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Who Would Be Willing to Give Moammar Gadhafi Exile?

Few world leaders are rushing to Col. Moammar Gadhafi's aid right now, as coalition air strikes pound Libya and leave Gadhafi -- the world's longest-serving leader -- increasingly isolated. But is there any country out there willing to grant him refuge? That's one question the Libyan dictator may be asking himself as...

Opinion: The US Isn't Powerless In Libya

Moammar Gadhafi refuses to go down without a fight -- killing hundreds of civilians through indiscriminate firing from airplanes and helicopter gunships and by foreign mercenaries. In a vintage, rambling harangue on state television, Gadhafi today inveighed against the opposition as "greasy rats and cats" and sought to...

Sudan's President Accepts Southern Secession Vote

Sudan's beleaguered president, Omar al-Bashir, announced today that he accepts the results of a vote by his country's south to secede and form its own country -- a move that will ultimately diminish his power over roughly a third of Africa's largest nation. Almost 99 percent of voters in southern Sudan voted last month in...

Prosecutor: Top Kenya Officials Are War Criminals

(Dec. 15) -- The International Criminal Court's lead prosecutor said today he wants top Kenyan officials, including the country's deputy prime minister, charged with crimes against humanity for the bloody chaos that followed the 2007 election. The allegations include murder, persecution and rape committed during the...

Missing Pilot, Abducted Aid Worker Add to Darfur Woe

UNITED NATIONS (July 28) -- The unknown fates of an abducted American aid worker and a missing Russian pilot have heightened concern over the deteriorating security situation in Darfur, where hundreds of civilians are dying in conflicts that put humanitarian workers and U.N. peacekeepers at risk. "It is with grave concern...

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Joseph Kony Hunt: Caesar Acellam, Top LRA Commander, Captured, Says Uganda Official

A Ugandan army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army after a brief fight with rebels near the Congo-Central African Republic border.

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Daniel Philpott: Reconciliation 2012: A Local Response To Joseph Kony And The International Community

The internet video Kony 2012 has garnered more than 100 million hits and has motivated viewers to support the arrest and trial of one of the world's most monstrous war criminals, Uganda's Joseph Kony. For this, the video's creator, Invisible Children, merits acclaim.

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Lyric Hughes Hale: The Failure of the Arab Spring: Soft Power and Soft States

By now, tens of millions have seen the viral video about Joseph Kony , the leader of the Lords Resistance Army, but one has to wonder how much good this media attention will bring to the tragic lives of his Ugandan victims.

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Human Rights Watch: Central African Republic: LRA Attacks Escalate

The Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) rebel group has increased its attacks in the Central African Republic (CAR) since the beginning of 2012, putting civilians in affected areas in need of urgent protection, Human Rights Watch said today.

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A Political Trial at the ICC? Why, of Course!

I appreciate some Huffington Post readers might see such a case as perfectly reasonable, but also imagine for a moment that the witnesses on which the case rests have been sourced and then coached by members of the Conservative Party.

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05/25/12 Uganda row over LRA rebel amnesty Source: Kenya Broadcasting Corp (KBC) A senior commander in the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) should be granted amnesty just like other LRA fighters, his lawyer has told the BBC.
05/24/12 Ugandan Government Denies Accusations of Secret Oil... Source: Namibia News www.youtube.com , rosebellkagumire.com and rosebellkagumire.com Top 10 ways to tell Kony (video) is phony: www.4thmedia.org On the Kony Video: Again lost in this frenzy is what the actual people of Uganda think about the video. -
05/24/12 Kenyan cases: Appeals Chamber rejects appeals... Source: EmailWire William Samoei Ruto and Joshua Arap Sang and The Prosecutor v.
05/24/12 ICC 'not targeting African leaders' Source: News24 - South Africa The incoming chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has dismissed criticism that the court is biased against African states.
05/24/12 War crime accused 'use blackmail' Source: New Zealand City The incoming chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) says some countries are being blackmailed by suspected war criminals.

Background on International Criminal Court

The International Criminal Court (commonly referred to as the ICC or ICCt) is a permanent tribunal to prosecute individuals for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression (although it cannot, until at least 2017, exercise jurisdiction over the crime of aggression).

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