NY Times Today

Here's a short op-ed piece, written by Nicholas Kristof, who just returned from the Sudan-Chad border and speaks about his recent experience in Darfur. It's written for those who don't know too much about the conflict, but it's still interesting.

Trailing George Clooney

I was going to begin this column with a 13-year-old Chadian boy crippled by a bullet in his left knee, but my hunch is that you might be more interested in hearing about another person on the river bank beside the boy: George Clooney.

Mr. Clooney flew in with me to the little town of Dogdoré, along the border with Darfur, Sudan, to see how the region is faring six years after the Darfur genocide began. Mr. Clooney figured that since cameras follow him everywhere, he might as well redirect some of that spotlight to people who need it more.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/19/opinion/19kristof.html?th&emc=th

Interesting Article

The following article, from the NY Times today, discusses an upcoming NBC program that seeks to hunt down war criminals in the US. Contraversy exists regarding the ethicality of the lead journalist and the program is currently being criticized by leading human rights organizations, including Human Rights Watch. Interesting article...read below:

On Trail of War Criminals, NBC News Is Criticized
By BRIAN STELTER
Published: February 10, 2009

NBC News, which teamed up with local police officers to trap sex offenders for its successful but scandalous “To Catch a Predator” series, is now using similar tactics to hunt bigger game: war criminals.

But one of the first efforts, an investigation of a Maryland college professor on genocide charges, is already attracting criticism from federal officials months before the program would be broadcast.

.... http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/11/business/media/11network.html?hp

Leading Darfur Scholar on Bashir's Possible Indictment

This link connects to the recent Public Action Critique of the possible arrest warrant for President Bashir by the International Criminal Court. Written by Alex de Waal, a leading Darfur scholar and professor at Harvard University, the critique is dense, but addresses a great deal of very interesting issues surrounding the possible arrest of President Bashir.

If you're at all interested, check out the link: http://www.ssrc.org/blogs/darfur/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/bashir-public-application-critique-d6-250109.pdf

It gets more exciting after the first couple of pages!