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The cops and soldiers seeking amnesty rarely tell the whole truth (they seldom admit to torture) and rarely apologize to their victims.
The Pinochet specter is also raised in the Hong Kong Standard , which questions the possibility that Cambodian leader Hun Sen might grant amnesty to two prominent members of the Khmer Rouge: "Why should these killers be let off?"
Another referendum is scheduled to take place Sept. 16 in Algeria, where voters are being asked to approve or reject a presidential reconciliation effort that offers amnesty to people convicted of actively supporting violence as long as they did not actually commit acts of violence.
The paper quoted Amnesty International statistics showing that, out of a total of 193 countries in the world, 100 had abolished the death penalty.
It isn't as though the issue of human-rights abuses has gone away; China's crackdown on the Falun Gong continues (click here to read a summary of a recent Amnesty International report, and here to read a pretty good Post Op-Ed column by E.J.
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