They want to turn back the clock to a time when they could, with impunity, attack LGBT service members who were forced to serve in silence.
The release concluded that Amnesty would ignore the 20th anniversary celebrations, "smug in its self-righteous belief that it can, with impunity, attack and denigrate a young nation, which despite many odds, manages to progress and improve the lives of its citizens".
The release concluded that Amnesty would ignore the 20th anniversary celebrations, "smug in its selfrighteous belief that it can, with impunity, attack and denigrate a young nation, which despite many odds, manages to progress and improve the lives of its citizens".
It is vital that the international community now puts its faith not in a government which has repeatedly, violently, and with impunity attacked its own citizens, but in those citizens who are attempting to create a genuine equality of citizenship and democratic transformation.
The regime, in response to a rebellion begun by primarily non-Arab groups in early 2003, armed the Janjaweed militia, giving them impunity to attack.
"The key issue is this: the government has frankly failed to stare down the people who are inciting hatred, the people who are engaging in this communal violence … and that failure has set an example that impunity to attack Muslims is alive and well in Burma," said Phil Robertson of Human Rights Watch.
That's a 7% rate, which he said, is "an unacceptably high level of impunity regarding attacks on journalists".
In many parts of the world, hackers act with near impunity in attacking foreign governments, stealing intellectual property and credit cards, and it's getting worse and worse.
"Despite India's status as the world's largest democracy and its tradition of having vibrant news media, its leaders have shown little political will to address impunity in attacks on news media," the CPJ report says.
"I am not going to allow al-Qaeda or Osama bin Laden to operate with impunity, planning attacks on the US homeland," he said this week.The question for America is the degree to which fighting al-Qaeda requires an ever-growing garrison and wholesale state-building in Afghanistan and whether Mr Karzai is a help or a hindrance.
Impunity for attacks on healthcare in last year's conflict would not only be a gross injustice for the victims, but would send the message that no place is safe for the building of a new hospital, no doctor or nurse safe to treat the wounded, and no ambulance safe to transport injured civilians away from conflict zones to receive care.
