"This whole question is, in effect, are we going to grant general amnesty, " said Mr. Rose.
"People think there's going to be a general amnesty, and there isn't, " Pertierra said.
During the early 1970s, the Venezuelan Government decreed a general amnesty in order to pacify the country.
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The church suggested a general amnesty four years ago, says Mr Tambelli, but it got a hostile reception.
Senators voted for the constitutional court to rule whether he had committed treason over a number of acts, including a New Year's Day general amnesty which sparked great controversy.
Comrade Artemio, the last remaining leader of the group which terrorised Peruvians in the 1980s and '90s, said he was prepared to call a truce with the government of Peru in return for a political settlement and a general amnesty.
Most of them were written in response to the first article I wrote in the series which merely urged compassion for immigrants in general, not amnesty for illegal aliens.
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"At the request of the secretary-general, the Myanmar government is processing to grant amnesty to prisoners on humanitarian grounds and with a view to enabling them to participate in the 2010 general elections, " he said.
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Nevertheless, Lord Hoffmann's link to Amnesty has clearly given the general's lawyers valuable ammunition in the legal battles ahead.
Concerned as much about these cases as about General Pinochet's fate, the armed forces also think this amnesty should mean immunity from charges, as the dictatorship intended, rather than the courts' present interpretation of immunity only from punishment.
In 2011 he accepted an amnesty offer by President Salva Kiir and returned to Juba where he was promoted to an SPLA general.
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