With Charles Taylor Conviction, Another Gain for International Justice
After a five year long trial, warlord-turned-president Charles Taylor was convicted yesterday of “aiding and abetting” a rebels notorious for their use of child soldiers and favor terror tactic, amputation, in the vicious 1991-2002 civil war in neighboring Sierra Leone in which an estimated 50,000 people died. The conviction is the first by an international tribunal of a former head of state since the Nuremberg trials of Nazi leaders, a development that was no doubt received with concern by the growing list of former leaders wanted for orchestrating atrocities ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
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5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
Somalia Dispatch: Famine Relief – A View from Mogadishu
Learning lessons from what did and did not work in the 2011 famine relief efforts in Somalia is a matter of urgent and immediate concern. A new field dispatch by the Enough Project illustrates how, on the most local level, deficiencies of the relief effort played out, based on research conducted in the Somali capital of Mogadishu ...
Field Report: Somalia Famine Relief: A View from Mogadishu
While the U.N. declared the famine in Somalia over in February, a third of the country's population still faces a food crisis. The Enough Project reports from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, where famine conditions were the greatest and most persistent ...
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Video Captures Wanted Sudanese War Criminal Inciting Soldiers to Commit Abuses
With 42 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity already alleged to his name, South Kordofan governor Ahmed Haroun was recently captured on camera inciting Sudan Armed Forces, or SAF, soldiers to commit war crimes in the ongoing hostilities with the rebel Sudanese People’s Liberation Army-North, or SPLA-North. A spokesman for the Sudanese government said Haroun’s remarks were “not interpreted correctly” and that the governor was “not ordering the soldiers to kill civilians but to kill rebels.” But even this attempt to rationalize Haroun’s comments does not absolve the South Kordofan governor of the allegation that he could be ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
5 Stories You Might Have Missed This Week
A weekly round-up of must-read stories, posted every Friday ...
ICC’s First Case Closes with Guilty Verdict for Congolese Rebel Leader
Concluding its first-ever trial, a panel of judges at the International Criminal Court issued a verdict in the case of Thomas Lubanga today, finding him guilty of recruiting child soldiers. After a three-year trial, it is a landmark decision not only because it tested out the 10-year-old court’s process from start to finish but because it placed the crime of recruiting child soldiers at the forefront of an international trial ...
