That's the ugliest snowman I've ever seen.

Because in reality it was even uglier than the first version.

Brutal as they sound, worse is likely to come.

My friends and I were planning on gathering the sweets that were sailing towards us, and making a small house out of them to take revenge for our tents.

It took a worse catastrophe, a world historical scourge, to teach these people a lesson.

Violence against women is a serious infringement of human rights and constitutes one of the most flagrant manifestations of the feminization of poverty.

Nowhere is this trend more damaging than in today s mercantile approach to art.

We appear to live in a time that has witnessed the absolute failure of the grand Enlightenment dreams of linear progress, universal peace, and equality between rich and poor.

We must fight Islamic extremism, but not by tapping into the darkest gut feelings of the unthinking mob.

We have heard many such stories in recent days. Brutal as they sound, worse is likely to come.

Last week's despicable attacks in London were the most horrendous reminder of the urgency of finding global solutions to global threats.

Simultaneous revolutions swept Europe in 1848, in the aftermath of crop failures whose most notorious manifestation was the Irish famine.

He said that there could be no doubt that the methods used to kill whales were inhumane he even described them as most horrible.

At this critical moment in the history of our Organization, we welcome the fact that Member States have agreed that we share a responsibility to protect populations from the most horrific of crimes.

The reports mention how common it is for a woman to be raped by groups of up to 20 men or in front of her family, and have to endure the most appalling acts of barbarity and torture.

There has been no real trial, no truth commission, and no official acknowledgement of one of the most heinous crimes in human history.

On the sixtieth anniversary of the end of the most horrific war in human history, we are looking back at what happened between September 1939 and May 1945.

Occupation was one of the most repugnant breaches of human rights. Israel was continuing to occupy the West Bank and denying the Palestinians the right to self determination and political independence.

Most appalling was the army s murder of thousands of innocent civilians in order to present the deaths as FARC casualties.

During long months, the country has lived in a situation bordering on chaos, in which armed bands have held many of the capital's neighbourhoods hostage and committed the worst atrocities.

Over the next three years, the aptly named Extraordinary Chambers will seek to produce a measure of legal accountability for one of the worst genocides of the twentieth century.

It is a transgression of the most egregious kind when United Nations staff and related personnel themselves sexually exploit or abuse members of the population they have come to protect and serve.

Now, however, we have the opportunity to ensure that the perpetrators of the worst atrocities no longer benefit from impunity, to deter future perpetrators, and to build a culture of accountability.

It took a worse catastrophe, a world historical scourge, to teach these people a lesson. Let us hope that Americans learn their lesson about the dangers and follies of imperial hubris sooner.

Do you think I can put in my will that permits should be issued for my friends in Ramallah to come and say farewell to my coffin? What a horrible idea a permit being issued by the occupation authorities in order for my friends to see me when I m dead!

The ICTY and the ICTR should be seen as successful examples of the commitment of the United Nations to ensuring that those responsible for the most heinous crimes, which offend the very essence of human dignity, answer for them in public trials.

A comparison is not an argument. And the meaning of a slogan does not reside entirely in its genealogy.

Some of the worst abuses have surfaced in Texas, America's death penalty capital and home to more prisoners than Germany, France, Belgium, and the Netherlands combined. When George W. Bush was governor, a federal judge ruled that the state's entire penal system was pervaded by a culture of sadistic and malicious violence.

Victory was achieved through the efforts of the peoples of many countries, and today this commemorative day is broadly observed by all peoples who have lived through the hell of war and who have suffered the most horrid ordeals and deprivations caused military frenzy.

Had it been possible to bring some of the offenders to justice? Did the world care to remember what had happened in the worst atrocity to be committed in Europe since 1945?

But there may be a lesson from a country whose wartime rulers, quarrelling among themselves, inflicted unimaginable harm on their people and to the world with their mendacious, secretive, and paranoid style.

The Mauritanian army perpetrated a genocide in Inal, in northern Mauritania, where 28 black soldiers were executed without trial and not even a clear accusation. They were also subject that night to the ugliest forms of torture.

Small arms and dual use instruments such as machetes in the hands of undemocratic regimes and insurgent non State actors have been responsible for some of the most gross human rights violations, genocides, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Africa.

Is it because it is more difficult to emerge from a totalitarian regime than from an authoritarian one? Is it because Spain has had 20 more years to be vaccinated by the EU against the temptations of nationalism?

He detailed on his blog how this made him pity even Syria's embattled President Bashar Assad, whose forces are regularly accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity

But is there really a clear moral distinction between killing roughly 100,000 people in Hiroshima with one atom bomb and killing even more people in Tokyo in a single night of incendiary bombing? Was it more immoral to gas Jews than to machine gun them into open pits?