It's a Friday. For regimes struggling to hold onto power in Middle Eastern autocracies, that means massive protests. As expected, the suppression of people petitioning their government with a redress of grievances has taken violent turn.
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It would appear that the scale of the crimes that are being committed by the rebel fighters is much smaller than by Qaddafi's forces. But a war crime is a war crime. Civilians are the victims no-matter which side committed the crime.
UN Dispatch was treated to an exclusive sneak-preview of some of the photos taken by the world-renowned photographer Platon that will be on display at a Malaria exhibit at the UN next week.
Britain announced it was sending about a dozen military advisers to Libya to help the embattled opposition. Yesterday, France and Italy pledged to do the same. So is this a first step toward "boots on the ground" that NATO and the coalition seem to want to avoid? I'm not so sure.
So will the Mubarak regime suddenly come into the court's cross hairs? Not likely, but Egypt joining the ICC is an important symbolic step in the reconstitution of the Egyptian state.