When we learn of almost any story with which we can identify, we can usually identify even with acts of atrocity, which over-developed sadism and desperation can yield.
They represent the triumph of atmosphere over atrocity, mood over meaning.
But the flow was always determined largely by foreign wars and atrocities, over which Britain has no control.
And Africa is also the scene of the sort of wars that bring the atrocities over which the ICC has jurisdiction.
Srebrenica has become iconic of Bosnia's carnage, yet it tends to detract from other atrocities over the three years of the war.
Both he and the imam asked why all Christians were not labeled violent because of the Irish Republican Army's atrocities over the years.
It would be a kind of community service on Bout's part, atonement for his large role in worldwide atrocities over the past fifteen years and the beginning of his rehabilitation.
Many M23 members formerly served in another Rwandan-backed militia, the National Congress for the Defence of the People (CNDP), which was responsible along with other militias for widespread atrocities over several years, including ethnic killings and mass rape.
Referring to atrocities over the last 12 months, including the murder of 30 Britons in Tunisia in June, the monarch said: "It is true that the world has had to confront moments of darkness this year, but the Gospel of John contains a verse of great hope, often read at Christmas carol services: 'The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it".
"My son saw some war atrocities over in Iraq, and they had to murder him in order to keep it quiet," said Lanny Davis, a retired Army staff sergeant whose efforts sparked the investigation at a time when his son was assumed to be absent without leave.
