Sentences with phrase «with war crimes»

«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.

The conference will take up such issues as the nature of domestic and international crimes committed; which high - level Bush officials, including Federal judges and Members of Congress, are chargeable with war crimes; which foreign and domestic tribunals can be used to prosecute them; and the setting up of an umbrella coordinating committee with representatives of legal groups concerned about the war crimes such as the Center for Constitutional Rights, ACLU, among others.

I had originally developed the lint medium to deal with war crimes.

One drives a cab, the other is a transfer from Guantanamo Bay charged with war crimes.

Hopefully Blair will be charged with War Crimes so he will be dealt with.

Ntaganda, who has been charged with war crimes for conscripting children under the age of 15 as child soldiers, is reliant on Rwanda for weapons, ammunition and young Rwandan recruits.

Working with Venezuela, neighboring countries or others that would be willing to provide safe passage to Qaddafi would be far preferable than the apocalyptic endgame that the regime might otherwise pursue for lack of alternatives... Threatening al - Qaddafi with war crimes prosecutions today may create perverse incentives with little strategic benefit.

And it means pushing Iraq to abolish the death penalty, and to allow those who committed the worst atrocities to be charged with war crimes.

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].»

Johnson focuses on four aspects of contemporary armed conflict that, while not unprecedented, have become special concerns: the legitimacy of intervention, the place of noncombatants, the significance of cultural differences, and procedures for dealing with war crimes and achieving reconciliation after conflict.

A War: Tobias Lindholm, co-writer of the 2012 Best Foreign Language Film nominee The Hunt, directed this Danish film about an army captain charged with a war crime.

Not exact matches

With city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drWith city data indicating that African - Americans have been charged with marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drwith marijuana crimes twice as frequently as white residents, the Oakland City Council voted unanimously in March to allocate 50 percent of medical marijuana and cannabis sales permits to people affected by the war on drugs.

Often, even when threatened with being tried as war criminals, tyrants have already committed massive crimes and have little added punishment to fear from committing more, as was the case in Yugoslavia in the 1990s.

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.

Google «Pat Robertson Rios Montt» to see his relationship with this Guatemalian ex-leader convicted of war crimes and genocide against the Mayans.

Our «leaders» blithely ply domestic audiences with totally unsupported and scurrilous accusations of Russian war crimes, and brag of standing up to Russia.

He says it was easier, though more dangerous, to discern the truth when confronting the crimes of Fascist groups, than to cope with the ambiguity of the Communists in East Germany during the first years after the war.

In arguing for more research in physiology, he cited «a definitive health survey of nearly 4,500 Vietnam war veterans revealing that men with the highest levels of testosterone — a male sex hormone — were violent and impulsive, committed crimes, abused drugs, were promiscuous, beat their wives and had poor work records.

Coming closest to that outlook is probably someone like Walter Cronkite, who, with good heart and human fellowship, displayed the world's anomalies — starving children, wars, and crimes — and then concluded his show with ironic summary: «That's the way it is.»

So long as a sexual hierarchy obtains which allows a man to rape a woman with impunity, or a husband to rape a wife and call it legal, all such crimes of dominance will continue, the poor will be kept poor, and war will flourish despite all our tinkering with world economies and reaching for solutions through diplomacy.

In 1926 Dr. Morrison joined with Salmon O. Levinson, a Chicago lawyer, in campaigning for the renunciation of war and the branding as a crime its use as an instrument of national policy.

I would go so far as to suggest that the capacity to celebrate sexuality is linked inextricably with the capacity to court peace, instead of war; justice, instead of oppression; life, instead of hunger, torture, fear, crime, and death.

He documents the Vatican's early denunciations of Nazi war crimes and the reprisals they provoked, together with Pius» active support for Jews and the anti-Nazi resistance.

As perhaps the most savage crimes in history, the terrorists» acts should have been met with a swift, forceful response far more targeted than the present war has been.

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.

Mind - boggling events have taken place since Niebuhr died in 1971: the deaths of Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon's tragic Watergate crisis, war in the Middle East, rapprochement with Red China and an uneasy detente with Soviet Russia, the energy crisis, large - scale unemployment, an escalating crime rate in the nation, the erosion of confidence in the leadership of the Western world, and the emergence of a new crop of politicians on the national scene.

Once elected, however, Nixon found himself with no mechanisms for fighting his drug war, because the federal government had little day - to - day jurisdiction over crime.

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.

That is a crime of humanity lost on the past with religious hatred and religious wars.

Radovan Karadzic was finally captured on 7/23/08 and is charged with genocide, crimes against humanity and violations of the law of war - charges related to the 1992 - 1995 civil war that followed Bosnia - Herzegovina's secession from Yugoslavia.

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.

On a continent plagued with endless guerilla warfare, where war crimes are standard fighting fare, the LRA stands apart as an especially odious group.

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.

Indeed, Uday, along with his brother, Qusay, top a list of Iraqi officials who the Bush Administration has said will be tried for war crimes or crimes against humanity after an American - led attack on Iraq, according to published reports.

I was being kinda factious; being nice is nice, and lots of governments like foreign aid, anti war crimes and corruption stuff, and NPT probably does fit in with them, but there certainly are also treaties and organizations made to promote some interests above others.

So, an average citizen bases their favorable view of him on the fact that unless they are involved with the drug trade, they are 13x times less likely to be a victim of a rogue crime that's part of war drugs; than a non-victim of a crime that war on drugs is percieved to have prevented.

Meanwhile Britain should continue its innovative work around accountability towards the conflict - with pioneering projects sending specialist teams of lawyers and police to interview and chronicle war crimes by engaging with refugees who've fled the country.

His reputation as a moderniser was criticised by those who remember how, as Minister, he failed to oppose the death penalty of Julián Grimau (a communist leader accused of crimes during the civil war), as well as his failure to publicly decry the murder of Enrique Ruano, a student killed whilst under arrest (and the subsequent publication of Ruano's private diaries to portrait him as someone with mental problems).

As elected president, he founded the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), with the volcanic Nuhu Ribadu as first chairman, thus mainstreaming the War Against Corruption; as well as the ICPC, to lesser applause.

But on a closer reading, it became apparent that this was only because: a) it has no impact on Libyan state sovereignty; b) it absolved no states of going to war with one another; and c) it goes towards tackling international crimes that the world has little or no idea how to tackle.

But these two reasons alone don't seem to be sufficient, because the attitude to the Second World War in general seems to be totally different in the two countries, not just with regard to «crimes against humanity».

As a member of the Democratic MAJORITY party, nothing would make me happier than having a full on torture / war crimes investigation, under oath, with a penalty of prison time if convicted.

Those policies were behind a recent war of words between the Trump administration and officials in New York City over its so - called sanctuary city status, with Attorney General Jeff Sessions asserting that New York was «soft on crime.»

Other war crimes, with some notable Soviet or Ukrainian nationalist exceptions, mostly fade away behind this topic.

He was captured in March and charged with 11 counts of war crimes for backing Sierra Leone's Revolutionary United Front rebels during the country's brutal ten - year civil war.

Department for Business blockaded over its continued military contracts with Israel, as UK abstains from UN war crimes vote

The resolution — approved by 41 of the 51 council members, with eight voting «no» and two abstaining — bizarrely paints the 72 - year - old imprisoned and unrepentant leader of the terrorist FALN (Fuerza Armadas de Liberacion Nacional, Spanish for Armed Forces of National Liberation) as a «decorated Vietnam War veteran and community activist» who received a «disproportionate» 55 - year prison sentence for his crimes.

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,

«The state government would sustain the war against kidnapping a d other heinous crimes in ten state, to ensure that the peace and security Imo people have been enjoying under my administration would not be tampered with», the Governor said.

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.