The News Review:

- Election clashes in Sierra Leone
- War Crime Prosecutors Issue Call for Action
- Court convicts over child soldiers.(SIERRA LEONE)

Election clashes in Sierra Leone
BBC News – Sep 1, 2007
Police fired tear gas to break up the clashes, the latest in a series in the run up to the second round of voting. President Ahmad Tejan Kabbah had earlier threatened to impose a state of emergency if violence continued. The ruling party’s Solomon Berewa takes on opposition candidate Ernest Koroma in next Saturday’s run-off. Foreign observers, who praised the first round, appealed for calm before the final round.

War Crime Prosecutors Issue Call for Action
Washington Post – Sep 1, 2007
Taylor found Dutch foods such as smoked fish and croquettes distasteful and demanded "culturally specific foods. " After receiving permission to order ground nuts and cassava leaf products from a specialty grocery store, Rapp said, Taylor complained about having to prepare his own food. The costly Sierra Leone case has dragged on since 2002 because of delays demanded by the judges and has triggered a U. A sense of history and camaraderie reigned among the young prosecutors and their older Nuremberg peers. Crane recalled how, after three years in Sierra Leone, and still decompressing from the horror of atrocities, he asked Nuremberg veteran King what it took to cope with the pain…
A sense of history and camaraderie reigned among the young prosecutors and their older Nuremberg peers. Crane recalled how, after three years in Sierra Leone, and still decompressing from the horror of atrocities, he asked Nuremberg veteran King what it took to cope with the pain. "About a coupla glasses of Scotch" was the answer. With Nuremberg’s Grand Hotel serving it at 20 cents a shot, it was the cheapest remedy, said King, 88. In 1988, Moreno-Ocampo approached another Nuremberg prosecutor, Benjamin Ferencz, to help him understand a nagging mystery about the historic trials: Why try precisely 22 top Nazi officials in the first round of trials? "There were only 22 chairs in the Palace of Justice courtroom," Ferencz answered pragmatically, referring to the largest undamaged courthouse in.

Court convicts over child soldiers.(SIERRA LEONE)
Free with registration – New Internationalist – AccessMyLibrary.com – Sep 1, 2007
(SIERRA LEONE) –> COPYRIGHT 2007 New Internationalist Magazine In a ground-breaking move, the war crimes court for Sierra Leone has handed down the first-ever convictions by a UN-backed tribunal for the crime of recruiting and using child soldiers. Thousands of children were used by all sides during Sierra Leone’s brutal 11-year conflict, which ended in 2002.