KAMPALA, Uganda South Sudanan, which gained independence from Sudan last year after decades of civil war, has expelled a United Nations human rights officer after the government objected to a report raising allegations of atrocities by South Sudan's army.
It was precisely the play aspect of the trial that collapsed under the weight of the hair-raising atrocities.
Russian or Syrian warplanes have once again bombed a hospital in Aleppo, as President Bashar al-Assad vowed to "clean" the rebel-held east of Syria's largest city, raising fears of further atrocities.
I think there is a lot of good that will come out of it, that we have already seen from it, in raising awareness to the atrocities that are going on in the region".
After Green Day appeared on American Idol back in 2007 for Instant Karma (singing Lennon's "Working Class Hero") our web traffic spiked hugely, increasing our audience for human rights activism--as well as raising awareness about the atrocities in Darfur and supporting our work there.
He also raised the "intolerable" atrocities perpetrated by Boko Haram.
The 545-page report on 600 of the country's most serious reported atrocities raises the question of whether Rwanda could be found guilty of genocide against Hutu during the war in neighboring Congo, but says international courts would need to rule on individual cases.
"Otherwise, Southern Sudan will be left to fight itself out and winner take all," said Deng, who last summer undertook a 45-day hunger strike to raise awareness about atrocities against civilians in the world's newest country.
The columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has done some extraordinary journalistic work in recent years, like drawing back the veil on the atrocities in Darfur and raising the public's consciousness about human sex trafficking worldwide.
Place names evoke atrocity.
This programme was raising an exceptionally serious issue related to possible atrocities committed by the Turkish military on the civilian Kurds in the town of Cizre.
