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To deprive a child of his smiles and dreams and burden him with gore and machine guns is an appalling indictment of the values of the certain groups and individuals.

The spectacular horror in the use of attacks will remain, I am afraid, a tactic of the insurgency for the time being, as will their efforts to interfere with the current military surge.

From these examples, one can conclude that there are situations where the Security Council, confronted by horrific human rights crimes, acts on behalf of justice.

Whereas it has been internationally recognized, including by the principal organs of the United Nations, that Armenia unleashed the war, attacked Azerbaijan and occupied its territories, including the Daghlyq Garabagh (Nagorno Karabakh) region, carried out ethnic cleansing on a massive scale, perpetrated other heinous crimes in the course of the war and established the ethnically constructed subordinate separatist entity on the captured Azerbaijani territory, it is curious that Armenian propaganda continues to qualify the aggression against Azerbaijan as “a peaceful and constitutional demand of the Nagorno Karabakh people to exercise its right to self-determination”.

In its foreword, Justice Louise Arbour warned that “the violence in Kosovo was horrific, and again proved devastating for the many ordinary people who became its victims” (p. 1).

In addition, mass media outlets contained horrifying reports about the killing of the residents and defenders of Khojaly by indiscriminate Armenian gunfire and other brutal acts by invading troops (more information is available in document E/CN.4/2002/151).

Cuba rejects this illegitimate mechanism whereby the United States Government arrogates to itself the right to certify the conduct of other nations with regard to terrorism and to publish discriminatory, selective and politically motivated lists, while maintaining a double standard by failing to try the avowed perpetrators of horrendous terrorist acts against Cuba and other countries in our hemisphere, instead allowing them to remain at large.

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His previous report to the General Assembly (A/64/215 and Corr.1) was devoted to the appalling conditions of detention found by the Special Rapporteur during his country missions.

The argument that, since the utmost violence of 1998-1999 one decade has passed and the “conflict is over”, somehow “buried” into oblivion, and that there is peace today in Kosovo and the aforementioned repression belongs to the past, is in my view superficial, if not unsustainable.

The sponsors regretted that some States had chosen from the start not to enter into a constructive dialogue on the alarming trend towards defaming religions.

This is yet another tired practice by that regime to distract the attention of the international community from its nuclear arsenal, as well as its criminal policies and abhorrent atrocities in the region, including its recent heinous crimes against the people of Palestine and Lebanon.

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Lastly, the appalling violence in Syria may be the most blatant failure these days of a Government’s responsibility to protect its own people.

The members of the Council also expressed their deep sympathy and condolences to the victims of that heinous crime and to their families, the people and Government of Nigeria and the Secretary-General and other United Nations staff members.

He became a lawyer and, while working in South Africa, he was appalled at the way Indians were treated by the British and began to work for the independence of India from British rule.

In one particularly horrific incident in early November, an estimated 150 people were killed during two days of violence in the town of Kiwanja.

We have no doubt that raising such allegations is nothing but an attempt to divert attention from the horrendous record of non-compliance by those countries with their nuclear disarmament obligations, including through nuclear weapon-sharing, hosting nuclear weapons in their territories and assisting the only non-party to the NPT in the Middle East, the Israeli regime, with its nuclear weapons programme.

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Sometimes we give them encouragement by expressions to the effect that there is no military solution, and this has given them a pretext to continue their heinous crimes.

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And when you start to think of that and with the implications that the supply chain are all working the same way, all using the same kind of data information, it’s astounding, I think, what this will evolve to in the future.

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We are anguished by the horrific scenes emerging from Gaza of the brutal killing, injury and dismemberment of innocent Palestinian civilians, including so many children and their families, the displacement of tens of thousands of people and the vast destruction of homes and infrastructure and the very foundations of Palestinian society in this latest deadly Israeli military campaign against the Palestinian people, now in its twentieth day.