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Jonathan Miller
It’s been on the cards for months, now it’s official. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has said he will boycott next month’s Commonwealth summit in Sri Lanka over serious human rights concerns.
Alex Thomson
A first glimpse of some powerful footage from Syria should make us stop and think about the complexities of the war there.
The director of the only hospital still functioning in Misrata says “the world looks on. Like it’s a movie. Like it’s not real. But it is real. It’s been 70 days now.”
The endemic sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo is not an unreported story – but reporting itself cannot make the difference, as Lindsey Hilsum writes of new hope that the perpetrators could be caught.
Ban Ki-moon is dispatching the Assistant Secretary General in charge of Peacekeeping to Congo to find out why peacekeepers did not stop the rape of nearly 200 women in one of the most shocking incidents in the 15 year long civil war.
Jon Snow
Does anyone who was fifteen when he was at the height of his murderous powers, KNOW about Radovan Karadzic?
On 3 June 2005 I sat in the Channel 4 newsroom watching a video of six young Bosnian Muslim men being taunted and then murdered in cold blood by members of a Serb militia called the Scorpions in a village near Srebrenica ten years earlier. Their paramilitary tormentors sneered at their captives; they smoked cigarettes…
