Never once during a decade of civil war has a military officer been held criminally accountable for human rights crimes.

"It played a very important role in raising international consciousness about the wrongness of human rights crimes," she says.

Colombia's constitutional court ruled last year that military courts may not judge soldiers accused of human rights crimes.

It was perhaps the first multinational attempt to end a human rights crime.

The failure to acknowledge this trivializes a human rights crime of enormous magnitude.

Not a single Salvadoran officer has ever been held accountable for human rights crimes.

Both sides were guilty of human rights crimes.

The assembly also adopted descriptions of the human rights crimes to be prosecuted.

A blockade would have meant the international community losing credibility in the fight against human rights crimes.

His regime provided an amnesty - still shakily in force - for human rights crimes committed before 1978.