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Meanwhile, Malaysia’s cabinet is considering a bill to abolish the death penalty for all crimes.
If it passes, the measure would commute the sentences of the 1,267 people currently on death row in the country, including 900 convicted of drug-related crimes.
Sri Lankan President Maithripala Sirisena recently said that his country would end a 42-year moratorium on executions and begin killing people convicted of drug crimes.
But, whereas Europeans, with crime rates well below American rates for the past half-century, could long afford to be relatively “soft” on most crimes, they have seen their crime rates increase sharply during the past twenty years.
This helps explain why capital punishment should be used only for murders, and not for lesser crimes.
If assault were punished with execution, perpetrators would have an incentive to kill their victims to avoid discovery (which is a major reason why the severity of punishments more generally should be matched to the severity of crimes).
A few NGO’s and some brave Russian and Western reporters have witnessed countless crimes.
China began investing heavily in Sri Lanka during the quasi-autocratic nine-year rule of President Mahinda Rajapaksa, and China shielded Rajapaksa at the United Nations from allegations of war crimes.
The US and its allies are already bombing perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Syria, but only when those perpetrators belong to ISIS rather than to the Syrian government.
But while this would result in more guilty verdicts for those who have committed crimes, it would also cause more innocent people to be found guilty.
Another year passed before his office issued indictments against high-ranking figures responsible for major crimes.
That success is twofold: the tribunal’s achievements with respect to the former Yugoslavia, and its impact worldwide on ending impunity for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide.
It also provided impetus to the establishment of the International Criminal Court, while encouraging prosecutors in many countries to charge senior officials and guerrilla leaders for war crimes and bring them to trial in national courts.
Even so, the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the ICTY is worth celebrating, because the movement it has led has forced military commanders, guerrilla leaders, and heads of state around the world to take into account the possibility that they will face justice if crimes against humanity are committed on their watch.
The French government called the attacks “war crimes” – and rightly so.
The mass killers who took power in the twentieth century were doomed to being killed in popular revolts or to being tried for their crimes – that is, if they did not die in power.
At the international level, the Nuremberg model remains available to generate further trials, though under the dubious conditions that victorious powers sometimes impose liability for crimes, such as “crimes against humanity” that were are not properly defined at the time they are committed.
Li Peiyang, the head of a state-owned firm that controls several airports, and Zeng Chengjie, a prominent real-estate developer, are just two of the Chinese executives who have been executed in recent years for white-collar crimes such as fraud, bribery, and embezzlement, none of which caused death or injury.
Second, the length of time that has passed since the crimes – longer than 30 years, in some cases – far exceeds that for any comparable proceeding.
Other war crimes courts have taken place in the immediate aftermath of conflict.
Yet, contrary to the practice in other international and hybrid war crimes courts, local law permits only Cambodian lawyers to represent the accused.
How the court performs matters deeply to the millions of Cambodians scarred by the crimes of the Khmer Rouge.
A general's trialBUCHAREST: As Chile’s former dictator, General Augusto Pinochet, under house arrest outside of London, awaits a final decision on whether he is to be extradited to Spain to face charges of having committed crimes against humanity, Romania has tried and convicted one of its own military leaders for his role in the massacre of civilians in the city of Timisoara ten years ago.
Many Romanian Army officers are unhappy with the notion of soldiers being tried for crimes committed while defending the dying communist regime.
But, as that past becomes unearthed and its crimes exposed, many recoil from the consequences.
The "original sin" of the Romanian Revolution always looms: most postcommunist institutions were created and later run by people deeply involved in the crimes of the communist regime.
And yet, in places where the crimes have not been acknowledged, many would argue that it is even more important to put in place a process to establish exactly what happened.
They stigmatize perpetrators and, in some cases, as happened in Argentina, the information documented in truth processes can be used to prosecute those ultimately responsible for major crimes.
Likewise, failure to acknowledge past crimes can foster resentment and, in some circumstances, contribute to demands for revenge.
For example, in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, some Serbs justified their attacks on their neighbors by claiming that they were taking revenge for crimes committed during World War II by fascist Croats and their Muslim allies.
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