Corporate accountability so far has not been mentioned much, while the estimates for restoration to pre-disaster days suggests over 10 years. A link to a new report about the multinational oil corporations, the environmental and health problems in Nigeria has been added . This report, called Oil For Nothing, is an excellent account from delegates who went to the Niger Delta to see first hand the problems the indigenous people were facing. The peace agreement in Sierra Leone has been fragile. Even disarming the warring factions has been slow going and difficult.
Rebel forces are suspicious and afraid to give up their weapons.
An additional source of information from Radio Netherlands has also been added, for more details and background information. Both rebel and government forces have been accused of gross violations in the brutal nine-year civil war that has seen an estimated 50,000 people killed and many more refugees and displaced. Compared to the aggressive drive by leading NATO members to ensure a tribunal was set up to look into the atrocities by Milosevic, almost the opposite happened here, with Richard Holbrooke, the US Ambassador to the UN actually saying that the Indonesian government should be given the opportunity to handle the matter itself. Some additional articles regarding the WTO event in Seattle have been added . This last one is very nice and simple in its descriptions about who would benefit from the current corporate-driven model of free trade and globalization.