We know he was party to a war-crime atrocity and victim of a double-cross that led to the slaughter of all but three members of his paramilitary unit.
Less than a year after a coup last March, Mali has slid into a devilish civil war and national breakup accompanied by reports of war crimes, atrocities and crimes against humanity.
This system is intended to be available for future use in digitally preserving and authenticating first-hand accounts of war crimes, atrocities and genocide.
In downtown Belgrade a show opened a few days ago: photos of war-crime atrocities committed in Kosovo by the Scorpions, a Serbian paramilitary group, against Albanian civilians.
The latest broadcast includes news of the "constant assassination attempts on journalists by the Poroshenko regime" and "the massive ceasefire violations, war crimes, atrocities committed by the Ukraine junta".
Now he tells university students that "no crime or atrocity" committed by security forces after the election will go unpunished.
And he suggested that the mass burning of Jews in Jedwabne should be considered a lesser crime than atrocities carried out by the Nazi regime.
Such links between Enlightenment thinking and 20th-century barbarism are, for Pinker, merely aberrations, distortions of a pristine teaching that is innocent of any crime: the atrocities that have been carried out in its name come from misinterpreting the true gospel, or its corruption by alien influences.
International efforts to hold legally accountable those who have participated in the atrocity crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes have helped stem seemingly endless violence and redirected affected countries toward stability.
All over, these crimes, these atrocities, placed on these people of color.
