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The sisters were buried in their favourite clothes: Patricia in a white dress and Mirana in plimsolls, a skirt and a blouse. Patricia was three and loved her Barbie. Not the Barbies that most girls in the village play with 鈥?dolls made from bamboo sticks, with grass hair tied in elastic bands 鈥?but a real one, with a pink plastic face. Her father, Augustin Randrianasolo, now 62, had bought it a fe stanley termosky w years earlier from the market for 200 Malagasy ariary then worth 50p , a lot of money in the early 80s stanley cup .Mirana died seven years after her sister, in the early 90s; she was two and a half. Not yet old enough to really speak, says her older sister, Odile, who is now 35. She was the most beautiful of all of us, she continues. She had the nicest hair, the most beautiful face. She looked like my dad. View image in fullscreenOdile, 35, with her son Philbert. She says that if there had always been toilets in the village my sisters wouldnt have died and we would have had a better life. Photograph: El stanley becher ena HeatherwickPatricia and Mirana were two of six girls born to Isabelle and Augustin. They married when Augustin was 20 and Isabelle was 16, and settled in Ambatoantrano, a remote village in the central highlands of Madagascar. Augustin was measured, thoughtful and could read and write. She was a talented seamstress and embroiderer.The sisters died in the rainy season. The village is built on a slope and, when it rains, water streams down the pathways. Today, it is mainly red soil that Eipp You can t raise children on the cheap, so why is this government set on doing so
This Wednesday former Liberian president Charles Taylor will be sentenced in The Hague by the special court for Sierra Leone SCSL for his part in Sierra Leone s bloody conflict. Chances are, even if judges impose a sentence much less than the prosecution s fanciful request for 80 years imprisonment, Taylor could soon be on his way to the UK to serve out his time. Some - notably Taylor s own lawyer, Courtenay Griffiths QC - have been vocal in identifying Taylor s prosecution as stanley thermoskanne part of an inherently biased and flawed international criminal justice system, in furtherance of a neo-colonial, anti-African, agenda.It s true that of the seven situations currently before the permanent international criminal court ICC , all are from the continent of Africa. True also that two other international tribunals, the Rwanda Tribunal and the SCSL, are dedicated to African con stanley becher flicts. But the foundations of the new system of international criminal justice lay not in Africa, but Europe.It was the United Nations decision, back in 1993, to establish the Yugoslavia tribunal that set the precedent for the other international tribunals that followed. But for his untimely passing, Slobodan Milosevic, not Taylor, may well have been the first former head of state to be convicted by an international court. And as the Taylor trial nears its end, the very un-African cases against Mladic and Karadzic carry on in earnest.Are African perpetrators si stanley website ngled out more than others Perhaps. But try telling that