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It's not that I believe Saddam got a raw deal. Some opponents of his execution say the trial's flaws - compounded by the climate of intimidation surrounding it, during which two defense lawyers and a judge were assassinated - are sufficient to justify sparing his life. (Human Rights Watch outlines...
To anyone interested in holding the world's worst despots accountable for their crimes, the Iraqi High Tribunal's conviction of Saddam for the 1982 massacre in Dujail should be cause for celebration. And considering that the 148 people killed in Dujail amount to only a tiny fraction of the...
But the case against executing Saddam has little to do with justice. (Though it has some: as Gary J. Bass has argued, Saddam still faces trial for an even worse offense, the genocide of Kurds at Anfal in 1988, which will never be prosecuted adequately if he is put to...
The blood in “The Departed” actually weakens the better scenes in which tension is created through the threat of violence, not its execution. Nicholson’s best scene is a conversation with the duplicitous DiCaprio where the audience thinks that Jack might put a...
If Allende had been able to continue to advance his extreme socialist agenda, he could well have caused far more death and misery than the 3000 people Pinochet is responsible for murdering. Human rights groups have regularly denounced Pinochet’s torture and execution of his political opponents, yet...