Keywords: Crimes Against Humanity
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AUSTRALIA
- Michael Loughnane
- 11 November 2011
20 Comments
Journalist Hannah Arendt noted that Nazi 'desk-murderer' Adolf Eichmann did not lack a moral compass — his conscience simply spoke with the 'respectable voice' of society. The case raises questions about whether we might be 'silent witnesses to evil deeds' in our society today.
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AUSTRALIA
- Duncan Maclaren
- 27 October 2011
3 Comments
The development theory of 'modernisation' taught that old traditions, including religion, had to disappear for people to be 'developed'. This purely Western model is now seen wanting. All faiths put the human person, not economic theories, at the centre of development.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 26 August 2011
2 Comments
Obama and NATO have been lucky that this campaign has worked thus far. To participate in a brutal civil war is always a dangerous game of chance. So far, the rebels have limited their bouts of revenge to arson and looting. A blood bath has not ensued, at least not yet.
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AUSTRALIA
Barack Obama has committed his people to a legal and ethical mistake which will be a continuing obstacle to the West's integrity in its pursuit of freedom, democracy, internationally recognised standards of justice and human rights, and lasting peace.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kerry Murphy
- 28 April 2011
26 Comments
The Department of Immigration and Citizenship say they can't tell me anything. The Inspector General of Intelligence and Security tells me to contact DIAC. As an immigration lawyer I find this frustrating. How much worse must it be for asylum seekers kept in detention with no end in sight?
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ARTS AND CULTURE
- Tim Kroenert
- 31 March 2011
1 Comment
Christian defeats a bully using violence more severe than that which he suffered. He learns a frightening lesson about the capacity of violence to still conflicts. Casey Heynes, whose videoed retaliation against a school bully became a hit on YouTube, can probably relate.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 06 January 2011
4 Comments
When celebrities who have treated people violently suffer themselves from violence, their suffering is approved because it is an expected part of the plot. The death of Carl Williams has been covered as if it were an episode of Underbelly. Williams deserves better than this.
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AUSTRALIA
The former head of the Khmer Rouge's main interrogation centre has just been sentenced to 30 years prison. There are important lessons internationally. If a state becomes evil, its orders must be resisted.
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MEDIA
- Andrew Hamilton
- 21 April 2010
43 Comments
When celebrities who have treated people violently suffer
themselves from violence, their suffering is approved because it is an
expected part of the plot. The death of Carl Williams has been covered as if it were an
episode of Underbelly. Williams deserves
better than this.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 06 April 2010
3 Comments
From Rudd's 'sorry' to the Stolen Generations, to last year's US Senate resolution
apologising for slavery, the political apology has assumed freight and relevance. An apology issued in the Serbian Parliament last week is exceptional for its attempt to allow the perpetrator into the moral circle.
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AUSTRALIA
- Binoy Kampmark
- 30 October 2009
1 Comment
The only woman convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has returned to Serbia. Her guilty plea formed part of a bargain, another sign that guilt and
punishments are often matters of tactics and basic arithmetic. The victims of that savage war will not be so gracious.
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AUSTRALIA
- Kimberley Layton
- 11 March 2009
2 Comments
President
Omar al-Bashir stands accused of two counts of war crimes and five of crimes against humanity. But prosecuting him will not deliver justice to the people of Darfur. What seems like the beginning of the end of the tragedy may be the end of the beginning.
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