That's not a reason to disgrace himself.

However, appeals alone are no longer sufficient.

You must beg the White Sahib's pardon.

I can see nothing...

A plea was repeatedly made for prison personnel to be more representative of the South African population.

No prisoner is eligible for pardon until he's served 90 days.

The appeals of the territorial Government for assistance from the United States State Department had gone unanswered.

One wonders if the relatives of those murdered at My Lai are more ready to forgive Calley than the relatives of those killed at Lockerbie are to forgive Megrahi.

Mr. Gusmao has the right to appeal to a higher court or to make a request for clemency.

The cut off date for amnesty for political offences was 5 December 1993.

Today he is writing, drafting the legislation for an amnesty to forgive the security forces that wanted to kill him.

(m) Supreme Decree 015 93 JUS (8 May 1993) approves the regulations of the law on reformed criminals.

29. For their part, Member States have responded positively to my appeals for the provision of personnel at relatively short notice.

Condemned persons could appeal for clemency and such requests were sent to the Presidential Pardon Commission for review.

Most of those imprisoned have since been pardoned and released in accordance with the amnesty declared by the Head of State.

Although the Secretary General has made repeated appeals for volunteers from these secretariats, the responses have not always brought about the results expected.

Perhaps we should defuse the threats posed by a surveillance society by having an annual day of amnesty.

The Authority also receives regular appeals following their publications, in various matters, triggering women to approach them with complaints.

2.2 In March 1985, the author submitted a petition to the Trinidadian Advisory Council for Pardons he did not receive a reply.

The Moroccan authorities continued to violate human rights in Western Sahara despite appeals by international human rights organizations such as Amnesty International and the World Organisation against Torture.

And finally, I cannot fail to note the decision of President Milosevic of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia to respond to the appeals of the international community to close its border with Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Similarly, amnesty would not be a bar to investigation before the international judicial commission of inquiry because of the limited material scope of the amnesty, and the legal basis of the commission.

It also stated its rejection of the blanket amnesty proposed by the Government, which, in Inyandza apos s opinion, was devised to protect the murderers of political activists opposed to the Government of South Africa.

That Commission has been given the task of formulating and recommending, after consultations with concerned sectors of the society, a viable general amnesty programme and peace process that will lead to a just, comprehensive and lasting peace.

The armed conflict on the Afghan Tajik border on which I have recently reported to the Security Council (S 26311), and which has been the subject of appeals by me to the concerned parties for restraint and the cessation of armed activities, has added a further complication to the problems of the country.

The amnesty that followed in September 1992 had by and large no practical effect on these people since prosecutors were empowered to keep their cases in the procedure by lodging a complaint, which most of them did.

We could make a very long list, but obviously Nelson Mandela, emerging from 17 years of hard physical labor, 23 years of imprisonment, with this amazing ability to forgive, so that he could lead his nation out the evil regime of apartheid without a bloodbath.

Perhaps we should defuse the threats posed by a surveillance society by having an annual day of amnesty. On Amnesty Day not a state holiday, to be sure we would reveal to our loved ones, constituents, or employers the secrets that we think put us at risk.