... there is evidence of complicity at the highest levels of government, blame will find its lowest plausible level. For instance, when the news of abuse or atrocity hits the front page, leaders faced with managing the blame are likely to react in a self-interested and opportunistic way and seek to deny and evade...

...This chapter discusses the reparation for people's deaths. In the aftermath of genocide, there is no such thing as adequate repair or reparation. Genocide and mass atrocity cannot be undone. Debra Satz notes that victims cannot really be made to forget grave harms by compensation. She uses...

... for the abuse and the killing of civilians, arguing that politicians are likely to react in a self-interested and opportunistic way and seek to deny and evade accountability. Using empirical evidence from well-known cases of abuse and atrocity committed by the security forces of established, liberal democracies...