Gaza War, Benefit of a Doubt

"Suffering Continues", "Al Assad deserves Benefit of Doubt", syriaonline.sy

“I regret that our fact-finding mission did not have such evidence explaining the circumstances in which we said civilians in Gaza were targeted, because it probably would have influenced our findings about intentionality and war crimes.”

Richard Goldstone, South African justice, expressing second thoughts about a report on Israeli measures in the occupied Palestinian territory during the Gaza war from December 2008 to January 2009, submitted to the UN Human Rights Council on October 16, 2009.

In full in an article for the Washington Post, April 1, 2011: “Not as a Matter of Policy”

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Related
» Kadima disguised as a centrist party, Haaretz, April 4, 2011
» Hama Massacre, Wikipedia

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Chatting with Old Friends, hence Incommunicado

China Geeks have published an – incomplete –  list of Chinese nationals and visitors to China who have recently been arrested, detained, placed under house arrest, held in “mental institutions”, and people who are missing. The list is continuously updated. It included Yang Hengjun, an Australian national, who has reemerged after chatting with old friends for some three days, “due to personal reasons” and “illness”, and Ai Weiwei, who was arrested on Sunday local time.

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Related
The Crackdown continues, November 16, 2010
Diluting the Intimidation: the Tea Partisans, March 14, 2010
Zap zap jé, October 16, 2009

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