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The reality is that they were the perpetrators, not the victims, and it seemed particularly galling that they were continuing to hold a gun to the heads of governments, demanding massive bailouts and threatening economic collapse otherwise.
The revelation of the abuse of players of Sudanese and Nigerian origin generated a surge of genuine, visible, and tangible public repugnance – a very real sense that the
perpetrators
had shamed not only themselves, but also their country.
The new United Nations tribunal that was formed – nearly five decades after the final judgments were rendered at Nuremberg and Tokyo – became the forerunner of ad hoc courts to prosecute
perpetrators
of Rwanda’s genocide, Charles Taylor and his blood-diamond butchers in Sierra Leone, and the Khmer Rouge killers in Cambodia.
The
perpetrators
are not hardened criminals; many have no previous criminal record.
An estimated million more were massacred in Bangladesh in 1971, and only this year have some of the perpetrators’ local allies been tried.
Making matters worse, none of these murders has been properly investigated and none of the
perpetrators
has been brought to justice.
Some South Africans called for Nuremberg-type trials, especially for
perpetrators
of those atrocities that were designed to maintain the vicious apartheid system.
Each time such horrible stories were published, we had to remind ourselves that, yes indeed, the acts were demonic, but the
perpetrators
remained each a child of God.
Such is the generals’ Janus-faced approach to terrorism that six years after the Mumbai attacks, Pakistan has yet to try the seven Pakistani
perpetrators
in its custody.
Russia, Azerbaijan, and Belarus are of particular concern, given the high incidence of violent assaults on journalists and chronic impunity for
perpetrators.
Meanwhile, a commission that the government charged with investigating the state-condoned massacres of Muslim citizens in Gujarat in 2002 produced only a whitewash, absolving the
perpetrators
of any wrongdoing – and fueling a further rise in homegrown terrorism by deeply disaffected Indian Muslims.
We are wont to declare them the work of lunatics and sociopaths, and we feel repulsed by the very idea that they may have an explanation beyond the insanity of their
perpetrators.
(The
perpetrators
appeared clueless to the fact that certain weather conditions would have concentrated the radioactive debris in the Palestinian-majority West Bank.)
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).
For the most part, they have even refrained from denouncing the perpetrators, clinging to a sham neutrality or taking shelter in the fog of "imperfect information."
That price, however, is also exacted from the rest of us, because when extremists are allowed to wipe out their neighbors, the victimized often become radicalized and militarized; they look to settle old scores not only against the
perpetrators
of genocide, but against those who abetted them.
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.
For perpetrators, impunity remains the norm.
Sometimes, the safety advisers turn out to be
perpetrators
of sexual harassment.
The
perpetrators
of the Madrid and London bombings were prosecuted in ordinary criminal trials.
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.
The Lucifer EffectWhy do good, ordinary people sometimes become
perpetrators
of evil?
Americans are both shocked and angered by the attack on their cherished invulnerability and are determined to pursue the
perpetrators
with every means at their disposal.
It is unconscionable that no one, so far, has been willing to try to stop the
perpetrators
of Zimbabwe’s terror.
Countries have enacted security legislation and created special intelligence and police units to stop
perpetrators
and discourage or prevent attacks, and have complemented these efforts by entering into international and regional treaties and bilateral agreements.
As the last survivors and
perpetrators
die, younger Germans feel less of a real connection to the past.
At worst, labor-market failures impose modest inefficiency costs on society, whereas capital-market failures harm society greatly, with workers, rather than the
perpetrators
of financial disaster, suffering the most.
The main causes of the fighting that has afflicted the DRC for so long have been competition for control of that impoverished country’s vast natural resources and neighboring Rwanda’s effort to wipe out what it sees as a potential threat posed by
perpetrators
of the 1994 genocide who took refuge in the DRC.
The use of chemical weapons against rebels and civilians in the Middle East is far from a new phenomenon, and Arab socialist and Baathist regimes – with their ideological kinship to Nazism and fascism – have been the most common
perpetrators.
In the Middle East’s six-decade-long history of state-directed chemical mass murder, one power has consistently protected the perpetrators: Russia.
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