News: April 2006 Archives
One Hundred Years Of Darkness
Marcus Bleasdale's disturbing photos eloquently present the latest chapter in the Congo's catalogue of tragedies.The Congo has always epitomised man's inhumanity to man. King Leopold II of Belgium, responsible for perhaps as many as ten million dead during his commercial......more
Inside Out - April 06
Dear Frontline Readers,A small group of us from The Frontline Club retreated recently to Vaughan Smith's family enclave, Ellingham Hall in Norfolk, to think, among other things, imaginatively about how to build on the dramatic success of the Forum and......more
Signal failure
Is the Bush Administration revving up for an attack on Iran? In all my years as a foreign correspondent, I cannot recall a crisis when the real intentions of the American government have been so obscure. Reading the tea leaves......more
Rocky road
t had been a truly awful week. As I was driving through northern Bosnia on a routine assignment the voice of my brother came through on a crackly sat phone.He told me how RUF rebels had overrun the camps he......more