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Human Rights Court calls on Uruguay to remove ‘dirty war’ amnesty law
Uruguay must remove obstacles to prosecuting human rights offences committed during its “dirty war” in the 1970s, including an amnesty that had protected military and police officers accused of killings, kidnappings or torture, the Inter-American Human Rights Court ruled. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesIs war criminal Tony Blair in jail?
Mar 25th, 2011 - 03:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0“Argentine ex-general sentenced to life for dictatorship-era killings”
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/americas/03/24/argentina.dirty.war/index.html?iref=allsearch
It's only our mistakes that count Marcos.
Mar 25th, 2011 - 05:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/25/bounty-blair-war-criminal-chilcot
To: Marcos Alejandro
Mar 25th, 2011 - 11:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0The article is not about Tony Blair or any other person you may have personal issues with. I am starting to believe that people like you who comment, either can not read or you are here only for propaganda purposes. Get a life a life and quit wasting everyone's time.
I am in two minds:
Mar 25th, 2011 - 07:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0(i) I lived through and admired the work of Simon Wiesethal in remorselessly, and over a long life, hunting down his every last German/Austrian nazi until he breathed his last breath.
(ii) I lived through and admired the work of Nelson Mandela who, after many years of incarceration, pressed for the Peace and Reconciliation process after the amnesty followed the collapse of Apartheid in South Africa.
In Argentina - following, arguably, high-grade state terrorism - there is the worst of all worlds - amnesties, de-amnesties, amnesties, de-amnesties; freedom through forgiveness, punishment and incarceration, freedom through forgiveness, punishment and incarceration.
In Brasil, A Presidenta wants to overturn the amnesy afforded to all participants, but only to bring charges against the military side (lower-grade state terrorism?) - the terroristas/freedom fighters are given pensions for their contribution.
One-sided de-amnistification seems to be the worst of the worst of all worlds, but it is perhaps understandable because so many international terrorist/revolutionaries are in high government office in a number of South American nations.
Mandela has set the bar very high indeed, but can ANY South American nation clear it. It is, perhaps, just the sign of political and social maturity that the United Nations is looking for.
. . . . Time, I think to sit back and wait for my mate Forgetit to show me other sides to these many histories.
3 ptolemy “The article is not about Tony Blair ” Really?
Mar 25th, 2011 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Uruguay is moving in the right direction like Argentina did sending this criminals where they belong, jail.
UK is moving backwards doing nothing about it, Tony Blair is a perfect example.
“Britain home to nearly 400 war crimes suspects”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/law/2011/feb/04/britain-home-to-400-war-criminals
Brits, Arab terrorists, Gurkhas... all the same scum, no need to make any distinctions here.
Mar 25th, 2011 - 08:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm not UK, nor is article about the UK. You guys must be the candy trolls on the site. Will ignore you. thanks.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 01:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0You're welcome, keep ignoring you're doing great.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 02:31 am - Link - Report abuse 0@6 Aaaah, Gurkhas. They really frighten you, don't they?
Mar 26th, 2011 - 10:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0What... scum? Not really.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 07:44 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do ANY of you know what is involved in a Truth and Reconciliation Court of restorative justice? I am not talking JUST amnesty.
Mar 26th, 2011 - 10:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It is not for the faint-hearted, and it is not something that can be blown away and blown back again at the whim of sucessive administrations.
Sometimes I think that certain South American countries are SO FAR from 'civilization' - perhaps a little better than Sharia Law stonings, but SO FAR BEHIND Mandela's South Africa.
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