08 Aug Weekday News Wrap: Wednesday, August 8, 2012
08.08.12
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- Oxfam reports that hundreds are being raped and killed in Eastern Congo as the army’s deployment to fight rebels has created a security vacuum.
- The International Criminal Court announced its decision on providing reparations to victims in the case of Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. IntLawGrrls offers two posts (here and here) with commentary about the decision.
- Foreign Policy offers more insight into the Chinese fishermen captured by Sri Lanka.
- Uganda’s air force has been deployed to pursue al-Qaeda linked militants in Somalia.
- Now a total of eight Olympic athletes from Cameroon have disappeared from the Olympic Games and many speculate that they’ve done so in order to claim asylum in Great Britain or elsewhere in the European Union.
- The Public International Law and Policy Group has released a policy memorandum citing the doctrine of the Responsibility to Protect to lay out the legal basis for humanitarian intervention options in Syria.
- Reuters offers an insight about Syrian rebels expecting to run into trouble with foreign rebel fighters in the future, with one rebel commander stating: “Let me be clear. I am an Islamist, my fighters are Islamists. But there is more than one type of Islamist,” and outlining that different allied groups may want different things after the regime of Al-Assad.
- Over at Arms Control Blog, there is a post analyzing whether the US or Israel can legally attack Iran’s nuclear facilities using the grounds of anticipatory self-defense.
- The Leiden Law Blog features more food-for-thought about Yale’s new PhD in law program, a topic about which Kevin recently blogged here.
- Egypt has launched air raids on islamist militants in Sinai, as revenge for the killing of Egyptian border agents over the weekend.
- The US is calling upon Bangladesh not to cut off NGOs that want to provide humanitarian aid to the Rohingya population fleeing ethnic violence in Myanmar.
- China has further restricted production of rare earths; a step that may further stoke tensions with the US and the EU.
- Belarus has pulled its embassy staff from Sweden over the dropping of teddy bears bearing pro-democracy messages in early July.
- According to documents unsealed on Tuesday, Academi, formerly known as Blackwater, has agreed in a ‘deferred prosecution agreement’ to pay a $7.5m fine for arms exporting and trafficking violations.
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