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Supposedly based on a true story, [Paul Haggis]' film focuses on Hank Deerfield ([Tommy Lee Jones]), a former military MP whose eldest son died in the military and whose only remaining son, a soldier just back from Iraq, is reported to have disappeared from his unit. Learning this news as the story opens, Deerfield leaves his wife (Susan Sarandon) in their Tennessee home, drives across the country to the base where his son has been stationed and throws himself into the investigation of his boy's disappearance, an effort that understandably ruffles the feathers of the military's investigators as well as a police detective (Charlize Theron) who becomes involved in the case. Considering Haggis' meteoric rise and rather contradictory output to date-he wrote Glint Eastwood's Million Dottar B...
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Phyllis Bennis, director of the New Internationalism Project at the Washington-based Institute for Policy Studies told IPS the U.S. vote - and its obvious pressure on governments dependent on U.S. political, financial or military support - "indicates just how out of step the administration of President Barack Obama is on this issue. There is a clear double-standard, once again, in the U.S. position between Ambassador Susan Rice's recognition of the primacy of accountability for war crimes in the case of Darfur and Sudan, regardless of any potential impact on future peace talks, while rejecting accountability in the case of Israeli actions in Gaza," she said. "If Washington remains unwilling to hold Israel accountable for its violations, the potential for a new U.S. position in the wor...
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[...] Part VI concludes that bridging the gap by prosecuting all instances of perfidy as grave breaches is in the best interests of civilians and combatants. [...] as long as the debate over whether some perfidious is even prohibited persists, there is no guarantee perfidy that results in capture or military advantage will ever be effectively prosecuted.89 The international community can end this debate by treating every act of perfidy as a grave breach.
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[Chaplin Christian Von Wernich] is one of the spokesmen from the Church that participated in the tortures and 'comforted' disappeared detainees," said Christina Valdez, whose husband was kidnapped and later disappeared in the provincial capital of La Plata. Witnesses have testified that Von Wernich carried out a special role inside a network of clandestine detention centers known as the "Camps Circuit" in the Buenos Aires suburbs. He is most notorious for his title as "spiritual aid" inside the Puesto Vasco concentration camp, one of the 375 used to disappear, torture, and murder 30,000 people. On just the third day of the trial, a number of witnesses gave remarkable testimonies of Von Wernich's crimes in several clandestine detention centers. Torture survivor Hector Mariano Ballent te...
