When a lawyer for the former President, P. W. Botha, suggested the commission was biased because some members believed former Government officials engineered atrocities, the Archbishop looked incredulous.
The Bharatiya Janata Party, or B.J.P., found plenty to dispute in the government's assessment, saying that the United Progressive Alliance had mismanaged the economy, tolerated corruption among officials, allowed "atrocities" against women and weakened India's position with regards to its neighbors Pakistan and China.
In the Syrian case, the court has received 3,600 pages of evidence, including signed orders, detailing acts of brutality that the lawyers say will link senior Syrian officials to atrocities, torture and executions in government prisons and military-run hospitals.
Over three decades after the fall of the Pol Pot regime, the Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC -a UN-backECCC -aunal fusing Cambodian and international law, procedure, and personnel-was estribunald to try key Khmer Rouge ofusingls for atroCambodianey committed.
Since 1980, human rights groups and lawyers have appropriated the long-forgotten law to sue foreign officials over atrocities alleged to have been committed abroad and U.S. corporations for their involvement in such acts.
In 2001, when the leftwing president Aleksander Kwaśniewski made an official apology for atrocities committed by Poles against Jews in the town of Jedwabne in 1941, Kamiński made a public declaration in defence of those who felt that Poles had nothing to feel ashamed of.
We can't have moral responsibility without challenging official hypocrisies and atrocities.
Engels expected the papers to include evidence linking high-level Syrian officials to mass atrocities.
The desire for revenge should be channelled into individual prosecutions, with full due process and focus on the most senior officials responsible for atrocities.
But the Brotherhood, despite the anti-Jewish and anti-Christian bigotry of some of its officials, committed no atrocities and showed no inclination to shut down the political system.
