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«Both Frizsche and Streicher were charged with war crimes at Nuremberg and although both men were found guilty, only Streicher was hanged for his crimes,» said Luckert.

In addition, the D.C. Circuit has overturned convictions on charges of providing material support for terrorism and conspiracy — charges used in federal court cases all the time — because they were not recognized war crimes at the time the defendants engaged in the conduct.

There is only one place Dick Cheney belongs now — on trial for war crimes at the International Court of Justice.

He is the most senior Labour figure to suggest that Mr Blair should stand trial for war crimes at The Hague.

Ms Abbott refused to be drawn on whether the former prime minister should stand trial for war crimes at the Hague, arguing: «This is not about calling for vengeful prosecutions.»

Those who are cynical about prosecuting war crimes at the international level will first point out that the Special Court of Sierra Leone has been backed and financed by the West (primarily the US, UK, Netherlands, and Canada).

Update 1 August 2013: Apparently stung by criticism of taking a Nestlé paycheck, George Clooney told the Guardian: «Most of the money I make on the [Nespresso] commercials I spend keeping a satellite over the border of North and South Sudan to keep an eye on Omar al - Bashir [the Sudanese dictator charged with war crimes at The Hague].»

Not exact matches

Besides Oakland residents arrested within the city for pot crimes dating back to 1996, the permits are available to residents living at least 10 of the past 20 years in police beats torn apart by the war on drugs.

Netanyahu said, «Hamas commits a double war crime when it deliberately attempts to strike at Israeli citizens and uses Gaza's civil population as a human shield.

Though some analysts cite evidence that indictments from the ICTY deterred war crimes in Yugoslavia, such claims are vastly overshadowed by the Serb massacre of some eight thousand Bosnian Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in July 1995, with the Hague sulking in the north.

The doctrine can (theoretically) have teeth at several points: refusal to obey an unjust order, «selective conscientious objection» when called to serve an unjust cause, suing for peace when one can not win without using unjust means, prosecuting a war crime.

The chief of human rights at the U.N. said, «If established as deliberate in a court of law, an airstrike on a hospital may amount to a war crime.»

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.

In Judgment at Nuremberg, a German judge, Burt Lancaster, is on trial for war crimes.

«following the scripture» The Christian equivelent of using the «I was just following orders» defence at a war crimes trial.

At the end of the Second World War the Nuremberg trials for those guilty of war crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or laWar the Nuremberg trials for those guilty of war crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or lawar crimes highlighted the point that it was not acceptable to justify one's actions by claiming you were following orders or laws.

It can not be otherwise in a community that lives by the teaching of Vatican II: «Any act of war aimed indiscriminately at the destruction of entire cities or of extensive areas along with their population is a crime against God and man himself.

Ever since the end of World War II there have been people who deny, or at least minimize, the enormous crimes of Adolf Hitler and the Third Reich.

Apart from those justifications, no solution could be found for the most obvious question that occurs to one at once on examining any historical event; that is, How did millions of men combine to commit crimes, murders, wars, and so on?

But here's a clue: almost NOBODY believes that killing is absolutely wrong, as some subset or other of the standard exceptions, ie acts during times of war, executions for at least some crimes, the unborn, euthanasia, even self defense are credited by almost everyone.

In some sense to render it «do not murder» rather than «do not kill» is more accurate, for it does not seem, originally at least, to have ruled out killing in a war or execution by the proper authorities for some serious crime against the community.

If we all stop believing in God, we will probably stop going to church, and then we will lose friendships we had at church, then people will be less happy, then more crime will occur, then war will occur, then we will all die.

Not only that: crime is running amok, abortion and out - of - wedlock births skyrocket, parasitic urban males are permanently at war with the culture by age fifteen, and city school systems seem incapable of delivering anything but multicultural trashings of societal values, and condoms.

As we have seen in the case of Frederick II, the reasons that kings and emperors, even those at war with the papacy, listed heresy first among the crimes against the state were several and profound.

If that invasion took place, would the world through the UN be able to look at the war crime, put the two in the Dock, and possibly put them in jail?

He now suggests that the President appoint a U.S. Attorney - at - Large for a continuing war on syndicated crime.

A contemplative and soulful tune about the malaise at the beginning of the seventies, it protested against crime and the Vietnam War.

However, using a mixture of traditional Just War theory and the big four crimes, R2P has, at least, spelt out a threshold for international action.

Sudan's president has been accused of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Darfur by the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

This is not to say that force is not required in the policy response to the poaching of critically endangered wild animals, but that the long history of the «War on Drugs» and organised crime teaches us that going after low level operators that can be easily replaced will do little to deter the king - pins at the top of the trade.

[41][42] In May 2012, the tribunal again under a purported exercise of universal jurisdiction took testimony from victims of torture at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo, and convicted in absentia former President Bush, former Vice President Dick Cheney, former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, former Deputy Assistant Attorneys General John Yoo and Jay Bybee, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, and former counselors David Addington and William Haynes II for conspiracy to commit war crimes.

Kazeem, who addressed the media alongside senior officials of the Ministry, said Governor Ambode had been at the vanguard of the war against domestic, sexual and violent crimes, and that the centre was geared towards vigorous justice sector reforms.

This was at a time when the Foreign Office under William Hague was making a big fanfare about challenging rape as a weapon of war, but the Home Office was routinely deporting women seeking asylum who had endured this awful crime.

The Jamestown native was a U.S. Supreme Court Justice and Chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nazi war crimes trial in Nuremberg.

UN Secretary General Ban Ki - moon warned at the time that the use of cluster bombs could amount to a war crime.

At the evidence sessions of the committee which has just finished scrutinising the legislation Labour MPs tore into the Catholic Bishops as if they were prosecutors at a war crimes triaAt the evidence sessions of the committee which has just finished scrutinising the legislation Labour MPs tore into the Catholic Bishops as if they were prosecutors at a war crimes triaat a war crimes trial.

Michael afoot said Stalin did more good than harm, but he was still my leader, when livingstone gained power of the GLC is a coup he was still my leader, even if I though, welcoming the IRA leaders to county hall with open arms was treason, Blair lied about Iraq, he should be at The Hague for war crimes, but he was still our leader,

To this administration's credit, the last two years, or at least since one doughty, no - nonsense police officer named Ibrahim Magu became Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the anti-corruption war has been waged in a manner that has never been seen in the history of Nigeria.

Leaving aside the inconvenient fact that even an illegal war isn't necessarily a crime, are we to suppose that Mr Corbyn will now be demanding that Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson, shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and shadow justice secretary, Charles Falconer, be added to the fantasy indictment for having supported and voted for the invasion, two (Benn and Falconer) as members of the government at the time?

Asher's analysis contributed to a larger data analysis of war crimes in Sierra Leone undertaken by the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, begun at AAAS in 2002, and her findings were ultimately incorporated into the report of the Commission.

In 1999, the ABA established a Sierra Leone War Crimes Documentation Project aimed at contributing to the documentation of the war crimes committed in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, and, thereby, strengthening the ongoing truth and reconciliation proceWar Crimes Documentation Project aimed at contributing to the documentation of the war crimes committed in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, and, thereby, strengthening the ongoing truth and reconciliation prCrimes Documentation Project aimed at contributing to the documentation of the war crimes committed in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, and, thereby, strengthening the ongoing truth and reconciliation procewar crimes committed in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, and, thereby, strengthening the ongoing truth and reconciliation prcrimes committed in Sierra Leone between 1991 and 2002, and, thereby, strengthening the ongoing truth and reconciliation process.

Education is free, corruption is rare, crime rates are low, and the nation has never been at war.

At least 50,000 civilians have been killed or wounded during the conflict, with the belligerent parties committing a litany of war crimes and violations of humanitarian law against the civilian population.

The Trent Park records discovered and analysed by historian Sönke Neitzel, author of Tapping Hitler's Generals, show that the 84 German generals who were interned at Trent Park were aware of the severity of the war crimes they had been involved in and that some discussed them almost compulsively.

Overall an intense, enthralling, violent and realistic look at the good, the bad and the immoral in the war against crime.

Paul Bettany's crime boss Dryden Vos might be the first major player in a «Star Wars» movie to make no impression at all, but the actor was probably doing the best he could under the circumstances; he replaced Michael Kenneth Williams, who was not available for reshoots and was originally cast as a CGI character, so he was probably playing somebody who had to be rewritten on the fly without damaging the surrounding narrative architecture.

With a discipline matching its milieu, The Invisible War lays bare a disturbing, systemic problem: In the military, rape rates among women number at least one in five, and reporting of the crimes often leads to blame - the - victim retaliation.

The Uncondemned, written and directed by Michele Mitchell, takes an inside look at the first trial of rape as a war crime in history.

Following the exploits of the Paris police department's «child protection unit,» Polisse (which screened early on) helped to establish this year's Croisette - spanning theme of children in peril, which could be found to varying extents in fellow Competition entries Michael (kidnapping and pedophilia), Lynne Ramsay's We Need to Talk About Kevin (teenage sociopathy), Aki Kaurismäki's universally admired Le Havre (illegal immigration), and the Dardenne Brothers» Grand Jury Prize co-winner The Kid with a Bike (child abandonment); in the Directors» Fortnight entry Play (bullying); and in just about every film at the 50th - anniversary edition of the Critics» Week, from French actress - director Valérie Donzelli's opening - night Declaration of War (pediatric cancer) to Israeli actress - director Hagar Ben Asher's The Slut (pedophilia again), the fact - based 17 Girls (teen pregnancy), and the profoundly disturbing Snowtown, which recalled Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer in its verité sketch of Australian serial killer John Bunting, who lured local youths into aiding and abetting his violent crimes throughout the Nineties.

NEW YORK — A scripted feature about life in Laos and documentaries about U.S. war crimes and a town in the grip of a debilitating drug addiction were among the big winners at the Tribeca Film Festival's jury prizes Thursday night.