Chiba Day

  By, Uwe Paschen. It is Chiba Day here in Narita, Chiba, Japan.  Tomorrow my wife will not have to go and teach in Narita and I have no field work due to much rain and flooding nor any meetings in Tokyo. In...

Angelina Jolie speaks out for the victims of Darfur

Angelina Jolie, a refugee advocate for the United Nations has asked, through her Time Magazine article, that the members of the United Nations Security Council bring Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the president of Sudan to...

BBC reports: Sri Lanka warned on 'war crimes'

More than 6,500 Tamil civilians were killed in three months and more than 20,000 wounded due to the indiscriminate multi-barrel artillery shelling, aerial bombings, chemical weapons used by the Sri Lankan armed...

An escape from hellhole - Survivors talk of the harrowing time

The breaching of the 3 km earthen bunt/ditch by the SL Security Forces has been the single most important landmark in their humanitarian operation to free the innocent Tamil civilians from the clutches of the...

Sri Lankan President Rajapakse needs, Hague ICC trial

Sixty years have gone since the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide was adopted by the UN. The International Community is being a silent observer while a genocide is perpetuated in...

Exposure: The Woman behind the Camera at Abu Ghraib

Following up on Mardtech's and mtippet's reports, here is the article from the New Yorker."And you could inflict pain. “You also had stress positions, and you escalated the stress positions,” Davis said....

The U.S. and Turkey: Honesty Is The Best Policy

The U.S. and Turkey: Honesty Is the Best Policy By Samantha Power Ninety-two years ago, the "Young Turk" regime ordered the executions of Armenian civic leaders and intellectuals, and Turkish soldiers and militia forced the Armenian population to march into the desert,...

Saddam Aides on Trial For Crimes Against Humanity in Shiite Deaths

As U.S. and coalition forces continue to find mass graves in Iraq, the appalling mass murders of civilians  is no longer one of the dirty secrets of executied dictator Sadam Hussein's regime.. Among the...

Saddamn

"In the Middle East conspiracy theory is an undercurrent of mainstream politics, as it is here in North America. In the case of Saddams execution there are those who don't believe he really died since he had many stand ins and doubles. My favorite theory though is this...

What CNN Won't Show You

"The Sunday talk news shows were full of reports of Saddam Hussiens death yesterday. But like CNN they praised themselves for restraint from showing his execution. An execution ordered by America. They just can't face the consequences of their actions. So for them here is...

Hope You Are Happy

"Iraqi TV says Saddam Hussein executed Pictures at 11."

Iraqi In-Justice

"Now if I understand this correctly Saddam Hussien was tried in an Iraqi court, under Iraqi laws, by an Iraqi Judge (or two or three), and found guilty and sentenced to die. And this is the same leagal system he used to judge his enemies and execute them. Hmm and this is a...

Saddam Hussein was found guilty of crimes against humanity on Sunday and sent...

Is Saddam really guilty of crimes in his own country? Let us know your opinion

From Israel To Lebanon

55 Civilians massacred including 27 children in a shelter (Early reports) Qana is the place where, according to the Fourth Gospel, Jesus performed his first miracle, the turning of a large quantity of water into wine at a wedding feast (John 2:1-11)

Milosevic Found Dead in His Cell

THE HAGUE, March 11 — Slobodan Milosevic, the former president of Yugoslavia and architect of a decade of war that took more than 250,000 lives and tore the Balkans apart, was found dead in his prison cell here...

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