- That the U.S. military in Iraq had a policy, known as Frago 242, of essentially ignoring abuses, including torture, that were being carried out by Iraqi security forces.

For Rwanda, she added, the international community could show evenhandedness not only by continuing to bring the Hutu killers to justice but by not ignoring abuses committed by the Tutsi leaders.

The Clinton Administration hoped to make it clear that the days of the U.S. ignoring such abuses were over.

The government often ignores abuses against children and religious minorities, and government institutions and some Muslim groups have persecuted non-Muslims and used some laws as the legal basis for doing so.

Meanwhile, African leaders who once ignored Mugabe's corruption and human-rights abuses are starting to lose patience.

But to get changes in Egypt and elsewhere means a shift in American policy away from backing autocrats who do our bidding and ignoring abuses in their nations.

We all tend to ignore abuses directed at others.

A week before the coup, Amnesty International accused the government of ignoring serious abuses by the army, including death threats against peasant leaders and unexplained disappearances.

They also criticised the report's recommendations that the army and the attorney general carry out further investigation as these organisations had ignored "governmental abuses for decades".

Child Labor League has list of other corrupt government officials, paid by this factory or that to ignore abuses of Federation law.