NOT the Nazis. I was thinking of maybe being prosecuted for war crimes in an international court, or maybe a country that eventually overthrew the regime and punished the party's members.
2006-10-22 02:53:15 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Serbia; Rwanda. Noriega in Panama.
2006-10-22 02:55:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Jailing an innocent person is worse in my view. Our entire justice system is based on the idea of 'innocent until proven guilty' and the fact that that proof has to be 'beyond a reasonable doubt', so if a jury is unsure then they should always acquit. It is of course a terrible thing for a guilty person to escape punishment, but to take away the liberty of someone innocent is much worse. There is always the hope that you might be able to convict the guilty person on another crime if they re-offend, but if you take away years, months, or even just days, of an innocent person's life, you can never give that back. I haven't yet watched 'The Verdict', but it clearly provides food for thought and raises interesting questions, so I think I will give it a look. Good question by the way.
2016-03-28 03:58:47 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ruling junta of Imperial Japan was prosecuted at the Tokyo trials in 1946. More recently are the Croats and Serbs involved in war crimes of the former Yugoslavia and the thugs behind the Rwandan genocide.
2006-10-22 02:56:51 · answer #3 · answered by someone 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Best noted that I know of, and with lots of documentation, was the Nazi regime of WW2. Check out any reference to the Nuremburg trials where they hung a bunch of the %&*$#. It makes for interesting reading simply because you have to keep going back to look up obscure references that lead to stories of real people.
2006-10-22 03:04:43 · answer #4 · answered by rifleman01@verizon.net 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it happened in Chile, where ex-President Allende is facing (or has he recently died?) charges for war crimes. Some of the Stasi in East Germany are up on charges, although whether they caught the big fish I'm less sure.
2006-10-22 02:59:55 · answer #5 · answered by mrsgavanrossem 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Saddam Huesein
2006-10-22 03:03:16 · answer #6 · answered by nbr660 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Yugoslavian government. Slobadan Milosevich (I don't know if I spelled that correctly), the dictator of Yugoslavia, was indicted for major crimes against humanity.
2006-10-22 02:58:35 · answer #7 · answered by oliverbenji 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a very common scenario, Argentina, Yugoslavia, Panama, Mexico, all the banana republics, South Africa (almost every nation in Africa)
2006-10-22 02:57:59 · answer #8 · answered by Big D 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm, what about Romania? After their revolution, late 80s I believe, they took their monster of a president, Nicolae Ceausescu, and his wife Elena, who was equally a monster, and shot them.
2006-10-22 03:17:26 · answer #9 · answered by Nightlight 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋