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Troops there have murdered, tortured, raped and looted civilians, but Russia's shoddy investigations have all but guaranteed impunity.

"What the government calls peace zones are really impunity zones," says Mr Gorriño.The government denies that criminals have been given cash or guaranteed impunity.

Brazil now has better anti-corruption and transparency legislation; there is increasing evidence of judicial independence, removing "guaranteed" impunity; investigations of and arrests for corruption are increasing; the country has an impressively free media and an increasingly active civil society.

If they break the terms of their guaranteed impunity, then they are in rough waters in terms of the politics around them and not allowed to stay".

Paedophiles should not be able to operate on the dark net with guaranteed impunity, and terrorists should not be able to render themselves undetectable simply by selecting an app on which their communications history will never be known even to the provider.

Those actions were a gamble, but the gamble came with a guarantee of impunity: if we didn't succeed, the costs of failure were not punitive.

They argue that the very existence of the Court may constrain the actions of warlords and dictators who can no longer act with a guarantee of impunity from a future international reckoning.

"In the last few years, that has become less and less tenable and it's very noticeable that the lawyers discussing Gaddafi's future have been pointing out that even if he is given a safe haven in order to bring conflict to an end, there could be no guarantee of impunity.

"By our judgment, the military justice system has historically been the most effective mechanism for guaranteeing the impunity of those agents involved in massacres and other violations of human rights," said José Miguel Vivanco, the executive director of the Americas division of Human Rights Watch.

"Members of the Honduran élite and the government officials they work with know quite well that the corrupt criminal-justice system largely guarantees them impunity, and they continue to test what they can get away with, including widespread violence by state security forces.

"President Duterte's hostile rhetoric about human rights defenders, combined with his encouragement of extrajudicial killings and guarantees of impunity, has resulted in a serious deterioration in the situation," the human rights group that penned the letter to Trudeau said of the drug war in the Philippines.