The News Review:
- S Leone election chief steps down
- Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About…
- Cambodia: Toward Creating Norms of International Justice
- Funeral for soldier killed in Iraq
- Transport Ministry And Terrorist Planes – No Fake Excuses!
S Leone election chief steps down
BBC News – Sep 2, 2004
Mr Davies said the governing Sierra Leone People’s Party had tampered with the results of May’s local elections. Local Government Minister Sidikie Brima denied the charge. The polls were Sierra Leone’s first local elections for 30 years and came two years after the end of a brutal, decade-long civil war. The BBC’s Lansana Fofana in the capital, Freetown, says the elections were thought to have been largely free and fair. Mr Davies also complained that his monthly medical allowance was not enough to buy a single dose of malaria treatment.
Digital Chosunilbo (English Edition) : Daily News in English About…
ìììë – ìììë(ìëÃ) – Sep 2, 2004
Enselaco says the ruling against Augusto Pinochet sends a powerful message beyond Chile’s borders. Pinochet now joins the ranks of other former rulers being pursued for crimes against humanity, notably the former leaders of Yugoslavia, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Iraq. Ian Seiderman, legal adviser at the International Commission of Jurists in Geneva, attributes the more aggressive pursuit of war criminals to the growing political will to prosecute crimes against humanity, not just document them. “This prosecution and the whole international tribunal movement which the courts established for Yugoslavia and Rwanda and the international criminal court, are all signs that point out human rights abuses and dictators that they cannot just fade into the woodwork, that they will be pursued and prosecuted,” he said. Seiderman sees the tougher approach to war crimes evolving from an initial reluctance to interfere in what belatedly were revealed as ethnic-cleansing campaigns or massacres like the Cambodian killing fields, Rwanda massacres or Serb campaigns against minorities.
Cambodia: Toward Creating Norms of International Justice
Arab News – Sep 2, 2004
Most of the judges will be Cambodian, but there will be one UN-appointed judge and one UN appointed prosecutor. No conviction or acquittal is possible without their acquiescence. This is the least intrusive of all international setups in an era that has seen in quick succession the creation of UN war crimes tribunals for ex-Yugoslavia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone plus the establishment of a permanent International Criminal Court to deal with future war crimes. It would seem, despite the hostility of the Bush administration (and also the governments of Russia, China and India) to the ICC, that the overall world tide is flowing in the direction Martin Luther King said was inevitable. But there are an influential number of people who see it otherwise. In a recent issue of Harvard Universitys quarterly, International Security, Jack Snyder and Leslie Vinjamuri argue, justice does not lead, it follows. In other words the human rights activists who have fought for these courts have it backwards.
Funeral for soldier killed in Iraq
BBC News – Sep 2, 2004
His primary school headmaster, Hywell Sheryn alsopaid tribute to him. “He studied electrical engineering and worked for a cable company before joining the army aged 20 and serving in Northern Ireland, Kosovo, Sierra Leone,the Falklands, Cyprus and Iraq.
Transport Ministry And Terrorist Planes – No Fake Excuses!
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 2, 2004
Prince Alex Harding has hurriedly called a press conference to explain the circumstances under which Civil Aviation Officials two years ago fraudulently registered (under the Sierra Leonean flag) four mercenary planes operated by Paddy McKay, a dubious British national suspected of involvement in al-Qaeda activities. McKay paid Civil Aviation Officials US$5,000 for each of the airline registration certificates to start flights between Freetown and other destinations. None of the airlines flew in or out of Sierra Leone since they were registered two years ago. Sadly, they are now flying in Lebanon, Jordan and other Middle Eastern destinations where they are allegedly involved in money laundering, drug trafficking and.