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Just like effective leadership and respect for the rule of law, a certain amount of faith in the system – even if it is qualified by frustration with inequality or impunity – is essential to its survival.
But Taylor has wielded a heavy hand in the campaign, his impunity making a mockery of international justice.
The opposition decided that this was tantamount to impunity – and thus unacceptable.
Of course, opposition to supposed impunity is not the only reason Colombians voted against the peace deal.
But opposition to impunity was probably not even the real motivation driving Uribe and other No campaign leaders.
After all, some of those who are decrying impunity today, Uribe included, supported impunity for the M-19 left-wing guerrilla group in the 1980s.
This staunch commitment to sovereignty also led the BRICS to oppose sanctions against the Syrian regime, which is massacring its civilian population with impunity.
Qaddafi cannot be allowed to think that he can massacre his people with impunity.
In the end, if a European country, especially one of the EU's big four of Germany, France, Italy and the UK, wants to run a deficit that exceeds the strictures of the Stability Pact, it will do so with impunity, as France is doing now.
A Wrong Turn for Human RightsNEW YORK – The world has plunged into a period of brutality, with impunity for the perpetrators of violence.
Indeed, impunity has been increasing since 2008, with 84% of homicides going unpunished, compared to roughly 45% in the United States.
In some Mexican states, such as Morelos, the impunity rate is as high as 95%.
It is impossible to forget the many strange sexual twists of Bush administration policies, from forced nudity of prisoners – which post-Abu Ghraib records show was systemic, not an aberration – to the sexual threats and sexual assaults against such prisoners, the sexualized hazing rituals and accounts of rape practiced with impunity by contractors, and so on.
His election would have enormous implications, symbolizing the triumph of impunity over accountability.
Action must also be taken to end the impunity with which the Burmese generals have ruled.
The Lal Masjid clerics operate with impunity – no attempt has been made to cut off its electricity, gas, phone, or Web site – or even to shut down its illegal FM radio station.
If impunity for perpetrators of crimes against humanity, however morally repugnant, could protect potential future victims by ending the conflict, accepting such an outcome may well be worth sacrificing a full measure of justice for past victims.
The Bush lawyers were the torturers’ necessary partners, whose work was intended to ensure legal impunity.
The survivors of all the previous political movements, now enthralled by Mao’s personality cult, were free of all constraint, able to kill and seek revenge with impunity.
The ICTY’s mission is as valid and as vital as ever: to show that the era of impunity for some of humanity’s worst crimes is coming to an end.
Impunity for attackers, and societal pressure that encourages victims to remain silent, are impediments to accountability and justice that must be removed.
Equally striking is the impunity with which lawmakers flout the rules.
Land grabs, chronic corruption, impunity, the inability to enforce contracts, and the fragmentation and ineffectiveness of aid deterred foreign and domestic investment further.
And he welcomed the creation of the International Criminal Court as the legal instrument to end impunity and prosecute and punish military commanders and political leaders for the most heinous crimes.
And the activist Andrei Ursu’s recent 17-day hunger strike – a protest against official manipulation and impunity regarding the death of his father during a brutal interrogation by the communist police in 1985 – reminded Romanians of their own experiences with government cover-ups of official criminality.
Because the legal system made it easier for Muslims to breach contracts with impunity, they were more often tempted to default on their debts and to renege on their obligations as business partners and sellers.
The too-big-to-be-restructured banks know that they can gamble with impunity – and, with the Federal Reserve making funds available at near-zero interest rates, there are ample funds to do so.
Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina defended the decision by insisting that there can be no impunity for war crimes on the scale perpetrated in 1971, when an estimated two million people died, with many civilians executed in cold blood.
The verdicts certainly reinforce a culture of impunity within the security services.
Indeed, in some immigrant areas, Muslim women feel obliged to cover their heads, lest Muslim men see them as prostitutes, who may be molested with impunity.
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