Posted by GSerrano on December 26, 2009 ·
US President Barack Obama accepted his Nobel Peace Prize while ‘justifying the deployment of 30,000 more troops to the “graveyard of empires”.’ Obama’s acceptance speech was used as a rationale to deliver a ‘lengthy defense of the “just war” theory and dismiss the idea that nonviolence is capable of addressing the world’s [...]
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Saxena on November 5, 2009 ·
The Bosnian Serb leader, Radovan Karadzic, who has been in charged with multiple counts of crimes against humanity and genocide has finally been given a lawyer by the U.N. war crimes tribunal. Karadzic had opted to defend his case on his own, stating that, no lawyer can ever understand what exactly went inside Bosnia, during 1991 to 1995. The tribunal [...]
Posted by GSerrano on March 26, 2009 ·
After a year of independence, the government of the Republic of Kosovo has asked the UN Security Council to end the agency’s mission (UNMIK) that, since 1999, has been responsible for managing the Balkan territory on behalf of the international community.
Kosovo Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni said during the recent reunion of the UN’s highest [...]