July 24, 2008 :: J.E. Robertson :: No Comment Yet
Radovan Karadzic, considered one of the three “most-wanted” men in Europe, has been captured in the Serbian capital, Belgrade. He is accused of war crimes for his role in allegedly planning the murder of 8,000 men and boys at Srebrenica and of 12,000 during the siege of Sarajevo, during the Balkan wars of the 1990s. His alleged crimes have been officially classed as genocide by the war crimes court at the Hague, and the accusations are the worst allegations of mass murder in Europe since World War II.
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July 16, 2008 :: J.E. Robertson :: No Comment Yet
The Hague human rights court’s prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, investigating allegations of war crimes and genocide in the western Sudanese region of Darfur, has recommended to the International Criminal Court it indict Sudan’s president Omar al-Bashir on charges of war crimes and genocide. Bashir would be the first serving head of state to be indicted by the court.
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March 17, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
A revolutionary web-based social networking project, Witness.org has created a platform for delivering evidentiary video documenting human rights abuses for the collective conscience of the online world. ‘The Hub’, as the video sharing platform is called, is designed to ensure that individuals who have documented potential human rights abuses, or who are able to give […]
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February 10, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
10 February :: Highest official yet from Khmer Rouge Cambodian regime, accused of murdering 1.7 million people in ideological purge 3 decades ago, stands trial, but tribunal is facing managerial crisis, related to allegations of mismanagement and lack of sustainable budget… Financial ministers from the “G7″ group of industrialized democracies have said the prosperity of […]
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February 7, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
7 February :: Bush spokesman says “waterboarding” is legal, may be authorized for use at any time, “under certain circumstances”; critics express disbelief, as two recent laws, Supreme Court ruling clearly bar use of abusive interrogation techniques; according to the LA Times “The technique has been traced to the Spanish Inquisition and has been the […]
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February 3, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
3 February :: Surge in violence in Chad appears to be coup attempt against Déby gov’t in N’Djamena; France has begun evacuating foreigners from Chad, in face of what could be severe violence between rebels, gov’t; rebel offensive comes just days before EU “humanitarian protection force” set to arrive in Chad… CSM reports “If President […]
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January 30, 2008 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
30 January :: US envoy to Kenya, visiting to evaluate tribal violence spreading across east African nation, says “clear ethnic cleansing” taking place in efforts to purge certain areas of Kikuyu tribe members, loyal to fellow Kikuyu, Pres. Mwai Kibaki, accused by opposition of rigging December elections… CSM reports on observers’ feeling that violence in […]
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December 23, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
The top ten most underreported humanitarian crises worldwide are, according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), “Displaced Fleeing War in Somalia Face Humanitarian Crisis; Political and Economic Turmoil Sparks Health-Care Crisis in Zimbabwe; Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis Spreads As New Drugs Go Untested; Expanded Use of Nutrient Dense Ready-to-Use Foods Crucial for Reducing Childhood Malnutrition; Civilians Increasingly Under […]
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October 15, 2007 :: admin :: One Comment
15 October :: Unfilled vacancies in top-level executive-branch positions in US gov’t startlingly common, leaving multi-billion-dollar agencies without leadership; interim appointees can serve for up to 210 days with full authority, while approval of nominees runs through Senate, 462 days remain in Bush term as of today; IHT quotes Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA), ranking Republican […]
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October 14, 2007 :: admin :: One Comment
Climate change is no longer controversial; it has been accepted as scientific fact by a global consensus of researchers and policy makers, including the Bush White House, which resisted acknowledging human activities were a vital contributing factor, until recently. Now the Nobel committee selecting the Peace Prize laureate has raised the issue of warming posing a major international security crisis.
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October 11, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
11 October :: China plans to relocate some 4 million additional people to curb ecological fallout from massive reservoir, “irrational development”, ecological collapse around Three Gorges Dam; move comes after top officials, engineers at site warned gov’t the project could lead to “environmental catastrophe”; ENN reports “Environmentalists have long criticized the project, saying silt trapped […]
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October 4, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
Sentido.tv :: Darfur, beset by years of bloody internecine violence, with the Khartoum-backed janjaweed militia killing civilians in numbers the US government has officially declared to be genocide, is still struggling to find a real beginning for peace. For years, human rights groups have pleaded with the international community to intervene, with or without the […]
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September 5, 2007 :: admin :: No Comment Yet
5 September :: Sudan gov’t announces it has successfully produced military-use drone aircraft and is seeking ballistic missile capabilities; the Khartoum-based gov’t of Pres. al-Bashir has said Sudan can now manufacture enough conventional weapons to be "self-sufficient" in defense-related production; observers say the announcement is disconcerting primarily because it is not clear against what perceived […]
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August 8, 2007 :: staff :: No Comment Yet
Arusha, Tanzania, played host last week to leaders from “more than 10 Darfur rebel groups”, as the groups held talks to work out common ground and a structure for negotiating peace with the Sudan government, in light of the coming deployment of 26,000 UN-mandated peacekeepers for Darfur. The conflict which began as an effort to stamp out regional differences and secure control for Khartoum has become a crisis of global interest and one which the United Nations now seeks to put an end to.
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