But many are perpetrated, as this one was, by people who are clearly disturbed.
"It's an atrocity what is being perpetrated as punishment on the people in Gaza," he said.
"The enforced disappearances carried out since 2011 by the Syrian government were perpetrated as part of an organised attack against the civilian population that has been widespread, as well as systematic," Amnesty said.
In a new report, Donatella Rovera, an investigator for Amnesty International who spent weeks in northern Syria, described what she called "systematic violations, including crimes against humanity and war crimes, being perpetrated as part of state policy to exact revenge against communities suspected of supporting the opposition and to intimidate people into submission".
Oliver's bully pulpit should draw attention to the epidemic of abuses perpetrated as some lendersroutinely violate federal rules to winkle something out of a debtor – and then sell that debt to the next collector in a chain, often for pennies on the dollar.
The abuses perpetrated as part of the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study were made public in 1972, 40 years after the study was initiated.
For almost 20 years, Dr. Mukwege has treated patients who have survived serious injuries from sexual violence perpetrated as a tactic of war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
After the killings, they seemingly continued their routines, in which Dzhokhar worked out and supposedly exchanged regretful comments about the bombings he had allegedly just perpetrated, as though he were completely unconnected to the deeds.
Life in the Boomer Lane, distracted by the political mayhem being perpetrated as we get closer to the 2016 election, has neglected her #1 goal in starting this blog: writing in an authentic, powerful, hilarious way about the aging process and the role of boomers in that process.
