Mnangagwa, 75, was a close aide of Robert Mugabe, the 94-year-old autocrat who ruled for 37 years and was ousted by the army nine months ago, and was implicated in atrocities committed under his rule.
In this week's magazine, Patrick Radden Keefe writes about the Irish politician Gerry Adams, who has long denied that he was a member of the Irish Republican Army but has been implicated in atrocities committed by the group during the long conflict in Northern Ireland known as the Troubles.
No evidence exists to implicate him in committing crimes.
How many Africans have been implicated in the outrages committed by Islamist fanatics?
He has already been implicated in war crimes committed during his term in office, notably in connection with the 1973 Chilean coup.
Under Mr. Sanader, the party has purged extremists, some of whom were implicated in war crimes committed during the 1991-95 Balkan wars, and he has embraced a pro-American foreign policy.
After the bombing, Tamerlan was implicated in a triple murder committed in Waltham, Mass., on Sept. 11, 2011.
Another reason why Burma's government should not yet be given an easy ride is that it is, in the view of rights groups, implicated in extremely serious crimes committed against minorities.
A rash of new research has focused on self-control as well as callousness and a lack of empathy, traits regularly implicated in the decision to commit a crime.
Yet several experts believe that the cold-hit approach may also be severely flawed, running the risk that innocent people may be implicated in crimes they did not commit.
Freeport has never been implicated in any human rights abuses allegedly committed by the Indonesian military in Papua.
