Confrontation of the conflict's ugly past, through reparations and the acknowledgments that must accompany them, is the first step toward developing a peaceful and harmonious future.
And through reparations, trials, schoolbooks and monuments, Germany did much to atone for the crimes of the Nazis.By the late 1990s, said Chancellor Gerhard Schröder, Germany was on its way to becoming a "normal" country.
However, as political tensions mounted, so did lingering grudges over past atrocities committed by one ethnic community against another that had never been redressed through reparations or any form of justice.
Taking advantage of the losses Farbenfabriken Bayer (the German Bayer company) suffered through the reparation provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, Weiss worked out a deal with Carl Duisberg to share profits in the Americas, Australia, South Africa and Great Britain for most Bayer drugs, in return for technical assistance in manufacturing the drugs.
However, they publicly use the more politically palatable language of atonement: They would require the unauthorized to make reparation through a substantial fine and to "earn" the right to remain through their labor.
This is what many people can't get their heads around, and why the simple act of legalization through punishment and reparation — paying a fine and back taxes, getting to the back of the citizenship line — is unthinkable to them.
He pleaded guilty to possession of an offensive weapon and was given a referral order, a non-custodial sentence in which he will be required to make reparation through community work.
On Sunday, the Argentine Episcopal Conference released a statement condemning the "state terrorism" of the dictatorship, which it says led to "torture, murder, disappearance, and the kidnapping of children," and vindicating the path of "truth, repentance, and reparation through justice" — strong language never before used by Catholic high authorities.
To Monkman, these works function almost as a form of reparation through re-appropriation; older painting styles that originated within European cultures are shown at their most destructive. .
It will ensure that more unacceptable corporate behaviour is dealt with including through substantial penalties, proper reparation to victims, and measures to prevent future wrongdoing".
