Interview with Luis Moreno-Ocampo the ICC
This week's grassroots interview is with Luis Moreno-Ocampo, the first Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. Elected by the ratifying countries in April of this year, Mr. Moreno-Ocampo has tried criminal and human rights cases involving the extradition of a former Nazi officer from Argentina, political bribery, journalists' protection, and the military junta during Argentina's dictatorship and "dirty war." Moreno-Ocampo, an Argentine lawyer, has also been a visiting professor at Stanford University and Harvard University in the United States. Read the interview. .....
Thursday, August 21, 2003
Reparations Conference
Cape Town's Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane is to convene a two-day conference on reparations for apartheid survivors later this month. Full story in Business Day .....
Wednesday, August 20, 2003
One Chamber Annuls Argentine Amnesty Laws
Wednesday August 13, 2003 4:29 AM
By BILL CORMIER
Associated Press Writer
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) - Argentine lawmakers voted Tuesday to annul a pair of 1980s laws that ended the prosecution of human rights abuses stemming from the dictatorship era. The vote came hours after thousands of marchers demanded Congress repeal the amnesty laws. More... .....
Cape Argus - Polishing the gems of history
Nice review of a book about Sue Williamson's work. She is a politically involved artist who often works with South African historical material. Currently on at the Pretoria art museum is her exhibition "Colouring In" which juxtaposes pages from Afrikaans children's colouring-in books from the Boer war with newspaper clippings about the suffering of black women and children in 1970s.
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Tutu set to open Truth conference today
"South African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu arrives in Kenya this afternoon to open a two-day international conference on Truth Commissions and Political Transitions." Full story in the East African Standard .....
Thursday, August 14, 2003
Study of Bush's psyche touches a nerve
There's an article in the Guardian about a $1.2m study done by US psychologists on "Political Conservatism as Motivated Social Cognition" which apparently concludes that "conservatism can be explained psychologically as a set of neuroses rooted in fear and aggression, dogmatism and the intolerance of ambiguity" and that George Bush is a textbook case. Now I could have told them that for much less money. Seriously though - clearly there is something about the way Bush and those around him think that seems unpleasant and odd (and even insane) to more liberal-minded people. However, I have my doubts about turning it into a psychological pathology. I think Bush et al. do bad things for selfish reasons and then use dishonest intellectual tactics to justify their actions. I think they sometimes tell deliberate lies and sometimes they just delude themselves. But I don't think they are any more 'neurotic' than the rest of us... .....
When will WMD be found?
Was thinking: I bet the famous Weapons of Mass Destruction will astonishingly be found the week the Hutton Inquiry is to report on its findings regarding the death of Dr David Kelly, or am I just cynical, or do I really understand the spin machine? .....
US Prison Population now 2.2m
According to the Economist the prison population in the US grew by 2.6% in 2002 and is now 2.2million. One in ten black men aged between 25 and 29 are in jail in the US. Louisiana has the highest figure with 794 for every 100,000 residents being incarcerated. [Note to self: Seems like this is becoming an anti-American blog, this is not the plan....just seems to be a lot of what is sent to me these days, guess that says something]. .....
SA Won't Indemnify US Troops From ICC Prosecutions
BuaNews (Pretoria), July 24, 2003
Richard Mantu (Pretoria)
Cabinet says government will not enter into a bilateral agreement with the United States to indemnify US troops from prosecution by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Cabinet said this today during its mid-year Lekgotla, which started in Pretoria yesterday and is expected to end tomorrow. Cabinet said the South African government would communicate through appropriate channels with the US, and reiterated that Pretoria 'would not enter into such a bilateral agreement.' More... .....
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