Perpetrators
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252 examples of Perpetrators in a sentence
The first includes the
perpetrators
of the attacks on the United States in 2001, the Bali bombing in 2002, the Madrid train bombing in 2003, and the London bombings in the summer of 2005.
The
perpetrators
are indifferent as to whether their victims, both direct and indirect, are Muslim or non-Muslim; their goal is to terrorize and eventually to destroy a way of life in the name of a nebulous Dar-al-Islam, a utopian entity that will supposedly solve all of life’s problems.
Yet the
perpetrators
of wartime mass rape and other forms of sexual violence usually are not prosecuted.
The ICC and other tribunals must give a clear signal to the
perpetrators.
One promising avenue for US-Iran cooperation on Syria could be joint support for a fact-finding mission by the Security Council to identify the
perpetrators.
Scholars have identified a “template of denial” that
perpetrators
of such crimes use to maintain the status quo.
Instead, they invert the story to portray the victims as
perpetrators.
In a country where
perpetrators
of genocide have been placed in the pantheon of national heroes, all of this would not only help to alleviate Armenians’ frustration and grief; it would also send a message to Turkey’s citizens, especially its many minorities, that the state takes human rights and the rule of law seriously.
But punishment for the
perpetrators
of female circumcision remains rare.
For decades, activists in the United States and Europe have brought attention to the problem and urged African governments to prosecute
perpetrators.
Prosecuting Videla and other
perpetrators
was made possible by path-breaking case law undertaken by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
The International Criminal Court has no statute of limitations, and we rightly continue to pursue and prosecute the
perpetrators
of the Holocaust.
If she does report the matter to the authorities, the case will almost certainly never be properly investigated, nor the
perpetrators
ever prosecuted.
Above all,
perpetrators
of violence against women should be prosecuted and tried under due process of law.
Even if the welfare of the victims is ignored, torture is not cost-free; it damages the perpetrators, corrodes democratic institutions, and corrupts the rule of law.
Victims and
perpetrators
might not be the same.
The
perpetrators
of these attacks must be identified and brought to justice.
The
perpetrators
of chemical attacks must be held to account, whoever they are.
But, instead of admitting the crime and working to bring the
perpetrators
to justice, Russia’s leaders have fought back, declaring that certain Europeans and Americans will, in turn, be barred from visiting Russia.
At the same time, nomads have been
perpetrators
of violence and terrorism.
But Viktor Yanukovych, the current Ukrainian president, denies the special suffering of the Ukrainian people – a nod to Russia’s official historical narrative, which seeks to blur the particular evils of collectivization into a tragedy so vague that it has no clear
perpetrators
or victims.
We must change laws, judicial systems, and attitudes that exonerate the perpetrators, and we must provide help to victims.
And, as the Mumbai terror attacks of November 2008 demonstrated, India today faces the threat of cross-border terrorism to which the Mahatma’s only answer – a fast in protest – would have left its
perpetrators
unmoved.
If, in a world of scarce jobs, those with political connections get them, and if, in a world of limited wealth, government officials accumulate masses of money, there will be justifiable outrage at such inequities – and at the
perpetrators
of these “crimes.”
The
perpetrators
of these bomb blasts are now understood to belong to linked, hard-line Islamist organizations.
Americans, sadly, are now victims who have turned into
perpetrators.
More than most people realize, the Gospels treat recalcitrant Jews--those who refused to accept Jesus as their Messiah--as
perpetrators
of a crime that lives on in every generation.
Indeed, in the course of trying to report to the university in 2004 what had happened to me in 1983, I found the same pattern of stonewalling victims and defending
perpetrators.
Alleged
perpetrators
were free to teach in a new university – where more young women (and in some cases, young men) would become their prey.
Like the Catholic Church, private universities like Yale can use victims’ shame and isolation to disenfranchise them and to protect the
perpetrators.
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