The new Obama administration has a real opportunity to help end the reign of terror of two of the biggest human rights offenders of our time.
For Maximilien Robespierre, chief architect of the reign of terror that followed the revolution, God and religion were far too useful in keeping the population in line.
This proposed that a tribunal should be set up outside Cambodia to try leaders of the Khmers Rouges for their role in the reign of terror in the 1970s, when perhaps 2m people died.
We are determined to ensure that the Afghan people are not condemned to a reprise of the Taliban's reign of terror - and the safe-haven that regime afforded to those who have in the past attacked us.
In the same testimony we said that the connection between Chavez, radical Islam and Iran may well be related to the mindset of the Venezuelan president to exercise a reign of terror, violence and totalitarian rule by using the oppressive methods of the Islamic Republic.
The Center for Security Policy today strongly commended United States Senator Richard Lugar (R-IN) for his vision and leadership in establishing as conditions for the satisfactory resolution of the Persian Gulf crisis the end of Saddam Hussein's reign of terror in Iraq and the elimination of Iraqi capabilities to threaten Western interests and neighboring states in the region.
But there are signs that the Hankton reign of terror is not over.
In short, he was in the midst of a reign of terror in the ring.
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They face charges for their part in the movement's reign of terror in the late 1970s, during which as many as 2m people died.
The murder of Mr Suddards at his vicarage was the culmination of a two-month reign of terror in which Farrow killed Mrs Yates and threatened to kill "Christian scum".
After years of painstaking research, there is substantial documentation relating to the systematic killing of a large proportion of the some 1.7 million Cambodians who died during the 1975-79 reign of terror.
At the trial's opening they justified their reign of terror in the context of the historical threat posed by Vietnam, and denied the charges outright.
Under Milosevic's leadership, the Serb-dominated Yugoslav army conducted a reign of terror against the ethnic Albanian majority in Kosovo until last year's NATO bombing campaign.
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Most Americans are clueless about the contempt felt not just by Chalabi but by millions of Iraqis for an organization that helped prop up the Butcher of Baghdad and perpetuate his reign of terror.
Yet, between 1968 and 1996, the RAF imposed a reign of terror on West Germany completely divorced from their small size, limited public support, and popular disparagement.
The preachers and the gunmen who brought their reign of terror to Swat made no secret of what they wanted.
The very existence of the criminal law, which severs the link between legal liability and harm, makes possible an ongoing reign of terror.
This radical Shi'ite takeover precipitated a reign of terror and intimidation in the city.
French revolutionaries used it first to distinguish the common man from the reviled aristocracy, then to enforce their reign of terror on both.
They killed, kidnapped and looted with impunity, adding their own reign of terror to those maintained by the Russian army and the rebel groups.
North Korea's July 4 missile tests and Hezbollah's Iranian-supplied rocket reign of terror against Israel underscore why the U.S. must quickly ramp up its missile defense efforts.
The trouble is that we and our sometimes fractious African allies in any effort to end Kony's reign-of-terror may or may not be able rapidly to achieve the stated goal, or at least do so with so few American troops.
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With its international cachet and relative military might, the ANC could put an end to Robert Mugabe's reign of terror in Zimbabwe if it desired.
Senior clergymen removed Smyth from some priestly duties and recommended psychiatric treatment, but critics have said the failure to notify police at the time allowed Smyth to carry out a further 18-year reign of terror against children before he was finally arrested.
In a reign of terror Sankoh's rebels routinely raped women and chopped off the limbs of countless thousands of civilians--if they didn't kill them outright.
His thugs are visiting a reign of terror upon Kosovo province, where ethnic Albanians make up 90% of the population.
At the time of the coup earlier this month, Ranariddh was believed to be close to a peace accord with the last hard-liners from the disintegrating Khmer Rouge guerrilla army, which ruled Cambodia under its notorious leader Pol Pot in a reign of terror from 1975 to 1979.
Francisco Macias Nguema's reign of terror - from independence in 1968 until his overthrow in 1979 - prompted a third of the population to flee.
And that is because whenever the hard left has come to power, they have enforced their utopian vision of society by means of a reign of terror.
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