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...Wednesday, the court convicted two surviving RUF leaders, Issa Hassan Sesay and Morris Kallon, of 16 out of 18 counts of war crimes, and a third commander, Augustine Gbao, of 14 counts. The charges included "acts of terrorism" against the civilian population, the use of forced marriage and, for Sesay and Kallon, the use of child soldiers...
...intensity of this crisis brings back to the forefront the biggest issue in Bangladesh in recent years: the role of the army in a democratically elected civilian government. Aside from pay, the jawans' biggest grievance is the practice of deputizing army officers to command units of the paramilitary border guards. The jawans want all such officers to be withdrawn. At one point, the mutineers threw a piece of paper outside the gates to the waiting journalists that read, "We've taken up arms today because we've been repressed by army officers for long...
...instability after the country's two main opposition leaders were barred from elected office. The controversial ruling from the Supreme Court has sparked violent and angry protests against the government of President Asif Ali Zardari in Punjab, the largest and wealthiest province of the country. Just as Pakistan's civilian leadership most needs to unite to tame militants, the country's two main political parties have revived their poisonous rivalry, setting off on a potentially destructive confrontation with each other...
...raised the political temperature with a fiery attack on Zardari. "The nation should rise against this unconstitutional decision and this villainous act of Zardari," he said, his face swollen with rage. In a sign that the country was returning to the politics of the 1990s - a period when four civilian governments collapsed in the span of a decade - the former Prime Minister resurrected accusations of corruption. "Where are those millions of dollars?" Sharif asked in reference to allegations that Zardari salted away the spoils of power during the two times his late wife was in office. "The Pakistani people...
...Zone, is really a secure place. There are still blast walls and precautions and nerves, though of course 6½ million people live here, as they must. Maybe the numbers speak for themselves. On Feb. 19, 2008, Iraqi Body Count, one of the several contentious projects to record violent civilian deaths, reported 37 dead. On the same date a year later, as I arrived, it reported 9 dead, plus 17 bodies discovered in a mass grave for a total of 26. Amid whatever change has come, or is coming, these were the numbered dead...