Word: punisher
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...Even more challenging to Arafat's autocratic style of running Palestinian affairs is the legislature's demand, currently being refashioned to conform to legal requirements, that the post of a prime minister be created, to oversee the day-to-day running of the PA. They also want him to punish those guilty of corruption. The message from the Palestinian legislature, and from the streets, is that they want Arafat, but not the Arafat they've had until now. They don't want his hands on all the levers that will determine Palestinian national life and the national fate, and they...
...course, blatantly using such weapons against his greatest enemies, the U.S. and Israel, would expose him to a nuclear reprisal that would almost surely end his rule. But if he could punish either country and survive, he might do it. He has not contracted out his aggressions up to now. But he might risk supplying terrorists with his deadliest weapons if he saw a way it might redound to his power...
Levit-Shore said that while she is glad the Ad Board is admitting its limitations, this measure seems more like they are abandoning their responsibility to punish sexual assault...
...defendants rail against the injustice of their lot and then proceed with the trial. These tribunals, after all, are not about “equal justice under the law”—for there is no law. The tribunals are a politically motivated means to punish those who have committed terrible crimes for which they are not otherwise accountable...
...murder of 800,000 people in 100 days was supposed to begin in Tanzania. However, his current boycott of the proceedings has led to an adjournment of his trial until September. Bagosora will be facing the International War Crimes Tribunal for Rwanda, a special U.N. tribunal set up to punish those responsible for the ethnically-motivated massacres in Rwanda in 1994. In another U.N. war crimes trial, former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic has taken a similar strategy of obstructionism. He delays his trial with each of his attempts to halt the proceedings. The problems of these tribunals are likely...