Word: triggermen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...prosecute juvenile offenders as adults. Republican Governor Pete Wilson of California has suggested that 14-year-olds should be eligible for the death penalty. Wilson spokesman Sean Walsh says the Governor was not proposing any new legislation, merely advancing an idea. Walsh says gangs in California often use underage triggermen because the gangs know that, if the triggermen are caught, they will not be subject to capital punishment. Lowering the minimum age, he argues, would change that practice. "We have people who are literally assassins, and although they may be under the age of 18, they know what they...
...months after the U.S.-brokered Dayton accord said war criminals would be arrested and tried at the Hague, hundreds of Balkan triggermen who carried out atrocities and scores of high-ranking apparatchiks and politicians who ordered the genocide go about their lives as if nothing has happened. National leaders who presided over the savagery remain in power, including the indicted ringleaders of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzic and Ratko Mladic. Only three of the 57 accused war criminals formally charged--46 Serbs, eight Croats, three Muslims--are in custody in the Hague, though the Bosnian government just arrested...