Tag Archives : The Hague

Dick Cheney admits being a supporter of the near-drowning torture technique called waterboarding, even if the US generally regards its use as a war crime. Robert Parry, author of a new book entitled Secrecy & Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to Iraq, writes in AlterNet, “Cheney was unrepentant about his support for the technique. [...]

Project Censored whose mission is to “teach students and the public about the role of a free press in a free society” comes up with its Top 25 Censored Stories for 2009/2010. For reasons exclusively known to them, mainstream media censored or downplayed these significant pieces of news. Here are some of them. You are free to form your own opinion [...]

In Sudan, warlordism makes for uniquely legitimate military infrastructure. The Islamist government in Khartoum is headed by one General Omar al-Bashir, Sudan’s chief warlord, who, in spite of an arrest warrant issued against him by the International Criminal Court in The Hague for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, continues to ignore [...]

During a speech in Zalengi in western Darfur, Sudan President and ICC-indicted Omar al-Bashir said that he welcomes the support of the Arab League and African Union. “We found a very strong position in regional organizations such as the Arab League and the AU,” he said, referring to the rejection of these organizations of his arrest warrant for [...]

The arrest warrant issued against Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir for crimes against humanity by the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague has created a wave of adverse reaction. The Arab League rejects the arrest. al-Bashir haughtily ignores it, even responding to it by kicking out humanitarian groups from Darfur, and predictably calling [...]

In response to the U.S. request for assistance, the countries that comprise the European Gendarmerie Force have reached an agreement to send members of the European police force to Afghanistan to train the Afghan police. The idea of sending an initial batch of 150 police personnel is being weighed. The general goal is to eventually deploy from 300 [...]

The U.S. State Department asserts that Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir will be responsible for every death that will occur after the Khartoum government kicked out foreign aid groups this month. U.S. diplomats reported that conditions are worsening in the refugee camps that have been accommodating thousands of displaced people from the Darfur region. [...]

US President Barack Obama is dissatisfied with the administration of Hamid Karzai, President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. The United States and its European allies want to appoint a prime minister to dilute some of Karzai’s singular power. They also believe that resources devoted to this country in the future should be channeled through [...]

The IDF opened an investigation after Israeli soldiers confessed to the murders committed during Operation ‘Cast Lead,’ the 22-day military operation in the Gaza Strip. The testimonies of several Israeli soldiers who claim that they killed civilians and committed acts of vandalism in Gaza have given rise to a wave of criticism that forced the army [...]

Omar al-Bashir apparently enjoys tremendous popular support from his countrymen. Of course, these do not logically include the three Darfuri tribes that he performed ethnic cleansing on and wants to obliterate off the face of the earth. al-Bashir’s ethnic cleansing campaign targeted the Fur, Massaleet, and Zagawa tribes in the Darfur region. After [...]