Charles Taylor verdict serves as warning to war-time leaders, says UNICEF NEW YORK/GENEVA, 26 April 2012 – The verdict against former Liberian President Charles Taylor by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone is a victory for children recruited and used in war and will serve as a warning to other war-time leaders and warlords, UNICEF said today.
Charles Taylor verdict serves as warning to war-time leaders, says UNICEF NEW YORK/GENEVA, 26 April 2012 – The verdict against former Liberian President Charles Taylor by the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone is a victory for children recruited and used in war and will serve as a warning to other war-time leaders.
Moreno-Ocampo is holding a press conference on Thursday and will no doubt tell us that Lubanga's conviction will send out a warning to other war criminals.
The Congo debate began today with a blunt warning to the warring parties by Secretary General Kofi Annan, who said that if it was taking a long time to get a peacekeeping operation on the ground it was because nations in the region had yet to demonstrate that they really wanted to end the war.
Also: Ossietzky was warning about a war to come, rather than the untruths of one well underway.
The Pentagon's top uniformed official has given one of the clearest signals yet of the reluctance of the Obama administration to intervene militarily in the Syrian civil war, warning that to do so would cost billions of dollars annually and possibly backfire against US interests.
The resolution includes a warning to all the warring parties in Syria that evidence of non-compliance will trigger measures under Chapter Seven of the UN Charter, which could, but does not necessarily, include force, our correspondent notes.
In Africa, the treatment of school girls and kidnapping of women often serves as a precursor or early warning to coming civil wars and other situations of massive instability.
Rupert Murdoch's Sun damned those warning against war as "anti-American propagandists of the fascist left".
"If we give up now, then we forsake a better future," he said, warning of war, the rise of racism and the loss of voting rights.
There are many Biblical passages warning against war, such as the famous Matthew 5 9: "Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called Children of God".
