Disclaimer: This comment might be disturbing for you, so feel free to skip it. Yes, I heard a lot of excuses, especially in Africa. But it never really matter

Disclaimer: This comment might be disturbing for you, so feel free to skip it. Yes, I heard a lot of excuses, especially in Africa. But it never really mattered to me in a way that I would have said to even a single one ok I let you go and you disappear and spend the rest of your life doing good to make up for what you did. Some things these people did are beyond what any normal person can imagine. If a 20 yrs old is in tears and tells you that he was high and ordered to do what he did three years ago and that he was a child soldier for most of his life, then it's just human to feel bad for what happened to him. No kid on the planet should go through that kind of hell. But if you make the decision to shoot a man in the stomach and let him bleed out, then behead his kid in front of his eyes and rape his wife in front of a dying man before cutting her throat because you claim you were ordered to do so, that is the end of a chain of bad decisions that you made in the past. I did not walk a single mile in his shoes, so I can't judge if I would have acted differently in his situation with a past like that and being drugged out and forced to do horrible things even before that. But if you make this decision then you also need to be aware of the consequences.