"If the Swiss vote yes to this initiative," said Ruud Lubbers, the United Nations high commissioner, "the country will have more or less shut its doors to people fleeing persecution, even people who have escaped atrocities, massacres or torture".
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Self immolation has sociocultural root, in ancient India Jauhar (Rajput women along with their children would end life in a mass suicide in order to escape aftermath atrocities of a lost war) and Sati (self-immolation of the widow in the pyre of her husband or after the cremation of the husband) (Vijayakumar, 2004).
To give a few examples, there is a selective operationalization of temporary protection following the AKP government's discursive construction of the typical Syrian refugee as a Sunnite victim escaping the atrocities of the Alawite Assad dictatorship.
I feel guilty about the dying Syrians while comparing their destinies with my own fortune in escaping the atrocities in Bosnia at least physically unharmed.
The law often tries to weigh matters clinically, but a class that dwells on atrocities cannot escape emotion.
What adds to the irony is that Janner, a former chairman of the Holocaust Educational Trust, is on record in his pre-dementia days as criticising the Old Bailey when it allowed an 86-year-old man, Szymon Serafinowicz, to escape questioning over Nazi atrocities on the grounds that he had dementia.
An investigation by Human Rights Watch and the Kenyan Human Rights Commission (KHRC) claims that the police arrived some 12 hours after the first shots were fired, allowing killers linked to Somali terror group al-Shabaab to escape and commit more atrocities in nearby settlements along the coast.
But international lawyers argue that the whole point of the ICC is to prevent national leaders from using the "shield" of immunity to escape prosecution for the atrocities which some have been accused of carrying out.
Some commentators had advocated including an amnesty as the price for peace; Goldstone was resolutely opposed to this, not only because it would enable those responsible for atrocities to escape justice but also because of the dangerous precedent it could set, where powerful actors such as the United States could bargain away the ICTY's mandate for political convenience.
