He would not use his real name -- Bashom, he called himself -- out of fear that he would be arrested for crimes he had committed as a janjaweed in his native state of West Darfur.
Its Constitution adopted in 1995 recognised the right to adequate food and other economic, social and cultural rights, and has committed as a matter of directive principle of state policy to ensure food security and nutrition for all [ 9].
On the same day, a Florida state trial judge, without any hesitation, sentenced another defendant to 100 years for crimes he committed as a juvenile.
Several strategies could be adopted to classify the runs as committed to a state.
"These were not the actions of rogue elements in the forces or people taking their own initiative, but crimes against humanity committed as part of a state policy," said the researcher, Donatella Rovera, in a telephone interview describing her findings, published in an Amnesty report on Wednesday.
We need states to commit as well.
Both the act of committing as well as that of undoing commitments is modelled as a special model-transforming action in our framework, which extends the usual state-transition paradigm of Propositional Dynamic Logic.
"We believe that walking out in protest is an appropriate reaction to a head of state mocking efforts to ensure accountability for victims of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, particularly when his country has committed to accountability as a state party to the Rome Statute [that established the ICC]," she said.
But if the United States is committed, as the President said in his State of the Union Message, to insuring that the Iraqi leader never again uses weapons of mass destruction, the only way to achieve that goal is to remove Mr. Hussein and his regime from power.
But Radmila Sekerinska, the head of the observer mission for the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights, the O.S.C.E.'s monitoring arm, declared Friday, "Sadly, this election did not show the progress we were hoping for, and it again fell short of key standards Kyrgyzstan has committed to as a participating state of the O.S.C.E".
