Engineers help restore Louisiana island, save brown pelicans
LEIGH GUIDRY, Lafayette Daily Advertiser
April 3, 2021
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FILE - In this Saturday, May 15, 2010 file photo, veterirnian Erica Miller, Heather Nevill, and Danene Birtell clean a brown pelican at the Fort Jackson Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at Buras, La. A stretch of land in the western portion of Calcasieu Lake known as Rabbit Island has been shrinking for decades, the tide washing away more than land each year. The marsh “island” in Cameron Parish is the only brown pelican rookery in southwest Louisiana. Once 200 acres of land, it is down to just 30 acres and continues to lose nearly half of the brown pelican eggs laid each year to the tide.Charlie Riedel/AP
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Alieu Kosiah is the first Liberian to be prosecuted for war crimes in connection to Liberia’s 14-year war, which killed an estimated 250,000 people and displaced a million others.
By James Harding Giahyue, New Narratives Senior Justice Correspondent
BELLINZONA, Switzerland â War crimes suspect Alieu Kosiah delivered a forceful rebuke to six plaintiffs who brought the war crimes case against him here in the Swiss Federal Criminal Court on Monday. He slammed the plaintiffs and their lawyers for âstaging their testimoniesâ and âlying on himâ.
âWhen there is war, the first victim is the truth. That is the only thing I can tell you,â he told the three-judge panel.
Kosiahâs anger at being on trial here was focused on the plaintiffsâ lawyers as they asked him to respond to chilling and detailed evidence the six men had given last week. The men had accused Kosiah of murdering civilians, forcing them to carry looted goods and eating human hearts among other atrocities.
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