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A case for intervention
By any reasonable measure, Mugabe has committed crimes against humanity justifying an international response
John Kraemer and Larry Gostin
Guardian.co.uk, Monday 5 January 2009

By any reasonable measure, Zimbabwe's president has committed crimes against humanity justifying an international response

If the Bush doctrine justified the use of armed force to prevent harm to westerners, then the Obama doctrine should be to use the force of international law to stop crimes against humanity or grave, man-made humanitarian disasters. No place cries out for intervention like Zimbabwe, where Robert Mugabe has been responsible for countless deaths and epidemic disease. His actions – particularly systematic violence against opponents and the deprivation of humanitarian aid – should be viewed as a crime against humanity, which would justify humanitarian intervention without the government's consent.

The UN Charter allows the security council to authorise force when a country poses a "threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression". Precedent exists for using this device to intervene in humanitarian emergencies. In 1992, the security council found that famine and deteriorating stability in Somalia posed a "threat to international peace and security" and sanctioned a US-led military force to restore peace and provide aid. Unfortunately, Russia and China have blocked security council sanctions against Zimbabwe.......More


 

 

 

 

 

 

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John Atta-Mills and the spirit of democracy

Commentary, Jan 5, Ghanadot - Politically, for long Ghanaians have been in some kind of indistinct bereavement for genuine democratic practices they sense they have lost somewhere – what was authentically Ghanaian traditional value where consensus and participation drive politics, a sacred Ghanaian stuff. ...
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  Remember your Promise-Ghanaians called on Mills

Accra, Jan 5, Ghanadot - Few days after Professor John Evans Atta Mills of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) successfully won the closely contested run-off to become the president of the Republic of Ghana, members of the general public have once again called on him to remember his promise of creating a better Ghana for all.
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Accra, Jan. 3,Ghanadot/ GNA – Professor John Evans Atta Mills of National Democratic Congress (NDC) was at exactly 1109 hours on Saturday January 3, 2008 declared the President-Elect of the Republic of Ghana.

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Mills: I accept the challenge; I'll be president for all

Accra, Jan. 3, Ghanadot/GNA – The President-Elect, Prof. John Evans Ata Mills on Saturday said he had accepted the challenge to be the President and gave the assurance that he would be the President for all Ghanaians.....More 

   
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