The News Review:

- 2010 – The Challenges to Global Security: Edward N LUTTWAK
- A life left behind, a life that awaits her
- Ukrainian peace volunteer died in Kosovo
- NGO seeks protection of women, girls in African conflicts

2010 – The Challenges to Global Security: Edward N LUTTWAK
Jane's – May 28, 2005
In reality, affluent, low birth-rate societies simply do not tolerate casualties for any reason short of immediate self-defence. Hence we have the paradoxical ASDS conjunction of eager interventionism with a plain refusal to fight ­ except insofar as it can be done by remote bombardment with cruise missiles or exhaustively protected aircraft, whose pilots statistically fly in greater safety than the passengers of some third world airlines. In the meantime, it is Kosovo, yes, Sierra Leone, no, even though neither has any justification unless humanitarian, and the latter’s need for a UN protectorate is so much greater. But of course, there are no high-contrast targets in Sierra Leone…
Hence we have the paradoxical ASDS conjunction of eager interventionism with a plain refusal to fight ­ except insofar as it can be done by remote bombardment with cruise missiles or exhaustively protected aircraft, whose pilots statistically fly in greater safety than the passengers of some third world airlines. In the meantime, it is Kosovo, yes, Sierra Leone, no, even though neither has any justification unless humanitarian, and the latter’s need for a UN protectorate is so much greater. But of course, there are no high-contrast targets in Sierra Leone.

A life left behind, a life that awaits her
The Age – May 28, 2005
Anything over that makes life tolerable. Friends buy himmaterials that allow him to build model boats to relieve theboredom. Emmanuel Iherjirika, a 40-year-old man from Sierra Leone, didnot have enough money to pay for a reduced sentence when he wascaught with 350 grams of heroin. He is on death row, unlike theMexican man caught with more than 50 times that amount of cocainewho escaped with a life sentence. Australian yachtsman Chris Packer, 52, met Iherjirika when hewas in Kerobokan earlier this year after being arrested for havingundeclared firearms on his ship. Packer has been helping him financially but Iherjirika says thehardest thing is not having anyone to care for him. “If you get sick without someone to buy medicine, for sure youare going to die, because nobody care,” he says.

Ukrainian peace volunteer died in Kosovo
The Forum – ForUm – May 28, 2005
according Kiev time, the volunteer of “Ukrpolbat” joint peace battalion, Vladimir Nazarenko, died doing soldier’s duty. The reasons and circumstances is being investigated by special comission heading by leiutenant-colonel, Sergey Karnaushenko. Vladimir Nazarenko, 44, took part in the peace missions twice on the territory of former Yugoslavia and Sierra Leone, “Interfax-Ukraine” reported.

NGO seeks protection of women, girls in African conflicts
Panapress – Panapress (subscription) – May 28, 2005
In a statement to mark the International Day of Action forWomen’s Health, the NGO said the protection of women, girlsand children should be “the core of all conflict and postconflict interventions, and policies must be instituted toreduce gender-based sexual abuse of any kind during conflicts. “”Above all, perpetrators of conflict situation gender-basedsexual violence should be brought to face the law to serve asa deterrent to others,” SWAA’s Executive Director, Gifty Bakastressed in the statement. She enumerated the effects of conflicts and wars on women andgirls in African countries such as Rwanda, Sudan, Cote d’Ivoire,Liberia, Burundi, DR Congo and Sierra Leone, saying: “Coping withsexual assault, rape trauma and possible HIV infection is noteasy for victims of sexual abuse. She equally cited powerlessness and inability to negotiate safersex, inadequate access to female-controlled devices like thefemale condom, insufficient access to HIV prevention services,and obnoxious cultures as other causes. Baka lamented that “women are easily and regularly targeted asweapons of war for systematic abuse, especially sexual abuse,whenever and wherever there is war. “She suggested that counselling services and HIV testing, PMTCT(parent or mother to child transmission) services, HIV preventionoptions and anti-retroviral therapy be made accessible to alldisplaced communities, refugee camps and conflict areas to savethe lives of women and children, especially victims of sexualviolence.