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So far, communities in the vicinity of extraction operations have often been hostile to the process, seeing themselves as the
victims
of environmental damage, while domestic elites and foreign companies are presumed to be the primary beneficiaries.
Breaking the distorting power of these criminal networks requires first confronting the distortions that perpetuate it: the failed war on drugs and criminalization of consumers; the burgeoning privatization of security; police agencies that reproduce, rather than reduce, violence and crime; prisons that hone offenders’ criminal skills; and judicial systems that re-victimize crime
victims.
The commemorations present an opportunity not only to remember the 1.5 million victims, but also to recognize – and challenge – the Turkish government’s continued denial of the atrocities.
Denial, the last bastion of those who commit genocide, disrespects the
victims
and their communities and lays a foundation of lies for a future that is likely to be characterized by even more conflict and repression.
Instead, they invert the story to portray the
victims
as perpetrators.
They then insist that a larger number of
victims
came from the perpetrator’s group and downplay the total number of
victims.
Monuments and memorials can also serve an important purpose in providing an enduring reminder not only of the victims, but also of the state’s promise never to allow such atrocities to happen again.
The school has a brass band, a farm, an artists’ collective, microfinance and literary clubs, and support groups for
victims
of domestic violence.
Why is it that struggles far more complex than the Israel-Arab conflict – apartheid in South Africa, the partition of Germany, or the collapse of the Soviet Union – all seem to have been resolved, usually without bloodshed, whereas the Middle East conflict, after more than a century, claims more
victims
every day?
Today’s emerging-market turmoil is here to stay, and they are the true
victims.
Foreign Minister Mukherjee was treated rudely on his recent visit, with Premier Wen Jiabao cancelling a previously-scheduled appointment and the Governor of Sichuan Province failing to show up to receive a donation of Indian humanitarian aid for China’s earthquake
victims.
The right is simply repeating its old trick of drawing upon the righteous anger and frustrated aspirations of the
victims
to advance its own repugnant agenda.
By giving the green light to the Optional Protocol to the 1966 International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, the Council has established an important mechanism to expose abuses that are typically linked to poverty, discrimination, and neglect, and that
victims
frequently endure in silence and helplessness.
This procedure may seem opaque, but by lodging a complaint under the Protocol’s provisions,
victims
will now be able to bring to the surface abuses that their governments inflict, fail to stop, ignore, or do not redress.
And, in the same way, Taiwan and Vietnam feel that they will be the Chinese giant’s first
victims.
Tell that to the four million people starving to death, to the three million
victims
of HIV/AIDS, or to the billions of people who lack access to clean drinking water.
In these cases, victims, activist lawyers, and advocacy organizations turned to the regional human-rights court after exhausting their options at home.
Both are victims: the buyer is a victim of morbidity and declining social solidarity, while the seller is a victim of poverty and other forms of financial distress.
Moreover, suicide
victims
should not be glorified as “martyrs and objects of public adulation,” lest other “susceptible persons” come to think “that their society honors suicidal behavior.”
The best way for a country to rehabilitate its reputation is to accept the truth about past atrocities and the responsibility, both symbolic and material, that it owes to the
victims
and their survivors.
Today, Latin American states need political agreements that protect them from becoming the
victims
of both North American unilateralism and the global economy.
His other great virtue, perhaps, is having ensured, through his work and henceforth in the minds of those inspired by it, that the dark memory of that exception that was the Holocaust will not exclude – indeed, that the Holocaust requires – ardent solidarity with the
victims
of all other genocides.
The poor and the lower middle classes, however, rely on cash for their daily activities, and thus are the main
victims
of this supposedly “pro-poor” policy.
Since 2007, many of the cartels’
victims
have been decapitated – a tactic clearly aimed at intimidating their enemies.
Of course, most
victims
are traffickers.
There is only one way out of the Gaza tragedy that can provide justice to its many victims: The parties to the conflict and the regional actors now vying to act as mediators must leverage the ongoing calamity into a grand peace agenda.
Vieira de Mello - who has had a distinguished career in the UN system and is a brilliant diplomat - must be willing and able to draw on his own region and on others to make sure that the UN human rights system serves the
victims
rather than the violators.
My homeland has become a place where too many people are victims, succumbing to a virus, or gunned down by a drug-trafficker; assaulted by a robber, shot by an ill-trained policeman, or kidnapped by a member of a criminal gang.
An incomplete list of his crimes includes:using chemical weapons against Iranian troops during the eight-year Iran-Iraq war that he started in 1980;murdering about 5,000 residents of the predominantly Kurdish town of Halabja in March 1988 through the use of chemical weapons, after using these weapons in previous months against Kurdish villages in the vicinity;murdering about 100,000 Kurds during the "Anfal" campaign between February and September 1988, mainly by transporting the
victims
to a desert area where they were forced into trenches, machine-gunned, and then covered with sand by bulldozers;destroying the ancient civilization of the Marsh Arabs in southeastern Iraq, followed by the forced resettlement and murder of the region's former residents;his actions in Kuwait when Iraq invaded in 1990, including the disappearance--still unresolved--of hundreds of Kuwaiti citizens;savage reprisals against the Shiites in southern Iraq in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War;and persecution of any and all Iraqis suspected of dissent or disloyalty.
Fundamental values are also at stake for the EU, whose members, ironically, have in some cases actively supported the US in its quest to extradite Snowden, despite being
victims
of America’s alleged breaches of international law.
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