February 2023. United States During the War on Terror, the United States enacted the Military Commissions Act of 2006 in an attempt to regulate the legal procedures involving illegal combatants. Part of the act was an amendment which retroactively rewrote the War Crimes Act effectively making policy makers (i.e., politicians and military leaders) and those applying policy (i.e., CIA interrogators and U.S. soldiers) no longer subject to legal prosecution under U.S. law for acts defined as war crimes before the amendment was passed. Because of that, critics describe the MCA as an amnesty law for crimes committed in the War on Terror. Uruguay Uruguay granted the former military regime amnesty for the violations of human rights during their regime. See also Command responsibility Crime against humanity Criminal law International humanitarian law International law Pardon Transitional justice Transitional Justice Institute Universal jurisdiction War crimes References Clemency International law International criminal law Law of war War crimes Legal immunity