Within Iraq, Order 17 is the legal analogue to these policies, extending impunity on an international scale.
These villains are the offspring of indiscriminate retribution, failure to unite in confronting the roots of terrorism, and continued impunity extended to those so-called allies who perceive extremism as an asset or leverage.
Furthermore, even on matters of security, the army does not always get its way: take, for example, the government's recent decision to defer a military escalation in Aceh, a step the high command had demanded for months.What's more, corruption and impunity extend far beyond the army in Indonesia.
"Impunity is a poisonous stain that extends across the entire society," said Horacio Verbitsky, a newspaper editor and human rights advocate who was behind the appeal in the kidnapping case.
- Impunity for U.S. war crimes also extends to the killing of civilians and the use of excessive and indiscriminate force.
It will be credible only if it extends to the highest level of political power, and tackles the corruption, impunity, conflicts of interest and influence-peddling that appear to flourish across the political spectrum.
The impunity originally extended to Taylor clearly spared further carnage in Liberia, while the I.C.C. indictment against Bashir exacerbated the human suffering when the Sudanese president in retaliation expelled Western relief organizations.
This thing extends and extends".
The casualties of impunity for torture extend beyond faith in our justice system, the detainees (including US citizens) whose bodies bear the scars of abuse in US custody, and even the many more whose shattered psyches may never heal.
As the Sisi regime commits one atrocity after another, the UK's policy seems to support such impunity by cutting deals and extending a legitimizing hand at the expense of Egyptian youth, who are primarily targeted.
That may not be a surprise given the impunity that Mr Berlusconi's governments have extended to so many crooks in suits.
