About 20 soldiers or police have been convicted for crimes committed after 1978.
General Blaskic, 39, was convicted for crimes against humanity, war crimes and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention, which deals with the protection of civilians during war.
Sometimes people were being convicted for crimes they had not committed.The letter, described last month by Southern Metropolis Daily, a Guangdong-based newspaper, marked the beginning of a remarkable shift in official attitudes towards the judicial system in China.
He did not contest the validity of spectral evidence, as had others who came before the court, who did not care to be convicted for crimes they committed in someone else's imagination.
He said it was also the first time that senior leaders were convicted for crimes of sexual violence, including mass rape by their forces and the new crime of "forced marriage".
The report warned that a blanket pardon of every single person shot and recognition that they had all "died for France" would be problematic because some were convicted for crimes such as murder or rape.
In Latin America, young military officers need only look to Argentina and Chile, where 81 and 66 individuals, respectively, have been convicted for crimes during previous dictatorships, to absorb the lesson that the possibility of punishment is much greater than it was in the past.
Senior figures in both the police force and the CPS, including Starmer and his successor, Alison Saunders, have introduced new training programmes and policies to tackle systemic victim-blaming; a record number of people are now being convicted for crimes against women and girls in England and Wales.
In 2007, he was convicted for crimes against humanity by the tribune of The Hague and jailed for 17 years.
Both have been convicted for crimes over which there are many disturbing doubts.
