Hi Cliona, could you please direct me to some evidence to substantiate this observation. Things are rarely black and white in terms of motivations by groups or individuals, and risk of negative consequences is generally considered to underpin justice systems, even flawed ones.
With respect to the HRW Op-ed which you are critiquing the observation is perhaps well made in the context of what is being advanced by @LaetitiaBader, whose arguments look like a preemptive defence by going on the offence following her organisations failures.
I.E. a PR effort to deflect blame away from her own organisation and its institutional sponsors.

I am curious as to whether there is any empirical evidence around point that you make about the presence or lack of consequences for violent atrocities.
It seems to me that there are some nations and nationals of them which are more likely to be punished than others.
Also, that widespread impunity generally for acts of violence committed during internal conflicts by dominant parties (especially Govts) makes it very hard to find hard data on this question.

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14 Dec
Extreme weather in the Nth Hemisphere due to high levels of atmospheric water in 2021 look set to be maintained into 2022. Atmospheric river activity continues to have significant consequences now, and in the forecasts.

New #OurChangingClimate thread.
The satellite animation above shows the weather system that produced the devastating tornadoes on Friday and Saturday in the United States.

This 16 day simulation shows a @NOAA GFS PWAT (atmospheric river) forecast beginning 12th December, which shows extreme is far from over.
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Interesting thread about @DrTedros connections to @BillGates, absent of conspiracy theories about 5G and other nonsense.

The truth is more mundane but still ver disturbing. Tedros is not even an MD something I ought to have known, and his power base is via Gates’ Global Fund.
Also new to me is the fact that he was the first WHO chief elected by a majority of nations.

His connection to The Global Fund, which is one of, possibly even the largest grant making organisation on the planet - provides him with the perfect power base for this structure.
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