Ben Cardin Quotes
[N]o clear steps have actually been taken to apprehend and prosecute those known to have been in command of the camp or the forces operating there....The new government of Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic has pledged to act. It must now generate the political will to act. The protection of those responsible for this crime can no longer be tolerated.
Cardin, Ben. "Cardin Statement on the 16th Anniversary of the Murders of the Bytyqi Brothers." U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, 8 Jul. 2015.
This manual was still in force during the Iraq war 50 years later.
The speech is traditionally written by the government.
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.
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.
This is one of the best statements on one of the major reason that terrible leaders stay in power in much of the world but especially Africa. In Uganda, they got rid of the maniacal dictator, Idi Amin, by allowing him to keep some of the money he stole and giving him asylum from world prosecution in Saudi Arabia. It was an unjust and unfair solution as he was never accountable for his crimes against humanity, and he lived well on the money he stole, but thousands of lives were saved and Uganda then was able to grow and develop. It is a Hobsen’s choice for Africa and the World. Both solutions are terrible, and few have ever been able to choose the pragmatic route that was taken in Uganda.
Benjamin Louis Cardin is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Maryland, first elected to that seat in 2006. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously was the U.S. Representative for Maryland's 3rd congressional district from 1987 to 2007. Cardin served as a member of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1967 to 1987 and as Speaker of the Maryland House of Delegates from 1979 to 1987, the youngest person to hold the position in history. In his half-century career as an elected official, he has never lost an election.
