Such henchmen they were!

Then let him call upon his henchmen!

Then let him call upon his henchmen!

I shall need at least a score of your henchmen, very rugged ones.

We urge the Assembly to consider the situation were Kony and his henchmen to be allowed to continue committing atrocities unchallenged.

'In case you owe one month, the landlord will come with his henchmen and bundle you out. He will confiscate your things,' Armstrong said.

Under his rule, 75 per cent of households had been run by widows and women, because most men had been killed mercilessly by Pol Pot's henchmen and zealous child soldiers.

And no one would blame them for taking their time to consider their options. This is, after all, the court s first test of fairness before the trials of Duch and four of Pol Pot s other henchmen begin next year.

In recent nights, the junta s henchmen have burst into monasteries, lined up sleepy monks, and smashed their shaved heads against the walls, spattering them with blood. Scores of others, perhaps hundreds, have been carted off for interrogation, torture, or execution.

Since last year it has been enlisting people with historic knowledge and understanding of totalitarian regimes to help guide its response to events in Belarus. This advice helped shape the parliament s strong stance against maintaining unnecessary economic engagement with Lukashenka and his henchmen.

The international community s shameful acceptance of impunity for Assad and his henchmen is a blot on the conscience of the world. Western leaders dithering, and the callous, cynical, and cavalier support of Russia and China for Assad, is a stigma that they will bear forever.

How easily this ideal could be corrupted by distinctly ungentlemanly politics was already clear in 1936, when Coubertin s doddering speech about peace and fair play was played over the loudspeakers of the Olympic Stadium in Berlin, while Hitler and his henchmen raised their arms to salute the Nazi flag.

The Nuremberg Trials of the German war criminals after World War II marked the first important change in the world s understanding of the concept of sovereignty. For the first time, an entire state leadership was put on trial for its crimes, as its representatives and henchmen were brought to justice.

In the absence of concerted international action, the US and Europe have largely weighed in with vocal condemnation of the party committing the overwhelming number of human rights violations Assad and his henchmen. They have also highlighted the loss of life in an effort to shame Russia into adopting a more amenable position.

Those demands were mostly uncontroversial for Egypt s revolutionaries, including Islamists the release of political prisoners a halt to military tribunals for civilians prosecution of the murderers of protesters (many of whom are senior police officers) a purge of corrupt Mubarak allies from the police force and a public trial for Mubarak and his regime s top henchmen.