Thus, defense lawyers raised no objections when the prosecutor asked the defendants and the defense witnesses whether a soldier who was condemned for having committed civilian homicide, such as the killing of Mao, should be kept on as a member of the armed forces — that is, should be permitted to go on committing military homicide.
How do you square the facts and the law with "stopping short" of accountability for crimes we condemn others for committing?
Their press office would only say that the group "condemns Israel for committing war crimes in Gaza but does not refer to its actions as genocide," which I, of course, already knew because I asked them why they do that.
Sadly, human rights has become a political football in our country, where candidates looking for votes and campaign money promise to condemn those responsible for committing genocide and then bow to geopolitical pressure once in office.
But a draft declaration document from the summit has already been widely circulated and widely condemned for its failure to commit countries to concrete actions to make refugees' journeys better or safer.
I have been condemned for crimes I did not commit – two murders that I now believe were committed by Colombian drug cartels.
"It's the most brutal thing that can happen to a human being – being condemned for a crime you didn't commit.
"It's the most brutal of things that can happen to a human being to be condemned for a crime you didn't commit.
"They will speak words of hatred, they will ask that I be condemned for a crime that I did not commit.
There was the childhood friend, condemned for accusing a respected family man, who later committed suicide.
A 1995 exhibition in Hamburg was widely condemned for showing that the Wehrmacht, or regular army, committed atrocities on the eastern front, just like the SS, the Nazi special police.
