Ixil Mayas, she said, can teach other oppressed groups around the world to stand by their rights and not to rest until tyrants are punished by law.

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Can I ask you about the International Criminal Court point - again that I was talking with Liam Fox about - because Labour was a great supporter of all of that, the idea of international justice and drag the tyrants to court and convict them.

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Mr Blair believes, as does this newspaper, that on balance it is worth fighting a war to rid the world of one of its most dangerous tyrants.

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Bridas sued the California oil giant for stealing its idea. (Bridas lost.) Unocal mixed it up with tyrants, too, flying a delegation of Taliban officials to its engineering headquarters in Houston, with a side trip to the NASA Space Center.

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The picture that emerges of her in the troubled 1930s and 1940s is of a divided personality, loyal to her husband's country but disturbed by a Europe run by tyrants.

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