“These pardons violate U.S. obligations under international law and more broadly undermine humanitarian law and human rights at a global level.”
A group of United Nations experts on the use of mercenaries said Wednesday that President Donald Trump committed an “affront to justice” last week when he pardoned four former Blackwater security contractors for the war crimes they were convicted of in 2015.
The Working Group on the use of mercenaries, part of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), issued a statement accusing the U.S. government of violating its “obligations under international law” by pardoning Nicholas Slatten, Paul Slough, Evan Liberty, and Dustin Heard.
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The Camphill centre in Dún Síon is almost €2,000 better off this week thanks to three local men who managed to coax people into paying them to shave off their beards.
Diarmuid Mac a tSaoir, Thomas O Connor and Patrick Neylon never wanted the beards in the first place; they just grew by accident, or as Thomas admitted out of pure laziness .
However, the laziness was cast aside after Diarmuid came up with the idea of turning the long neglected shave into a fundraiser for Camphill and all three put their weight behind the effort.
Hairdresser Rebecca Hennessy carried out the public shearing outside Fitzgerald s hardware on Sunday afternoon and in a matter of minutes she excavated the faces of Diarmuid Mac a tSaoir, Thomas O Connor and Patrick Neylon from beneath their shaggy beards.