Uganda’s LRA rebels may face home-grown tribunal
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- Uganda’s LRA rebels may face home-grown tribunal
- Which Past War Is Iraq?
- Toulouse brushed aside by Liverpool
- Zimbabwe: Muguti Hails Medical Labs
- Fund your future – Planning – Money – Business – Home – theage.com.au
Uganda’s LRA rebels may face home-grown tribunal
Christian Science Monitor – Aug 29, 2007
Page 1 of 2 Kampala, Uganda – Sunlight streams through the wide leaves of banana trees onto Betty Angee, who has lived at a desolate camp for displaced civilians in northern Uganda since fleeing from the notorious Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) rebels four years ago. Now she says she has the chance to go home. Last week, the Ugandan government announced that it is beginning public meetings on how to design a national tribunal that will try LRA members accused of committing war crimes. The proposed local courts may provide an alternative to extraditing members of the rebel army to face 33 International Criminal Court (ICC) indictments for war crimes and crimes against humanity. The LRA has refused to sign any peace deal with the government unless the charges from the ICC are dropped. Many Ugandan survivors of the war say local courts – similar to the ones created in Rwanda after their genocide – is not only necessary for peace, but would administer justice that would be acceptable to most Ugandans.
Which Past War Is Iraq?
Washington Post – Aug 29, 2007
No small cause for the inadequate — if not inept — management of postwar Iraq grew out of another earlier analogy. Some in the Bush administration thought of Iraq’s future in terms of Germany’s past, an allusion favored by then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. The best that could be said of that analogy — and the least that should have been known about post-Saddam Iraq — is that Iraq lacked the vital dimensions of Germany’s recovery after 1945: a national will to reinvent itself, a homogenous people and a home-grown leadership of unusual vision — as well as a geographic location in a region that had, on the whole, lost its taste for war. Absent these conditions, a more apt analogy for postwar Iraq should have been with post-1919 Germany (and Europe), embittered and bent upon revenge as opposed to post-1945 Germany, defeated and bent on redemption. However divided, angry, concerned and even fearful we may be in the United States over why we went to Iraq and why we are still there, it is all too clear that leaving will be hard, slow and dangerous. Withdrawal, not to be confused with retreat, can begin at once, and it probably will. But pointedly enough, all leading U.
Toulouse brushed aside by Liverpool
Telegraph.co.uk – Aug 29, 2007
“That was the most positive news for me. This squad is stronger than last year. ”This was the first time in 103 European games that Liverpool had taken to the field without either Steven Gerrard or Jamie Carragher, but they made light of the absence of their home-grown inspirations. Hyypia deputised ably for Carragher at the back, and took his second-half goal well. Sissoko charged about, spraying around some fine passes, his licence to create granted by Mascherano’s impressive diligence in deep midfield. When Sissoko was withdrawn midway through the second half, the midfielder was given a lengthy salute by the Kop. Lucas Leiva, newly arrived from Gremio, darted on to assist Mascherano… Benayoun swung the ball over, and Hyypia headed powerfully in. Liverpool finished in style. Kuyt exchanged passes with Ryan Babel and shot firmly home. Then Benayoun slipped the ball through the middle, and Kuyt lifted in his second. Anfield celebrated loudly, chanting “Toulouse, Toulouse”, a gesture of respect quickly reciprocated by the visiting contingent. Liverpool’s thoughts now turn to another spot on the French footballing landscape – Monaco. Another European adventure is under way.
Zimbabwe: Muguti Hails Medical Labs
AllAfrica.com – Aug 29, 2007
Speaking at the official opening of a workshop to strengthen medical laboratory policy held in Harare yesterday, the Deputy Minister of Health and Child Welfare, Dr Edwin Muguti, said medical laboratories and clinical scientists play a critical role in augmenting Government efforts to deliver quality health care services to the nation. "The fraternity of medical laboratories and clinical scientists must be applauded for playing a critical role in the diagnosis of diseases that has helped in the delivery of quality health care services to all Zimbabweans," he said. GA_googleFillSlot(”AllAfrica_Story_Inset”); The ministry, he said, endeavours to improve diagnosis and research in the medical fraternity with a view to developing home-grown solutions to health challenges facing Zimbabwe, especially those brought by HIV and Aids and traditional medicine. Dr Muguti said the Government recognises the role played by laboratory services hence the exercise to strengthen the services is a great step towards improving the delivery system. "Government strives to deliver quality health care as stated in the National Health Strategy, and laboratory services and its associates provide one such critical component as they are the people who run our clinical laboratories and undertake various tests," he added. Dr Muguti said his ministry was working with the Medical Council to equip laboratory personnel with relevant skills to support the health care delivery system. "Right now, there are some tests that we are not able to do and we want to fill this gap.
Fund your future – Planning – Money – Business – Home – theage.com.au
The Age – Aug 29, 2007
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