Impunity
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Yet siege warfare is being used with impunity: Amnesty International reports that more than 200 people have been killed by starvation, shelling, and a lack of medical supplies in Yarmouk, a district of Damascus, as President Bashar al-Assad’s government intentionally blocks life-saving aid.
This test explains the effective
impunity
of China, Russia, or any other major power; however badly it behaves internally, any attempted invasion would trigger a much larger conflagration.
Such
impunity
creates an atmosphere in which continued attacks are practically invited.
Moreover, extremists like Boko Haram and Al-Shabab calculate that they can attack schools with
impunity.
Russia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus are of particular concern, given the high incidence of violent assaults on journalists and chronic
impunity
for perpetrators.
The use of online social networks, for example, has grown faster than in any other country in Europe, and has helped create some semblance of a public sphere, with the Russian blogosphere often a venue for angry public expression about social injustice, undeserved privileges, lawlessness, and police
impunity.
In late 2008, anti-Thaksin mobs wearing yellow shirts and led by prominent business figures occupied Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi International Airport with impunity, seeking to annul the result of a general election in which pro-Thaksin forces gained power, despite Thaksin’s exile overseas.
They believe that they, too, are entitled to act with
impunity.
Add to these the fact that many Guatemalan judges have functioned as agents of
impunity
rather than as servants of justice and a legal system that can be manipulated by the defense through a series of frivolous lawsuits.
But at the moment, an atmosphere of
impunity
is emboldening those intent on silencing human rights defenders, journalists, and opposition leaders.
Finally, an independent criminal tribunal must be set up to investigate the June Fourth massacre, and those found responsible for the killings and other atrocities, including former Premier Li Peng, must be indicted and brought to trial without
impunity.
Recently they could commit their crimes with impunity, bludgeoning their nation's judicial system into submission.
He left Chile for England in October 1998 confident that he would continue to enjoy
impunity
from prosecution until his dying days.
But once Pinochet was arrested in London, on charges filed by a Spanish judge, his carefully constructed edifice of
impunity
began to crumble.
But the effect of his case on international justice ensures that, at the very least, he will be remembered for his indictment in Chile rather than for the
impunity
he had sought to ensure.
In any case, that developing partnership between national and international justice means that tyrants and torturers - past and future - can no longer blithely assume lifelong
impunity.
Foreign bottom trawlers have fished recklessly and acted with impunity, dragging heavy nets, razing the bottom of our seafloor, and damaging an astounding 120,000 square kilometers (46,000 square miles) of important marine habitat.
As CPJ found during a recent weeklong advocacy mission to Kyiv, the lingering
impunity
has hurt the media’s ability to cover sensitive issues, including corruption, abuse of power, and the ongoing conflict in eastern Ukraine.
And so, despite major advances over the last seven decades – such as the creation of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the UN’s Responsibility to Protect doctrine – human-rights abuses continue to be perpetrated at an alarming rate and with virtual
impunity.
For perpetrators,
impunity
remains the norm.
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 is time to end this
impunity.
The international community’s shameful acceptance of
impunity
for Assad and his henchmen is a blot on the conscience of the world.
At the same time, this court is the latest manifestation of an enduring worldwide movement – which extends back to Nuremberg – to end
impunity
for mass atrocities.
Equally striking is the
impunity
with which lawmakers flout the rules that they are sworn to uphold.
As Kenneth W. Dam of the University of Chicago formulates it in his book The Law-Growth Nexus, the rule of law excludes secret law and legal impunity, while protecting individuals from legal discrimination and enforcing rules that favor them to their benefit.
The same standards for environmental cleanup need to be applied to global companies operating in poorer countries, where their power has typically been so great relative to that of governments that many act with impunity, wreaking havoc on the environment with little or no accountability.
As we enter a new era of sustainable development,
impunity
must turn to responsibility.
Nigeria has been Exhibit A of corporate environmental
impunity.
If we are to learn from Lampedusa – and prevent similar tragedies in the future – the smugglers must not be encouraged by impunity, and the desperate men, women, and children who often become their victims are not the ones who should be punished.
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