LoL. ‘It’s just a little ol’ military crackdown! Nobody’s perfect! He said he was sorry!!’
You’re welcome to forgive him, but it’s still disqualifying. You don’t give someone a second chance to repeat their mistakes, when that mistake was an authoritarian military crackdown on the people they were charged with protecting.
Ah the classic alienate the other side of the population to further the divide. It's almost like these political escapades are by design to divide the nation.