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Atrocities cast long shadows.

The International Criminal Court will prosecute heads of states for war crimes.

Once these atrocities were discovered, the government dealt with them swiftly.

By far the largest component of German aid has been in the form of restitution payments for Nazi atrocities.

The visual politics of atrocity and terror is only as strong as we imagine it.

He did not commit an unintentional mishap, which could lead to clemency.

The German Soviet non aggression treaty, the so called Hitler Stalin pact, concluded in August 1939, had been supplemented by a secret appendix dividing the border states Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland and Romania into spheres of interest for the two parties.

But excusing Nazi atrocities by pointing to Stalinist crimes is an intellectually and morally unacceptable stratagem.

After all, atrocities including the Srebrenica massacre continued after the ICTY began operating.

In a world in which terrorists have committed atrocities and threaten to commit more, to seek complete government transparency is utopian.

Without much further thought I would probably have added whoever this person is, and no matter what atrocities they have committed.

No state that aspires to win the support or cooperation of others can afford to be seen to be comfortable with unambiguous double standards. And worst of all is to be perceived as being soft on those who, like Egypt s current military rulers, commit mass atrocity crimes against their own citizens.

And worst of all is to be perceived as being soft on those who, like Egypt s current military rulers, commit mass atrocity crimes against their own citizens.

They drive people to avenge terrible misdeeds, saying 160 We claim we represent true justice .Blood avengers, always in pursuit, we chase them to the end. 160 So it is that the furies help Orestes to wreak vengeance on his mother, Clytaemnestra, for killing his father, Agamemnon.

But those who repent after a crime and reform, shall be forgiven by God, for God is forgiving and kind.

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.

One key of the principal reasons for the world s economic growth from 2000 07, despite wars and terrorist atrocities, was that India and China joined the world economy.

He may also claim that, with many thousands of troops under his command, it was impossible for him to ensure that US soldiers were not committing atrocities, torture, or violations of civil liberties.

Traditionally, under Bengali Sufi mystical teachings, the majority Muslim population lived peacefully with other religions, and Bangladesh had a good record on education and civil rights for women. Until recently, Muslim fundamentalists were discredited, because militias such as al Badr and Razakar had supported atrocities against civilians during the civil war of 1971.

BEIJING Would China ever be willing to host an international policy discussion about the conditions that would legitimize invading another country to stop genocide or other mass atrocity crimes from being committed within its borders?

Until recently, Muslim fundamentalists were discredited, because militias such as al Badr and Razakar had supported atrocities against civilians during the civil war of 1971.

Japan's emergence as East Asia's leading power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved three brutal wars in China, in which the Japanese army committed dreadful atrocities.

Congo s government has undertaken no significant effort to bring those responsible for these gender atrocities to justice new laws have paid lip service to sexual violence, but no one has been prosecuted.

Underlying this argument is the idea that the attack was an explicitly religious act carried out by an enemy faith, whose believers even those who denounced the atrocity are tainted and deserve to have their constitutional rights restricted.

PARIS Back in 2001, France floated a proposal that the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council (P5) should voluntarily refrain from using their veto power when dealing with mass atrocity crimes.

According to the Committee, field officers were often more influential than even the Emperor, war ministers, and chiefs of staffs in making decisions to go to and escalate the wars, and were responsible for many atrocities.

Similarly, in Kosovo the international community has devoted little time to helping former combatants contemplate their collective responsibility for atrocities, no matter how direct or indirect their personal involvement.

More recently, after a genocide that cost nearly 800,000 lives in Rwanda in 1994, and the slaughter of Bosnian men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, many people vowed that such atrocities should never again be allowed to occur.

They face death not only from starvation and exposure, but also from genocidal slaughter by the rapidly advancing IS forces, who regard the Yazidis as apostates and have already perpetrated atrocities unrivaled in their savagery.

More recently, after a genocide that cost nearly 800,000 lives in Rwanda in 1994, and the slaughter of Bosnian men and boys at Srebrenica in 1995, many people vowed that such atrocities should never again be allowed to occur.