and wait for history to do its work.
Sexual harassment is the immediate focus of the Weinstein case, as it should be, given the severity of the alleged crimes and the distress caused to the victims.
Commitments regarding increased debt relief, further normalization of relations, and additional aid and investment are possible incentives that European states could put on the table, particularly in the hard push before January 9.Consequences could include new sanctions or the strengthening of existing ones (asset freezes, travel bans, an arms embargo, and capital-market sanctions); increased cooperation with the International Criminal Court on current and potential cases against those most responsible for war crimes in Darfur and the South; postponement of debt relief; and a freeze on oil transactions conducted in euros.
Albanians are outraged at the allegations that UCK members engaged in war crimes and other criminal behavior.
Anyone who posts content that is deemed to “cause annoyance, threatens harm or evil, encourages or incites crimes,” or jeopardizes “national security or public health and safety” can have their costly license revoked.
The government's brutality then, and all my experiences since, have convinced me that without a proper accounting for those crimes, China's future will remain in doubt.
Second, the thousands of political prisoners still in Chinese labor camps for "crimes" related to the 1989 democracy movement must be released.
Recently they could commit their crimes with impunity, bludgeoning their nation's judicial system into submission.
Now international war crimes tribunals have been created for Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, national courts have indicted despots from other countries, and a permanent International Criminal Court will soon be established.
This confidence lay in two legal gifts he had bestowed upon himself - an amnesty for his crimes and immunity as a senator-for-life.
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.
The International Criminal Court - a tribunal with potential worldwide jurisdiction over genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity - is built on a comparable catalytic theory.
Similarly, the war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia, based in The Hague, insists on the surrender of former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and other indicted suspects.
In the United Kingdom, reported hate crimes against immigrants surged 42% year on year in the run-up to and aftermath of June’s Brexit referendum.
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