Friday, December 7 07 (2)

After a year or more of Darfur in the epicentre of the global political spotlight, the interests of vulnerable and impoverished civilians, caught between the government and warring factions, threaten to submerge. International justice unfolds at glacial speed, as the International Criminal Court in Tanzania renders former Rwandan provincial Governor Karera guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity. Different conflicts reveal an identical pattern, as Pakistan's Musharraf and Chechnya's Kadyrov flirt with radicals to retain domestic standing.