What atrocity is this?

Both government and rebel forces have committed atrocity crimes.

looking at American responses to mass atrocity and genocide.

Your Mr. Bernstein sent Junior the most incredible atrocity yesterday.

Other representatives left once they realised what kind of atrocity they d blundered into.

Have blacks, Jews, women and children been the only victims of this atrocity?

In July, the European Union again suffered the horror of a major terrorist atrocity.

We paid solemn tribute to the millions of innocent victims of that unspeakable atrocity.

And I thought, after all this atrocity, this is how human beings really pray.

For several days now I wondered who will have the power to translate this atrocity.

He also stated that his forces would quot shoot quot anyone who committed any atrocity.

I spent the better part of a decade looking at American responses to mass atrocity and genocide.

If people die because of aggression, atrocity and hunger, how, may I ask, can they exercise their human rights?

NEW YORK One of the worst atrocity crime stories of recent decades has barely registered in the world s collective conscience.

But memories of atrocity never seem to fade, as the government fanned anti Japanese riots now taking place in China remind us.

We cannot but express our condemnation and abhorrence at the atrocity of quot ethnic cleansing quot being attempted in that theatre of conflict.

And the primary emphasis of the entire R2P enterprise should continue to be prevention of mass atrocity crimes both their occurrence and their recurrence.

The recent pattern of wanton atrocity suggests that it may be attributed to other than political motives, a source of additional concern to us.

In terms of getting serious about saying never again to mass atrocity crimes, that is about as positive a development as anyone could hope for.

The strain on Syria s neighbors is immense, and the conflict is inexorably seeping into the wider region. Both government and rebel forces have committed atrocity crimes.

These recommendations included the appointment of exclusive special courts where the magnitude of atrocity cases is growing and a training programme for police and civil servants.

The visual politics of atrocity and terror is only as strong as we imagine it. That is why exorcising its demons will require more than military might.

And worst of all is to be perceived as being soft on those who, like Egypt s current military rulers, commit mass atrocity crimes against their own citizens.

LONDON So what does 2009 hold in store for us? As ever, the unpredictable a terrorist atrocity or a rash decision by a national leader will take its toll.

In situations of mass atrocity, and when all other means are exhausted, the Security Council has the responsibility to act without hesitation, with authority, and in an effective way.

And I'd like to start by sharing with you one moment that to me sums up what there is to know about American and democratic responses to mass atrocity.

When such means are not sufficient, the Security Council has the responsibility to take action under the Charter, with authority, with efficiency and without hesitation in situations of mass atrocity.

This latest NPFL atrocity convinces the Government and our people that NPFL has embarked on a strategy that increases the gravity of violent crimes that the Front continues to commit.

The international community has an obligation to ensure that such callous indifference to human life and the deliberate commission of acts of atrocity, wherever they occur, do not go unpunished.

As ever, the unpredictable a terrorist atrocity or a rash decision by a national leader will take its toll. But much of what happens tomorrow will be a result of history.

Taken together, they offer reason for confidence that it may be possible to recreate international consensus, so long missing in Syria, about how to deal with the hardest mass atrocity cases.

But mass atrocity crimes did happen in Sri Lanka, there was moral default all around, and if we do not learn from this past, we will indeed be condemned to repeat it.

Had it been possible to bring some of the offenders to justice? Did the world care to remember what had happened in the worst atrocity to be committed in Europe since 1945?

He is disturbed by reports of the ongoing practice of atrocity demining whereby civilians are forced to act as human mine sweepers by the military, resulting in severe mutilation and sometimes death.

In 2005, on the UN s 60th anniversary, the General Assembly, convening at head of state and government level, unanimously endorsed the concept of states responsibility to protect populations at risk of genocide and other mass atrocity crimes.

After we finished talking, I felt so horrible and honestly ashamed at my own lack of knowledge of this atrocity in my own lifetime, and I thought, if I don't know, how many other people don't know?

Underlying this argument is the idea that the attack was an explicitly religious act carried out by an enemy faith, whose believers even those who denounced the atrocity are tainted and deserve to have their constitutional rights restricted.

It is too late now for non military tools of coercion to have much effect, although Security Council threats of International Criminal Court prosecution for atrocity crimes including any use of chemical weapons must remain on the table .

In fact, this trend of dehumanization is apparent in almost every epic of genocide, massacre, war, and atrocity including the Cambodian genocide massacres, the the massacres of Serbs and Bosnians in the Yugoslav wars, the Armenian genocide, and the Holocaust.

Russia s invocation of the responsibility to protect to justify its 2008 invasion of Georgia was met with incredulity at the time, and rendered even more cynical by its resolute failure since 2011 to condemn the Syrian regime for mass atrocity crimes against its own people.

Since the end of the First World War, the emblem of the Federation has been respected throughout the world for its universality, neutrality, self sacrifice and ability to prevent and mitigate the sufferings of the weakest, the most vulnerable and victims of every kind of atrocity.

Moreover, the UN should not only condemn, but without further delay put a stop to today s greatest atrocity the regime s obstruction of foreign assistance to victims of the cyclone. Their deaths are the sole responsibility of the military junta, which deliberately and with knowledge of the likely consequences has closed the door to humanitarian aid and workers from all over the world.