Which is why Mamdani favors reconciliation, South Africa-style, over prosecution, ICC-style.
Critics warned the move threatened to turn prosecutions into American-style media spectacles similar to the OJ Simpson and Amanda Knox trials.
"There can be a Lockerbie-style prosecution, a tribunal that's set up by the international community, or there can be domestic prosecutions in, say, the Netherlands," she said.
Australia's foreign minister has said Russian-backed rebels responsible for shooting down the Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 in Ukraine, killing 298 people including 38 Australians, could face a Lockerbie-style prosecution once the investigation has concluded.
Anti-blasphemy legislation is planned by the government and, even if Romans is left alone in February, there must be a substantial risk that Christians or Sikhs or Muslims will bring private prosecutions in the style of Whitehouse against the Springers and the Behztis of the future.
Reform would also benefit the use of US-style deferred prosecution agreements (DPAs) he said.
"These guys, they're not dancers!" In fact, many of the Wave Gang and the Hoodstarz are behind bars, swept up in the same style of conspiracy prosecutions that put away members of the Gambino family and the Trinitarios in years past.
Grandell told the Star Tribune at the time that he thought he was dismissed by the prosecution "not only because of his style but because the case that was being heard involves sexual assault between an adult and a minor".
Human rights organizations at the time criticized Mr. Sutyagin's prosecution, saying it suggested a Soviet-style wariness of contacts between Russian scientists and foreigners.
The State Department's embassies are now bunkers and military-style headquarters for the prosecution of war policies; its officials, when enough of them can be found, are now sent out into the provinces in war zones to do "civilian" things.
