Powerful enough to bring justice: setting up the special court for Sierra Leone.

War in Sierra Leone broke out in 1992 and ended with an uneasy peace in 2002. Over that terrible decade, some 75,000 civilians are believed to have been killed and half a million made refugees. Atrocities, in some respects unique in their grotesquery, have been reported: chopping off the hands of civilians who had cast electoral votes, kidnapping children for use as gunmen or sex slaves; butchering prisoners; and so on. It is a poignant irony that these things should happen where the world's first humanitarian mission took place--in Freetown, where t...

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