Sentences with phrase «convicted war criminal»

This case follows a history of wrongdoing in Liberia, where DLH purchased timber from a company that helped finance (now convicted war criminal) Charles Taylor's regime during the country's brutal civil war.

While the whole mess is completely ridiculous, as Noriega is a convicted war criminal and murderer who's reputation could not possibly be any worse, the people at Activision still have to defend themselves and thus have motioned for the lawsuit to be dismissed in a California court of law.

It's a study in rumor and fear fueling self - righteous hysteria as one - time friends not only turn their back on him, they suddenly feel free to treat him like a convicted war criminal somehow free in a technicality.

Political analyst Boban Stojanovic believes the publicity given to convicted war criminals is a ploy by the ruling party to «gain some political points» ahead of the vote.

The CCP stirs the nationalistic emotions of the people by contesting Japan over issues such as: the disputed territorial claims with China: its writing of history that omits Japanese atrocities in its invasion of China, and in recent visits by its leaders to Japan's Yasukuni shrine which honors national heroes including convicted war criminals.2

Not exact matches

The term implies that when the citizens of Cambodia or Argentina see their country's war criminals or dictators tried and convicted, they will place more faith in the rule of law, and the society can move more easily toward a peace settlement or democracy.

The game's story involves Harkyn, a convicted criminal who gets a chance at redemption when a great evil resurfaces and declares war against humanity.

Colonel Dax, an accomplished criminal lawyer before the war, volunteers to defend the three charged soldiers, who if convicted would face a firing squad.

Recruit a gang of Hoodlums, Thieves, Convicts and many more to rage a turf war around the globe, fight for territory and build your criminal empire.

Military commissions organized during the late civil war, in a State not invaded and not engaged in rebellion, in which the Federal courts were open, and in the proper and unobstructed exercise of their judicial functions, had no jurisdiction to try, convict, or sentence for any criminal offence, a citizen who was neither a resident of a rebellious State nor a prisoner of war, nor a person in the military or naval service.