The word "accuser" is correct in written English.
It is used to refer to someone who claims that another person has committed a wrongdoing or crime. Example: "The accuser presented evidence to support their claims in court." Alternatives include "complainant" and "plaintiff."
The trial was further complicated when the accuser was himself accused of having a sexual relationship with a (female) member of the prosecution team.
Attacks on professional popular drama were variously motivated and sometimes reveal more about the accuser than the accused, yet they should not be discounted too readily, for they have a great deal to communicate about the cultural and historical terrain that Shakespeare's theatre occupied in its own day.
But how can you separate the credibility of the accusation from that of the accuser?
In December 1959 an alleged plot (the so-called Nine Officers' Plot) was unearthed; some of the accused were so clearly innocent that punishment ultimately fell upon the accuser, but it appears that there indeed had been a conspiracy of some sort.
It works like this: if you worry that you might be accused of an -ism, get your defence in first by asserting that the accuser is an envoy of an ivory tower elite and you are merely a tribune of the people.
His chief accuser is journalist Horacio Verbitsky, whose book El Silencio paints a disquieting picture of Bergoglio's relationship with the priests who sought his protection when they felt their lives were in danger from the military because of their social work in the slums.
The government denies any involvement, but Anwar's accuser was clearly acting on behalf of, if not the BN, then their proxies or sympathisers.
Also on Monday the 16th, the accuser in the memogate case, a mysterious American businessman of Pakistani ancestry, Mansoor Ijaz, is due to arrive in Pakistan to testify.The generals and the judges will keep Mr Zardari's back to the wall.
Indeed he has said his accuser is closely linked to Mr Najib.
