United Nations peacekeepers in eastern Congo. Photograph: Jerome Delay/AP by Annie Kelly, The Guardian, UK, Monday 16 February 2009 12.52 GMT UN peacekeeping forces are standing by while hundreds of civilians are killed and abducted and scores of villages are…
Sudan, Darfur rebels close to accord: rebel spokesman
by AFP, Feb. 14, 2009 DOHA (AFP) — Sudan and the Darfur rebel group Justice and Equality Movement are close to signing a “trust building and good intentions” draft document, the JEM spokesman said in Qatar on Saturday. “It will…
Former US President Jimmy Carter: “We Can Have Peace in the Holy Land: A Plan that Will Work”
by Amy Goodman, Democracy Now, Feb. 11, 2009 President Carter’s previous book, Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, generated a great deal of controversy here in the United States. Last year, he was removed from the speakers list at the Democratic National…
Afghanistan war unwinnable – retired Soviet general
Last Russian general warns US on Afghanistan By JIM HEINTZ – Feb. 13, 2009 MOSCOW (AP) — Twenty years after Red Army troops pulled out of Afghanistan, the last general to command them says the Soviets’ devastating experience is a…
Bagram Prison: Obama’s Guantanamo
Next flash point over terror detainees: Bagram prison by Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor, February 12, 2009 With Guantanamo set to close, more attention is falling on the US military facility in Afghanistan and those in custody there. At…
Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada calls for Omar Khadr’s release
According to a statement by Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada, issued Feb. 12, 2009, “Canada and the U.S. are duty bound to act immediately to ensure that Omar Khadr is released and repatriated, his rights are protected and violations of his…