How Many War Criminals Are Living In The U.S.?

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials

The War Criminal Next Door -- Foreign Policy

Why are there 1,000 suspected torturers and génocidaires in America right now?

The film Marathon Man is one of the great paranoid thrillers of the 1970s, infamous for the scene in which the Nazi dentist played by Lawrence Olivier drills through Dustin Hoffman's teeth into his live nerve below, repeatedly asking "Is it safe?" This is the stuff of Hollywood horror films, but another scene is more plausible: Olivier -- whose character is loosely based on S.S. doctor Josef Mengele -- ventures into New York's diamond district, where he is recognized by Holocaust survivors. One elderly woman, slowly at first and then with increasing hysteria, begins shouting at passers-by to stop him before he escapes.

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My Comment: The paragraph that caught my attention was the following one ....

Very few of these people have ever been brought to trial, especially when you look beyond the high-profile examples. Academics estimate that between 92 and 101 million people died in 313 conflicts since 1948. While the perpetrators of these deaths number in the hundreds of thousands, only 823 suspects have been indicted by internationalized tribunals and courts. Some of the rest have been brought to trial in their own countries, but many of them are still at large.

Sighhh .... these are very sobering statistics .... and the following question still begs to be answered .... why are there 1,000 suspected torturers and génocidaires in America right now?