Word: confessant
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...wade through the hundreds of thousands of other crimes - including murder, torture and looting. So the government opted to expedite the process by firing up the gacaca network. In so doing, they have selected a system that is as much about reconciliation as it is about punishment. If suspects confess, they receive lighter sentences and the tribunals use the information to prepare cases against alleged accomplices. Testimony is also used to educate Rwandans about the genocide; many people still don't have a clear idea of what happened, even in their own villages. "We want to reach reconciliation through justice...
...Symonds' claims of stealing secrets by seducing female embassy and government employees - he says he later tried to confess to authorities but was ignored - were corroborated in a trove of copied kgb documents, some of which found their way into the 1999 book The Mitrokhin Archive: The kgbin Europe and the West. A further instalment of the documents, dealing with espionage operations outside Europe and America, is the basis for an upcoming sequel...
...Jews with settlers’ characterizations of Mau Mau. These European settlers described the important Mau Mau initiation oath—which involved goat intestines, blood-drinking, the eating of raw flesh, and so on—as “bestial” and un-Christian. I must confess that I do not understand the zinger in her argumentation. Lest anyone forget, Mau Mau was a violent movement whose initiation oath included nearly all of the things settlers alleged it did. The insurgents did not spare the lives of women and children. And while Mau Mau?...
...notably outrageous, and not just because I received it four times. The Coalition for an Anti-Sexist Harvard yesterday held a rally in front of the Science Center to SPEAK OUT FOR AN ANTI-SEXIST HARVARD and COMMUNITY VOTE OF NO CONFIDENCE [their caps, not mine]. I confess, the almost-certainly-well-meaning Coalition lost me with the subject line—I don’t much appreciate being e-shouted at. What followed, moreover, was a ridiculous laundry list of demands that demonstrated an ill-conceived (and unfair) attempt to roll a host of campus issues into...
...your lecture- and section-mates participating in this frank talk, which Athena representative Tulita Papke claims “runs the gamut from comic to tragic and everything in between, in a way that can entertain and teach both men and women.” She went on to confess: “This show is very close to my heart. Each time I’ve been involved I’ve gained something new ... I think the process has taught me a lot about gender and society in Harvard culture.” Not just to Papke...