Unimaginable horror as helicopter-borne poachers massacre 22 elephants before hacking off their tusks and genitals

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2134696/Scene-unimaginable-horror-helicopter-borne-poachers-massacre-22-elephants.html Record numbers of ivory seizures amid rise of organised crime gangs By Simon Tomlinson PUBLISHED: 17:35 EST, 24 April 2012 | UPDATED: 17:53 EST, 24 April 2012 In a scene of inconceivable horror, these slaughtered elephant carcasses show the barbaric lengths poachers will go to in their hunt for nature’s grim booty. The bodies […]

Congo war lord found guilty of stealing children from families and training them to fight his brutal civil war

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2114878/Congo-war-lord-Thomas-Lubanga-guilty-stealing-children-training-fight.html First conviction in ten years by the International Criminal Court By Mail Foreign Service PUBLISHED: 08:20 EST, 14 March 2012 | UPDATED: 10:05 EST, 14 March 2012 A Congolese warlord was today convicted of snatching children from the street and turning them into killers in the International Criminal Court’s first judgment at the Hague […]