It is also a great political conspiracy in which army, church and state perpetrated a gross injustice and then attempted to cover it up.
Nevertheless, the Norfolk Four count a growing list of supporters, including four former Virginia attorneys general, one of them a Republican, who have no obvious motive for suggesting that the state perpetrated a major miscarriage of justice.
First, military action can be initiated when a state has perpetrated an act of aggression against another state or when it has otherwise posed a threat to international peace and security, as was the case in the Korean War.
These states are perpetrating a great injustice upon trans and cisgender athletes alike.
The document proposes a strong revision of the classical conception by which sovereignty involves a "responsibility to protect" on the part of a state towards its own citizens, a responsibility that outsiders may assume when a state perpetrates massive injustice or cannot protect its own citizens.
When state officials perpetrate human rights crimes and the government fails to bring them to justice, the responsibility of the international community is triggered.
"The Lagos State government has perpetrated a lot of human-rights abuses in urban slums, forcibly evicting communities without any warning or planning and without any remedy, settlement, or compensation, in their effort to develop the city," Felix Morka, the director of the Social and Economic Rights Action Center in Lagos, told me.
The commission's latest report (PDF), which will be debated at the next Human Rights Council session on Sept. 17, concluded that the Syrian government, as a matter of state policy, has perpetrated war crimes and crimes against humanity, including murder, extrajudicial killings and torture, gross violations of human rights and sexual violence.
The absolute non-negotiable rules are against torture and slavery, whether perpetrated by states or non-state actors anywhere in the world.
"While the UK purports to be a democratic country, the level of deception perpetrated by state agents seeking to undermine movements for social change is more akin to that of the Stasi in East Germany," it read. .
The WHO said 53% of the attacks were perpetrated by states and 30% by armed groups, with the identities of those behind the remaining 17% unknown.
