The inhumanity which this trail has been witness to, the heartbreak and suffering which so many have undergone, cannot be imagined. They certainly cannot be described.

It is prompted by the inhumanity of the penalty and the statistical proof that its application has not succeeded in reducing the frequency or seriousness of crimes.

We see that as the only way for the United Nations to block all forces of violence and inhumanity by means of a strong and just world order.

It was a form of slavery. Thanks to democracy, social struggle, and workers unions, together with the political efforts of social democracy, the inhumanity of the system was partly softened.

Indeed, to continue to fail the world s at risk children is to deliver a verdict of wanton inhumanity against ourselves, for we are a knowing party to an entirely preventable mass destruction of human life.

Not since the end of World War I have Arab countries undergone such a momentous upheaval. Conflict has broken out in no fewer than nine Arab countries, and the carnage has reached unimaginable levels of inhumanity.

207. The inhumanity of members of the new army is revealed by their treatment of the wife of missing prisoner Matungulu Bareke she was attacked four times in Kibuma to make her stop looking for him.

Ours is a time characterized, as never before, by the parallel existence of unbounded wealth and unrelievable poverty, of major scientific breakthroughs and pervasive illiteracy, of overwhelming gestures of kindness and charity and of atrocious acts of wickedness and inhumanity.

It brought us face to face with the full extent of man's capacity for inhumanity to his fellow man. It revealed the potential to pervert technology, philosophy, culture and ideology to commit acts on an unimaginable scale and with an unthinkable degree of cruelty.

The hunger for a fairer, better peace was powerful indeed. The enormity of the inhumanity visited upon individuals and whole communities during that war demanded a response. New Zealand was one of a number of nations that sought to maximize the potential of this moment.

If we intend to abolish the gallows, we should also fight for the prevention of crime and against the inhumanity of many prisons. After all, what is the point of suggesting imprisonment as an alternative to electrocution, if inmates are subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment?

Mr. Insanally (Guyana) In the aftermath of the Second World War, the peoples of the world determined that they would tolerate no more man s cruel inhumanity to man. Accordingly, when their representatives met in San Francisco to create the United Nations, they resolved, in the Charter,

4. While man s inhumanity to man continues to manifest itself in the form of genocide, ethnic cleansing, increasingly complex problems of internal conflicts and massive forced displacement of populations, notable progress is being made in the framework of the United Nations to address these problems and their root causes.

How can we ignore that a high number of inmates commit suicide self inflicted capital punishment to escape the inhumanity of their imprisonment? How can we ignore that many states today kill not only through legal punishment, but also by murdering and massacring in international or civil wars, or by allowing starvation?

In time, every government will come to accept the basic inhumanity of threatening to obliterate entire cities with nuclear weapons. They will work to achieve a world in which such weapons are no more where the rule of law, not the rule of force, reigns supreme, and cooperation is seen as the best guarantor of international peace.

The twentieth century has exhibited unprecedented outbursts of inhumanity. But it has also planted the seeds for greater human solidarity to come. Chief among them is the United Nations. Let us nourish this unique and precious expression of what unites us, and by virtue of enacting a self fulfilling prophecy, the nations of the world will become ever more united.

So I take some comfort this Christmas in knowing that the godlessness, inhumanity, and criminality of the regime that is now ruling in Kyiv is, at long last, being exposed to the world in a clear light. Its democratic posturing has been unmasked as cynical political theater, its claim to desire a European future for Ukraine s people revealed to be a lie, and the rapaciousness of its kleptocrats has been laid bare.