http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Wed, 22 May 2013 14:48:07 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/#comments Wed, 20 Jun 2012 02:00:26 +0000 Emanuel Stoakes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25464 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 [...]]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/20/ending-syria%e2%80%99s-torment-what-needs-to-be-done/feed/ 16 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/06/charles-taylor-at-the-hague-david-lawley-wakelin-and-tony-blair%e2%80%99s-moral-decline-and-fall/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/06/charles-taylor-at-the-hague-david-lawley-wakelin-and-tony-blair%e2%80%99s-moral-decline-and-fall/#comments Wed, 06 Jun 2012 09:00:10 +0000 Emanuel Stoakes http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=24959 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.']]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/06/06/charles-taylor-at-the-hague-david-lawley-wakelin-and-tony-blair%e2%80%99s-moral-decline-and-fall/feed/ 30 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/26/charles-taylor-verdict-world-leaders-can-no-longer-hide-behind-secret-deals-and-handshakes/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/26/charles-taylor-verdict-world-leaders-can-no-longer-hide-behind-secret-deals-and-handshakes/#comments Thu, 26 Apr 2012 17:00:24 +0000 Paul Seils http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=23588 The conviction of former Liberian president Charles Taylor for crimes against humanity and war crimes committed in neighboring Sierra Leone finds both West African countries and the region grappling with his terrible legacy.]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/04/26/charles-taylor-verdict-world-leaders-can-no-longer-hide-behind-secret-deals-and-handshakes/feed/ 38