05 November 2007

lawyers take the lead

NYT: lawyers protest emergency rule in cities around Pakistan;
Slate explains why they came out.

VF: the bunker, er, embassy, of Baghdad. only hypothetically defending diplomacy, since the fortress still can't convince foreign service officers to go.

New Vision (Uganda): interview with a former LRA leader
Chris Blattman comments here.

NYT: commentary on the misguided attempt to "save" "orphans" by taking them to Europe. as Chris Blattman writes, Polgreen points out the irony that "the current episode has a particular sting because Europe has been writing increasingly stringent rules to keep Africans from migrating there."

1 comment:

ps said...

Pakistan Army drawing down from its India border to re-deploy into Waziristan; institutional cohesion possibly cracking:
http://www.indianexpress.com/story/236583.html