Indian removal was not just a crime against humanity, it was a crime against humanity intended to abet another crime against humanity: By clearing the Cherokee from the American South, Jackson hoped to open up more land for cultivation by slave plantations.
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It concluded that the mass killings were a crime against humanity.
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" He added that the poem was "a serious crime against humanity.
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Hamas decried Monday's measures as "a new Israeli crime against humanity".
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" He characterized the single European currency as a "crime against humanity.
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Addressing violence, then, requires rethinking what constitutes a crime against humanity.
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There is ample evidence that the system was a crime against humanity.
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" Specifically, while visiting a group of soldiers, he asked: "Crime against humanity?
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President Ashraf Ghani called the attack on civilians a crime against humanity.
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Three or more is a crime against humanity and your fellow anxious contestants.
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The bombings might seem to bear the hallmarks of a crime against humanity.
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It's a crime against humanity, and addressing it is the responsibility of all humanity.
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It would be a crime against humanity not to share how far she's come.
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Ninety-nine percent of people are against that because it's a crime against humanity.
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The text of the Alabama law explicitly likens abortion to a crime against humanity.
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"They're really an example of racial segregation, a crime against humanity," Mr. Spinelli said.
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The International Criminal Court is assessing whether Duterte's policy constitutes a crime against humanity.
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French authorities are also investigating Lafarge for financing terrorism and complicity to crime against humanity.
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The Assad regime's policy of extermination of the civilian population is a crime against humanity.
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Being a slave owner, no matter how you cut it, that's a crime against humanity.
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But let me be clear about this: Donald Trump's Donald's order is a crime against humanity.
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Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said the United States was an accomplice in a crime against humanity.
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" In the meeting, Gutiérrez confronted Nielsen, describing the administration's immigration policies as a "crime against humanity.
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It is a crime against humanity, and those who ordered and administer it should be prosecuted.
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Tens of thousands languish in government custody in circumstances the U.N. considers a crime against humanity.
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Nicholas Kay, the UK ambassador to Afghanistan, called the attack an outrage and crime against humanity.
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Amnesty International says the army's "callous and systematic campaign of violence" may be a crime against humanity.
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We're still waiting for the case to officially open, because this meal is a crime against humanity.
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Adrian Parr: There are three components to the claim that environmental degradation is a crime against humanity.
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There were Che Guevara flags, clenched fists and stickers that read "work is a crime against humanity".
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Harris reportedly called the separations "a crime against humanity" after stopping at a detention facility last week.
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Sherpa said it hoped the investigation on crime against humanity will be extended to the company executives.
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She also posed the question of what a crime against humanity actually means in such a context.
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" Earlier on Tuesday Maduro lashed out against the U.S., slamming the sanctions as a "crime against humanity.
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Because Vision and Scarlet Witch might be responsible for an actual crime against humanity in their cinematic universe.
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The consequence of this is that nobody can feel safe, if they have committed a crime against humanity.
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Mass deportation is a crime against humanity, and this was always the essence of cruelty, racism and bigotry.
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I was part of a plan that should never have been made that was a crime against humanity.
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SAMUEL DAVID GARCIA, HOUSTON To the Editor: Separating children from their parents is a heinous crime against humanity.
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South Korea's acting president called the killing "an intolerable crime against humanity and terrorist act" masterminded by Pyongyang.
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In doing so, Darden Corporation would commit its largest crime against humanity since they started charging extra for toppings.
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The law made the offence a crime against humanity and doubled the prison term for perpetrators to 20 years.
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His unrepentant attitude about responsibility for a crime against humanity underscores the irony of his role as justice minister.
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These moments in "Roma" amount to an indictment of Mexico's federal government, a dossier on a crime against humanity.
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President Ashraf Ghani tweeted that the attack was "a crime against humanity and against the national unity of Afghanistan".
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An affirmative verdict could pave the way for her to investigate the alleged deportations as a possible crime against humanity.
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Jeffrey Sachs: Trump's failure to fight climate change is a crime against humanity October 22016 President Donald Trump, Florida Gov.
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"Mass arrests, opening fire on unarmed protesters, and torturing prisoners to death are clear examples of crime against humanity," Mrs.
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An affirmative decision could pave the way for her to investigate the alleged deportations as a possible crime against humanity.
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"Menticide," announced the Columbia University psychiatrist Joost Meerloo, was a crime against humanity analogous to — or even worse than — genocide.
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For some reason, all the guys are acting like David falling out of his bunk bed was a crime against humanity.
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"It's a situation I regard to be a crime against the homeland, a crime against humanity," Silva, a former senator, said.
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Trump made it clear that punishing the crime against humanity was an act taken on behalf of the entire world community.
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Mr. Mahdi's case has put a new focus on cultural destruction as a war crime, or as a crime against humanity.
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President Ashraf Ghani's spokesman issued a statement calling the attack an "unpardonable" crime against humanity and pledging to destroy terrorist groups.
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"There are Muslims who died, Christians who died, Jews who died — it's a crime against humanity," he told The Denver Post.
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Strache has called anti-Semitism "a crime against humanity", but Austria's main Jewish group says the FPO is xenophobic and divisive.
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During a visit to Algeria, he told the Algerians that French colonialism in their country had been a crime against humanity.
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One was AfriForum, which has drawn widespread criticism for its views, including its recent denial that apartheid was a crime against humanity.
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Famine can amount to a crime against humanity if food restrictions are used as a weapon of war, according to United Nations officials.
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Putting together a list of the best male house records without including the dearly departed Romanthony would, in effect, be a crime against humanity.
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French President Emmanuel Macron called the sale of migrants at slave auctions in Libya "a crime against humanity" and vowed to press for sanctions.
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Also this month, the International Criminal Court said it had the authority to investigate the expulsion of the Rohingya as a crime against humanity.
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The International Criminal Court ruled it could investigate Myanmar for the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims as a crime against humanity.
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Deprivation of citizenship should be classified as a crime against humanity, Arendt argued, because most legal protections are now conferred through functioning state governments.
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The UN commission on human rights in Eritrea has described the country's national service as a "crime against humanity," and likened it to slavery.
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Duque said Maduro's refusal to let in aid amounted to a crime against humanity and called on other countries to recognize it as such.
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A.P.: A crime against humanity is an action that causes severe and unnecessary human suffering, and environmental destruction unquestionably degrades the quality of human life.
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As many observers have pointed out, failing to act on climate change, although it's an indefensible crime against humanity, is also in some ways understandable.
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" Burtin did not mince words to describe what he saw (or rather, didn't see): "not even ISIS could commit such an epic crime against humanity.
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Rousseff said Bolsonaro's comments were unacceptable coming from the head of a state that is party to international agreements condemning torture as a crime against humanity.
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"The Court has jurisdiction over the crime against humanity of deportation allegedly committed against members of the Rohingya people," it said in a September 2018 ruling.
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"Unfortunately, the U.S. has arrogantly stood by the Israeli administration which kills civilians and has partnered in this crime against humanity," he told reporters in Ankara.
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The Nazi genocide began slowly and had few distinctive outbursts of violence to delineate where one degree of crime against humanity ended and where another began.
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Now that migrant families will be reunited on the border, the next alleged crime against humanity will be that those families are being detained at all.
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Mauritania has attempted to crack down on slavery and last year passed a law making it a crime against humanity and doubling prison terms for offenders.
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The attacks were immediately condemned by NATO's Resolute Support mission in Afghanistan as well as President Ashraf Ghani, who called the incident a "crime against humanity".
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In the electrifying tape, Montazeri can be heard telling a meeting of the 'Death Commission' in 1988 that they are responsible for a crime against humanity.
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Even in this supposedly civilized century, when torture is a crime against humanity (though practiced the world over), the reasons for Iago's torments still have resonance.
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Consequently, in 2018, we have a situation in South Africa where only two people have served jail time for the crime against humanity known as apartheid.
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" He added: "We are working toward holding those accountable, including judgments like the one you have offered - characterizing it as a crime against humanity or genocide.
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"Human trafficking is not only a social evil, it is a crime against humanity," Kovind said in a speech on Thursday to launch the new course.
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They demonstrate that ISIS's targeting of LGBT people was widespread and systematic, key tests of whether a form of persecution may be considered a crime against humanity.
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For the issuing of death sentences to amount to a crime against humanity, they would have to be part of a systematic attack on a civilian population.
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In addition to nerve agents, it has deployed chlorine as a chemical weapon against civilians so extensively that these attacks may amount to a crime against humanity.
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ROME (Reuters) - Pope Francis branded exploitation of women for prostitution a "crime against humanity" on Monday and asked forgiveness from society for Catholic men who use prostitutes.
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Prima facie, actually carrying out any such grotesque threat against literally millions of North Korean civilians would constitute an unimaginable crime of war and crime against humanity.
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It was another despicable act, another crime against humanity and another reason that decent people everywhere must unite to put an end to these crimes of carnage.
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Sexual crimes have only been prosecuted since the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia set the precedent that rape constitutes a crime against humanity in 1998.
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"The court finds that Mugesera is guilty of ... public incitement to commit genocide, persecution as crime against humanity and inciting ethnic-affiliated hatred," judge Antoine Muhima said.
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President Ghani called the attack "a crime against humanity and against the national unity of Afghanistan" and said he had spoken to Mr. Abdullah on the phone.
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The International Criminal Court said on Thursday that it has jurisdiction to rule on the deportation of Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh as a crime against humanity.
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"More profound even than a crime against humanity, fathers and sons now compulsively prepare to commit ecocide, in a final and irreversible assault upon creation itself," she said.
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"This is a continuation of the forced displacement of the people of Jerusalem from their homes and lands — a war crime and a crime against humanity," Shtayyeh said.
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"The crime against humanity, it's the Shoah, genocides, slavery," said Fillon, whose status as favorite to win the presidency in May has evaporated in the past three weeks.
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It's a gross violation of human rights and an international crime that under certain circumstances may amount to a crime against humanity, when it is widespread or systematic.
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The Falun Gong spiritual movement has been targeted for a special crime against humanity: industrial scale, live organ harvesting that exceeds even the murderous efficiency of the Nazis.
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" The report said that through the "widespread and systematic" bombardment of the area, and the continued denial of food and medicine, pro-government forces perpetrated a "crime against humanity.
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And Mr Macron's description of French colonial stewardship over Algeria as a "crime against humanity" while visiting the North African country did not do him wonders at the polls.
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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has asked it to rule on whether it has jurisdiction over the deportations of Rohingyas to Bangladesh, a possible crime against humanity.
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"We recognize that it matters whether it's a genocide, whether it's a crime against humanity, matters to the victims, matters to the survivors of these brutal acts," he added.
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"Anti-Semitism, regardless in which form, is a crime against humanity," FPO leader Heinz-Christian Strache told a panel discussion on the issue which his party hosted in November.
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"When it comes to merit, the war against drugs cannot be considered a crime against humanity," he said, describing the campaign as a legitimate and with a clear purpose.
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This is yet another vile and abhorrent crime against humanity that contradicts the universal values of peace, tolerance, openness, moderation, diversity, social justice and solidarity that we all share.
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My grandmother would tell me it had been a crime against humanity that the cowardly leaders of Cuba, the United States and Canada had not allowed the refugees entry.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The International Criminal Court (ICC) ruled on Thursday that it has jurisdiction over alleged deportations of Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.
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I think when it comes to war crimes, sexual violence is a crime against humanity, but I think it would get more attention if it did have its own category.
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Other international courts have convicted defendants of rape as a war crime and a crime against humanity, but Mr. Bemba's was the first such conviction by the International Criminal Court.
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Tens of thousands languish in government custody, where torture, deprivation, filth and overcrowding are so severe that a United Nations commission said they amounted to "extermination," a crime against humanity.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday that Turkey condemned a suspected chemical attack on Syria's rebel-held town of Idlib, describing it as a crime against humanity.
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"The Court has jurisdiction over the crime against humanity of deportation allegedly committed against members of the Rohingya people," a three-judge panel said in a written summary of their decision.
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The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked the court to rule on whether it has jurisdiction over the deportations of Rohingyas to Bangladesh, a possible crime against humanity.
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The president continues to give the same orders (such as) shelling civilian areas by the armed forces, which is a direct violation of the Geneva convention and a crime against humanity.
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A panel of three judges convicted Mr. Bemba of murder and pillaging, and defined the large-scale rape by his soldiers as a crime against humanity and as a war crime.
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The systematic practice of torture by the two authorities might amount to a crime against humanity and could be prosecutable at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, the report said.
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Many in Algeria had wondered whether Macron would offer an official apology for the past given his statement earlier this year when he described France's colonial rule as a "crime against humanity".
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The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), an exiled opposition group, said his issuing of "thousands" of death sentences amounted to a crime against humanity and urged German prosecutors to investigate.
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UN investigators accused the Syrian government of a crime against humanity, after a report found that detainees are being killed on a massive scale, amounting to a state policy of civilian "extermination".
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The West African nation criminalized slavery in 2007 and a new law passed last year makes the offence a crime against humanity and doubles the prison term for offenders to 20 years.
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He has called the euro a "crime against humanity" and has threatened the mass deportation of migrants who are stuck in Italian limbo because no one else in Europe will let them in.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads The Confederacy was the only nation on the face of the Earth ever created for the express purpose of defending the crime against humanity that was slavery.
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But environmentalists say the world should treat ecocide as a crime against humanity — like genocide — now that the imminent and long-term threats posed by a warming planet are coming into sharper focus.
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BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Former Brazilian environment minister and presidential candidate Marina Silva on Thursday called wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest a "crime against humanity" and blamed current policies for fueling the blazes.
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He cut short a visit to Germany for treatment in January when activists referred him to German prosecutors, citing his record of passing death sentences which they said amounted to a crime against humanity.
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"The internment of over a million Uyghurs and other Muslims in China is a staggering evil and should be treated by the international community as a crime against humanity," Smith said in a statement.
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"The chamber ... having heard all the evidence mentioned by the parties, finds you as concerns count one, murder as a crime against humanity, guilty," said judge Robert Fremr, reading a summary of the ruling.
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Mr. Botha was "one of the few" from his party "who recognized at an early stage that apartheid was a wrong and crime against humanity," the A.N.C. said in a statement after his death.
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In April, ICC Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda asked the court for a ruling on whether the court could have jurisdiction over deportations of Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, a possible crime against humanity.
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"The same people who supposedly believe that using weapons of mass destruction is a crime against humanity ... are talking about new weapons to threaten or use against rivals," he said in his televised address.
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"The crimes committed rank among the most heinous known to humankind, and include genocide and extermination as a crime against humanity," Presiding Judge Alphons Orie said in reading out a summary of the judgment.
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The Associated Press reports that conference delegates will approve a statement that declares organ trafficking as a crime against humanity and encourage countries to strengthen their organ donation programs to cut down on transplant tourism.
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Paulo Pinheiro, chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria, said last year that the scale of deaths in prisons indicated that the Assad government was responsible for "extermination as a crime against humanity".
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On a visit to Algeria, Mr. Macron declared France's colonization of the country a "crime against humanity" — a red flag in France, where memories of the bloody war over Algerian independence are not so distant.
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Myanmar's government said on Friday it "resolutely rejects" a ruling from the International Criminal Court (ICC) that said the body has jurisdiction over alleged deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.
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She sees that when a drama doesn't work, it was "a good effort" and gets a thoughtful review, but when a comedy doesn't work, it's a crime against humanity and gets taken outside behind the shed.
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She claimed asylum in Britain in 2007, but her application to remain indefinitely was rejected in 2016 because of suspicions that she might have committed a crime against humanity or war crimes, according to court documents.
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Denying Myanmar's Muslims access to basic services such as education was "one element of the crime against humanity of persecution that we are seeing in Rakhine State against the Rohingyas," said Mr. Sidoti, the panel member.
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GENEVA (Reuters) - Syrian government troops and affiliated forces committed war crimes and a crime against humanity in their long siege of eastern Ghouta through heavy bombardment and "deliberately starving" 265,000 people, U.N. investigators said on Wednesday.
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An administration led by its boss, Matteo Salvini, would spook markets and investors: he once described the euro as a "crime against humanity", and favours (as does Mr Berlusconi) a flat tax which would hit revenues hard.
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China's relationship with North Korea makes Beijing complicit in the "crime against humanity" currently underway in North Korea, and its instability and technological unevenness create the possibility of a future nuclear accident that would contaminate northeast China.
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The class action relies on the definition of a "crime against humanity" as determined by the International Criminal Court and Australia under Section 268 of the Commonwealth Criminal Code, which includes torture, imprisonment, persecution and inhumane acts.
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" Kevin Jon Heller, associate professor of public international law at Amsterdam University, said if the victims were civilians, "this would be the classic crime against humanity of murder: killing civilians as part of a widespread or systematic attack.
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The last country to legally abolish slavery in 1981, Mauritania criminalized slavery in 2007 and a new law passed last year makes the offence a crime against humanity and doubles the prison term for offenders to 20 years.
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YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's government said on Friday it "resolutely rejects" a ruling from the International Criminal Court (ICC) that said the body has jurisdiction over alleged deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Bangladesh as a possible crime against humanity.
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In a surprise ruling, judges at the International Criminal Court said Thursday that they could exercise jurisdiction to investigate the deportation of hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims from their homes in Myanmar as a crime against humanity.
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Inmates are kept under conditions so dismal — including regular, severe beatings and deprivation of food, water, medicine and basic sanitation — that they amount to deliberate extermination, defined under international law as a crime against humanity, the report said.
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"The efforts by PYD-YPG to change the demographic structure in regions it has captured, to seize the property of the people, to kill or exile the ones who stand against it form a crime against humanity," he said.
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"Any country or company continuing to champion further exploration for and mining of coal and even other fossil fuels from now on would be willfully carrying out a crime against humanity, and they would be held accountable," he said.
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Brace yourselves as we tell you about the bone-chilling crime against humanity that occurred this past Sunday: A group of three men, two of whom were sporting clown masks, did the unthinkable and robbed an unsuspecting pizzeria in Germany.
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"I'm a simple Jewish heart transplant surgeon and the son of a Holocaust survivor, and the reason I spend so much time on this is that I can't keep silent in the face of a new crime against humanity," he said.
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Ratko Mladic guilty of genocide and sentenced him to spend the rest of his days in prison, it reinforced a pillar of civilization: No crime against humanity, no matter how long ago it occurred, should be immune to cries for justice.
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ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Saturday that Israeli forces had targeted a building in Gaza where the offices of Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency are located, and added that the attacks were a crime against humanity.
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Han Tae Song, ambassador of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) to the United Nations in Geneva, also urged South Korea to return 12 waitresses "kidnapped" while working in China in April 2016, calling it a "crime against humanity".
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SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korean President Moon Jae-in described Japan's wartime use of "comfort women" as a "crime against humanity" on Thursday in some of his strongest comments yet, sparking an immediate protest from his key ally in containing North Korea.
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Jerusalem (CNN)Palestinian authorities in the West Bank and Gaza have engaged in a systematic crackdown on dissent, including the use of torture that may amount to a crime against humanity, according to a new report from Human Rights Watch.
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Now, he's finally got a date in his calendar for a face-to-face with Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, the leader whose war on drugs has been so extreme and bloody that Human Rights Watch says it may represent a crime against humanity.
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"Clearly when looking most recently at the forced starvation of the people of Madaya, and there are 15 other besieged towns and cities, that this is not just a war crime but a crime against humanity if proven in court," he said.
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"It could be seen as a crime against humanity and therefore the International Criminal Court could, in theory, try to hold (Russian President Vladimir) Putin himself responsible, " Sweeney said, before adding that without Russian state cooperation this avenue would be difficult to enforce.
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AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has asked it to rule on whether it has jurisdiction over the deportations of Rohingya people from Myanmar to Bangladesh, a possible crime against humanity, according to a filing published on Monday.
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SEOUL, South Korea — The acting president of South Korea, Hwang Kyo-ahn, on Monday called the killing of Kim Jong-nam, the estranged half brother of North Korea's leader, "an intolerable crime against humanity and terrorist act" masterminded by the North Korean regime.
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Whatever the motivation, the outcome is an inhumane act against civilian populations "intentionally causing great suffering, or serious injury to body or to mental or physical health," the definition in international law of a crime against humanity, a point that I have made before.
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Palm oil is a major growth driver for Indonesia, but the industry is facing criticism for deforestation and its slash-and-burn forest-clearing techniques that send vast plumes of smoke across Southeast Asia every year, described by climate officials as a "crime against humanity".
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" Will Urquhart was more pointed with his criticism, asking the silent government employees, "How do you sleep at night knowing you're part of an administration committing a crime against humanity and torturing children as hostages to try to get votes for a stupid border wall?
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Kamala HarrisKamala Devi HarrisPoll: Trump trails top 2020 Democrats in Michigan Social justice advocate steps up calls for DNC to hold poverty-focused debate Trump trails top five 21625 Democrats in national poll MORE (D-Calif.) described the planned raids as a crime against humanity.
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"Certain acts perpetrated by pro-government forces during the siege laid to eastern Ghouta, including the deliberate starvation of the civilian population as a method of warfare, amount to the crime against humanity of inhumane acts, causing serious mental and physical suffering," the panel concluded.
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The Philippines campaign is, by any standard, a State-sponsored Crime Against Humanity and anyone involved in its policy development, approval and implementation must be investigated, arrested, tried, and imprisoned, with all rights to their own defense, which, most ironically, their victims are not afforded.
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But Macron is politically inexperienced, and his centrism is a tightrope walk: Recently he was in hot water with the right for calling French rule in Algeria a "crime against humanity" and with the left for doing outreach to skeptics of same-sex marriage.
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"It's been harder to ignore the logic of such a move as Syria has continued to deteriorate and the Assad regime has perpetrated crime after crime against humanity in the country," said Jonathan Schanzer, senior vice president for research at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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Davis said there may be no hope for the kinds of trials the legal team would like to see in Iraq, but putting this evidence before the UN could be the start of building an international consensus to treat the persecution of LGBT people as a crime against humanity.
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Other international courts, including the United Nations tribunals for war crimes in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda, have issued convictions for rape as a war crime and a crime against humanity — but Monday was the first time the International Criminal Court, in The Hague, had done so.
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She was part of a dedicated group of lawyers and international humanitarians who fought for decades to get rape recognized as a war crime and crime against humanity, and is now the first woman to direct law and policy at the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC).
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In June, former Democratic Republic of the Congo vice-president Jean-Pierre Bemba was sentenced to 18 years in prison on five charges—including one charge of rape as a war crime and one as a crime against humanity—for abuses committed by his troops in Central African Republic.
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"Through the widespread and systematic bombardments of civilian inhabited areas and objects, and the continued denial of food and medicine to besieged civilians during the period under review, pro-Government forces perpetrated the crime against humanity of inhumane acts causing serious mental and physical suffering," the report said.
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Because of the large number of rapes and what the judges called their particular brutality, rape as a war crime and a crime against humanity received more weight in sentencing even than murder — 18 years for the rape-related charges, with concurrent sentences of 16 years for murder and pillaging.
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"We can not but remind them of our stand that how they tackle the case of group abduction by the puppet conservatives, an anti-DPRK confrontational farce and hideous crime against humanity, would have great impact on deciding the prospect of settling the humanitarian issue between the north and the south," KCNA said.
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Even though Myanmar is not a State Party, the ICC's Pre-Trial Chamber recently decided that the ICC had territorial jurisdiction, because the crime against humanity of deportation "is forced displacement across international borders, which means that the conduct related to this crime necessarily takes place on the territories of at least two States" (para. 28503).
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The head of a regime that has starved and executed its people in a manner the United Nations has labeled a "crime against humanity" sat as an equal with a leader of a country that once stopped Nazism, won the Cold War and led the world in fostering the ideas of human rights, democracy and international law.
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But Faurisson is a known Holocaust revisionist who was prosecuted in 1993 after writing an article denying that Auschwitz was an extermination camp and was later charged with "complicity in contesting the existence of a crime against humanity," over other comments he made questioning the Holocaust, for which he received a suspended sentence and a fine.
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I know we're online, a space where it feels like everything we're talking about is either iconic and the greatest of all time or a horrible crime against humanity that has ended our personal will to live, so I'm going to be very careful about overstepping into rhetorical hyperbole that makes you doubt my ability to process scales of importance or things in relation to other things.
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A Palestinian state would also most likely exist if Arafat's successor, Mahmoud Abbas — now in the 13th year of his elected four-year term — hadn't rejected it again nine years ago, and if Gazans hadn't turned their territory into a terrifying model of Palestinian statehood, and if the United Nations didn't treat Hamas's attacks on Israel as a nuisance but Israel's self-defense as a crime against humanity.
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If the same cannot be said today, if dictators are no longer seen to hold the power of life or death over their subjects, if the archcriminals of Cambodia, Sudan and Rwanda are indicted and sometimes even punished, in short, if the idea of international justice has gradually gained a semblance of meaning, we owe it to two ideas, or more precisely two concepts — as well as to the two men who brought them to life: Hersch Lauterpacht for the concept of the crime against humanity and Raphael Lemkin for that of genocide.
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Our crime against humanity is that we had the audacity to ask congresswoman Tulsi GabbardTulsi GabbardHillicon Valley: Clapper praises whistleblower complaint | Senators urge social media giants to take action against 'deepfakes' | Tim Cook asks Supreme Court to protect DACA | Harris pushes Twitter to suspend Trump Warren says Trump should not be banned from Twitter Joaquin Castro volunteers to play his brother on 'SNL' MORE whether Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann Warren2020 Democrats push for gun control action at forum On The Money: Trump blames impeachment inquiry for stock market drop | Trump to hit EU with new tariffs after WTO ruling | Warren outlines tax on federal lobbying Hillicon Valley: Clapper praises whistleblower complaint | Senators urge social media giants to take action against 'deepfakes' | Tim Cook asks Supreme Court to protect DACA | Harris pushes Twitter to suspend Trump MORE is qualified to be commander in chief.
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