The “Free Syrian Army” are hardly paragons of virtue in this dirty war
The narrative has, for months, been rather fixed: Bashar Al Assad’s army of brutal killers have committed massacres all over Syria in order to keep their dictator-master in power.
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook | Friday, 31 August 2012 at 2:00 pm
Britain should either acknowledge its many imperial crimes, or stop pretending to care
Three elderly Kenyan citizens, after several hard years of campaigning, are finally being seen by a judge in a British court over allegations that they were tortured by the UK over 60 years ago, in a truly shameful episode from this country’s late imperial history.
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook | Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 8:00 am
This conflict in the Holy Land must end – for the children’s sake
The enduring fact of the failure of peace in the so-called Holy Land is a royal spring of misery from which bitter tensions flow, with mournful consequences for the entire restive middle-east region, already strained by wars and rumours of wars.
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 9 July 2012 at 12:26 pm
Ending Syria’s torment: what needs to be done?
The bodies were no longer there. Nonetheless pieces of brain, pools of blood and other human remains indicated that a massacre had taken place in the village of Qubair in Syria’s brutalised Hama province. The victims likely included children, according to eyewitness reports. The outrage was preceded by acts of venality and civilian slaughter in [...]
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at 3:00 am
Charles Taylor at The Hague, David Lawley-Wakelin and Tony Blair’s ‘moral decline and fall’
Last week, Charles Taylor, the first former head of state to be convicted by an international tribunal since the judgement of high-level Nazis in Nuremberg, received a long-overdue conviction at the Hague for ‘aiding and abetting, as well as planning, some of the most heinous and brutal crimes recorded in human history.’
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 6 June 2012 at 10:00 am
Islam is not “the enemy” – irrational hatred is
In recent days, Wired magazine in the US reported that a military officer and lecturer in a US prestigious military college taught a class of “commanders, lieutenant colonels, captains and colonels” that a “total war” against Islam “would be necessary to protect America from Islamic terrorists.”
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 3:00 am
Britain’s craven silence over Bahrain stinks of hypocrisy
The recent Grand Prix in Bahrain drew the world’s attention, but hardly for reasons that will be pleasing to the ruling House of Khalifa or their embattled government in Manama. The highly-visible anger of protesters prior to the race, directed both at the regime and Formula One, reminded the world that Bahrain is still a country in crisis, a nation in which a large portion of its citizens are still calling for full civil rights.
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 30 April 2012 at 4:35 pm
The forgotten plight of the Bedouin in the Holy Land
The Bedouin of Israel and the occupied territories are easy to pick on. Self-identifying as neither Israeli nor Palestinian, not often considered as such by either community in return, their plight is less attention-grabbing, less politically-infused than that of other communities in the Holy Land. Accordingly, when their rights are apparently under assault, their suffering can easily disappear under the radar.
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion, The Foreign Desk | Thursday, 1 March 2012 at 12:00 am
Time for a reality check on the Sri Lankan civil war
Sri Lanka, much like Britain, has side-lined accountability long enough.
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, The Foreign Desk | Monday, 13 February 2012 at 12:24 pm
Horror in the land of blue and gold
The Kachin people of Burma are enduring a nightmarish situation obscured by news of the country’s reforms.
By Emanuel Stoakes | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 1 February 2012 at 11:15 am
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