United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon announced on June 22 the formation of a three-member panel to advise him on whether Sri Lanka committed crimes during the last months of its war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, Reuters said that day.
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Dutch prosecutors fired the opening salvo on May 31 in a notorious case involving a Swiss-based oil trader which dumped hazardous waste in Ivory Coast, the British Morning Star said on June 1. The dumping was allegedly to save itself the paltry sum of 鈧400,000 (about A$576,000).
The article said prosecutor Luuk Boogert accused oil trader Trafigura AG and local authorities of putting 鈥渟elf-interest above people鈥檚 health and environment鈥 at the criminal trial in Amsterdam. The ship had docked at Amsterdam en-route to Ivory Coast.
The president of Haiti鈥檚 Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) announced on May 24 that presidential and parliamentary elections would be held on November 28, the constitutionally prescribed date.
鈥淭he CEP is up to the task of organising general elections in the country鈥, said Gaillot Dorsinvil, who is also the handicapped sector鈥檚 representative on the nine-member council, handpicked by President Rene Preval.
But tens of thousands of Haitians don鈥檛 agree and have been demonstrating in the streets in recent weeks to demand a new CEP 鈥 and Preval鈥檚 resignation.
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