Jose Miguel Vivanco Quotes
Institutions can eventually overcome all the legal barriers erected to shield perpetrators of crimes against humanity Justice was finally done where it needed to be done – in Argentina itself.
Jose Miguel Vivanco, Americas Director, Human Rights Watch, Comment on the trial and sentencing of Julian the Turk, an Argentine Military Officer who was a sadistic torturer and murderer finally brought to justice, August 2006
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He was finally brought to justice after being protected by the right wing for many years. He was sentenced to 25 years in prison. See related quote.
The speech is traditionally written by the government.
This manual was still in force during the Iraq war 50 years later.
He was a brutal, sadistic war criminal who was assassinated by one of his many enemies in 2000 before he could be brought to trial.
3 years thereafter Saddam was tried by an Iraqi court, found guilty, and hanged.
Turkey, under the control of the triumvirate of the 3 Young Turks had massacred almost all of the Armenian population in the area claimed by Turkey. At the end of WWI, there were many demands that those who ordered the policy of a Turkish genocide and those who carried it out by brought to justice—tried and punished. The Sultan had done little if anything to stop the slaughters although he was very weak, Turkey under the Young Turks had also picked the wrong side and allied with the Germans. The Sultan and his Grand Vizier were trying to pick up the pieces and maintain the Ottoman Empire as best they could despite they the fact that they lost control of much of their vast territory. At the Paris Peace Conference, the Grand Vizier virtually admitted the crimes and committed the Turkish government to determining the guilty and bringing them to justice. He actually had 50 of the worst offenders arrested (See {620595}.). However, there were a few tried and one governor of a province was hanged and a few others received short jail sentences. Talaat, the worst of The Young Turks regarding the genocide, escaped to Germany. But he was tracked by a surviving Armenian who assassinated Talaat. The assassin was acquitted by a sympathetic German court which ruled that the extermination of the assassin’s family had been so traumatic that temporary insanity relieved the assassin of criminal responsibility.
Assad and the Syrian rulers not only committed international crimes against the Lebanese, but in 2012 started murdering thousands of their own Syrian people who lived in areas which had people critical of the regime.
This statement was made before the 2012 Syrian Revolution.
Hissine Habre was the President and Dictator of Chad. He was one of the worst war criminal and murderer in the world. He and the other DDS policemen and agents were trained by the United States.
