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...itself remains unconvinced that Ali Kushayb's arrest, or Sudan's prosecution of low-level officials in Darfur, is sincere. "No cases involving serious violations of international humanitarian law have been tried and therefore our case is still admissible and the arrest warrants must be executed," says Florence Olara, a spokeswoman in the ICC's prosecutor office...
...figures put the number of child soldiers at about 250,000, mostly in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Even for those who are no longer fighting, the future is bleak. "That is the stage we usually fail them," says Olara Otunnu, a friend of Beah's and a former undersecretary general to the U.N. "Child soldiers may be, for want of a better word, the most sexy category of children affected by war; but they are not the only ones." Sometimes families cannot be found or refuse to take the ex-soldiers in; sometimes they can't kick the drugs...
General Okello forged a firm alliance with Basilio Olara Okello, the brigade commander who led the coup. The two men are related but are both members of the Acholi tribe. It was the belief that Obote discriminated against the Acholis and favored officers from his own Lango tribe that helped spark the coup. The general's greatest challenge will be to win the backing of the National Resistance Army, a guerrilla group led by former Defense Minister Yoweri Musevni, which was at the forefront of the struggle against Obote. "Forming a military government without Musevni means it cannot last," says...
Last week around 2,000 mutinous Acholi troops, led by Northern Brigade Commander Bazilio Olara Okello, seized control of parts of the north and began moving southward. They surged across the White Nile and went on to overpower Obote loyalists at Bombo Barracks, 20 miles from the capital of Kampala. Finally, on Saturday, a column of about 20 tanks, jeeps and buses filled with heavily armed troops rolled into Kampala. Half an hour later, a voice interrupted programming on the state-run Radio Uganda to announce the "end of Obote's tribalistic rule." Obote had been charged with the killings...
...held the job for two five-year terms. And on each occasion, the People's Republic of China had blocked a Waldheim victory by exercising to veto power. Finally Waldheim appeared to give in. In a letter last week to the December Security Council President Olara Otunnu of Uganda, the Secretary-General wrote that "in order to facilitate he task of the council," he was withdrawing his name from the next round of balloting, which could take place next week. The next move seemed to depend on Waldheim's challenger on each of the previous ballots, Tanzanian Foreign...