One should remember that before General Pervez Musharraf came to power there were more press freedoms and no persecution of religious minorities with the kind of impunity we see today.
This is the kind of impunity that even the world's most powerful country does not get.
As UNICEF Representative in Burundi, Bintou Keita, declared, "The country needs help to reform its judicial system and to stop the kind of impunity that is not really conducive to a good and protective environment for children".
Unfortunately, this kind of impunity is nothing new.
Obama administration officials have repeatedly promised that kind of impunity won't continue.
To give the lie to his detractors' claims that the gendarmes benefit from a kind of impunity, Bouteflika pointed out that 24 gendarmes, including five officers, were in prison charged with "homicide or the abusive use of firearms" during the spring 2001 riots, and 681 officers, non-commissioned officers and gendarmes, have been transferred.
In such cases, as when a mainstream feminist writer compares the ideal female body to that of a "Brazilian transsexual," for example, our law and practice should allow for trust -- not the kind of trust that leads to impunity and abuse but the kind of trust in which the first reaction to sub-par communication isn't to assume intentional insult but to educate and inform.
He said he rejected the argument "that if you forgive people who have been tried, who have faced the whole justice process, and who faced two, three years in prison, you foster a kind of impunity".
"You can say that when you put up that question to me, I laugh, because I am already used to the U.N., academic jargon that if you forgive people who have been tried, who have faced the whole justice process, and who faced two, three years in prison, you foster a kind of impunity," Mr. Ramos-Horta said.
Due to Chongryon's unofficial embassy-like status, members of its hierarchy were able to act with a kind of impunity, engaging in illicit cash transfers to North Korea.Much of this money came from Japan's ubiquitous pachinko parlours, gambling shops frequently operated by ethnic Koreans.
They interrupted with impunity, tossing aside irrelevant points with the kind of authority only the nine of them can claim.
