#military-accountability

#military-accountability

The trial of Brazil's ex-President Jair Bolsonaro is already a landmark event. It's the first time in the country's history that a former president is standing trial for an attempted coup. It is also the first time since the end of the military dictatorship (1964 to 1985) that high-ranking military officials are being held to account in a civilian court. The proceedings before Brazil's Supreme Court begin on September 2, and are due to continue until September 12.

The deaths of children may be the most terrible part of any war, the knowledge of lives ended when they had barely begun, severed in an instant.

The carbon emissions from Israel's conflict with Gaza will exceed those of a hundred countries cumulatively, showing the grave environmental toll of warfare.