Sentence examples for convicted of atrocities from inspiring English sources

Only four members of the Yugoslav armed forces were convicted of atrocities perpetrated in Croatia and no Croats for crimes committed against Serbs in Croatia.

ALMOST 42 years after the end of its war of secession from Pakistan, Bangladesh has executed the first man to be convicted of atrocities committed during the conflict.

Mr. Kerry testified just after Lt. William Calley was convicted of atrocities in the My Lai massacre, but Mr. Bass said: "He's not saying the problem is we just have a bunch of Calleys; he's saying these are good people who are being forced to carry out policies that drive you toward killing civilians.

After a leader of Jamaat-e-Islami, the country's largest Islamic political party, was convicted of rape and mass murder but not sentenced to death, huge numbers of protesters took to the streets in what became known as the Shahbagh movement (named after its location in Dhaka), calling for the death penalty for all those convicted of atrocities during the 1971 war of independence from Pakistan.

Two retired Croatian generals have been convicted of atrocities against Serbs during the break up of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, after a trial at The Hague.

The dilemma can be especially sharp when prominent figures with a big local following are hauled before international courts.Take one unhappy example: to the dismay of human-rights activists, Serbia's national church reacted with nativist defensiveness to the post-Yugoslav war-crimes tribunal in The Hague; it has offered moral support to individuals who have been convicted of terrible atrocities.

Abdelbaset al Megrahi is the only man convicted of the atrocity and he was sentenced to life imprisonment in 2001.

In 1998 Britain agreed with America, which lost 189 citizens over Lockerbie, that anyone convicted of the atrocity would serve his sentence in Scotland.

Mr Swire believes that Megrahi was wrongfully convicted of the atrocity.

Libyan Megrahi is the only man to have been convicted of the Lockerbie atrocity, in which 270 people died when Pan Am flight 103 was bombed on 21 December 1988.

Relatives of the US victims of the Lockerbie bombing spoke of their belief that the man convicted of the 1988 atrocity had been reunited with his Libyan compatriot Muammar Gaddafi.