Sentences with phrase «of war criminals»

The contrast between a Canadian law society's admission of a candidate who plotted his entry into a profession built on trust and honesty, while mulling over his pleas to two criminal offences involving dishonesty and breach of trust, and the death of the honourable advocate of war criminals, racists, and terrorists, struck me this summer as moral antipodes.

This order was accompanied by detailed rules and regulations which General MacArthur prescribed for the trial of war criminals.

Blockout Jon's cooperation with the local resistance, the Rotki Lions, gave him the location of one of the targets from his Most Wanted list — a list containing the names of war criminals that Jon can neutralize to bring justice to the people of Georgia.

Buhari and co must therefore come to the realisation that he is wasting his time and destroying Nigeria along with the likes of war criminals like Gowon and himself if he continues to hold our leader Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.

«Such participation of war criminals in public life in Germany would have been unimaginable,» she said.

Set in the south of France in the summer of 1989, The Statement traces the fate of the war criminal and fugitive Pierre Brossard (closely modeled on Touvier).

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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 International Criminal Court has said US forces may have committed war crimes in Afghanistan through the «cruel or violent» interrogation of detainees, mostly from 2003 to 2004.

Dutch prosecutors have revealed that Slobodan Praljak died of a heart attack after drinking cyanide as his conviction and sentence for war crimes was affirmed by the the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, Netherlands, on Wednesday.

It's much of the same sort of chants as before; the students more or less contend that they believe Petraeus is a war criminal and they would prefer if he were not associated with CUNY.

The change represents yet another way that Sessions, who served as a federal prosecutor at the height of the drug war in Mobile, Alabama, has reversed Obama - era criminal justice policies aimed at easing overcrowding in federal prisons and rethinking of how drug criminals are prosecuted and sentenced.

Many experts credit that development to the «war on drugs,» a series of tough criminal justice and drug policies that began under President Richard Nixon and continued under President Ronald Reagan.

Take, for example, the «Kony 2012» viral video campaign calling for the arrest of indicted war criminal Joseph Kony.

In recent weeks, the War on Gold, which is a subset of the broader War on Human Freedom, has sharply intensified, with massive, multi-billion dollar naked short price raids now being launched on a weekly and even daily basis by the criminal, state - sponsored price manipulators.

The minister of citizenship and immigration has already picked a fight this year with Amnesty International over his plan to enlist the public's help in identifying and rounding up fugitives suspected of hiding in Canada from their alleged past behaviour as war criminals.

The War on Gold, which has raged for 37 + years, has generated more than $ 1 trillion in criminal profits for the Deep State plunderers, while costing the worldwide owners of physical gold multiple trillions of dollars.

If judicial punishment is the overriding goal of the liberal peace, a legal grant of pardon to a suspected war criminal can only merit the judgment: Anathema sit!

In civil wars with multiple factions, plucking criminals from one faction for prosecution may well raise cries of injustice from other factions and propel further conflict.

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.

An Argentinian lawyer who made his fame prosecuting generals of Argentina's «Dirty Wars» of 1976 to 1983, he has, more than anyone, given the ICC a public profile of an organization assertively pursuing arch-war criminals and insisting upon justice.

The ICC is the International Criminal Court, created in 1998 to prosecute perpetrators of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

In the political realm, this encompasses the commitments of the liberal peace to human rights and even accountability for war criminals, but it also includes the redress of the wide range of wounds that tyrannical violence inflicts through a correspondingly wide range of practices that bring a measure of restoration to victims as well as perpetrators.

Rehabilitation here means not that of individual criminals but of entire societies that have suffered war or dictatorship, as when supporters of international tribunals describe punishment as «overcoming a culture of impunity.»

Patterned after the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals and then the international tribunals created for Rwanda and Yugoslavia earlier in the 1990s, it is the most ambitious expression of the international community's answer to the questions yielded by massive past injustices.

(A prominent industrialist, Bettencourt frequently has business in the U.S.) Pressed on whether it is accurate to describe Bettencourt as a war criminal, Nazi hunter Serge Klarsfeld stated at a New York news conference, «He's guilty of writing.»

In five «Dirty Harry» films, he chased, beat and shot up seemingly dozens if not hundreds of the worst criminal perps in San Francisco, but in Gran Torino, Eastwood is a 78 - year - old Korean War vet named Walt who has watched his working - class Detroit neighborhood change to the point where he's virtually a lone Caucasian surrounded by Asians.

It is the right of nations and governments to go to war and execute criminals, but Christians should always be pleading and seeking for a middle ground between Pacifism and Just War (For an excellent proposal on how this works, I highly recommend Walter Wink's book, Engaging the Powewar and execute criminals, but Christians should always be pleading and seeking for a middle ground between Pacifism and Just War (For an excellent proposal on how this works, I highly recommend Walter Wink's book, Engaging the PoweWar (For an excellent proposal on how this works, I highly recommend Walter Wink's book, Engaging the Powers.

Here we can almost hear the general applause («War - criminals, all of them; they deserve what is coming to them!»).

Why don't you read the story of st. Maximilian Kobe and tell me the Catholic Church was out to save Nazi war criminals.

One thinks of his reflections on the Second World War, on pacifism and belligerency, on laws regarding obscenity, and on the nature of criminal punishment.

I guess that in a world where war criminals continue to commit genocide in Sudan, where dictators suppress religion freedom in China, where people suffer from extreme poverty under the corrupt government of Zimbabwe, where sovereign nations are getting invaded by power - hungry Russian leaders, and where our own government exaggerated intelligence in order to occupy Iraq — Barack Obama is God's biggest concern, worthy of a little extra attention.

Would the existence of a permanent international criminal court deter violations of the laws of war, or would it prolong conflict?

It is, at least, apparent that the debates about humanitarian intervention by military force in the last decade, about the creation of international criminal tribunals in a number of cases, about the idea of a state's «universal jurisdiction» in cases of violations of the Genocide Convention or other «crimes against humanity,» about how far the global war on terror may proceed without violating the rights of states, and most recently, about the United - States - led use of force against the Saddam Hussein regime in Iraq, have all raised important points of positive and customary international law, and that in every one of these cases the outcome remains unsettled.

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

Oh by the way «war on terror» is a term unwisely used to make soldiers out of what was a criminal act with 9/11.

In the event of war we must be prepared to face an army of millions of well equipped soldiers who will be convinced (from our standpoint, wrongly) of the righteousness of their cause and who will be prepared to give everything in the battle against the «criminals» (they mean us).

This summer, when some 120 nations voted to establish a permanent international criminal court for genocide war crimes and crimes against humanity, the U.S. found itself one of only seven countries, including such bedfellows as China and the Sudan, to vote against the new court.

Legally, the war - tax resister is a lawbreaker, facing criminal charges which could result in a fine of up to $ 10,000 and / or a prison term of up to a year.

Still, even a paternal and unpresuming Lincoln didn't appease the statute's critics, some of whom appeared at its unveiling singing «Dixie» and waving placards that read «Jefferson Davis Was Our President» and «No Honor for War Criminals.»

Eighth, the United States punishes the «crimes of the poor» by waging a criminal war against the poor.

«It was also the custom from very early times,» says Lods, «to slay adults, especially prisoners of war and criminals, with rites more or less resembling those of sacrifice.

Our enemies are not those of a different faith, but «barbaric criminals who profane a great religion by committing murder in its name,» a phrase he used when commencing war in Afghanistan (October 7, 2001).

Furthermore, the Vatican's role in helping Nazi war criminals flee justice via their «Ratlines» is well docu.mented, as is their funnelling of Nazi gold stolen from their victims.

@Thessalonian Hudal is merely the most egregious example of the Vatican's active role in aiding and abetting the escape of Nazi war criminals.

Eichmann, tried in Israel as a Nazi war criminal, admitted that he murdered untold thousands of Jews, but said that he was only following orders from higher up.

He had dealt with various areas such as agriculture, old soldiers, public health, war treaties, capitalism, capital punishment, coinage, communism, land, old age pensions, divorce, artificial insemination, slaughter houses, reformation of criminals, tramps money, over population and others.

You find as you look around the world that every single bit of progress in humane feeling, every improvement in the criminal law, every step toward the diminution of war, every step toward better treatment of the colored races, or every mitigation of slavery, every moral progress that there has been in the world, has been consistently opposed by the organized churches of the world.

Things might very well be different, however, with the International Criminal Court (ICC), which on April 11 was empowered, on a permanent basis and over strenuous American objections, to try individuals» including sitting heads «of «state» for geno cide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

This music maestro has been entertaining us with unforgettable music (his list of accreditations span from The Lion King, The Dark Knight trilogy, Interstellar and Inception, just to name a few), Hans Frank (German war criminal and Hitler's personal lawyer.

One of the more notable, retrospective, criminal Acts in the UK is the War Crimes Act 1991, which allowed for the punishment, by British Courts, of people responsible for war crimes during WWII, i.e. before the Geneva ConventioWar Crimes Act 1991, which allowed for the punishment, by British Courts, of people responsible for war crimes during WWII, i.e. before the Geneva Conventiowar crimes during WWII, i.e. before the Geneva Conventions.