(In December 2000 private Japanese and international organizations convened a war tribunal that found Emperor Hirohito "guilty of responsibility for rape and sexual slavery").
The international criminal tribunal for Rwanda, sitting in Tanzania, also found Bagosora guilty of responsibility for overseeing individual massacres as well as the murder of Rwanda's prime minister, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, and the killing of 10 Belgian peacekeepers, which prompted the UN to withdraw most of its forces and abandon the Tutsi population to be slaughtered.
The church's new catechism -- a project overseen by Cardinal Law -- is eloquent on the virtues of admitting one's sins: "Through such an admission, man looks squarely at the sins he is guilty of, takes responsibility for them, and thereby opens himself again to God and the communion of the Church in order to make a new future possible".
The government said the critics were guilty of abdication of responsibility in Eritrea's difficult hours and possibly of grave conspiracy.
Parents who use violence as a means of controlling their kids, just like parents who overindulge their children, are equally guilty of abdicating their responsibility to be grown-ups in their roles as mentors.
The prosecutor alleged that Taylor was personally responsible for these crimes because he was involved in the planning, instigating and commissioning but the court found him not guilty of direct personal responsibility for the atrocities carried out by rebels.
They're in the film, too; we see them in "The Tree of Life," the movie's protagonist notices them, and Malick's images of the excluded and the shunned share with viewers a shudder of guilty responsibility.
That phrasing skips over a heavy qualification made by Michael Chambers QC in his sentencing remarks: "Whilst the defendant [Merlin] should have full credit for the plea of guilty, the earlier acceptance of responsibility was tainted by the willingness to blame its employees when the fundamental fault was that of the company".
As to wider question over foreign policy, and whether the US was guilty of an abdication of responsibility on the world stage, Obama responded: "Muammar Gaddafi probably does not agree with that assessment, or at least if he was around, he wouldn't agree with that assessment".
The Brooklyn district attorney said Mr. Arricale (pronounced ar-uh-KAHL-ee) was guilty of "a deplorable abdication of responsibility" and convened a grand jury to examine his arrangement, but no indictment resulted.
Both the French and UK governments are guilty of an appalling abdication of responsibility, insisting that the Calais camp is not their problem and so turning their backs on it.
