OCU:
Do you have some special definition of the word, 'amnesty', that you think is meaningful to the issue?
amnesty:
1. a general pardon for offenses, especially political offenses, against a government, often granted before any trial or conviction.
2. Law. an act of forgiveness for past offenses, especially to a class of persons as a whole.
3. a forgetting or overlooking of any past offense.