Actually, Nick Kristof, this is a damn good point.
One more thing on this “Nick Kristof named a 9-year-old rape victim!” controversy. In my, “Thanks for your time in the middle of Congo,…
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When can you name rape victims? Nick Kristof replies
This is the first of a two posts about this. Mostly because I wrote this, went to bed at 2 am, then I got…
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Truth Commissions: A Comprehensive Report
"…Okay, now tell me where he put his hands"
This is, unhappily, the sequel to my earlier taken-down on major media coverage of rape in conflict. Turns out I have a little bit…
Read MoreSeven rebels killed in DRC, or "Sometimes peacekeepers do shoot people."
In catching up on events that happened in the world while I was traveling from one part of it to another, I hit a…
Read MoreYou don't get to be 15 years on the lam from genocide charges without being clever…
Here’s an update on the FDLR web page story, a short online piece for the Christian Science Monitor.
Read MoreGermany to FDLR: "Page not found"
It’s not like the FDLR web page was any big secret. The Hutu militia still active in eastern Congo, and viewed by most as…
Read MoreMaybe if I took Anna Wintour to Congo for a Vogue cover shoot, I could get my expenses covered?
The New York Post says today: According to sources, Wintour’s European entourage, which is usually about 10 people including her creative director, fashion director,…
Read MoreEt cetera, and some good reading
The list of things to blog about is long, but time has been short lately, and this blog, if I would let it, would…
Read MoreHow do you get from a dusty refugee camp to Atlanta, anyway?
This year, the Christian Science Monitor has been following Bill Clinton Hadam and his family, as LBC–“Little Bill Clinton,” as the series and the…
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